Jon Stewart on the Wall Street Protesters: 'How Are They Not Like the Tea Party?'
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On the day Occupy Wall Street protesters marched in Manhattan (and were arrested and beaten by the NYPD), Jon Stewart opened The Daily Show with a critique of how the media—and Fox News in particular—has covered the movement. Stewart was particularly puzzled by the difference between the coverage of Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party movement: "Rage against duly elected government is patriotic, quintessentially American, whereas rage against multi-national shareholder-accountable corporations is anti-American?"