| | Stewart to O'Reilly: Explain your Obama fear mongering
 Jon Stewart hosted Bill O'Reilly as Thursday night's guest in a sometimes heated exchange during which the Daily Show host all-but openly mocked his guest.
The interview began with Stewart displaying a montage of O'Reilly Factor clips from prior to the election that amped up fears of Barack Obama.
"You've got a 'no spin zone,' I've got a safe zone," Stewart deadpanned. "Bill I want you to talk to me. Tonight is about getting over your fear."
O'Reilly sputtered about Obama's relatively thin resume before declaring Stewart "a master of propaganda."
After a break, the two discussed the relative ideological positioning of the American people, with Stewart undercutting the right-wings repeated assertion -- backed by virtually no evidence -- that America is a "center-right" country.
"There's a foundation to the country, and secular progressives want drastic changes," O'Reilly said.
"No they don't," Stewart emphasized.
"Oh c'mon, stop it," the Fox host sputtered, turning to one of his all-time favorite boogeymen. "Do you ever read the DailyKos?"
Keeping his cool, Stewart continued.
"They want the tax rate to go from 36 percent to 39 percent," he said. "In what three percent does that turn it socialist?"
Lacking a cogent explanation, O'Reilly fell back on invective.
"You're telling me propaganda," he said.
This video is from Comedy Central's The Daily Show, broadcast Nov. 13, 2008.
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