Jon Stewart Skewers Fox for Twisting Rachel Dolezal Story into Sign of American Decline

AlterNet
June 16, 2015

On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart introduced a new segment simply called "Whaaaaaaaaat!?" You can probably guess the topic of the first installment. 

"Ten years of pretending to be a black woman. Interesting," Stewart noted, about Rachel Dolezal's years'-long ruse. Czech, Swedish and German, he said of Dolezal's actual ancestry, "is really fucking white."

As is usually the case with sensitive conversations about race and identity, Fox is right on the scene to shoehorn the bizarre story into a "Benghazi Obamaphone culture-war dogwhistle who-gives-a-f*ck-atron," Stewart pointed out. Behold the power of Fox to somehow twist this story into an indictment of liberalism. 

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