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Stewart: Mosque in Woody Allen's Building?

What, do cable crazies think it's 1976?

By Jane Yager,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 11, 2010 5:35 AM CDT

(Newser) – Jon Stewart has some problems with news anchors' rants about the planned "Ground Zero Mosque." It's not a mosque, it's a cultural center, and it's not at Ground Zero, but on Park Place on the "hallowed ground" of a former Burlington Coat Factory. Then there's the Fox News anchor who suggested "the Upper West Side in Woody Allen's building" as a location for the mosque.

"Woody Allen?" Stewart asks incredulously. "That's your go-to out-of-touch New York liberal Jew reference? What, are they asking to build the mosque in 1976?" And speaking of holy wars, it isn't Woody Allen who lives on the Upper West Side, the Daily Show anchor notes, it's ex-wife Mia Farrow. Watch the clip at New York.

FILE - In this March 12, 2009 file photo, Jon Stewart hosts a taping of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart  in New York.
FILE - In this March 12, 2009 file photo, Jon Stewart hosts a taping of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" in New York.   (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, file)
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truesoy
Aug 12, 2010 7:09 AM CDT
The problem lies in that people take religion too serious, and that could be fatal in some instances. Though, we must admit that for some is a great buss. venture, I mean, where else could you turn a $10.00 investment (for a bible, or any other religious book) into a million dollars plus. tax free enterprise?.
myflap.blow
Aug 12, 2010 4:44 AM CDT
Jon Stewart recently took two weeks off to grow a beard then another day to shave it off. What a huge Jewish douchebag that also happens to be the greatest news guy i trust my entire life to ever. That damn Colbert is a right wing snob though! I never get his jokes. He's too serious and should try satire... like that Beck guy.
Shawn_The_Bohn
Aug 11, 2010 5:10 PM CDT
John Stewart, voice of reason. Comedians are apparently the only people who can stay sane long enough to come to rational conclusions about this crazy world.
 

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