Following Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-NY) admission that he had in fact sent a lewd picture of himself to a college student — as well as his revelation that he’d engaged in similar activities with several other women — even Jon Stewart found it hard to laugh.
“And there you have it,” Stewart said Monday night, after playing a clip of Weiner’s confession. “At 4:25 Eastern Standard Time, this story officially became sad.”
“You know we forget sometimes — I certainly do — that the’s people are human,” Stewart went on. “And that’s a lesson that’s going to stay with me until I turn back to the camera over there and do a little bit on the John Edwards story.”
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