# As God Is His Witness ,Jon Stewart Thought Camels Could Walk in Snow **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-his-witness-jon-stewart-thought-camels-could-walk-in-snow/572388 "2011-02-23T21:49:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-his-witness-jon-stewart-thought-camels-could-walk-in-snow/572388/21 "2011-02-24T04:06:42Z")
Wow. You GOT me, folks. The camel tripped on the fence, and not on the snow. I’m nailed to the wall. You couldn’t just admit that, well, yeah, _ **The Daily Show** _ screwed up and maybe laugh at it a bit? ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-his-witness-jon-stewart-thought-camels-could-walk-in-snow/572388/22 "2011-02-24T04:17:06Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Wow. You GOT me, folks. The camel tripped on the fence, and not on the snow. I’m nailed to the wall. > > You couldn’t just admit that, well, yeah, _ **The Daily Show** _ screwed up and maybe laugh at it a bit? We’re not reacting to you. We’re reacting to a video labeled “The Daily Show Tortures a Camel in Madison.” ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-his-witness-jon-stewart-thought-camels-could-walk-in-snow/572388/23 "2011-02-24T04:18:29Z")
Whether the _Daily Show_ really screwed up here or not–no, it’s not funny that somebody’s put out a headline “The Daily Show Tortures a Camel in Madison,” which is “no joke.” If I was Jon Stewart, I would be pretty pissed off, actually. A lot of people are going to see that. A bunch are going to watch the video but not realize what’s going on. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-his-witness-jon-stewart-thought-camels-could-walk-in-snow/572388/24 "2011-02-24T14:39:14Z")
A camel tripped on fence and what was intended as a small gag ended up instead with a camel with its leg stuck in the fence for a bit instead. Sorry, I don’t see the funny. Now if someone was riding the camel who directed it into the fence, then you could at least talk about the camels sexual endowment because everyone would be saying; “Hey look at the schmuck on that camel!” ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-his-witness-jon-stewart-thought-camels-could-walk-in-snow/572388/25 "2011-02-24T14:56:27Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > You couldn’t just admit that, well, yeah, _ **The Daily Show** _ screwed up and maybe laugh at it a bit? How did the Daily Show screw up? I mean, it’s totally apparent that the _handler_ screwed up by letting the camel get too close to the fence, but how did the Daily Show, as a whole, screw up? ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-his-witness-jon-stewart-thought-camels-could-walk-in-snow/572388/26 "2011-02-24T15:02:45Z")
Did anyone ever hear-was the camel OK? He could have EASILY broken his leg in that fence. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-his-witness-jon-stewart-thought-camels-could-walk-in-snow/572388/27 "2011-02-27T04:49:43Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Wait, humans are originally from the savannah! How do we do it!? > > :rolleyes: > > If a dromedary can hack sand, I suppose it can hack snow. The cold was probably uncomfortable. > [@spark240](#): > > The problem with the camel in the video has nothing to do with the snow. The camel’s right rear leg is trapped between the bars of the portable fence. > > As noted by **Capitaine** and **GIGObuster** , [camels routinely walk in snow](http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_581/12972366501Z4cBz.jpg) in many of the countries to which they are native. They can take the cold too. Yeah, I should have known better. An foot insulated from the effects of hot sand is probably better insulated from the effects of cold than many mammals. ---
**Author:** ![emacknight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ec8ea/32.png) [@emacknight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emacknight)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-his-witness-jon-stewart-thought-camels-could-walk-in-snow/572388/28 "2011-02-27T08:20:59Z")
Always fascinating to watch how people’s beliefs shape their reality. I’ll admit, I came in to defend The Daily Show, didn’t want to believe they “tortured a camel.” So I watched, watched again, then saw the leg clearly caught in the fence. Still, \*true believers \*will remember this as the time The Daily Show Tortures a Camel. Any chance The Weekly Standard is going to issue a retraction/correction/apology? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-his-witness-jon-stewart-thought-camels-could-walk-in-snow/572388/29 "2011-02-27T08:30:35Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I like the apparent misunderstanding of censorship in the update to the article, “If I’m not mistaken, it appears that Daily Show correspondent John Oliver walks in front of the camera at one point and urges the man shooting the video to turn it off. Censorship!” Makes me wonder if that person think it’s censorship every time a director calls, “CUT.” ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-his-witness-jon-stewart-thought-camels-could-walk-in-snow/572388/30 "2011-02-27T13:25:59Z")
> [@ZenBeam](#): > > This is stupid. It’s leg is caught in the green piece of fence. Nothing to do with the snow. Plus there’s a separate video of that same camel at the same event linked from the same website of the camel walking around [just fine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLZdU7fNUGQ&feature=player_embedded). ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-his-witness-jon-stewart-thought-camels-could-walk-in-snow/572388/31 "2011-02-27T18:51:23Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Plus there’s a separate video of that same camel at the same event linked from the same website of the camel walking around [just fine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLZdU7fNUGQ&feature=player_embedded). Can’t you people just ignore the evidence available and admit The Daily Show screwed up? :mad: ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-his-witness-jon-stewart-thought-camels-could-walk-in-snow/572388/32 "2011-02-27T19:00:07Z")
But if I admit that, I’ll have to admit Liberals everywhere are wrong about everything. No concessions. None! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-his-witness-jon-stewart-thought-camels-could-walk-in-snow/572388/33 "2011-02-27T19:05:46Z")
What’s weird is that the Weekly Standard blog posting links to [another video](http://host.madison.com/wsj/youtube_780be14a-3e30-11e0-aa48-001cc4c03286.html) of firefighters and bystanders helping the camel to free its leg from the fence. The guy narrating this video even specifically mentions that the camel’s leg was caught in the fence, but the Weekly Standard posting doesn’t mention that at all. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-his-witness-jon-stewart-thought-camels-could-walk-in-snow/572388/34 "2011-02-27T19:15:34Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > the camels were frolicking outside in their enclosure, full of snow and ice. The camels were full of snow and ice ?? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-his-witness-jon-stewart-thought-camels-could-walk-in-snow/572388/35 "2011-02-27T19:42:05Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Now if someone was riding the camel who directed it into the fence, then you could at least talk about the camels sexual endowment because everyone would be saying; “Hey look at the schmuck on that camel!” Leo Rosten would have been proud of you. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-god-is-his-witness-jon-stewart-thought-camels-could-walk-in-snow/572388.md?page=1)