Jon Stewart will not let his interview with Chris Wallace go. As if the interview itself weren't enough, The Daily Show host gave two additional segments on his show to covering it. Did we say two? Make that three. Last night Stewart was at it again, this time calling Fox News a bunch of "crybabies."
The latest Stewart steamer on the face of Fox News came after the comedian publicly apologized last week for being wrong when he said "Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers? The most consistently misinformed? Fox, Fox viewers, consistently, every poll." Because when he did that he also mentioned a solid 21 times that Fox News had been wrong in the hopes that maybe Murdoch's minions might apologize for their errors. But they didn't.
Instead, on Sunday's show Chris Wallace went back to an earlier statement of his that Stewart had focused in on (in which he had said Fox was "the counterweight. I think they have a liberal agenda and we tell the other side of the story.") and said that “I wish I would’ve said ‘the full story.’” And that set Stewart off big time. "That's your 'setting the record straight'?" he fumed. "'I accidentally told the truth and now I wish I could take it back?'"
Then Stewart and his team use further examples of reporting from the network they find unfair and unbalanced to illustrate how Fox feels "any editorial judgment in news, or schools, or movies, that doesn’t favor the conservative view, is elitism and is evidence of liberal bias. Whereas any editorial judgment that favors the conservative view, is evidence of merely fairness and done to protect them from liberal bias."
And then he uses a Wallace clip from 2009 to call Fox and its friends "the biggest bunch of cry babies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington.” Watch for yourself:
