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The Hannity-Stewart feud: Day Three.

During an 11-minute segment on the “The Daily Show” Wednesday night, Jon Stewart called out Sean Hannity for what he perceived as hypocrisy on the Cliven Bundy issue and called the Fox News host “The Arby’s of news.”


Addressing Hannity directly, he said: “I just can’t believe that in this day and age, with all that we know, that this s*** is out there. That humanity, that our society is still weighed down by these burdens of a seemingly more medieval time. Like your show.”

“What is so fascinating,” Stewart continued, “is the paradox at the heart of your show. That your purely blind partisan principles are couched in such lofty principle.”

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It was the third night in a feud that Stewart ignited Monday night with an attack on the Fox host, with Hannity responding in kind on Tuesday and then Stewart back at it Wednesday night.

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Stewart said Hannity is hypocritical in calling for “proportionality” when it comes to the federal government dealing with Bundy, a Nevada rancher in conflict with the federal Bureau of Land Management. He played a clip in which Hannity said he didn’t think the police crossed the line when pepper-spraying seated students at an Occupy demonstration at the University of California Davis in November 2011. He also played video in which the Fox News host said the U.S. shouldn’t “tie the hands of law enforcement” when it comes to the controversial stop-and-frisk policing policy in cities.

Responding to Hannity’s claim that Stewart is “kind of obsessed with this program,” Stewart conceded the point, saying, “I am obsessed with your program. You can say true things!”