Jon Stewart mocks Fox New hypocrisy
Jon Stewart slammed the news media, specifically Fox News for their hypocritical coverage of President Obama’s ‘Coffee Cup Salute.” One would think the President punched the marine that was saluting him as he exited the Presidential helicopter.
Jon Stewart showed snippets of Karl Rove and other Fox News talking heads criticizing the President vehemently for saluting a marine while holding a cup of coffee in his saluting hand. They used terms like ‘outlandish’, ‘disappointing’, ‘complete disrespect for the men and women in uniform’, ‘it looks terrible’, ‘insensitive’, ‘learn the proper respect of the salute’. Maybe these talking heads should learn the proper respect of the President and the presidency.
“Shut up,” Jon Stewart said. “You don’t really care. You have no principle about this. You are just trying to score points in a game that no one else is playing.”
Jon Stewart then goes on to show the hypocrisy and slammed Fox News. He shows Fox News Eric Bolling first talking about the President’s need to show respect to those fighting for us. Later when told that the first female pilot was out on a combat mission he reacted less than respectfully. “Would that be considered boobs on the ground,” Eric Bolling asked..
“When Bush took us to war,” Jon Stewart said. “Any criticism was shouted down as being treasonous. But a President you don’t like, has the country poised on the same precipice – no transgression no matter how immaterial and ridiculous is too small to sight as evidence that this President isn’t as American as you are.”
Jon Stewart then shows Sean Hannity questioning whether President Bush would have done the ‘Coffee Cup Salute. After insulting the President with code words he claims the President’s act was disrespectful.
“But in their haste, they forgot to answer the question,would President Bush ever salute the troops with a cup of coffee in his hands,” Jon Stewart asks. “And the answer is no. Because his answer was too filled with dog … Here we got, two presidents, both sending the United States to war citing the same legal authorities, and both without any seeming exit strategy.And both holding shit in their hands while saluting our troops. But in their diseased mind, only one did that because he loved America. The other did it because he hated it.”