The Traitors, Watch What Occurs Dwell with Andy Cohen and The White Lotus all caught strays as Jon Stewart took on the subject of free speech throughout his Monday night time monologue.
The Every day Present host kicked off his newest episode by tackling the information of the day, notably Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth’s group chat blunder.
“Oopsie poopsie,” mentioned Stewart in reference to Hegseth by accident together with The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg in a gaggle chat in regards to the U.S. plans for army strikes on Yemen.
“Again in my day for those who have been a journalist who wished 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 establishing his bomb Yemen group chat,” Stewart mentioned.
However Stewart spent the vast majority of his TDS opening by speaking about free speech, and specifically, The Republican social gathering’s hypocrisy in the case of the subject.
“These guys don’t give a f*ck about free speech,” he mentioned, bluntly.
“There are specific hypocrisies and absurdities that we discover in our cultural second that make for excellent fodder for humorous dialogue: a facial features, a nod and a wink. Then there are different actions by our authorities which might be so baldly bullshit, even when you recognize 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-fashioned Every day Present gotcha,” he mentioned.
Whereas stating that the Republicans, significantly the MAGA-end of the spectrum, spent 4 years underneath President Biden decrying Democrats for operating a “thought police”, he highlighted that the U.S. now has a President that really believes in free speech, so long as it tracks along with his personal views.
Then, after all, Stewart performed quite a lot of clips of Trump claiming that information organizations akin to ABC, CNN and MSNBC ought to lose their licenses for saying issues that he doesn’t like.
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“Watch What Occurs Dwell. I believe Bravo also needs to lose their license. What they did to Dorinda on Traitors… they need to be despatched to a Salvadorian hellhole,” joked Stewart in his personal Trumpian method.
“That is so blatant, they fetishize free speech, this factor that they don’t in any method apply,” he added, earlier than highlighting Trump’s struggle with the AP over the designation of the Gulf of Mexico and the detainment of Mahmoud Khalil.
“These guys don’t give a f*ck about free speech. They care about their speech. It’s blatant hypocrisy,” he added. “The hypocrisy burns.”
Stewart then had some enjoyable with Trump demanding that an “unflattering” portray of him should be taken down within the Colorado Capitol, earlier than closing out.
“Doesn’t this hassle you in any respect?,” he mentioned. “Cross us all of the motherf*cking sick bucket.”
