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Tommy_Carcetti

(44,566 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 03:45 PM Dec 2014

Jon Stewart makes one mistake, admits to it. Fox News goes crazy. [View all]

If you saw yesterday's Daily Show, you inevitably saw Jon Stewart apologize after listing an incident in California as one of several recent cases of African American males dying as a result of police violence, wherein fact the official cause of death was listed as an overdose. However, Stewart went on to point out the resulting firestorm from various talking heads on Fox News who were ever so quick to pick up on Stewart's error, noting that he only had to be wrong once for them to pay attention.

However, it appears that Fox wasn't done with its gloat-a-thon, gleefully noting on its "Fox Nation" sister site how "It looks like (Fox and Friends' host) Brian Kilmeade Got Under Jon Stewart's Skin":

http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/12/09/it-looks-brian-kilmeade-got-under-jon-stewarts-skin

These guys are such tools. They're that one guy in school who won't shut up about that one embarrassing thing you once did, while he continues to act like a complete ass on a daily basis.

I mean, consider the number of errors that you can regularly find on Kilmeade's atrocious "Fox and Friends" show:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/01/fox-amp-friends-2012-a-year-of-low-lights/191960

And that was just in the course of a single year, mind you.

Or the time they mistook the NCAA for the NAACP:

http://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-ncaa-naacp-snl-heather-childers-uconn-anna-kendrick-fox-friends-first/

Or the time they claim that President Obama would be personally funding a National Muslim museum:

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/07/entertainment/la-et-st-fox-news-anna-kooiman-obama-muslim-museum-funding-shutdown-20131007

Or the time they reversed the results of a poll concerning the power of the government to strip collective bargaining power from unions:

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=3917

Or the time they decided to post a three year old picture of President Obama with a pirate and use it as point of criticism for no apparent reason:

http://jimromenesko.com/2012/09/21/fox-and-friends-forced-to-correct-obama-and-pirate-claim/

(Yes, that actually happened.)

So, yeah, feel proud of yourself, Fox. You are knocking someone who delivers more substantial news to the public every night in a satirical comedy format than Fox News has given us in its 18 years of existence.

Tools.

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