Most of Fox News’ coverage of Jon Stewart stepping down from “The Daily Show” has taken a tone of detached appreciation, even if the comedian consistently singled out the channel as a “propaganda delivery system.”
But on the panel show “The Five” on Wednesday, co-host Eric Bolling refused to join his colleagues in praising the Comedy Central star.
“Can I just point out what he does?” Bolling began. “Yes, he’s funny, he’s witty, he has the backing of the adoring left and all that.”
“But one of the things that he does, and I’m not sure people really understand, most of the stuff that he does on that show, he attacks people who are on-air live when they say something,” he said.
“He’ll take the sound bite, he’ll go in the back and they will say let’s research this, see what we can find,” he continued. “They’ll literally have a team of people tearing apart live sound, people for making comments.”
“You know that’s happened to you, right?” co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle said with a laugh.
“But it’s also shooting fish in a barrel,” Bolling said. “Jon, try and do your show live one time, my man. Then let’s see what kind of comedic genius you are!”
“You’re gonna make it [on ‘The Daily Show’] again,” Guilfoyle teased.
Bolling was not amused. “I’m not trying to make it!”
Co-host Greg Gutfeld stuck up for Stewart against his co-host.
“If he’s shooting fish in a barrel, we don’t always have to provide the fish,” he said, laughing. “And we provide a lot of fish.”
Watch the video:
Not only do they provide the slow-swimming fish, but they provide transparent barrels, full automatic rifles with ammo that cuts through water like a hot knife through butter.
Ya mean the way that FOX News does with everyone they attack, and they don’t even bother to try to be funny? I mean, didn’t they do this with Susan Rice, Brian Williams, President Obama, Hilary Clinton, and on and on and unlike Stewart, they’re not intending to be funny, but rather to attack and destroy these people because Roger Ailes hasn’t given up on having Richard Nixon installed as President for Life of the United States.
Wow…that’s the most introspection I’ve ever heard from FUX.
The difference, Foxsters, is that unlike Stewart you are unintentionally funny.
Ain’t that the truth (a comment that can’t often be made about anything said on Fox)?