Jon Stewart Hits Back At Bill O'Reilly For Defending Nazi Rhetoric On Fox News (VIDEO)

For the third time in about a week, Jon Stewart has dedicated a "Daily Show" segment to dealing with angry, Nazi-related rhetoric used in media and politics. But what seems to bother him more than nonsensical Hitler comparisons is Fox News pundits' inability to see their own Nazi references as inappropriate.

After Stewart called out Steve Cohen's use of a Goebbels reference to describe GOP behavior, Megyn Kelly of Fox News said there is no Nazi rhetoric used on Fox News. But Stewart proved with a slew of clips that Fox was being hypocritical.

In one of those clips, Bill O'Reilly made a mind-boggling comparison between HuffPost and Hitler. Seeing it on "The Daily Show" didn't sit well with the Fox News host, who said on his next show that the clip was edited in a way took it out of context. Stewart responded:

Why you used the Nazi reference doesn't really matter in this. The segment is for Megyn Kelly to take offense to, not you. It's not all about you, Bill!"

The point of the segment was to show that contrary to what Kelly said, Nazi references run amok on Fox News. But since O'Reilly seemed so eager to provide context with his baseless claim, Stewart obliged him. The content that O'Reilly found suitable to compare to the work of Nazis? It turned out to be a nasty comment someone wrote on a post about Nancy Reagan that violated our commenting policy but slipped by our comment moderators.

"That was a horrible thing for someone to write," Stewart said. "...But being a heartless douche isn't exactly the same as being a Nazi propagandist."

Like he does best, Stewart pointed out that Fox News' website also has some offensive comments, and produced a particularly bad one regarding Michelle Obama's backside. But Stewart's point wasn't that commenters are mean, it was that Fox News does use Nazi rhetoric, and with this rebuttal O'Reilly was basically saying, "Yeah, but I had a good reason."

Watch the rest of the clip to hear Stewart's impeccable speeding analogy that should really put the entire Nazi name-calling debate to bed.

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Comments

[PathofTotality]

09:55 AM on 02/27/2011

Sunday morning watching some older clips while having a cup of coffee.

I have said it many times before and I will say it many times again but the people that NEED to see these clips never will.......ever.

[bernard0]

02:40 AM on 02/06/2011

It's 2011 and Jon Stewart still has it!

[buckbanter44]

02:39 PM on 02/02/2011

I haven't seen Beck on any of the comedy shows so Stewart shouldn't be so sensitive.

[Alison Kurke]

01:24 AM on 02/02/2011

Awesome. As always, Jon.

[Jason McMahan]

08:36 PM on 02/01/2011

"Horace: 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.

Jasper: And that’s only because Hitler is still relevant. His name’s still on everyone’s lips. Books are still being written about him. The History Channel’s practically dedicated to him.

Horace: And as long as Obama is president, FoxNews will be too."

from the new webseries A Conversation While...
Life Lessons from Hitler & Woody Allen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtjMmWsffy8

[ALoayza]

11:13 AM on 02/01/2011

So Jon Stewart has dismantled, deconstruct, and completely exposed the script, manufactured narrative, and blatant hypocrisy of this Fox, the Republican media arm, over and over and over. What's sad to me is that the Republicans who have dismantled and deconstruct anything resembling a globally competitive education system won by their viewers not understanding the airtight argumentative skills of Jon Stewart. Inductive deductive reasoning using logic and more than 3 examples as proof is what wins debates whether you like it or not. Without reason, logic, and examples or proofs, it's just opinion of people with an agenda scripted out regardless of events and evidence that proves otherwise. That's how court cases are decided, that's why Jon used the exhibit A analogy. So sad that when the Fox viewers have the truth staring at them in the face, but refuse to believe or attempt to change their opinion because they are afraid of changing anything they aren't comfortable with. Name calling is what Fox does, Destruction by reason, logic, and proofs is what educated people do.

[Catch 22]

11:02 AM on 02/01/2011

Bill cannot understand Jon's logic. I don't think he is capable of it, in spite of his Ivy League Education.

[Rhonnybay]

10:28 AM on 02/01/2011

I love him.

[Barton449]

09:49 AM on 02/01/2011

Shakespeare said it best, "Much ado about nothing."
Entertainers hyping for ratings, is all.

[ALoayza]

10:58 AM on 02/01/2011

Congressmen talking about rhetoric and the station accused responding by saying they don't has some relevance. Jon Stewart is the only one who connects the dots and uses deductive inductive reasoning and logic to support his argument and using a speeding analogy at the end that sums everything up. He is the only one not unafraid to expose all of the hypocrites beholden to some special interest group, political party, or manufactured narrative.

[Barton449]

11:08 AM on 02/01/2011

Try using words you understand, then maybe, though I doubt it,
you will make some sense.

[Jamie Schler]

05:53 AM on 02/01/2011

First of all, as a Huffington Post blogger, I think that the difference between a published blog post by a blogger and a comment left by a random visitor should clearly be highlighted in a way that neither Jon Stewart or Bill O'Reilly does. Yes, both the post itself and the comments are moderated by a team of moderators, but one should be considered more representative of the journal than the other. Second, I am so tired of the Fox News team's lies and hate.

[Mike-South Carolina]

12:45 AM on 02/01/2011

Never pick a fight with a comedian. Dumb Bill. Dumb.

[Algird]

10:47 PM on 01/31/2011

What is that Fox teleapromter reading still doing on TV? Shes boaderline mental.

[Barton449]

09:50 AM on 02/01/2011

And gorgeous!

[Troff]

07:16 PM on 01/31/2011

None of this explains where Americans find the r in Göbbels. Or is there something I'm missing about the politics of gerbils?

[BrianMac]

09:30 PM on 02/02/2011

When a vowel has an umlaut diacritic above it, as in German, the normal sound is altered. In the case of an "ö" (or often written as "oe"), the sound is more like "ur." Although in German it does not have an "r" sound, it's not entirely a mistake to pronounce it with a hint of an "r" if you're not a native German speaker. The sound of an "ö" is not commonly used in standard English pronunciation.

[Troff]

03:04 AM on 02/03/2011

Thank you for your explanation. I realize that you are probably not making this up, but at the same time I don't recognize any of it. I am not a native speaker but I took German for 5 years. There is no r sound in the beginning of Österreich or anywhere in böse. There is an r in hören but that's because there is an r in hören!

It is also not true that the ö sound is uncommon in standard English pronunciation, but the ones I think of first (birth and burger) are words that in British English have a completely silent r but where you do hear an r in American English. That can't be a coincidence, can it?

[Omnix]

06:14 PM on 01/31/2011

The right-wing lacks cognitive discipline, which is why they don't restrain or encumber their arguments with things like facts or morals/ethics. They don't have the capacity or maturity to recognize that just because they can say something doesn't make it right or true. Thus, arguing with these "people" is always an exercise in futility. But thanks for the laugh, John...

[Barton449]

09:53 AM on 02/01/2011

Oh yes, Liberals who depend on the government for their very sustainence,
are much more mature.
Besides,
The last time I heard the maturity argument was from a high school girl explaining
why she smoked.

[Omnix]

10:57 AM on 02/01/2011

Case in point...

[Catch 22]

11:05 AM on 02/01/2011

You have done more to prove Omnix's point than he did.

[Max Shaw]

05:09 PM on 01/31/2011

Its funny, but at the same time, this is only going to cause a further media discussion about all things Third Reich...I wish this WAS the end of it.