Fox News v Fox News?
Jon Stewart was so good at nailing Fox News with their own words that at the end of his skit he had to do a mic drop. It was a long skit but the video above is a representative compression of the entire piece.
“Often times this show is critical of Fox but only because they are terrible,” Jon Stewart said. “Like sometimes almost shockingly terrible.”
Stewart then pointed out that the Department of Justice released two reports. One report exonerating Ferguson officer Darren Wilson and debunked the ‘hands up/don’t shoot’ meme. The other report excoriated the Ferguson police department and municipal government. The second report found that the Ferguson police and the municipal government systematically abused the Black residents of Ferguson.
“Despite their 24 hour schedule,” Jon Stewart said. “They only had time for one report.” Stewart then segued to Fox News hyperventilating about the first report. “The second report they did,” Stewart annoyingly said. “also document a tower of racially based tingling wood, years of unreasonable force, lighter fuel and daily tossed lit cigarette butts of discrimination and harassment that could easily lend itself to the flash point.”
Stewart then showed a slew of Fox News personalities demanding apologies from other news organizations and others. They claim Obama and Sharpton should be held responsible for the incendiary rhetoric.
“Wouldn’t it be nice if people who jump to conclusions and peddle a false divisive anger stoking narrative had to apologize for misleading America?” said Jon Stewart. “Here is where the shit gets real. … I wonder if there is an analogous event where we could test Fox’s fealty to this principle of restitution for aggrievement.”
Jon Stewart got his answer from Fox New’s Greta vs Susteren, “BENGHAZI”. He went on to construct the similarities between the events. He showed where Fox News hyperventilated on a false narrative ad nauseam. He also showed that when the truth came out there was not a peep out of Fox News. Neither did they attempt any apologies for lying.
“The beauty that is the ugliness of Fox News,” Jon Stewart said. “They demand accountability for anger and divisiveness whilst holding themselves entirely unaccountable for their anger and divisiveness. For two years they used Benghazi as shorthand, as a symbol for the whole concept of corrupt lying tyrannical possibly murderous Obama White House. Kind of like other people used ‘hands up don’t shoot’ as a symbol for systemic racism. There is really only one difference between the two phenomena. Systemic racism actually exist!”
Jon Stewart then closed with a well deserved mic drop.
(r/t The Daily Show)