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Oct 2023
25m 12s

McCain vs. Obama: The 2008 Presidential ...

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The Daily Show jumps in our time machine to head back to this day in 2008: it's the month leading up to the 2008 election and Jon Stewart looks at coordinated attacks by the McCain/Palin campaign to instill fear against a possible Obama election. Aasif Mandvi talks about why a voter calling Obama an Arab or Muslim shouldn’t be an insult, and former White Hou ... Show More
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