'YOU ARE INSANE' ... Jon Stewart's Combative Interview on 'Fox News Sunday'

Jon Stewart appeared this morning on "Fox News Sunday" for a spirited, and at times combative, interview. Host Chris Wallace spent much of it trying to pin Stewart down for his repeated criticism of Fox’s “bias,” asking the comedian repeatedly whether he thought the mainstream media — ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, etc. — was itself biased.

Stewart yielded that the majority of people in the media “probably hold liberal beliefs,” but said the other networks and major newspapers aren’t “as relentlessly activist” as Fox. Rather, said Stewart, “the bias of the mainstream media is towards sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.”

WALLACE: You don’t think The New York Times is a liberal organization now pushing a liberal agenda?

STEWART: The New York Times? No. I think they are to a certain extent. Do I think they’re relentlessly activist? No. In a purely liberal partisan way? No, I don’t. I think this is — Fox is a very special.

Stewart also said Fox viewers are “consistently” the most “uninformed” news consumers.

At one point as Wallace continued to press his case, Stewart compared him and other Fox anchors to dupes inside a totalitarian state.

Read more at nationalreview.com.

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In the above interview, Stewart refers to polls that found that Fox News viewers are the most "misinformed" of news viewers. Below is an article written about the validity of such polls.

Soros Funded University Poll Says Fox News Viewers Most ‘Misinformed' Politically

A poll conducted by WorldPublicOpinion.org, a "project" run out of the University of Maryland, was the toast of the left-wingers last week for its finding that Fox News viewers were the most "misinformed" during the 2010 election cycle. Sadly, few of the news pieces on this poll mentioned that WorldPublicOpinion.org is funded in part by such far left-wing organizations as the Ben and Jerry's Foundation, the Ploughshares Fund, the United States Institute of Peace, and the George Soros-backed Tides Foundation.

Read more at bigjournalism.com.

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Results of the “poll” cited where Stewart claims Fox News viewers were “misinformed.” Does this sound misinformed to you?

•    91 percent believe the stimulus legislation lost jobs
•    72 percent believe the health reform law will increase the deficit
•    72 percent believe the economy is getting worse
•    60 percent believe climate change is not occurring

Read more at bigjournalism.com.