Comedian Jon Stewart ripped into the National Football League as it continues to struggle with players involved in domestic violence scandals.
Stewart started out his segment Wednesday night going after Carolina Panthers defensive end Greg Hardy who is at the center of a domestic violence case. Hardy was convicted of assault and making threatening statements against the victim. But, Stewart said, the Panthers only announced Wednesday that he “is done…until he appeals his misdemeanor conviction for domestic violence.”
“It’s the kind of firm decision making we’ve come to expect from people who don’t know what the f*ck they’re doing,” Stewart said.
The NFL has also appointed a group of women to oversee its its efforts to reduce domestic violence among its players.
“You know your business model is in rough shape when you have to appoint your own in-house special victims unit,” Jon Stewart said.
Then Stewart pivoted to the Minnesota Vikings’ Adrian Peterson who has been indefinitely suspended from the team after he was indicted on a child injury charge. That suspension came after a back-and-forth in which Peterson was benched and then reinstated.
“You need time to make sure you get this right?!” Stewart said paraphrasing a report on Peterson. “A 220 pound running back left railroad tracks on a 4-year-old’s leg! This ain’t Fermat’s Last Theorem!”
All this back-and-forth made Stewart wonder “what does a stupid person think of this?” He then played a clip of Sean Hannity warning that it could become illegal for someone to tell their child that it’s not normal to be gay.
“Seriously, your special brand of spiteful ignorance will always be legal,” Stewart said to Hannity. “And profitable, so sleep well, friend.”
Watch Stewart’s segment below:
(H/t: Mediaite)
Corporations are people – psychotic people. They know how to sell widgets but don’t relate well to other human beings. This is why they need to hire public relations firms. They hire another psychopath whose widget is pacification.
The NFL knows what it’s doing - it’s protecting its brand. We thought the brand was wholesome family sports, but it turns out the brand is violent misogynistic homophobic male fantasy.
That’s why nearly half the money the NFL makes is from women, right?
Gee, are we all surprised? NFL must go out of its way to hire violent players; it SELLS to the public, that’s obviously what they want. Let’s see, you can be as violent as … during the “play”, but not during commercials, at home,… Who’s surprised? raise your wimpy hand.
“Seriously, your special brand of spiteful ignorance will always be legal, Stewart said to Hannity. And profitable, so sleep well, friend.”
John might as well added Wall Street and Hollywood to the list.