The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy: More Moments : of Zen, More : Indecision Theory -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From Wiley-Blackwell's World Philosophy Headquarters in Malden -- Segment 1 Headlines: Faux News Is Good News -- 1 Rallying Against the Conflictinator: Jon Stewart, Neil Postman, and Entertainment Bias -- Amusing Ourselves to Death -- The Huxleyan Warning -- Postman and Television News -- The Daily Show and Television News -- Conversation and Crossfire -- Business News, CNBC, and Jim Cramer -- Fox News Sunday and TV's Entertainment Bias -- The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear -- A Huxleyan Moment of Zen? -- Notes -- 2 The Fake, the False, and the Fictional: The Daily Show as News Source -- Is The Daily Show Fiction? -- Hilarious Make-'Em-Ups -- Sheer Outrageousness and Surprising Truth -- The Role of "Senior" Correspondents -- Playing Dumb -- The Daily Show, Our Government, and Other News Outlets -- The Daily Show v. The Onion -- Fake News, Real Messages -- Notes -- 3 The Daily Show: An Ethos for the Fifth Estate -- All the Fake News Fit to Print -- The Voice of the People -- The Fifth Estate as a State of Mind -- Notes -- 4 Seriously Funny: Mockery as a Political Weapon -- The Politics of Laughter -- The Dark Side of Mockery -- Mockery, Censorship, and the Free Spread of Ideas -- The Place of Mockery in Politics -- Notes -- 5 Keeping It (Hyper) Real: Anchoring in the Age of Fake News -- Baudrillard's World -- The Walking Talking Hyperreal -- Organize a Fake News Broadcast -- The "Best F#@king News Team Ever" -- The Larger Argument -- Notes -- Segment 2 L ive Report: Jon Stewart (Not Mill) as Philosopher, Sort of -- 6 Jon Stewart: The New and Improved Public Intellectual -- Why Americans Hate Intellectuals -- You Know It's Hard out Here for a Public Intellectual.

Stewart's Ironic Blah, Blah, Blah -- "Help Us Hebrew One! You're Our Only Hope!" -- Notes -- 7 Stewart and Socrates: Speaking Truth to Power -- Here Come the Sophists! -- To Scoff at the Sophist in Office -- Men with a Mission -- A Method to Their Madness -- The Audience: Questioning Youths or Stoned Slackers? -- The Irony of It All -- "Monkey" Idol or Thoughtful Partisan Satirist? -- Notes -- 8 Jon the Cynic: Dog Philosophy 101 -- Rebel with a Cause -- Humor Leads to Truth -- A Healthy Dose of Cynicism -- Notes -- 9 "Jews! Camera 3": How Jon Stewart Echoes Martin Buber -- Really? You're Jewish? -- Team Buber -- Passover v. Easter -- Earth (The Book)-Mocking the Sacred -- The New Jersey Connection -- Notes -- Segment 3 Field Report: Politics and Critical Thinking -- 10 More Bullshit: Political Spin and the PR-Ization of Media -- The Essence of Bullshit and the Truth about Lies -- Liars, Liars, Pants on Fire -- More Bullshit, Piled Higher and Deeper -- A New Spin on an Old Art -- Was Frankfurt BS-ing about Spin? -- PR-ization of the Media -- Spin Alley -- Truth Matters -- Notes -- 11 The Senior Black Correspondent: Saying What Needs to Be Said -- Satire: A Tradition of Cultural Criticism -- Operating at the Border -- Heading West -- Larry Wilmore's Jazz Hands -- Notes -- 12 The Daily Show's Exposé of Political Rhetoric -- A Cavalcade of Fallacies -- Tugging at the Heartstrings -- Spin: The Systematic Use of Persuasive Language -- Satirized for Your Protection -- Notes -- 13 The Daily Show Way: Critical Thinking, Civic Discourse, and Postmodern Consciousness -- Civil Disservice -- The Red (Herring) Menace -- "Diss" Ingenuous Bullshitting: Scapegoating and Leaping to Judgment (Day) -- In the Line of Ire: Reframing the Debate -- Look Who's Not Talking Now: Going Beyond Experience -- Show Me the Meta -- Self-Effacement and Good Faith -- Notes.

Segment 4 Interview: Religion and Culture -- 14 GOP Almighty: When God Tells Me (and My Opponents) to Run for President -- Newt Gingrich on a Potato -- Pious Politickin' -- Thus Saith Pat -- No Really, It's in the Bible -- Pat "Gay People Cause Hurricanes" Robertson -- Remember, You're Only Human -- Notes -- 15 Profaning the Sacred: The Challenge of Religious Diversity in "This Week in God" -- Exclusivism! −There Can Be Only One -- Inclusivism!−One of Us -- Pluralism!−Inter-Religious Harmony (Against Gays) in Jerusalem -- A Plurality of Pluralisms -- "The God Exchange" Is Now Closed -- Eulogy: The Safe Turn to Politics -- Notes -- 16 Jon Stewart and the Fictional War on Christmas -- There Is No War on Christmas -- The First War for Christmas -- The Modern War for Christmas -- A Wall of Separation between Christians and Christmas -- The Original Meaning of Christmas -- Notes -- 17 Evolution, Schmevolution: Jon Stewart and the Culture Wars -- Evolution: The Fundamentals -- Why, Then, Is There a Problem? -- What Is Intelligent Design, Anyway? -- So, Evolution or Schmevolution? -- Postscript: After (and Before) Dover -- Notes -- Segment 5 Your Moment of Zen: Beyond The Daily Show -- 18 America (The Book): Textbook Parody and Democratic Theory -- Humor with a Point -- Reversing Democracy Inaction -- Government of, by, or for the People? -- Mediating the Media -- Putting Knowledge to Work -- Postscript: Earth (The Book) -- Notes -- 19 A Tea Party for Me the People: The Living Revolution Meets the Originalists -- We the People -- Anti -History -- Notes -- 20 Neologization à la Stewart and Colbert -- Humpty Dumpty and the French Academy -- Wordplaying by the Rules -- Your Moment of Zen -- Notes -- 21 Irrationality and "Gut" Reasoning: Two Kinds of Truthiness -- A Little Background -- Truthiness and Problems of Irrationality.

Wishful Thinking and Self-Deception: What Are They? -- The Paradoxes of Irrationality -- One Solution: Divide the Mind -- An Alternative Account -- Truthiness and Self-Deception -- Feeling the Truth: Can Our Guts Get Us Justified Belief? -- A Tip of the Hat -- Notes -- 22 Thank God It's Stephen Colbert!: The Rally to Restore Irony on The Colbert Report -- Ironists: People Destroying America -- Colbert Nation-Building -- Proust-Spouting, Atheist Gay Truck Mechanics -- Speaking Truthiness to Power -- Better Know an Ironist -- Notes -- Senior Philosophical Correspondents -- Index.