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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Jon Stewart’s Fox News Takedowns

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, Daily News, News

4.413.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A look back at some of Jon Stewart’s reactions to Fox News’s many media crimes, including the network’s anchors patting themselves on the back for their own coverage, their reaction to Jon leaving The Daily Show in 2015, and stirring up false outrage during the Obama administration.



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0:00.0

John Stewart here, here,

0:00.8

Unbelievably exciting here, my new podcast,

0:03.2

The Weekly Show, we're going to be talking about the election,

0:06.8

economics, ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches.

0:11.2

Listen to the Weekly Show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast.

0:15.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:18.0

Hey, this is Roy Chang.

0:20.0

The Daily Show is off this week, but don't worry, we put together some of our favorite

0:24.0

moments from the show in case you miss them. We will be back with brand new shows on September 10th.

0:29.4

Until then, enjoy today's episode. Last week I thought a very nice piece on the show about how Fox News wanted people to apologize

0:44.3

for rushing to judgment on the Ferguson shooting, Michael Brown.

0:46.8

And so we, I think quite cleverly, drew an analogy to that and their rush to judgment on Ben-Kazi,

0:52.1

it was really quite droll.

0:55.0

Now while Fox never addressed our Ben-Gazzy point, it appears now they're asking for more than

1:01.7

an apology.

1:02.8

Pete Williams to his credit got that Boston Marathon terror reporting dead on.

1:07.5

And the mainstream media hailed him as a hero for getting it right, which he did.

1:12.4

Fox News got this case right. Fox News, not just me. Sean

1:16.5

Hannity had had a lot of segments. Plus O'Reilly had a lot of segments.

1:21.2

urging caution. With the mainstream media ever hail them as

1:26.2

heroes like we heard about Pete Williams?

1:28.6

Yeah, why doesn't Fox get as much credit as who's Pete Williams.

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