Jon Stewart on Thursday made good use of “The Daily Show”‘s famous warehouse of archived news footage to turn Fox News against itself.
Stewart ran plenty of footage showing Fox hosts declaring that the Department of Justice’s recent report on the shooting of Michael Brown debunked the “narrative” of protestors across the country. Some Fox hosts even demanded an apology from the media who “peddled that narrative.”
The Comedy Central host saw an opportunity to test Fox’s principles on apologizing for pushing an unfactual narrative.
He went through every single debunked chapter of conservatives’ longstanding Benghazi narrative peddled by Fox News, which was eventually knocked down by a government report, put out by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee.
“Which means all these elements in the two-year Benghazi rage-gasm were, what do you call it?” he said, as a clip from Megyn Kelly describing the Ferguson protestors appeared next to him. “What do you call it?”
“A tsunami of misinformation and innuendo, and non-fact based rhetoric,” Kelly said in the clip.
“Right, right, right, yes, that, it’s all of those things,” Stewart said. Next he flashed Fox host Eric Bolling, talking originally about the Mike Brown “narrative.”
“Why isn’t the media which peddled that narrative apologizing?” Bolling had said.
“Yes, Eric, that’s so true!” Stewart said, celebrating.
Watch the clip, courtesy of Comedy Central:
The Benghazi ragers still think it’s true, though. They’ll never apologize, they’ll just move on to their next fake outrage.
Well played, Jon!
Jon nailed it.
They will never move on. They will roll this into their next fake thing.
He does this better than anyone does it. Benghazi Fox!