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By Matt Toder May 29, 2012 11:41 PM

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Jon Stewart Returns From Vacation and Attacks the Right’s Hypocritical Stance on Socialism

Jon Stewart Returns From Vacation and Attacks the Right's Hypocritical Stance on Socialism

Jon Stewart Returns From Vacation and Attacks the Right's Hypocritical Stance on Socialism

Socialism has become an often used epithet by Fox News types when needing to bash Obama. As Jon Stewart points out on tonight's Daily Show, there's just a wee bit of hypocrisy in these attacks as many people on the right, Mitt Romney especially, have espoused socialist views, just about different things.

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