[See NewsBusters for more.] In a fairer world, the increasing number of lies and exaggerations arising from the Brian Williams scandal would be perfect fodder for Jon Stewart. However, it wasn't until Monday night that the liberal Daily Show anchor finally broke his silence and covered Williams and his fabricated story about being struck by an RPG during the Iraq War. Predictably, Stewart neglected mockery aimed at the NBC journalist and turned it towards a Republican target, the Bush administration. After playing a media montage of stories about Williams, the Comedy Central host assailed, "Finally, someone is being held to account for misleading America about the Iraq War." Rather than extract humor from the current situation, Stewart went back to the past: "Never again will Brian Williams mislead this great nation about being shot at in a war we probably wouldn't have ended up in if the media it had applied this level of scrutiny to the actual [bleeped] war."
. Eric Scheiner
