Jon Stewart Calls Out Fox News' Nazi Hypocrisy (VIDEO)

On Monday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart chose to forgo a big segment on Keith Olbermann's MSNBC departure (unlike like his counterpart Stephen Colbert) and instead picked up where he left off last week, with an expose on Nazi name-calling in Congress and the media.

Last week, Stewart had some strong words for Rep. Steve Cohen, who likened the Republican party's views on government-owned health care to Nazi lies. To his surprise, Stewart's comments were echoed all over Fox News, with everyone -- including Karl Rove -- saying Cohen should be ashamed of himself.

"If that guy is telling you you should feel shame, that's like Charlie Sheen showing up at your intervention to tell you to take it down a notch."

Although the majority of Fox News pundits spoke out against Nazi name-calling, it was Megyn Kelly who took it to a hypocritical level by saying that kind of rhetoric doesn't exist on Fox News.

As he does best, Stewart produced an impressive slew of clips showing Fox News pundits using Nazi comparisons, including Bill O'Reilly's mind-boggling claim that there's "no difference" between what Hitler did and what HuffPost does.

But he didn't stop there. Watch the rest of the clip to see Jon Stewart find more than just unfair Nazi comparisons on Fox News, but an instance of such name-calling within the same 24 hours of Megyn Kelly's comment, a Fox News pundit making the same Joseph Goebbels comparison as Steve Cohen, Fox News President Roger Ailes calling someone Hitler, and another Nazi remark on Megyn Kelly's own show.

"Well, Ms. Kelly," Stewart said. "Don't you look ridiculous now?"

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Comments

[Jason McMahan]

08:21 PM on 02/01/2011

"Hitler is to politics what Einstein is to religion: voices of cultural significance thrown around like grenades, with brute force making up for lack of precision."-Horace St. Jake

from A Conversation While...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtjMmWsffy8

[Yeah-sure]

05:17 AM on 01/29/2011

Seems like Megyn Kelly would worry at least a little bit about her own credibility when she says something as blatantly -- oh, wait, she's on Fox News ... guess she doesn't have any credibility to worry about losing anyway.

[joe Jurci]

08:34 PM on 01/28/2011

Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Tea Baggers, Rush, Hannity, Beck and the Hooter's Fox Network and list goes on works for "Corporate Socialism" is actually fascism.

[jasev01]

11:48 AM on 01/28/2011

Fox, and Megyn Kelly fail.  Does she know this stuff is taped?  i mean when you say stuff like that, you just give up your own credibility.

[ChineseFood]

03:35 PM on 01/27/2011

Hey Fox News, 2004 called and said "OH SNAP!"

[Paul Panola]

06:11 AM on 01/27/2011

Fox news should be proud that Stewart had to resort to out-of-context editing of the videos to attempt to make O'Reilly and others look bad.

[LilMissDina]

06:51 AM on 01/27/2011

That's a joke, yes? Cuz you can hardly edit words into somebody's mouth.

[DianeRPCFL]

11:31 AM on 01/27/2011

You have mistaken John Stewart for Andrew Breitbart. Breitbarts is the righwinger editing-officianado with slight-of-hand editing skills, just ask Sharon Sherrod.

[jstjoe]

04:04 AM on 01/27/2011

Bill O'Reilly's response to this piece is absolutely fabulous !!! The entire response is one big heaping helping of ridiculousness. Fox news is staffed with spokespeople who are actually funnier than the caricatures of themselves !! People like John Stewart and Lewis Black must pray to all they hold holy in thanks for the creation of Fox news because as of that day, their jobs have become the easiest money one could ever hope to make.

[MikeWebster]

01:23 AM on 01/27/2011

Unfortunately Steve Cohen was quite right about the techniques used by the right wing. It is to repeat lies again and again - blatantly like Megyn Kelly and others on FOX - until their audience has no notion of the truth.

Funnily enough, every time FOX and the Tea Baggers mention this kind of thing, it is just another one of their many lies. They are all about inciting hatred against people based on fabricated conspiracy theories, and lies about their actual words and actions.

[jdrourke]

12:49 AM on 01/27/2011

Megyn Kelly - and Fox *News as a whole - is both hypocritical and embarrassing in their endless amount of b.s.

http://jdrourke.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/memo-to-the-rhetoric-elite/

[Whatchutalkinabout]

11:40 PM on 01/26/2011

Let me know when HP posts the O'Relley response from tonight in it's entirety.

[MikeWebster]

01:25 AM on 01/27/2011

Unless he apologises for an hour, and promises never to darken television screens with his presence again, I doubt whether its going to come close to making up for his years of hate speech and lies.

[DavidATolucaLake]

09:00 PM on 01/26/2011

The Repubs and Dems need to get it right.
It was the early white power base of the United States that truly deserve to be compared to Nazis:

1. The desire for living space for white settlers, due to the fact that whites would use the land more productively than the racially and spiritually inferior indigenous people who lived on it.

2. Government sanctioned murder/near extermination of those races considered sub-human (Indians).

3. Legal distinction between those who had legal rights and those races (Indians, blacks) who were forbidden the protection of the law, because of race.

4. Wide spread slave labor used to fuel the economy.

5. Racial and religious denominational superiority (Christianity) used to justify land expansion, and the murder of those who inhabitant it.

6. Forced relocation of sub-human/savage races to reservations.

But I suppose its only a crime when those you take land from and murder are European/ caucasian.

[EST74]

05:55 PM on 01/28/2011

Exactly

[wakeisland]

07:24 PM on 01/26/2011

I would love to see him go on hannity or beck that would be pay per view.
I just dont think he could win with those 2

[MikeWebster]

01:27 AM on 01/27/2011

Hannity would shout over him and turn his mic down. Beck would probably take him on some tangent that he had no chance of following without the use of mind expanding drugs.

[LilMissDina]

06:54 AM on 01/27/2011

Stewart has publicly invited both to come onto his show, but they have not. Nor have they invited Stewart to theirs. That hardly sounds like Hannity or Beck are confident they could win an argument against him.

[famished]

06:05 PM on 01/26/2011

It must be nice to work for an organization like Fox where there audience truly doesn't have a memory at all.... not to speak of an education.

[MikeWebster]

01:29 AM on 01/27/2011

Not only their audience - it seems their pundints have their memories wiped every morning, so that they can continue their hideous inconsistancy and contradiction without having to panic about their reality disconnect.

[20yearnavyvet]

04:43 PM on 01/26/2011

One of my favorite clips.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-may-12-2010/back-in-black---glenn-beck-s-nazi-tourette-s

[margoharris]

06:36 PM on 01/26/2011

Great link......f&f

[rktboy]

09:55 PM on 01/26/2011

Love it. Hilarious!

[salamanca1]

04:09 PM on 01/26/2011

Personally, when I want to see what Fox has done lately to destroy the truth, and to fling down facts and dance upon them, I go to the News Hounds web site, whose motto is: We watch Fox News So You Don't Have To. You get the distilled and highlighted crimes against journalism, history, and reality, without actually having to endure watching it.

[GraceNotes]

04:21 PM on 01/26/2011

Thanks for the tip, I will find the site.