[rlmorel]

I don’t see why this is wrong or inconsistent.

Didn’t Jon Stewart maintain in his interview with Chris Wallace that the NYT is not liberally biased?

Hey, that settles it for ME. You people are just so hard to please.

[ClearCase_guy]

Actually, I think Stewart grudgingly admitted that NYT is Liberal -- but he denied that they are "activist". This, for him, is key.

As I see it, Stewart feels that leftwing ideology is sensible, rational and correct. If the NYT is Liberal and promotes things that are sensible, rational and correct, then they are not being "activist", they are simply being good journalists. Just telling it like it is.

Now, Fox, you see, embraces a crazy, stupid, irrational and hate-filled agenda. I mean, that's obvious, right? So, when Fox pushes that sort of ideology, they are being "activist" because they are trying to push ideas which normal people know to be incorrect. Right?

In Stewart's view of the world, this is just very obvious.