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ellisonz

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Thu Dec 15, 2011, 04:29 AM Dec 2011

Jon Stewart Blames The History Channel For Politifact Giving Him A ‘Pants On Fire’

On Monday night’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart responded to Politifact giving him a “Pants on Fire”, by unloading on The History Channel for their historically inaccurate programming. “Apparently the clip we showed was off by around 66 years!” Stewart exclaimed. “For this mistake, I was awarded the fact-checking site Politifact.com’s lowest grade possible “Pants on Fire.” Something the people at Politifact must know that a gentleman such as myself is akin to a death sentence. In this dry weather my ass hair is nothing if not kindling. Of course, it’s my fault for trusting something called the History Channel! You know, with facts about things that happened in the past. The next thing you know, we’ll all find out the Nazis did not employ alien technology in their quest for world domination. You know what, History Channel? You have f*cked me for the last time!”

“From now on, I go straight to the source!” he added, jumping into a DeLorean to go back to the future to ask a mid-coital Ben Franklin about how the colonists celebrated Christmas.

“Well, some of us work, some reflect with family,” Franklin replied. “The more common man spends the day stuffing his face, getting drunk and wallowing in vomit. or as i call it, Tuesday.”

Watch Stewart bypass The History Channel for his Christmas research below via Comedy Central:

Video: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-zings-the-history-channel-for-politifact-giving-him-a-%E2%80%98pants-on-fire%E2%80%99/

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Jon Stewart Blames The History Channel For Politifact Giving Him A ‘Pants On Fire’ (Original Post) ellisonz Dec 2011 OP
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Jon Stewart is all about satire and hyperbolizing real issues.

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