On Jon Stewart’s first night in the nation’s capital, he had to tackle last week’s firing of the NPR analyst Juan Williams.
Mr. Williams was fired after he said on Fox News that he felt fearful when he saw people in “Muslim garb” on an airplane.
Said Samantha Bee, one of the “Daily Show” correspondents: “It was a direct violation of NPR’s never-say-anything-interesting policy.”
Mr. Stewart latched onto the anti-NPR attitude that dominated Fox News programs in the days after Mr. Williams’s firing by NPR. (Fox immediately extended Mr. Williams’s contract. “NPR, you just brought a tote bag full of David Sedaris books to a knife fight,” Mr. Stewart said. Here’s the segment:
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