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Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on July 16, 2024 TV appearance
Milwaukee's Marcus Performing Arts Center – where 'The Daily Show' had been scheduled – “was originally located in the ‘soft perimeter,’ they called it, security-wise” but “was shifted, understandably so, to the ‘hard perimeter.’”
False
By Madeline Heim • July 17, 2024
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on July 21, 2015 an interview on "The Daily Show"
The United States is "fighting with Iraqis to defeat ISIS along with Iran. But in Yemen we're fighting Iran with Iraqis and Saudis."
Half-True
By Anna Bruzgulis • July 23, 2015
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on March 11, 2014 a broadcast of "The Daily Show"
The American slave trade caused 5 million deaths "or more."
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2014
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on March 11, 2014 a broadcast of "The Daily Show"
Says Abraham Lincoln tried to buy slaves' freedom in border states, but the states "all rejected it."
True
By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2014
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on October 30, 2013 in comments on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show"
Congress "is bewildered at the scope and reach of our spying apparatus" but in 2008 and 2012 "explicitly rejected an amendment calling for more disclosure."
True
By Jon Greenberg • November 5, 2013
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on December 6, 2011 a segment of "The Daily Show"
"When the country was founded, Congress had exactly the same attitude about the sanctity of Christmas celebrations that a 7-Eleven does today: 'Yeah, we're open.'"
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 9, 2011
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on June 19, 2011 an interview on Fox News Sunday
"Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers? … Fox viewers, consistently, every poll."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 20, 2011
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on February 3, 2010 an interview with Bill O'Reilly
One-third of the economic stimulus package was tax cuts.
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • February 10, 2010