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The Daily Stewart This Week

Jan 29
1 min read

If you didn't see Jon Stewart's Monday hosting of Last Week Tonight, his Main Story was about...well, not shockingly, the killing of Alex Pretti by DHS agents in Minneapolis.  His scorn was palpable, but he was nonetheless able to make the story funny through unrelenting ridicule.  And he did so from two angles -- first, the attempts to define events by Trump officials contrasted with the reality seen through all the videos, and second, the deep hypocrisy of those officials -- loyal defenders of absolute gun rights -- blaming the victim for having a legal permit to carry a gun.



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