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Last week Jon Stewart criticized FOX News for being hypocritical about the use of sweeping generalizations of people based on their political beliefs and party affiliations. 

He ended the segment with by showing a clip of Bernie Goldberg saying that a liberal would never allow a child with Downs Syndrome to even be born and then responded to Bernie’s flagrant generalization with, “Go fuck yourselves.”

Bernie Goldberg appeared on Bill O’Reilly’s show to respond to Jon Stewart’s attack, and last night, Jon Stewart responded in full force, complete with gospel choir backup.

It’s genius.

Jon accurately describes FOX News as:  “a terrible, cynical, disingenuous news organization.”  (Note to Websters:  Use this in your next edition.)

One of the things Goldberg said that I found particularly revealing was that Jon Stewart should try social commentary.  Of course that’s what he does every night – through comedy – something Goldberg doesn’t seem to grasp. 

And, since this video ping pong match started over the use of sweeping generalizations, I will use Goldberg’s remark to make one of my own. 

Remember a few years back when Fox had its own comedy news show?  You might have forgotten because it wasn’t on for very long.  It wasn’t’ on for long because it wasn’t funny, and it wasn’t funny because conservative pundits like Bernie Goldberg don’t understand satire and are therefore incapable of producing it.

Why we love The Daily Show, Part 147:

While looking over the list of hits on this site and how readers got here, I could not help but notice that many of them were in fact looking for this segment of The Daily Show (thank you Amazon ads!), so here it is.  Enjoy:

…brought to you by Fox Noise Channel.

If your are looking for the segment where Jon Stewart likens Fred Thompson to Foghorn Leghorn and Joe Lieberman to Droopy, go here.