Stewart on Beck’s Botched Interview
Jon Stewart takes on last week's newsmakers, including Glenn Beck, who recently asked the first Muslim ever elected to Congress to prove he's not working with our enemies: "Finally a guy who says what people who aren't thinking are thinking." Watch itJon Stewart takes on last week’s newsmakers, including Glenn Beck,* who recently asked the first Muslim ever elected to Congress to prove he’s not working with our enemies: “Finally a guy who says what people who aren’t thinking are thinking.”
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