Jon Stewart Starts Twitter Slapfight Between U.S. Embassy And Egypt [VIDEO]
Jon Stewart is hilarious and his observations are dead-on. If you don’t like him, you’re humorless (and won’t like this post).
But we wonder if he ever scares himself with how far his influence and irreverent humor travels? For example, one would assume starting a slapfight between two nations would be a tad stressful.
The Washington Post caught an exchange between the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and the Egyptian Presidency Twitter accounts. It seems the embassy found Jon Stewart’s on-air mock of Egypt’s President so hilarious they had to tweet it.
In the video, Stewart criticized President Morsi for arresting Bassem Youssef (a political satirist, much like Stewart) who was imprisoned briefly this weekend for “insulting Islam” and “belittling” Morsi.
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