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Jon Stewart: “They cherry pick, you know, intelligence reports until they…”

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Socialism, Politics & NYC | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Published | Video Starts at 1:05:02

… adjudicate, where you can bring your evidence to, to a, A, A, a place that has evidentiary standards and you are allowed to do that. And they don't. They can't. They cherry pick, you know, intelligence reports until they can find the thing, not realizing that the rest of the page debunks it completely. They have no ability. They, they shoot their own arguments in the dick time after time after time. (1:05:02–1:05:11)

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Asserts that intelligence reports are selectively used to support certain narratives, ignoring contradictory evidence.

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