Jon Stewart Apologizes for False Fox News Blast, Blasts Fox News Some More

When Jon Stewart appeared on "Fox News Sunday" to debate with Chris Wallace, he stated that Fox News viewers were "consistently the most misinformed." Well, it turns out that's not entirely true...in fact, "The Daily Show" itself placed lower in some polls than select Fox News shows.

That lead non-partisan fact-checking site PolitiFact to determine Stewart's statement as "false." Stewart, as one who has been railing against false statements from cable news shows for years, reacted quickly with an apology last night: "As it turned out, I was misinformed," Stewart admitted. "Which should not be surprising as I do watch a lot of Fox News," he jokingly added.

"Ultimately, PolitiFact declared my statement to be false. I defer to their judgement, and I apologize for my mistake. To not do so would be irresponsible. And if I were to continue to make such mis-statements...and not correct them...that would undermine the very integrity and credibility that I've worked so hard to pretend to care about."

But Stewart wasn't done there. He went on to wonder if PolitiFact had ever checked Fox News for false statements, then proceeded to read off a list so long that it filled up the entire screen. The list included everything from "There's been more debt under President Obama than all other presidents combined" (false) to "Health care reform is a government takeover of health care" and "Health care bill includes death panels," which were named the "Lie of the Year" of 2010 and 2009, respectively, by PolitiFact.

"Fox News is like a lying dynasty," Stewart exclaimed. "They're like the New England Patriots of lying. Without the "Patriots" part, because I think we all know patriots cannot tell a lie."

Jon Stewart only has one other statement on PolitiFact: "One-third of the economic stimulus package was tax cuts," which was determined to be "mostly true."