Video: Stewart maps Republican 'blame game' in Foley fallout
David Edwards
Published:
Thursday October 5, 2006
Print This Email This Republican leaders in the House are pointing fingers at each other in wake of the scandal over Rep. Mark Foley's lurid messages, according to The Daily Show's Jon Stewart.
The buck seems to stop with Hastert, Stewart says.
"What's really going on in Washington?" asked Stewart before showing a clip of men jumping off a boat. "By the way, the boat that everyone is jumping off of is this man, Dennis Hastert."
"So, the Republicans are blaming each other. Surely, this scandal can't be the fault of the party of moral values and accountability. Surely, someone can lay the blame where it truly belongs," says Stewart.
The next clip shows Fox pundits and hosts trying various ways to suggest that Democrats share the blame. In one case, on Bill O'Reilly's show, the on-screen banner identified Foley as a Democrat. The graphic was shown several times during the course of O'Reilly's show, and Fox News did not correct it or acknowledge the error on-air.
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