Jon Stewart gives an explosive 'adios' to Fox News

Jon Stewart
(Image credit: The Daily Show)

Fox News has been no ally of Jon Stewart, but the soon-to-be-retired Daily Show host was at the end of his rope last night when he recalled walking in on his kids watching the network's Howard Kurtz and David Zrawik criticizing him for spreading Obama propaganda.

"Your hypocrisy isn’t a bug in the Fox model, it’s the feature," Stewart challenged, before launching into a segment that showed Fox hosts exclaiming that "even Jon Stewart" had discredited Obama. To top it off, Stewart went as far as to show Fox News' own shady "propaganda," such as when their managing editor and vice president, Bill Sammon, issued a memo to the U.S. troops directing them as to how to refer to ObamaCare.

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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.