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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Playing on fears and stoking divisiveness is the president's go-to strategy, even as tensions build on a national and international level as a result of his rhetoric and direction.
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Nice try, but no cigar.
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