Stewart: GOP pundits 'confusing tyranny with losing'
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Daily Show host Jon Stewart made fun of conservative attempts to label President Obama as a tyrannical leader and advised GOP members Tuesday to “pace their rage” because being in the minority party is supposed to taste like a “sh** taco.”
Pointing out the inconsistencies in Republican and Fox pundit arguments that Obama is both simultaneously a weak and over-strong president, Stewart said, “So not only is Obama a total pussy, who’s going to let Europe run roughshod over us, he’s also an iron-fisted tyrant, who will crush anyone who doesn’t bend to his will.”
Stewart mocked Andrew Breitbart, a former editor of the Drudge Report, who now runs his own Web news portal, for saying that since Obama became president, his children’s public school no longer used the term ‘St. Patrick’s Day’ but rather, ‘Potato Day.’
“I’m not Irish but I’m not sure ‘Potato Day’ is more politically correct than St. Patrick’s Day. I think it might be worse,” laughed Stewart before going on to say:
“And while President Bush was the one who started the bailout, nationalizing an insurance company, added a $17 trillion drug prescription entitlement program, had a government-mandated public school initiative, literally titled ‘No Child Left Behind,’ wiretapped citizens without warrants, created secret internment camps in international waters behind the reach of our justice system and allowed his vice president to live in a netherworld between the executive and legislative branch…Only now with the advent of ‘Potato Day’ has tyranny come to our shores.”
Stewart advised angry Republicans that they were "confusing tyranny with losing." “Now you’re in the minority, it’s supposed to taste like a sh** taco.”
“And I feel for you, because I’ve been there,” said Stewart, who went on to point out a host of Bush decisions that liberals disagreed with.
“For God’s sake guys, you’ve been out of power for ten f**king weeks,” said Stewart. “You’ve got a mid-term election in 20 months. Pace your rage.”
Stewart also chided conservatives for hypocrisy in accusing Obama of tyranny, when they were the ones to accuse liberals, who were angry with President Bush, of being unpatriotic.
“If I remember correctly,” said Stewart, “When disagreement was expressed about that president’s actions when ya’ll were in power, I believe the response was ‘Why do you hate America,’ ‘Watch what you say,’ ‘Love it or leave it’ and ‘Suck on my truck nuts.’”
This video is from Comedy Central's The Daily Show, broadcast Apr. 7, 2009.
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