Jon Stewart dedicated another segment of The Daily Show to Fox News' coverage of Benghazi on Monday night.
"If I may say, your hypocritical outrage and sanctimony aside, the reason it's hard for everybody to get outraged by this terribly tragic and ultimately preventable disaster that was Benghazi is that everybody in this country has seen this movie before. Only that movie was on an IMAX," Stewart said.
Many prominent Republicans continue to accuse the Obama administration of creating a cover-up of the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, which killed four Americans, and led Fox News hosts to ask where the "outrage" was, claiming the "mainstream media" was giving President Barack Obama "a pass."
"That after hundreds of cable news stories about Benghazi, 13 congressional hearings, 50 further congressional briefings, and 25,000 pages of official findings concerning what happened in Benghazi, that if we all only knew about it, we would care," he said.
To further prove his point, Stewart showed old Fox News clips downplaying the Iraq War, declared by former Republican President George W. Bush.
"Imagine the outrage if there had been a second intelligence failure right after that one that tragically led to even more Americans losing their lives," Stewart said. "But you're not concerned about that. You're just concerned about this one intelligence failure. You're upset that an administration, in its haste to get re-elected, pulled some dodgy, face-saving sh*t. That's what you're afraid of."
More specifically, he mentioned a New York Times article where the Bush administration claimed Iraq was looking to buy "high-quality aluminum tubes that are really only for nuclear weapons programs."
"They knew a year in advance that what they were saying on the show that day was not true," Stewart said. "Where was the outrage?"
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