Stewart On Conservative Reaction To Garner Decision: ‘WTF Are You Talking About?’ (VIDEO)

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was so close to getting on Jon Stewart’s good side.

On Thursday night’s episode of “The Daily Show,” the host plowed through clip after clip of conservatives ignoring any racial component in the death of black Staten Island man Eric Garner, who died in July after NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who is white, put him in a chokehold. A grand jury decided not to return an indictment against Pantaleo this week.

“People continue to blame this death on anything but the injustices of a flawed system,” Stewart said.

After listening to conservatives blame Garner for resisting arrest or shift attention to his physical size, Stewart stopped when he heard Paul say there was something bigger going on.

“Thank you! Rand Paul!” he shouted, relieved. “You know, here’s a Republican who’s been making an effort to reach out to the black community… Give it to us straight, what is the larger issue here?”

In the clip, Paul went on to criticize politicians for slapping higher taxes on cigarettes and “directing” police to arrest people who sell loose cigarettes, as Garner allegedly did.

It wasn’t what Stewart was looking for.

“What the fuck are you talking about?” he said, baffled.

“Well I guess now we know what it takes to get a senator from Kentucky to admit cigarettes can kill,” the host said.

Watch the clip below:

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  1. Avatar for jw1 jw1 says:

    Stewart: ‘WTF Are You Talking About?’

    What ®s are always talking about:
    G®ifting the ®ubes.

    Whatever ®s might be addressing–
    it always circles back around to campaigning;
    ergo, raising money–
    ergo, g®ifting the ®ubes.

    There is not easier money to be made in politics–
    than running for POTUS as a g®ifting ®.
    And? You don’t even have to quit your day job!

    You can be as big an idiot as you might desire too.
    Just look at Rand Paul.
    Black man strangled by white cop?
    What’s the important takeaway?
    F^cking cigarette tax!

    Yeah. WTF?

    jw1

  2. Thanks Jon Stewart, for comically calling Paul out his silly statement.

    On a serious note, I do hope progressives will finally take note of the fact that Paul is a fake. He is an opportunist who is given Republican talking points, to which he mindfully repeats.

  3. I really appreciate his highlighting of the relationship between the prosecutors and the cops (though I’d throw in judges) as being a large part of the problem. Year after year citizens are murdered by cops, yet somehow, cops are almost never held to account. No wonder affected communities don’t trust the legal system, as it certainly isn’t working for them.

  4. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    Randy-- the well oiled weather vane.

  5. Avatar for mcnett mcnett says:

    Libertarians are the biggest phonies. They’re supposedly opposed to government overreach but stay silent about police killings of blacks, the ultimate government overreach. Any black voters who follow this nutcase liar are probably the self-hating Ben Carson types.

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