Jon Stewart Heroically Offers To Save Bret Baier From Fox Exec Bill Sammon’s ‘Bias’
Seems like Jon Stewart wasn’t content with his performance in debate against Fox News’ Bret Baier last week, in an interview in which he told the anchor he refused to accept Fox News as an objective news organization, to which the latter responded that the network “respected the viewers ability to discern” between opinion and hard news. Tonight, Stewart went after D.C. Managing Editor Bill Sammon for opinionated comments that he was certain proved the network’s bias.
Now that the pesky Baier wasn’t there to refute his arguments, Stewart went all-in against his boss, who has come under fire recently for making comments on air about President Obama possibly being a socialist. Sammon’s comments booming into the studio like the voice of God, Stewart stated that Sammon had apparently made more than a few of these biased comments on a “conservative cruise,” which Stewart also noted was a thing that exists. He also played some of the on-air comments Sammon made on Fox News and commented on the humor in Sammon “complaining about socialism and wearing a tuxedo.”
After getting over the sartorial humor hurdle, Stewart tried to find similar instances of individuals making subjective statements and getting in trouble for them– particularly former NPR executive Ron Schiller, who stepped down in light of his comments that Tea Party protesters were “scary” to him, and the Dave Weigel imbroglio at the Washington Post triggered by the release of private emails with subjective political statements in them. Stewart correlated columnist Charles Krauthammer‘s criticism of Schiller and Sammon’s own attacks on Weigel to the networks biases, quipping that, when Krauthammer appears on Baier’s Special Report, it is about as easy to distinguish opinion from hard news as it is to “taste all the individual ingredients that go into soup.”
Then Stewart suddenly remembers “my friend” Baier, and, in a surrealist turn to the segment, sets out to find and “save” him from Sammon’s evil bias. He makes it all the way to the sky somewhere behind Megyn Kelly before being informed, once again, that Baier works out of Washington.
The segment via Comedy Central below:
