Jon Stewart Responds to Roger Ailes ‘Socialism’ Claim

By Alex Weprin 

Last week Fox News CEO Roger Ailes spoke at Ohio University, where he said, among other things, that “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart told him in a bar that he was a socialist. As it turned out, in 2000, Stewart told Larry King that he was a “socialist.”

Of course, that was 12 years ago and people change. Now that he is back from vacation, Stewart revealed what Ailes told him in that bar:

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After the jump, Stewart explains what he meant when he was on “Larry King Live.”

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