Jon Stewart often attacks his nemeses on the Fox News Channel — but he REALLY went after them on Thursday night.
The “Daily Show” host tore into what he called the “shockingly terrible” cable news channel for demanding an apology from members of the media and politicians who oversold the now infamous Ferguson “Hands up, Don’t shoot” protest flashpoint which, according to the Department of Justice, didn’t go down the way many outlets reported it.
“The lesson Fox News is getting at is very clear,” Stewart started, leaning in to full-fledged irony: “Wouldn’t it be nice if people who jumped to conclusions and peddled a false, divisive, anger-stoking narrative had to apologize for misleading America?”
Stewart also noted how Fox chose to ignore that pesky other DOJ report, the one that found evidence of systemic racism by the Ferguson Police Department.