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Stewart Rants At Schumer For Not Shutting Down Gov’t

There is a tendency among some people to believe that, unlike other late night hosts, Jon Stewart goes after both sides. However, that is only really true if you consider going after Democrats for not being left enough to be equal treatment. On Monday’s edition of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Stewart ranted at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for not shutting down the government and later welcomed Sen. Chris Murphy to echo his opinion.

Playing the role of someone inclined to give Schumer the benefit of the doubt, Stewart declared, “You got me going, Chucky. You probably got a little something out of this, didn’t you. Ole C-Schoo, you wouldn’t have given up that powerful leverage on the budget for nothing! My guess is, Chucky got some cheese.”

 

 

After playing an MSNBC video reporting that Schumer did not, Stewart settled…

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