Jon Stewart and Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly discussed the IRS scandal, the Justice Department’s crackdown on reporters and Muslim profiling earlier this week.
Stewart began by confronting O’Reilly about the intensity of Fox News’ focus on the Obama administration’s recent scandals, asking if they were experiencing any kind of “sexual arousal” now that they seem to have come across some issues worthy of consideration:
“After five years of constantly being at DEFCON 1, red alert, the president is a Marxist who’s destroying the country. You finally have a few things that really look worth investigating. Is it joy? Is it sexual arousal? What is the feeling over there?”
Moving on to the subject of the Associated Press scandal, Stewart began by stating:
“There’s this sense they [the Associated Press] have been singled out purely because of their political beliefs. To be profiled like that… It’s just to be lumped in with people based solely on one fact, it’s unfair, is all I’m saying. It’d be like, if somebody committed an act of terror and we took their whole religion and we lumped them all in for special singling-out.”
O’Reilly replied that he supports profiling Muslims because they’ve committed “over 14,600″ acts of terrorism. “I’m just doing the math here, if they keep mounting up, maybe you do a little bit of profiling.”
Stewart went on to own him over the matter of gun violence in America:
STEWART: “So 14,000 is the limit? How many shootings are in this country?”
O’REILLY: “I’m not quite sure.”
STEWART:“I think it’s like 30,000. 30,000 deaths between homicide and suicide. Do you think we should start profiling?”
O’REILLY: “Of who?” Dead people?”
STEWART:“No, the people with the guns. It raises above your 14,000 threshold, is what I’m saying.”
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