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Sophia A. McClennen is Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. She writes on the intersections between culture, politics, and society. Her latest book is "Trump Was a Joke: How Satire Made Sense of a President Who Didn't."

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Obama’s Jon Stewart problem: What “The Daily Show” and Colbert should have taught him about Fox News

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Jon Stewart (Comedy Central/Salon)

Jon Stewart conquered Fox News: Essential highlights from “The Daily Show’s” 16 years of truth-telling

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AP/Reuters/Comedy Central/Salon

Fox News wore Jon Stewart down: How 16 years of debunking right-wing lies exhausted the last honest man

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(CBS/Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

Stephen Colbert roars back: Donald Trump evisceration suggests GOP clown car in for a world of hurt

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Jerry Seinfeld (wired.com)

Jerry Seinfeld’s new bizarro world: The sadness of watching a genius age into Bill O’Reilly

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Sean Hannity, Jon Stewart (Fox News/AP/Evan Agostini)

Jon Stewart vs Sean Hannity: We all know who the real “sanctimonious jackass” is

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(Comedy Central)

Pamela Geller’s “South Park” idiocy: Satire, hatred and the right’s faith-based fear-mongering

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Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat on the David Letterman Show

Our stunted democracy could learn from Kazakhstan: Another Bush/Clinton race doesn’t look free to the rest of the world

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Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry (Warner Bros. Entertainment)

Clint Eastwood, still a jerk: His new Michael Moore threat, and the GOP’s Fox News derangement problem

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Megyn Kelly (AP/Richard Drew)

Fox News’ Rolling Stone problem: Imagine a panel investigating Bill O’Reilly’s “war stories” and Megyn Kelly’s hyperbole

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(Reuters/Chris Keane)

Ted Cruz is dangerous: Why liberals scoff at his campaign at their peril

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(Comedy Central)

Trevor Noah’s Fox News problem: The real challenge facing the new “Daily Show” host

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Listen up, frat boys: You are not Jon Stewart

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Fox News is worse than Bill O’Reilly: Why the pundit’s fabrications are almost beside the point

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Bradley Cooper in "American Sniper" (Warner Bros. Entertainment/Salon)

“My first impulse is to call you a dumb Obama ass-licking c**t”: “American Sniper” fans tell me off

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Who will factcheck Fox News now? We’re lost without Stewart and Colbert

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(Comedy Central)

Jon Stewart’s Brian Williams dilemma: How will “Daily Show” handle a friend becoming a punchline?

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(Keith Bernstein)

“American Sniper’s” biggest lie: Clint Eastwood has a delusional Fox News problem

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Bill O'Reilly, Dennis Miller (Fox News)

“To categorically dismiss the cartoons is to not understand them in context”

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Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)

They’ll come for “The Daily Show” next: Why satirists always threaten fundamentalists

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(Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Photo montage by Salon)

I got slimed by Rush: The real story of how Stephen Colbert schooled Limbaugh on U.S. history, patriotism

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Sean Hannity, Stephen Colbert, Bill O'Reilly (Comedy Central/Fox News/Photo montage by Salon)

Evil Fox News idiocy, unchecked: As Stephen Colbert departs, demented loons set to run free

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Stephen Colbert, Bill O'Reilly (Reuters/Mike Blake/AP/Mark J. Terrill)

Stephen Colbert schooled Fox News hard: Comedy, Bill O’Reilly and the exposure of right-wing patriotism lies

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Sean Hannity, Jon Stewart, Bill O'Reilly (Comedy Central/Fox News/Photo montage by Salon)

Fox News misleads about Jon Stewart: Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and the insane new partisanship

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