Jon Stewart and the Fox News War on Costas

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Alexander Abad-Santos 5,843 Views Dec 11, 2012

As Jon Stewart sees it, the only thing worse than Bob Costas's awkward sermon on Jevon Belcher and gun control are Fox News talking heads talking about how terrible Bob Costas is.  Now, it's not like Costas didn't bungle that speech and the non-apology apology — he did, and Stewart saw it. But Stewart points also sees a twinge of hypocrisy in Fox playing the appropriate police when, umm, they map out all the various ways Belcher could have killed his girlfriend. 

 

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