captioning sponsored by comedy central [theme music playing] [cheering and applause] jon: welcome to the daily show. my name is jon stewart. we have a good show. oh, it s good show. my guest tonight, jennifer esposito. she s an actress, but she s going to talk about her book. she s got celiac disease. it s named after a ballplayer, lucilleback. played for the new york yankees. [laughter] but first, you know, for most of its existence, the irs was america s favorite government agency. [laughter] but that all changed after the irs admitted last year to certain pro-publica pryities. tea party and other conservative groups that rose to power early in the president s first term were unfairly targeted for special scrutiny by the i.r.s. jon: by the way, whatever you think of the tea party movement. , i think we should agree that the only federal agency singling it out for special scrutiny is the fashion police. pantaloons? come on. the irs also targeted liberal 501c-4s b
[laughter] but first, you know, for most of its existence, the irs was america s favorite government agency. [laughter] but that all changed after the irs admitted last year to certain pro-publica pryities. tea party and other conservative groups that rose to power early in the president s first term were unfairly targeted for special scrutiny by the i.r.s. jon: by the way, whatever you think of the tea party movement. , i think we should agree that the only federal agency singling it out for special scrutiny is the fashion police. pantaloons? come on. the irs also targeted liberal 501c-4s but not with the same level of scrutiny they applied to the conservatives. that s something. i know the right that wants something to be that president obama ordered the irs to target them while he sat in a dark room smoking a cigar while an orphan boy stands outside looking through the rain saying why? why, mr. president? why. but as it turns out, there s been no real evidence foun
large swaths of iraq and syria, but now they have invaded hashtag-istan. jim. it s clear in terms of the social media competition among terrorists, this group is winning. all around the world supporters of the group are tweeting with the hashtag #alleyesonisi. stephen: oh, e on instagram. they have one filter to make all the photos seem like they re from the 1970s, and another filter that makes all their ideas seem like they re from the seventh century. watch out for this, folks pap because they are deviously picky backing on twitter. trends. to spread their message sharing pro-isis content with the hashtag #worldcup2014. watch for that. do not click on any twitter from isis that says check out this amazing header, because it s not soccer. ( cheers and applause ). ( laughter ) isis is eve even t-mobilizing tr followers. it s perfect for any mooug who n playing fruit extremists. fortunately, there is a sure-fire way to destroy anything becoming popular on social media.
why, mr. president? why. but as it turns out, there s been no real evidence found that the white house is involved and the cat turned out to be a dog and the orphan has parents and was putting on a british accent. but the point is this. these irs troubles do not appear to be that. but they are something. and the irs is clearly doing their best to continue to give off scandal stink like some kind of scared scandal skunk. [laughter] when we last left the irs, their official, lois lerner, had taken the fifth, rather than testify, so congress asked the irs if they would be so kind as to click the forward button on all of lois lerner s e-mails. what what happened that. they say the irs has been promising to get them these e-mails for a year, and now suddenly they say that lois lerner s computer crashed way back in 2011 and that many of those e-mails are just gone. well, that s irritating. computers do crash. e-mails are lost, but typically finding that out, that information, t
conservative groups that rose to power early in the president s first term were unfairly targeted for special scrutiny by the i.r.s. jon: by the way, whatever you think of the tea party movement. , i think we should agree that the only federal agency singling it out for special scrutiny is the fashion police. pantaloons? come on. the irs also targeted liberal 501c-4s but not with the same level of scrutiny they applied to the conservatives. that s something. i know the right that wants something to be that president obama ordered the irs to target them while he sat in a dark room smoking a cigar while an orphan boy stands outside looking through the rain saying why? why, mr. president? why. but as it turns out, there s been no real evidence found that the white house is involved and the cat turned out to be a dog and the orphan has parents and was putting on a british accent. but the point is this. these irs troubles do not appear to be that. but they are something. and t