Jon Stewart Bites Back After Musk Calls Him a 'Propagandist'

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Jon Stewart will sit down with Elon Musk — but he won't be insulted by him.
After the tech mogul said he would be open to appearing on The Daily Show if it aired "unedited," the host agreed to the strict terms. However, when Musk called Stewart a "propagandist," the comedian swiftly fired back.
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After both parties expressed their desire to sit down for an interview, Musk tweeted, "Jon Stewart is much more a propagandist than it would seem. Jon is too set in his ways. He used to be more bipartisan."
During the Monday, March 3, episode of the political comedy series, Stewart ripped the DOGE specialist to shreds over the remark. "I thought about [his offer] and after a prayerful week with my family, I thought, 'You know, that's actually how the in-studio interviews normally air — unedited. So, sure, we'd be delighted!'" he said in part.

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"But then I checked X again and I saw another tweet from Elon, because you can't not," the funnyman recalled. "He then said — after saying he'd like to come on — that 'Jon Stewart cannot be trusted' and that I'm a 'propagandist' and a 'bipartisan.' You give me too little credit. Again, the guy who custom-made his own dark MAGA hat that he wears to opine in the Oval Office with the president who he spent $270 million to elect … thinks I'm just too partisan."
Stewart then said he's not sure Musk knows what "bipartisan means."
"But its generally not, 'I support Donald Trump and also Germany's AFD party' — that's not bipartisan. That's just the same s***," Stewart yelled.

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When the commentator finally cooled down, he leveled with Musk and welcomed him for a chat. "I guess what I'll say is this: Look, Elon, I do have some criticisms about DOGE. I support, in general, the idea of efficiency and delivering better services to the American public in cheaper and more efficient ways," he said.
"If you want to come in and talk about it on the show, great. If you don't want to, sure. But can we just drop the pretense that you won't do it because I don't measure up to the standards of neutral discourse that you demand and display at all times? Because quite frankly, that's b*******. You know it, and I know it — it's b*******," Stewart said.

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The television star has been extremely vocal about the humor he finds in the Trump administration. Later in the broadcast, the left-leaning star trolled the commander-in-chief for his wild fight with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office.
"The best way that I can explain what happened, to show Americans how to process this new reality was with another shocking turn of events this weekend," he said as they cut to footage of a WWE match.

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"The [below-the-belt] shot to the hopes and dreams of Ukrainians everywhere! And then, for no reason, America jumped on Zelensky and started punching him in the face as many times as it could," Stewart joked as the camera continued to show two people fighting in the ring.
"Too simplistic?" Stewart questioned about his wrestling metaphor. "No! This is it!"