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May 2024
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Jon Stewart Spotlights Fox News's Anti-P...

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On this day in 2015, President Obama calls out Fox News for misleading coverage of America's poor being 'sponges' and 'leeches' and Jon Stewart brings the receipts.
Plus, Jordan Klepper travels to the U.K. and finds in their recent election that only the least successful candidates campaigned on the fringe platform of xenophobia and breaking from the European Union. And religious scholar, Reza Aslan, discusses the state of Islam and how the interpretation of religion relies comes down to the character of the individual.

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