Jon Stewart was fired up on Monday’s (March 24) version of The Day by day Present, the place he took purpose at Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth and the Republicans’ hypocrisy over free speech.
The comic began by discussing Hegseth’s current group chat blunder, the place he by chance included The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg in a textual content message group about the USA’ plans for army strikes on Huthi rebels in Yemen.
“Oopsie poopsie,” Stewart mocked. “Again in my day, should you have been a journalist who needed leaked struggle paperwork, you needed to work the sources, meet them in a darkish storage, achieve the belief, pound the pavement. Now, simply look forward to the Nationwide Safety Director to be distracted by The White Lotus whereas he’s organising his Bomb Yemen group chat.”
He continued, “By the best way, I may also be on this. I don’t know. I don’t verify my group chats. Maybe my favourite textual content of your entire group chain was the one from our protection secretary saying, ‘We’re presently clear on op-sec.’ For these of you who don’t know, ‘op-sec’ means operational safety. He mentioned that in a gaggle chat… a gaggle chat with a journalist.”
Elsewhere on Monday’s present, Stewart slammed the Trump administration and Republican commentators for his or her “hypocrisies and absurdities,” particularly relating to the subject of “free speech.”
After stating Republicans spent years blasting former President Joe Biden over the supposed finish of free speech and working a “thought police,” Stewart aired clips from President Donald Trump promising the return of free speech in America.
“There are actions by our authorities which might be so baldly bulls***, even when it would haven’t any impact, that these highly effective creatures have been genetically modified to withstand disgrace or self-reflection of any sort, you simply can’t assist your self however to go old style Day by day Present gotcha,” Stewart mentioned earlier than sharing current clips of Trump urging for networks corresponding to CNN and MSNBC to be shut down as a result of he disagrees with them.
Persevering with to mock Trump, Stewart quipped, “Watch What Occurs Reside. I feel Bravo must also lose their license. What they did to Dorinda on Traitors… they need to be despatched to a Salvadorian hellhole.”
“That is so blatant, they so fetishize free speech, this factor that they don’t in any manner truly apply,” he added. “These guys don’t give a f*** about free speech. They care about their speech. It’s blatant hypocrisy. The hypocrisy burns.”
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