After a good last week for liberals at the Supreme Court, Jon Stewart turned on Tuesday to the conservative wins on energy and lethal injection.
After seeing reports that the Supreme Court had upheld the practice of carrying out lethal injections with a problematic drug and tossing out EPA rules to cut mercury and other air pollutants, the host of “The Daily Show” congratulated conservatives on their “victory.”
“So yes, gay people have the right to marry and poor people have the right to insurance. But on the bright side, Americans can still kill prisoners painfully and everyone else slowly,” he said.
“Yay,” he groaned.
Stewart was less than enthusiastic at the court’s decision to affirm the practice of poisoning prisoners by lethal injection, and poisoning everyone else by pollution.
Fox News hosts, on the whole, had a predictably different reaction, one of them celebrating the EPA defeat at as a “victory for business.”
“You seem really giddy about that victory! You know the losing team in that game was — lungs,” he said. “You know that, right?”
Watch the clip, courtesy of Comedy Central:
