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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-20-10 12:04 PM
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VIDEO Jon Stewart's "Extremist Makeover Homeland Edition...6 degrees of people who don't eat bacon"


In a segment on "The Daily Show" last night titled "Extremist Makeover Homeland Edition," Jon Stewart addressed the Ground Zero mosque for the third time as of late, this time giving mosque critics FOX News a taste of their own medicine.

In clips all from the last 24 hours, Stewart showed how several FOX pundits prefaced unfounded reasons why the Islamic cultural center would be dangerous with defensive claims of tolerance for the religion. Former Clinton adviser Dick Morris even went so far as to call it a "terrorist command center."

In another clip from FOX, Eric Bolling displayed his charred safety deposit box from the World Trade Center to show why he was personally invested in keeping the mosque away from the vicinity of ground zero. Although Stewart mocked his display of lost cash and coin from an event where so many lives were lost, Stewart respected Bolling's discomfort with the symbolism of the mosque. That was until Bolling took out an index card written on in highlighter connecting Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to Iran and other dangerous parties, with question marks written next to each "fact."

"It's a dangerous game of guilt by association that you can play with anyone," Stewart pointed out. "It's 'six degrees of people who don't eat bacon.'" He then pulled out an index card of his own, highlighted with similar "facts" connecting News Corp owner Rupert Murdoch to none other than Osama Bin Laden, leading him to ask, "Is FOX News a terrorist command center? I don't know! I just don't know."


WATCH: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/19/jon-stewart-mosque_n_688546.html
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JBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-20-10 12:33 PM
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1. Loved that segment.
The replay of Charlton Heston's statements from 1999 were perfect.
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-20-10 01:01 PM
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2. And right wingers just don't care--hate is on the menu and their hungry
FOX is serving up generous portions.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-20-10 01:14 PM
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3. That was heroic!
Amazing segment
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