Please, let's not devolve this into an I/P diary like y'all did with my diary from yesterday. I want to focus on something Jon Stewart showed last night, and that is Glenn Beck openly lying about how Fox News was supposedly the only channel brave enough to air the footage Israel provided of their raid on the flotilla.
BECK (June 2, 2010, broadcast): Turn on any media outlet, other than this one, they're not going to show you this. ... That video, you're hard-pressed to see it here in America from media outlets besides Fox. Nobody seems willing to show that, leaving the question, why?
To which Jon sarcastically replied:
Only Glenn Beck and Fox have the balls to be fair to Israel on American television.
Jon then proceeds to show basically EVERY SINGLE OTHER NEWS CHANNEL showing the same video the day BEFORE Beck went on his latest lying rant. The video evidence below the fold....
Jon provides clips from:
MSNBC
CNN
CBS
NBC
ABC
PBS
Headline News
CNBC
Univision
Sesame Street
And again, these were all clips from June 1st. They all showed the footage before Beck's June 2nd show aired live.
Jon concludes with this theory.
That all aired in the 24 hours before Glenn Beck called out the media for not airing the footage. Now, this can mean only one of two things. Mr. Beck lives in a cloistered world of paranoid delusion that is impervious to a priori evidence that contradicts his worldview; or... or... and I believe this to be more likely, Glenn Beck has become so powerful, that his wise words can now be acted upon retroactively.
See? When Beck complained that the rest of the media didn't cover it, his immense power actually caused a rift in the space-time continuum, allowing all those other news channels to feel shame, and thus insert the footage into their broadcasts from the day before, on June 1st, as a way of paying penance to the almighty Beck.
That, or Beck is a deranged sociopathic extremist lying sack of shit.