Jon Stewart on How the Mass Media Helped Get Us Into the Iraq War
In response to the media's take on the recent suspension of NBC's Brian Williams,"The Daily Show" host says there probably wouldn't have even been an Iraq War "if the media had applied this level of scrutiny to the actual fucking war."In response to the media’s take on the recent suspension of NBC’s Brian Williams and the events that led up to it, “The Daily Show” host says there probably wouldn’t have even been an Iraq War “if the media had applied this level of scrutiny to the actual fucking war” and not just regurgitated the Bush administration’s lies.
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