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Video: Jon Stewart Calls Fox News "Bullsh*t Mountain"
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Ben Yakas
Published Sep 20, 2012
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This week, Jon Stewart and the Daily Show team ripped into Mitt "Monty Burns" Romney for his 47% comments at a $50,000/plate fundraiser. But in the wake of the extremely viral videos, Fox News decided to go into extreme spin mode, proving as always: when in doubt, blame Jimmy Carter's grandson. Stewart, unsurprisingly, has a problem with how the turd containment crews at Fox News are covering the story. Watch below:
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But seriously, the 47% videos are from May, people, and they are distracting us from REAL ISSUES, like a 1998 video of Obama saying something librul:
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But let's stay on point: Obama is a tyrant who rules over an entitlement society (and that narrative is the core of Bullshit Mountain):
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Boy, we can't wait for that Stewart/Bill O'Reilly head-butting debate.
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