Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart both tackle 60 Minutes’ reporting on a faux Benghazi-gate whistleblower, Dylan Davies, who claimed to have been there when terrorists were attacking our consulate in Benghazi, Libya back in September of 2012. During that attack, Ambassador Chris Stephens died along with several others.

The only problem? 60 Minutes’ report was false, their eyewitness was a phony, and CBS’ publishing subsidiary (oh yes, CBS had a hidden financial interest in the story being true) had to pull the fake-snitches’ tell-all book.

Probably the most important thing from any of the clips is Colbert showing the 60 Minutes “apology” that aired this past Sunday. The apology was shockingly weak tea. Listen to what CBS actually said in their “meh culpa,” as Jon Stewart calls it:

“We end our broadcast tonight with a correction [Note from John: a “correction,” not an apology – correction suggests that one small fact was wrong, perhaps someone’s name was misspelled, or we got a date wrong] in a story we reported on October 27th… we realized we had been misled, and it had been a mistake to include him in our report. For that, we are very sorry.”

A mistake to “include him” in your report? Your entire report was him. If he wasn’t in the report, then you had no report. So the mistake wasn’t including him in the report, the mistake was doing the report, period.

That’s like claiming that the only problem with the “balloon boy” hoax was including the balloon boy himself in the reporting, otherwise the story was grade-A news.

Colbert responds to the apology:

“Folks, I’m not buying this. CBS is good at journalism. There’s only one logical explanation for what happened here: HILLARY CLINTON GOT TO THEM.”

Colbert then finds an eyewitness to the night that CBS apologized for the story. It’s a well-known middle-aged, grey-haired, actor wearing a fake beard, pretending to be a college intern. The segment is beyond hysterical.

Colbert then shows a clip of a Fox News anchor bragging how Fox News had the story before CBS, then a second anchor, speaking to Lindsey Graham, explains who the story is obviously true since now CBS is also reporting it. Colbert adds:

“Yes, another networked covered it. That’s how you know Fox News’ reporting is accurate. It’s just like their motto:”

For those of us who missed 60 Minutes’ report, it’s fascinating to watch the small clips on both Stewart and Colbert. CBS was breathless in their reporting, and their supposed you-were-there eyewitness, Davies, even went into a softer voice while describing how he scaled the 12 foot consulate walls and attacked a terrorist with the butt of his rifle. Except he didn’t.

Colbert: “Of course, Fox News has been workin’ this story for a year, have definitively proven that tragedy something something something Hillary Clinton.” Stewart: “What? If you cannot trust an international mercenary existing in the netherworld twixt assassin and bounty hunter, whose very livelihood is predicated on the flexible morality needed to survive in the case of lawlessness of failed nations, I mean, who can you trust? It’s like finding out Santa isn’t real.”

Stewart also takes a nice dig at GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham who has been holding up the nominations of every Obama administration official because of the supposed, and now-false, testimony of Dylan Davies. Even though Davies has now been discredited, Graham continues to hold up the nominations. It’s also rather amazing the degree to which Stewart now makes open hay of the fact that many people, myself included, think Lindsey Graham is gay. Stewart calls him Blanche DeGraham in this segment.

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Jon Stewart:

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