Jon Stewart Tears Into Rolling Stone: ‘I’m Making a Citizen’s Firing’ (Video)

“How can there be no consequences for an error of this magnitude?” Stewart asks

Jon Stewart chimed in on the Rolling Stone campus rape story debacle Wednesday, expressing how dumbfounded he is that nobody involved in the erroneous report would be fired.

Responding to reports that everyone involved would keep their jobs, Stewart grew agitated.

“Fine if no one has the guts to do it, I’ll fire them—I’m making a citizen’s firing…how can there be no consequences for an error of this magnitude?

The Daily Show host is shocked that publisher Jann S. Wenner found the scathing report about the botched story to be enough punishment: “Somebody’s gotta go,” he concluded.

“You managed to ‘Where’s Waldo’ the only rape story that not only would fail to get your point across but set the cause back,” Stewart continued.

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