Jon Stewart Eviscerates Fox News For Its Food Stamp Fixation. Just Metaphorically, Sadly

Don't make Jon Stewart angry. Fox News accused him of mocking the network for "exposing fraud" in food stamps, so Stewart bites back with this look at how Fox presents poor people as cheats and freeloaders, caricaturing SNAP users based on a few ridiculous examples, like the surfer dude featured on six different Fox shows. The suggestion is that "if they weren't such shitty people, they wouldn't be poor. And those food stamps are just making them shittier. Of course, [Fox] didn't say it so elegantly..."

And then come the clips. It's a pretty brilliant use of Fox's own hyperbole against them, and it's a lovely example of why Jon Stewart is doing some of the best media analysis out there. Somebody's got to be using this in a media studies class, right?

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