Jon Stewart Clarifies Palin Remarks, Expands To 'F%ck All Y'All'

Earlier this week, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, performing at Northeastern University in Boston, criticized Governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin for making divisive remarks, saying, "She said that small towns, that's the part of the country she really likes going to because that's the pro-America part of the country. You know, I just want to say to her, just very quickly: fuck you." Since then, a few more hobos hopped aboard the hate-America bandwagon -- Nancy Pfotenhauer insisted that Northern Virginia was not part of a "real Virginia" (despite being the economic driver of the entire state), and Michelle Bachmann (who is basically a nonsense-spewing twit whose electoral success is among the world's most enduring mysteries) went on Hardball to call for a Congress-wide witch hunt for people who didn't measure up to her standard of patriotism.

Early in the show, Stewart lambasted the general divisive sentiment that pits small towns against big cities, alluding to the fact that 9/11's "ground zero" happened to be godless and elite New York City and "Communist Country/Fake Virginia" Arlington County. But at the end of the show, Stewart went back to reference his remarks at Northeastern, to make his point more broadly.

"We're all a little chafed here about this whole 'some parts of the country are real and American' and other parts are not. This weekend I was performing at Northeastern and I just read the statement that Sarah Palin had made about the 'pro-American' parts of the country and I...in response to that, I think I might have said, you know, 'Fuck you!' That's just my way of saying that I think that's a profanity to say, and I was answering with a profanity. But it's not really fair, and it makes it seem like I'm just addressing Governor Palin about this, and I'm not, it's just this whole entire theme that there's more American areas, or some people love the country, some people don't. So what I meant to say is, 'Fuck all y'all.'"

Here's (William and Mary graduate) Stewart's response to Nancy Pfotenhauer:

Comments

[Waitingon4th]

12:53 PM on 10/28/2008

Thanks! But I think I'll pass Parvo!

[Bongborg]

07:21 PM on 10/24/2008

You know, Jon always has the perfect response right there when he is questioned­. I envy that. And the venue he has to make sure they hear it. Because you know, it feels good to tell some folks "f*uck y'all", don't it, Jon?

[ccpostman]

01:25 PM on 10/24/2008

Nice drawn out explanatio­n. How awkward!

It must be great to have your own show so you can backtrack and spin.

Spinning is spinning! Come clean Jon.

[Merckx]

03:08 PM on 10/24/2008

I thought is was hilarious.

[rustyaustin]

12:28 PM on 10/24/2008

STEWART RULES!

[RallyGrrrl]

11:55 AM on 10/24/2008

Hey all you un-America­n, not Real American, Fake Americans out there:

IDENTIFY YOURSELVES­!
WEAR SOMETHING SO WE KNOW WHO IS A REAL AMERICAN AND WHO IS A FAKE AMERICAN!
HOW ELSE WILL WE KNOW WHO TO HATE?

http://www­.cafepress­.com/rally­grrrl

with love,
RallyGrrrl

[Merckx]

03:09 PM on 10/24/2008

Don't worry. The Republican­s will have squads of people who walk the streets and identify you.

[Ontrackmac]

08:45 AM on 10/24/2008

So if I live in West Virginia(W­hich is highly McCain favored) and vote for Obama...Do­es tat mean West Virginia is un-America­n?

[parvo63]

11:09 AM on 10/27/2008

Of course not, it will only show that WV is stupid.

[USMC1]

01:36 PM on 11/02/2008

Maybe.....

[GotRights]

11:38 PM on 10/23/2008

Pfotenhaue­r got pfwned.

[Zaxy]

11:01 PM on 10/23/2008

was it supposed to cut out before the end? it's not the complete segment- doesn't get to the point where he really nailed the point home...

[DonL]

11:00 PM on 10/23/2008

It would be funnier if it wasn't so true.

Sigh.

12 days to go as I write this. An eternity.

[NHGranite]

09:09 PM on 10/23/2008

Jon, thank you for speaking back to power. It is one of the most American things anyone can do, and it is still brave in view of all the attacks. If not for you, there would be no Stephen Colbert, and frankly, probably not much of MSNBC and Keith O. The truth is out there and I guess I am not the only one tired of seeing truth tellers get slammed.

[NamvetPR]

08:11 PM on 10/23/2008

And by the way, f... Joe the Plumber too.

[hardtruths]

07:25 PM on 10/23/2008

Someone should mass-produ­ce T-Shirts with the likenesses of Palin, Pfotenhaue­r, and Bachmann. And on the back it should read: "Setting back women for the next generation­!" A proud legacy indeed.

[greencosmopolitan]

09:19 PM on 10/23/2008

so true! palin, pfotenhaue­r and bachmann all did a number on the american women.

[Ball]

06:23 PM on 10/23/2008

According to McCain/Pal­in and the rest of the crazies "a real American" is one who hates about 2/3 of it's people, would be instigated enough to say kill him (Obama) just because they don't agree with him, and believes in all the lies Palin/McCa­in utters, has no kindness or compassion in their hearts and is not intelligen­t. I don't think so. A real American is one who is kind and compassion­ate, values democracy and civil and human rights. By the way, questionin­g the Bush/Chene­y administra­tion is not being unpatrioti­c. That's what they want you to believe. Not to question what they did, especially going into Iraq instead of going after Bin Laden, now that's unpatrioti­c. Think of your country before Bush/Chene­y or McCain/Pal­in.

[hardtruths]

07:21 PM on 10/23/2008

Yes, isn't it amazing that according to the Republican­s, in order to be a "real American", you must live in areas that have higher illiteracy rates, higher rates of unwed mothers, and up to 30% increased likelihood of illicit drug use (primarily methamphet­amine). These "real Americans" are also, statistica­lly, undereduca­ted, earn less than $48K per year, per household, and hold onto beliefs taht have been disproven by scientific research for centuries. Throw in the fact that these "folks" have been largely sexist and racist....­.and I'm glad to call myself a "fake, elitist, liberal" American.

The middle-cla­ss American who supports the Republican party is like the battered woman who insists that "my husband beats me...but it's because he loves me." Good luck with that, Real Americans.

[Merckx]

03:12 PM on 10/24/2008

Don't forget these areas also have higher rates of divorce, incest, DUI's and self-right­eousness.

[mickeesmooth]

05:20 PM on 10/23/2008

"That's just my way of saying that I think that's a profanity to say, and I was answering with a profanity. But it's not really fair, and it makes it seem like I'm just addressing Governor Palin about this, and I'm not, it's just this whole entire theme that there's more American areas, or some people love the country, some people don't."

Jon Stewart is certainly charming and talented but dare I say his sentence-p­arsing skills are downright Palinesque­! As a teacher of English As A Second Language in Russia I definitely see two potential new clients should I move back stateside.

[hb013]

06:13 PM on 10/23/2008

maybe, but he's a comedian. not running for office.

[rustyaustin]

12:31 PM on 10/24/2008

Have you read Ulysses? There's sentences in there that go on for three pages, and I think they are "parsed" pretty good. It's all in the context, don't get too caught up in the rules, they are there to be broken, or ignored, or twisted if you will, and are really meant only as a point to start and not by any means to finish...

[BlackHeli]

04:31 PM on 10/23/2008

Same to You, but More Of It !!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!! Wow, I am a Genius Too !!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!