Col­bert Twists Sources To Spread Hys­te­ria About Snipers At Col­leges

Stephen Col­bert spread hys­te­ria about the anti-Israel encamp­ments on col­lege cam­pus­es on Tuesday’s edi­tion of The Late Show on CBS. Mak­ing mat­ters much worse is that Col­bert took his own sources out of con­text in order to make his claims.
First, how­ev­er, Col­bert had to set the scene, “The protests ramped up a cou­ple of weeks ago, after stu­dents erect­ed tents on Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty’s main lawn to show sol­i­dar­i­ty with Gaza.” After being inter­rupt­ed by applause from the audi­ence, he con­tin­ued, “and the …