Local News Show

Tuesday April 7th

The News on World News was very different from the Daily Show. It was more informative and unlike the Daily Show, it had more news stories. The only news stories there were the same were of Obama’s surprise visit to Iraq.
Jon Stewart spoke very little Obama’s trip to Iraq. He was mostly making jokes, saying one soldier wanted to jump on the airplane with Obama to go back to America. He talked about Obama’s European tour and also poking fun at Sean Hannity and others who were criticizing Obama’s speech.

Stewart thought that Obama’s speech was “fair and balanced.” Stewart also continued to make fun of those who say that Obama will order Americans to “surrender their freedom,” Obama will lead a “road to tyranny,” there will be “slow erosion of our liberties.” Stewart had on a guest, Jehan Sedat, the former first lady of Egypt to discuss her book My Hope for Peace. She talked about her husband’s dream of putting an end to bloodshed in the region.

World News tonight began with Obama’s surprise trip to Iraq. Charles Gibson gave more information about the trip: that Obama arrived at Baghdad International Airport at 4:42 pm and was in Iraq for less than 5 hours on the ground. Obama’s airplane was deterred by a dust storm. IN Iraq, Obama met with soldiers and met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and the Prime Minister Al Maliki. Obama pushed for continued reconciliation between Shia and Sunni. He also promised a complete withdrawal of troops by 2011. George Stephanopoulos, Washington’s chief correspondent talked about the positive and negatives of Obama’s trip.

The next story was about the new Puma car that GM and Segaway made. Next, the story was about Ted Kennedy, ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts who pitched at Fenway Park. Next, the story was about mortgage scam that is on Washington’s list after terrorism. The FBI raided real estate scammers who were part of a scene costing banks hundreds of thousands of dollars.