Jon Stewart sat down with Rachel Maddow last night, to defend some of the criticism he’s been getting over his speech at the Rally To Restore Sanity, which has been derided as painting a false equivalence between Fox News and the rest of cable news. Stewart told Maddow that his point was that cable news networks have allowed the left and the right to become the fight, and it “amplifies a division that I don’t actually think is the right fight.”
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