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Jon Stewart takes on Atlanta’s teaching scandal

By Jim Galloway
April 23, 2015

Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" last night opened with a riff on the Atlanta Public Schools scandal.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter was featured at the front of the video clip, offering his now-iconic assessment of the trial: “It’s like the sickest thing that’s ever happened in this town.”

Stewart, an expert on hyberbole, disagreed:

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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