Jon Stewart was clearly mortified at the prospect of an America under the leadership of a terrorist-baptizing Sarah Palin on Tuesday’s “The Daily Show.”
The comedian played a clip of the former Alaska governor’s weekend appearance at a National Rifle Association rally, where she proclaimed that if she were “in charge,” jihadists “would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.”
Stewart was baffled that Palin would equate a Christian sacrament with torture in an attempt to “somehow bring the fear of god to religious extremists.”
“Where is that speech even appropriate, at an al-Qaeda recruitment how-to video workshop?” he wondered.
“Maybe she’s giving one of those famed ‘Huh?!’ talks — they’re like TED Talks, except they make no sense,” he added.
Stewart then slammed the NRA for straying away from its gun safety mission and towards a crusade to arm citizens who can stand up to those pesky “haters,” as NRA boss Wayne LaPierre christened his detractors.
Watch below in two clips, courtesy of Comedy Central:
Just as disgusting as the Wasilla Snowbilly’s conflation of torture with a Christian religious sacrament is her suggestion that those who question waterboarding do so not out of an honest appraisal of a massive and ethically fraught change to a policy first articulated by George Washington but, rather, out of a fear of offending terrorists’ sensibilities. This venal, incurious grifter seems simply incapable of understanding a world where honest people honestly disagree with her on complex issues. She has the emotional IQ of a three year old.
When I read Palin’s words, my reaction was “crazy”. When I saw her say the words, it became clear she is sick.
Just goes to show that for some folks, it doesn’t matter what Palin says, but how it makes them feel. No brainz required.
Ugh. That shrill voice coming from an increasingly haggish face is painful to watch. “If I were in charge…”
Fortunately we dodged that bullet in 2008.
How amazing that the Alaskan Griftbilly can justify such a statement. I’m sure she and the GOP TEAlibangelical Rightie Cons would argue that Jesus approved wholeheartedly of torture___if you squint hard enough and read ‘between the lines’ of such statements as “…love your enemy as yourself.”
~wink! wink! Ya’ ya’…you betcha!~