Jon Stewart unleashes profanity-laced tirade against 'get on board' with Biden campaign
Jon Stewart blasted President Joe Biden and Democrats on "The Daily Show" on Monday night, emphatically rejecting the "get on board" with Biden campaign post-debate.
Stewart's tirade began right where he left off post-debate: with "anger and despair."
As some Democrats have come out and expressed doubts, questions and concern over Biden's ability to run a campaign that can defeat former President Donald Trump, others, he noted, believe "they should shut the f--- up."
Stewart's team then queued up clips across major networks of pundits and experts collectively demanding that those who've expressed concerns publicly cease and desist. That includes the so-called pearl-clutchers, handwringers and bed-wetters.
"We panicked and p---ed our pants," said Democratic U.S. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania.
The metaphor, Stewart chided to laughs, was probably a poor one.
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"First of all, I'm not sure incontinence is the metaphor you want to go with," blasted Stewart, a dig at the 81-year-old Biden's age.
Stewart then laid out why some have, in his eyes, valid concerns from the bed-wetting side of the party. He pointed to troubling moments of "disconnect" and held up a chart showing the number of "huh?" moments over time.
The comedian's first exhibit: a clip of Biden last year asking "Jackie, you here? Where's Jackie?" He appeared to be asking about Indiana Rep. Jackie Walorski, who had died.
"Unfortunately, Jackie was dead," said Stewart. "It's something the president seems to have known six weeks earlier when he released a condolence statement about her death."
One mark for the "huh?" chart.
Stewart then played a clip of Biden seeming to forget another major death. Biden told a crowd in Las Vegas in February he recently met with French president Francois Mitterrand — who died in 1995.
That remark earned a second mark on the "huh?" chart.
Stewart eventually concludes the debate was a "shocking display of cognitive difficulty — recognizable to, unfortunately, anybody who's dealt with aging parents. And it's a hard watch."
The host then pointed out that while Trump's own "huh?" chart is full of its own marks, Trump "delivered at the debate to expectation."
"We expect him to be f----ing crazy," he said. "But Biden's performance and inability to articulate at times was stunning. Like, I could not believe what I was watching."
Stewart called the post-debate explanations — such as Biden had a cold and jetlag — "blatant bull----."
He later added that authoritarianism and Trump aren't the only threats to democracy.
"An arthritic status quo, unable or unwilling to respond in any way to the concerns of voters, who just received new and urgent information about their candidate, also erodes confidence and faith in the system of government," he railed. "Get on board or shut the f--- up is not ... a particularly compelling pro-democracy bumper sticker."
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