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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No.  He literally said, "I didn't see the tweets."

People laughed at this.  It was a good question but poorly worded.  Stewart took the question seriously.

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Why was Stewart saying he didn’t see the tweets laughable? What’s funny about it?[/quote]

Nothing.  The questioner asked about a podcast that had been deleted for a year before at the time of this question as well as unspecified tweets about CK rumors.  The audience laughed.  Stewart has no control over this.  He was taking the question seriously.[/quote]

No, he actually cited the article.  Stewart was hamming it up quite obviously for the camera.  You seem to have some kind of perception issues because what you are describing is factually not what happened and the video is at the top of the post, so... [/quote]

I'm going but what is said and shown on the tape.  The Gawker was a defunct site by the time of the question.  It also was not known for journalistic integrity.  Hence why it got into legal predicament and shut down.

If the op actually watched Stewart for years the amount of prep he put into researching/writing the show, the amount he read and news watched on the Iraq war for example, it's realistic that he never saw this one web article.  With entertainers, Stewart would do next to little prep and often just ask them about their upcoming projects.

Plus, the guy asking the question got his facts wrong.  The first time the police were called on Cosby was 2005.  Buress started including Cosby and rape into his routine in 2014.  People don't want to be sued so they are careful what they say.

http://time.com/4788703/cosby-trial-andrea-constand-bill-cosby-sex-assault/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-is-hannibal-buress-and-why-did-he-call-bill-cosby-a-rapist/

Many people are conflating legal allegations with rumor.  So this discussion is really about how CK continued to harass women on shows that Stewart had nothing to do with.  So hold people who were actually in the position to do something accountable.

Why not rake Felicia Rashad over the coals for not turning in Cosby?  
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As Tig said, this was widely known within comedy circles.  Gawker was respected, and it's one of the reasons that story remained around long enough to where this story finally broke.  Thank God for them- they did the job so many others wouldnt.

And Stewart didn't just shrug off a question about it apropos of nothing- he put the man on his television show, on the final, prestigious episode, a huge commendation.  And when questioned, he acted like the concern was ridiculous and absurd.

Look, I get it- you're a huge Stewart fanboy.  That much is obvious.  But not holding your idol accountable just makes him look even worse, as if the people he attracts as his base pick and choose when to be morally outraged.  Apparently supporting a serial sexual assaulter is not big enough of a deal.  NAGL... [/quote]

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