Jon Stewart didn’t hide his contempt for Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday night for their official responses to the President’s State of the Union address.
Already exhausted by the sheer number of GOP responses, the host of “The Daily Show” flipped out once he heard Paul’s message.
“Liberal elites fly over my small town, but they don’t understand us,” Paul said in his post-SOTU speech. “They simply seek to impose their will on us.”
Cut to Stewart, head in hand.
“‘Liberal elites?'” Stewart said, with some venom. “You’re a doctor and a senator with a twelve-term congressman father and a first name synonymous with a Russian novelist.”
“That’s pretty fucking elite,” he growled.
Before finishing up, Stewart had some fun at the expense of Cruz, who started over halfway through his SOTU response. Stewart awarded Cruz with an “Implodie” award, a golden statue of rubble.
“Here’s a tip: if you’re running for President, maybe you shouldn’t make your response to the State of the Union look like a ransom video,” Stewart said to big laughs.
Watch the clip, courtesy of Comedy Central:
Well, let’s be fair; Randy Paul is an expert on what qualifies as ‘Elite’.
Unlike others Rand Paul couldn’t be bothered to actually qualify for Medical School or achieve an undergraduate degree. A word (and a donation) from his influential father waived those traditional hurdles that common people face so that the Elite Mr. Paul could immediately enter Duke Medical School.
While ‘practicing’ in Kentucky, he found the traditional professional association for those in his field too limiting. So ‘Elite’ Dr. Paul created his own. With his wife and father-in-law as ‘members’ of the reviewing board.
However, let’s be clear- although I will grant that Rand Paul is fully qualified to recognize ‘Elite’ status, I utterly reject the idea that this millionaire politician and son of a millionaire politician is, in any way, one of ‘us’.
Darn, darn, darn I missed it!!
Russian novelist?
How about rape-loving, sociopathic, hypocritical hack?
The bags go in the shoe Joni not over it, you probably never wore snow boots in the day. All snow boots came that way from the factory its no big poor folk bullshit thing she is such a mendacious kun@@. And farmers arent that poor unless her dad was fucking stupid!!
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