Jon Stewart Rips Fox News Flap With Common ... With Rap!

Jon Stewart Rips Fox News Flap With Common ... With Rap!

Published: May 12, 2011 @ 7:18 am
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By Dylan Stableford

Fox News spent the better part of two days criticizing Michelle Obama for inviting the “misogynist” rapper Common to a White House poetry reading.

In a 10-plus minute "Daily Show" segment (brilliantly dubbed "Tone Def Poetry Jam") Jon Stewart ripped Fox News for creating the "nontroversy" to fill air time -- pointing out that Common is commonly known in the hip-hop community as a "conscious" rapper -- and launched into a rap of his own.

As Paid Content founder Rafat Ali wrote on Twitter, it was the "epic-est ever takedown of Fox News, by, who else."

Watch the clips below:

Tags: cable news, Common, Daily Show, Fox News, Jon Stewart, Media, rap, video, White House
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