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June 27, 2012 at 8:37 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Jon Stewart turns his attention to “Fast and Furious” and Republican outrage over the botched ATF operation.

Best line: “They throw around the term Watergate so much at Fox, you’d think the guy running Fox had been a Nixon operative.”


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