Stewart Smacks Down Rand Paul In Rant: You're 'Pretty F**king Elite'

[kpete]

"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.



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[merrily]

1. I saw that. Hammer, meet nail head.

Daily Show writers have to be the smartest in show business. And Stewart's delivery is, omigosh great.

[KansDem]

2. That was hilarious!

Even with four responses, they couldn't come anywhere near a competent rebuttal to the President's SOTU!

What doofuses!

[vlyons]

7. Pretty hard to rebut against refusing to create ...

a real infrastructure jobs bill
equal pay for equal work
refusing to raise the minimum wage
free community college
doing something to slow down climate change
raising taxes of the ultra rich
$3000 tax credit for each child
affordable health care
affordable child care
7 days paid sick leave

unless you tell a bunch of lies about how all of the above is unAmerican, destroys jobs, makes people laazzzeee,

[bullwinkle428]

3. The "Implodie" award for Cruz's response was awesome!

[Overseas]

4. K&R. Well said.

[skypilot]

5. "Liberal elites fly over my small town...

...but they don't understand us."

Isn't this the EXACT same shit that Huckabee was spewing on the Daily Show the other day?

[Cha]

6. "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." Rofl

thank you kpete!

[phantom power]

8. conservatives don't use 'elite' in the sense of 'power elite' or 'economic elite'

They only use it in the sense of 'educational elite' -- it's anti-intellectual dogwhistle, mostly just another way of saying 'not in my political tribe'

[BumRushDaShow]

9. But ironically

the ones spewing this are often the very ones who belong to the groups they rail against. E.g., In addition to Paul's (fake - for accreditation) cred, Cruz is a Harvard lawyer.

[ck4829]

10. Whenever some upper crust politician with high society family complains about the 'liberal elite'

I can't help but picture a big sign with "MY SUPPORTERS ARE NOTHING BUT RUBES" over his head