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Jon Stewart Drops a Ten Ton Mega Bomb on Roger Ailes and Fox News
Jon Stewart responded to Roger Ailes’ claim that he is a socialist by calling Fox News a fiefdom of victimhood and conservative propaganda juggernaut disguised as a news network.
Here is the video from The Daily Show:
Part 2 of the segment:
Stewart replied to Roger Ailes’ claim that he is an admitted socialist by saying, “Why didn’t Roger Ailes mention what he admitted to me before? Which was, and obviously it has been a lot of years so I’m paraphrasing, but I think what Roger said to me one was, oh, Jon did I ever tell you that I, Roger Ailes plan to undermine the role of independent press by constantly whining that any reportage that deviates from a staunch conservative narrative is biased, while at the same time, filling the editorial vacuum that that creates by building a conservative propaganda juggernaut in the guise of a news organization, and then he said to me, he goes Jon, I’m going to call the organization Fox News and its tagline will be you’re going to love this, a fanatically micromanaged media fiefdom where my own far right agenda and personal sense of victim hood drive every aspect of the operation, and balanced.”
In response to Ailes calling Stewart a socialist, The Daily Show host called the Fox News honcho a fanatic micromanager who is running a propaganda machine that is fueled by his own sense of victim hood and far right agenda. Oh, and for good measure, Stewart pointed out that Ailes’ goal is to undermine the independent press.
Do you think Stewart was just a little ticked at being thrown into the Fox News propaganda machine? The attacks and allegations between Jon Stewart and Fox News have been getting more pointed for about a year. What was once a friendly little cooperative PR venture between Stewart and Fox News has turned more heated, ever since Fox News edited Jon Stewart’s answers during an appearance on The O’Reilly Factor. Stewart always called out Fox News’ bias, but until he experienced the depth of their operation for himself, he didn’t seem to understand how far Fox News will go attack and discredit someone.
Besides selectively editing him, Fox News has called Stewart a racist, a secret Democratic operative, and a socialist. Ailes is desperate to discredit Jon Stewart, because The Daily Show trounces Fox News in terms of average ratings. Stewart is educating an entire generation or two, or three about exactly what Fox News is and what it does.
Jon Stewart could have responded to Ailes with something personal. Instead, he used Ailes’ attack on him as another teaching moment to education his millions of viewers about the Fox News operation.
These sorts of tactics are exactly why Jon Stewart is the biggest threat to the future of Fox News.
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6 Responses to Jon Stewart Drops a Ten Ton Mega Bomb on Roger Ailes and Fox News
Sarah Jones
May. 30th, 2012 at 1:55 pm
I’m glad Jon isn’t doing what almost every other person of weight does after being attacked as a “democratic operative” or “socialist” by conservative self perceived martyrs, and that is defending their position by moving to the right as if they need to prove Ailes et al wrong.
This is how you do it. You call them out on the truth of the matter, and you do not apologize for your beliefs or the things that you have reported on accurately.
Whose fault is it that Ailes called Stewart a socialist? Ailes.
Stewart is not a socialist, but even if he were, that is a hat he could wear with pride. Much better than being a teabagger screaming against the government while taking mega handouts but denying them to everyone else.
Consistency in our values matters. If it’s good enough for you, Ailes, it’s good enough for the rest of us (I refer to mega tax breaks Fox gets), you Fascist, propaganda-spreading hate machine of personal paranoia.
It is Fox News’ fault that the country is as divided as it is. They have created a cult of irrational hate.
Freddie Collins Howard
May. 30th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Fox News Is. The Fox In The Hen House. The Day will come when all the Chicken will be gone and their will be no Chickens for anyone’s Pot. We do not need to go to war. America is @ War with it’s Self. The Current President has brought out the real America.
Cha
May. 30th, 2012 at 3:39 pm
It’s like ol Ailes set himself up to be knocked down. So many people saw this coming last week when he thought he was being so clever with his “socialist” labeling of Jon Stewart who’s the expert at exposing the fascist wing.
Thanks Jason for the report.
Shiva (Moderator)
May. 30th, 2012 at 4:03 pm
and that’s really pretty funny. Obama care is socialism because it forces people to buy insurance in the competitive free market.
Now that we know that the free-market is socialism, doesn’t that pretty much mean that conservatism equals socialism?
I do not watch Stephen Colbert because I never really thought he was that funny. The only two people I would really like to see doing what Jon Stewart does, is Stewart and Lewis Black
DannyEastVillage
May. 30th, 2012 at 5:42 pm
one sad thing about this is that if any of those blockhead republicans saw this they wouldn’t even get it.
Rod
May. 30th, 2012 at 11:42 pm
Danny – I had the exact same thought!