Jon Stewart Ferguson Benghazi
Jon Stewart Ferguson Benghazi, Jon Stewart had a few choice words regarding the Ferguson, Missouri and Benghazi embassy attack, as reported on by Fox News. Stewart, a political satirist and host of his own sardonic news program, ripped into the Fox News reporting over these two polarizing incidents, calling the lot of them “shockingly terrible.”
Writes the HuffPost on March 20: “When Jon Stewart retires from ‘The Daily Show’ later this year, Fox News might be the first in line to throw him a party because being on the wrong end of his wrath night after night can't be that much fun.”
Stewart blasted Fox News for their “let’s move on” mentality and selective reporting of only one side of the Department of Justice’s findings regarding the August 2014 Michael Brown shooting incident in Ferguson.
“The DOJ found that the flashpoint incident for protests did not happen the way some thought,” Stewart said. “Although in the second report they did also document a tower of racially based kindling wood – years of unreasonable force lighter fluid – and daily tossed lit cigarettes butts of discrimination and harassment that could easily lend itself as a flashpoint. But as the fire safety wardens of Fox suggest… eh ‘f’ it, let’s just move on.”
The Justice Department issued an 86-page report earlier this month, after the agency formally conducted an investigation following a grand jury's decision to not indict former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in November. The report stated that “Wilson fired at Brown in what appeared to be self-defense and stopped firing once Brown fell to the ground,” and that the “evidence, when viewed as a whole, does not support the conclusion that Wilson’s uses of deadly force were objectively unreasonable under the Supreme Court’s definition.”
Of course, Fox News was hot and heavy on this initial report only. “Despite their 24 hour schedule, they really only had time for the one report,” Stewart teased, and then showed clips of Fox News hosts debunking the “hands up, don’t shoot” protests and calling out the “protesters running around this nation” as complete liars.
Fox News was hard pressed to find time to report on the second report – a Department of Justice Civil Rights Division investigation into the Ferguson Police Department. This separate, scathing 105-page report stated that “Ferguson’s police and municipal court practices both reflect and exacerbate existing racial bias, including racial stereotypes. Ferguson’s own data establish clear racial disparities that adversely impact African Americans. The evidence shows that discriminatory intent is part of the reason for these disparities. Over time, Ferguson’s police and municipal court practices have sown deep mistrust between parts of the community and the police department, undermining law enforcement legitimacy among African Americans in particular.”
Stewart says Fox News analysts even went so far as to “demand restitution” from all involved – the media, members of Congress, President Obama, Al Sharpton, Attorney General Eric Holder and others.
“The lesson Fox News is getting at is very clear,” said Stewart. “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?”
Adds the Washington Post: “But while Fox News wants an apology over Ferguson, they ignore pushing a false narrative themselves when it came to Benghazi, Stewart said. The network paid particular attention to the Justice Department report disproving ‘hands up, don't shoot,’ but ignored its other report on widespread racism in police practices as well as the House Benghazi report, Stewart said. The report debunked the narrative there like there was credible intelligence about the attack before it began and that there was an order against rescuing those at the compound.”
Stewart says Fox News got their answers over the entire Benghazi incident in November of 2014 from an “exhaustible report from the Republican controlled House Intelligence Committee.”
Speaking of the flame-fanning reporting over at Fox News, Stewart deadpans: “Did [National Security Advisor] Susan Rice go on television and try to deceive anyone? Reports says no. Did the [Obama] administration ignore credible warning about that day’s attack? Report says no. Was there a stand down order for failure to rescue the four Americans and send rescue planes? Report says no. Was there a massive intelligence agency cover-up? Report says no… All these elements in the two year Benghazi rage-gasm were… what do you call it?” Stewart then quotes Fox News: “A tsunami of misinformation.”
Stewart then ended the segment with: “They demand accountability for anger and divisiveness whilst holding themselves entirely unaccountable for their anger and divisiveness For two years, they used Benghazi as shorthand, as a symbol for the whole concept of a corrupt, lying, tyrannical, possible murderous Obama White House, kind of like other people used ‘hands up, don't shoot’ as a symbol for systemic racism, and there's only really one difference between the two phenomenon: systemic racism actually exists.”
The television host and stand-up comedian then reached under his desk, pulled out a mic, and literally dropped it on Fox News. So there you have it. Do you agree? Sound off below on Jon Stewart's brilliant shredding of Fox News over their Ferguson and Benghazi reporting.
Writes the HuffPost on March 20: “When Jon Stewart retires from ‘The Daily Show’ later this year, Fox News might be the first in line to throw him a party because being on the wrong end of his wrath night after night can't be that much fun.”
Stewart blasted Fox News for their “let’s move on” mentality and selective reporting of only one side of the Department of Justice’s findings regarding the August 2014 Michael Brown shooting incident in Ferguson.
“The DOJ found that the flashpoint incident for protests did not happen the way some thought,” Stewart said. “Although in the second report they did also document a tower of racially based kindling wood – years of unreasonable force lighter fluid – and daily tossed lit cigarettes butts of discrimination and harassment that could easily lend itself as a flashpoint. But as the fire safety wardens of Fox suggest… eh ‘f’ it, let’s just move on.”
The Justice Department issued an 86-page report earlier this month, after the agency formally conducted an investigation following a grand jury's decision to not indict former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in November. The report stated that “Wilson fired at Brown in what appeared to be self-defense and stopped firing once Brown fell to the ground,” and that the “evidence, when viewed as a whole, does not support the conclusion that Wilson’s uses of deadly force were objectively unreasonable under the Supreme Court’s definition.”
Of course, Fox News was hot and heavy on this initial report only. “Despite their 24 hour schedule, they really only had time for the one report,” Stewart teased, and then showed clips of Fox News hosts debunking the “hands up, don’t shoot” protests and calling out the “protesters running around this nation” as complete liars.
Fox News was hard pressed to find time to report on the second report – a Department of Justice Civil Rights Division investigation into the Ferguson Police Department. This separate, scathing 105-page report stated that “Ferguson’s police and municipal court practices both reflect and exacerbate existing racial bias, including racial stereotypes. Ferguson’s own data establish clear racial disparities that adversely impact African Americans. The evidence shows that discriminatory intent is part of the reason for these disparities. Over time, Ferguson’s police and municipal court practices have sown deep mistrust between parts of the community and the police department, undermining law enforcement legitimacy among African Americans in particular.”
Stewart says Fox News analysts even went so far as to “demand restitution” from all involved – the media, members of Congress, President Obama, Al Sharpton, Attorney General Eric Holder and others.
“The lesson Fox News is getting at is very clear,” said Stewart. “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?”
Adds the Washington Post: “But while Fox News wants an apology over Ferguson, they ignore pushing a false narrative themselves when it came to Benghazi, Stewart said. The network paid particular attention to the Justice Department report disproving ‘hands up, don't shoot,’ but ignored its other report on widespread racism in police practices as well as the House Benghazi report, Stewart said. The report debunked the narrative there like there was credible intelligence about the attack before it began and that there was an order against rescuing those at the compound.”
Stewart says Fox News got their answers over the entire Benghazi incident in November of 2014 from an “exhaustible report from the Republican controlled House Intelligence Committee.”
Speaking of the flame-fanning reporting over at Fox News, Stewart deadpans: “Did [National Security Advisor] Susan Rice go on television and try to deceive anyone? Reports says no. Did the [Obama] administration ignore credible warning about that day’s attack? Report says no. Was there a stand down order for failure to rescue the four Americans and send rescue planes? Report says no. Was there a massive intelligence agency cover-up? Report says no… All these elements in the two year Benghazi rage-gasm were… what do you call it?” Stewart then quotes Fox News: “A tsunami of misinformation.”
Stewart then ended the segment with: “They demand accountability for anger and divisiveness whilst holding themselves entirely unaccountable for their anger and divisiveness For two years, they used Benghazi as shorthand, as a symbol for the whole concept of a corrupt, lying, tyrannical, possible murderous Obama White House, kind of like other people used ‘hands up, don't shoot’ as a symbol for systemic racism, and there's only really one difference between the two phenomenon: systemic racism actually exists.”
The television host and stand-up comedian then reached under his desk, pulled out a mic, and literally dropped it on Fox News. So there you have it. Do you agree? Sound off below on Jon Stewart's brilliant shredding of Fox News over their Ferguson and Benghazi reporting.
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