Jon Stewart on Wednesday took on attacks from Fox News and other conservatives calling him “dishonest” and celebrating his departure from “The Daily Show” later this year.
The Comedy Central host was particularly taken aback by Fox host Megyn Kelly saying his show often “had no foothold in the facts.”
“No foothold in the facts?” Stewart said, pulling out a white glove and donning the voice of a southern belle. “You have cast aspersions upon my honor! And I demand satisfaction.”
Stewart challenged Fox News to a “lie off,” running a Vine video containing 50 separate clips of the news channel’s spin.
The host shifted gears and took the charge more seriously.
“On the right, they’re pretending that our truthfulness is what’s really important to them, which ironically is not true,” he said. “What matters to the right is discrediting anything that they believe harms their side.”
Stewart lamented that, despite conservatives’ “fucking relentless” cries of civilizational collapse, the right is, by and large, making huge gains in America.
“Fifteen states have approved voter ID laws in the absence of any meangingful evidence of voter fraud; an Oklahoma state House committee voted to ban AP history for not sugarcoating slavery enough; abstinence is approved sex-education; and scientific fact isn’t reported now, it’s debated,” Stewart said.
“Let’s stop pretending that these concessions to the right will at any point sate the beast,” he concluded.
Watch the clip, courtesy of Comedy Central:
This post has been updated.
He should also talk about the complicit media (aka MSM) that allows the conservatives who scream at them to alter how they do their reporting.
“What matters to the right is discrediting anything that they believe harms their side”
What matters to the right is subjugation, pure and simple.
They’ve already legislated their entitlements, their welfare/subsidies, their voting privileges, their corporate advantages. They just want to make sure anyone or anything that remotely threatens any of those – e.g. scientists, unions, majority rule, Jon Stewart – stays down.
How to harsh the mellow, dude. I think we can agree who’s the professional here. What we have in this clip is some of the clearest, most direct, destined-to-be-recognized-a-classic Stewart riff EVUH, and you want it red-lined ‘INCOMPLETE’? Yoiks.
You seem like someone’s first view of modern art, say Picasso’s Nude Descending Staircase complaining: Okay I’m getting the IMPRESSION of, well, a person, in motion, and sure, a female form, walking downwards, could be a staircase, but there are so many lines and colors and shades it’s all too much, too expressionistic; can’t this guy at least try to work it out first on a fruitbowl maybe, or a pet?’
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Fox News complaining about selective editing is like Duke Cunningham complaining about bribery and corruption.