This video and article involves a certain Michelle Bachmann and 4 other Republican representative requested intelligence officials to conduct investigations in suspicions that Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's aide Huma Abedin works for the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic terrorists. The accusations were based on her deceased father's former relations with an acquaintance who used to head a Muslim Group, suspected of having connection with the Muslim Brotherhood . Long story short it was a baseless accusation, as Stewart points out aggressively, because Abedin not only works a "high-profile stringent background check job with the former first lady" but also "marries a pro-Israel Jewish guy."
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-jon-stewart-ties-michele-bachmann-to-islamic-terrorism-20120720,0,4163393.story
In his usual comedic style of response, Jon Stewart then makes reference to the recent scandal about HSBC's US division having funded Al Qaeda and other undesired clients, including Michelle Bachmann own presidential campaign when she was running. Jokes aside, since most of the audience of The Daily Show are young people like me, it widens our eyes and minds in regards to media literacy by warning us to take in information from the news constructively instead of blindly following discriminatory accusations and the hype it seeks to gather from the audience.
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