Stewart: FOX Failed To Mention Co-Owner Is One They Accuse Of 'Terror Funding' (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart continued his coverage of the 'Ground Zero Mosque' debate last night, focusing on Fox News' incongruities harder than he ever has. In a segment called "The Parent Company Trap," Stewart shared with his viewers how Fox News' plan to "follow the money" from mosque builder Imam Rauf to terrorists will be a tricky one because it leads right back to Fox News.

Stewart showed clips from his show last week, in which he mocked Fox News for playing a dangerous game of association based on speculation, and wherein Fox continued to mention a nameless man with ties to Imam Rauf through the "Kingdom Foundation." It turns out the man they are referring to but never name is Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, one of the biggest shareholders of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

Showing a photo of the prince shaking hands with Rupet Murdoch, Stewart exclaimed, "That's right, the guy they're painting as a sinister money force OWNS Fox News." Stewart then used Fox's own logic to explain how the "terror mosque" is funded by Prince Alwaleed, despite being a co-owner of Fox News, and therefore funding terrorism. So, using their logic, Stewart said, "If we want to cut off funding to the terror mosque, we must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox."

But with this new information, one thing is now uncertain. Did Fox actually not know the name of the Kingdom Foundation leader or that he is a News Corp investor? Or did they, as Stewart said, "purposefully cover it up because it didn't help their fear-driven narrative?"

Stewart turned to John Oliver and Wyatt Cynac to figure out whether Fox is, in fact, evil or stupid?

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Comments

[John Ralston]

03:50 PM on 10/08/2010

Amazing video, I need to start watching the Daily Show and Colbert Report again. (why did I ever stop)

[Frog in a pot]

02:31 PM on 09/01/2010

Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch. According to the Financial Times, News Corp announced today that it is purchasing a $70 million dollar stake in Prince Alwaleed’s Rotana Media, a Middle Eastern music and news conglomera­te.

Boasting about the increased cooperatio­n between the Murdoch empire and his own media corporatio­n, Prince Alwaleed said, “This is a qualitativ­e leap not just for Rotana but for the whole Arab world.”

Because Prince Alwaleed has publicly acknowledg­ed that he has forced Fox News to edit its coverage he disliked, conservati­ve activists have attacked the business partnershi­p as “really dangerous for America.”

[WFC]

01:25 AM on 08/30/2010

Amazing to me that libs rely on comedy shows shows like Cobert,Ste­wart and not to mention Saturday night live for their political news and talking points.

[iCode v2]

03:47 AM on 08/30/2010

What's amazing is how the right is, yet again, ignoring the valid points Stewart made and instead went for unfounded insults.

Or are you denying that the same guy Fox News was criticizin­g is also the second biggest shareholde­r?

[El Confusado]

02:17 PM on 09/01/2010

I must say I do like to see someone with a functionin­g head. Yeah, what we say to students before a written exam: Attack the question, not how you feel about being asked the question. Fox concretely identifies that organizati­on as being terrorist in nature, funded by terrorists -- Stewart concretely identifies one of those terrorists as owning a chunk of Fox -- and then our neocon friends slip into the affective domain, set up a line of straw men, and then knock them down with their pre-though­t thoughts. Fanned.

[El Confusado]

02:13 PM on 09/01/2010

Now, see, you're forgetting which lies your telling. All of the dreaded MSM is liberal, remember? ABC News, CBS, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, New York Times, Boston Globe, etc., etc., etc. So after we get our occasional­ly biased but largely accurate news, we turn to Colbert & Stewart and such to temper the fury of dealing with the people who watch Fox "News."

[Dunkleberger Karl]

07:24 AM on 08/29/2010

Talking about this red herring is what the Puppet masters @ faux news want! If we argue, The puppet masters win!

[dieselis]

02:37 AM on 08/29/2010

Give Jon his own Network program CBS then the truth is counterpro­ductive in News Media these days. Whosoever lieth the mosteth get the bestesteth ratings. Fox is free and the Physic Network costs money both will tell you what you want to hear.
When a comic is the best known source for the actual truth, stick a fork in journalism because its done!

[BloodrootFC]

09:59 PM on 08/27/2010

If you haven't caught my drift yet: I am saying that Rupert Murdoch may have supported funding of the mosque knowing it would generate controvers­y and news headlines.

[Dunkleberger Karl]

02:50 PM on 08/28/2010

And thus my Referance to William R. Hurst!

[BloodrootFC]

07:57 PM on 08/27/2010

Bottom line: Both Murdoch and Al-Waleed bin Talal seem to want to increase division, war, and hatred between white christians (who watch Fox) and the Muslim world. There are many personal reasons they may want it so and many financial reasons they may want it so. I don't know the details, but one thing is for sure: neither man is a stupid man.

[El Confusado]

02:22 PM on 09/01/2010

Stupid is as stupid does, my momma always said. Someone should point out that both these men belong to apocalypti­c religious systems -- we are in the "last days," of course, so why plan for a future? The world will end any day, Jesus is coming and Mohamed ridin' the drag, why are you worried about war and pollution? -- Which, to me, is stupid.

[BloodrootFC]

07:48 PM on 08/27/2010

Here's a scenario: The Saudi guy and Murdoch are in cahoots. The Saudi guy funded the Mosque because he knew it would fan anti-islam­ic sentiment in the U.S. which would fan anti-Ameri­can sentiment elsewhere and speed the rest of the Middle East towards greater instabilit­y, thereby increasing his power as provider of Security to the Saudi people. Murdoch thinks this is a great story to report and fan the hatred of his viewers, while driving the US towards escalation in Middle East policy, and his goals to continue a cultural rift between white christian supremacis­ts and the rest of us.

[tmking84]

05:13 PM on 08/27/2010

Stop watching Fox! Gotta love it

[FairuzGhowar]

01:40 PM on 08/27/2010

brilliant! love you Jon Stewart and writers.

[debocrat]

11:37 AM on 08/27/2010

I'd be laughing harder if I wasn't crying. We are so effing screwed.

[tallanh]

11:04 AM on 08/27/2010

I think there actually is a 3rd possibilit­y. I think Fox News is evil AND stupid. A perverse, Jeffrey Dahmer sort of evil but perpetrate­d by a group which, collective­ly, can't muster enough points to boast of a triple-dig­it IQ...

[Ritche Awit]

10:49 PM on 08/26/2010

Potato stupid? Nah...rock­s! rock stupid! Awesome!

[robhood]

10:27 PM on 08/26/2010

This is further evidence that we are really in what Warren Buffet termed a "class war". If you are a member of the elite, it doesn't matter what religion, nationalit­y, race, etc. one is. If you are among the elite, you are in an exclusive club that bans the other 99.99% of us!
Wake up people! Realize that our "common enemy" are the elite!!!

[Cali Saracen]

10:23 PM on 08/26/2010

fox is a hate engine