Cat Stevens, Madonna
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 09.24.04 | 11:13 PM ET
Celebrities continue to make big travel news. Fortunately, our favorite fake news program, The Daily Show, has been covering the issue, helping us put this very important travel information into context and perspective. When the folk singer formerly known as Cat Stevens was sent back to Britain for ridiculous security concerns, Daily Show host Jon Stewart noted that Stevens’ commercial airliner was not only tailed by U.S. fighter planes for security, but also was being followed by a moonshadow, a fact overlooked by most news organizations. Stewart also reported on singer Madonna’s recent visit to Israel, home to three religions and ongoing conflict. “The good news,” Stewart reported, “came this week in the form of the world’s fourth major religion, celebrity, as pop star Madonna stopped by to speak at a conference on Jewish mysticism, and maybe while she’s there, work in a light desecration of holy sites.” Video of the fake news report is available at DailyShow.com.