Daily Show Counters ISIS with Hollywood-Style Ebola Propaganda Video

Jon Stewart is not impressed with ISIS’ elaborate Hollywood-style “coming soon” propaganda trailer. I knew they had weapons, but I didn’t know they had Final Cut Pro,” Stewart said before showing a clip of the video on last night’s Daily Show. “This changes everything!”

“If you never establish a caliphate, you can always get a job doing graphics for CNN,” the host told ISIS, dismissing their “little student film” in the face of an even bigger threat: the Ebola virus.

As President Barack Obama announced earlier this week, he is sending up to 3,000 troops to West Africa to combat the spread of the disease, while he has said he will not send combat troops to Iraq. “What’s the matter ISIS, jealous?” Stewart asked.

He then presented the Daily Show’s own “slickly-produced” propaganda video from Ebola. “From the monkeys that brought you AIDS…”

Watch video below, via Comedy Central:

[Photo via screengrab]

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