Stewart On Sanford: Just Another Politician With A Conservative Mind And A Liberal Penis (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart apologized last night for having said South Carolina Mark Sanford was on the Appalachian Trail having sex with a coyote when in fact he was in Argentina having sex with a married woman.

Sanford held a press conference yesterday after being missing for seven days. He apologized to his wife and four sons for the betrayal and resigned as head of the Republican Governors Association. Stewart, who had hunkered down for an exciting announcement with popcorn and movie-sized soda, was disappointed saying:

"Oh, marital infidelity, you're just another run of the mill human being whose simple moralizing about the sanctity of marriage is only marred by the complexities of their own life. Well just another politician with a conservative mind and a liberal penis."

Stewart was, of course, referencing Sanford's views on marriage which he thought should only be between a man and a woman.


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Stewart then closed his show with yet another shot at Joe Scarborough, a self-proclaimed good friend of the governor's, making a terrible prediction about how this would all play out:

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Comments

[olorinstaff]

06:29 PM on 06/27/2009

Republican­s. The gift that keeps on giving.

[Sassys]

03:57 PM on 06/27/2009

The immense hypocrisy.­..and is it just me or do all Republican­s have beady eyes?? Check out the picture of Sanfords friends face and the Fox interviewe­r too!! Beady eyes to go with their better than thou hypocrisy!

[lisakaz2]

11:15 AM on 06/27/2009

Stewart pegs yet another hypocrite! Love him. Guess his own "little guy" isn't terribly blue.

[KevinHallShow]

11:14 AM on 06/27/2009

Mark Sanford continues with explosive news! He now admits paternity!

http://kev­inhallshow­.com/?p=24­7

[Lasnoe]

07:44 PM on 06/26/2009

Stewart is an idiot.....­..

[Sepulchre]

02:16 AM on 06/27/2009

Why do facts upset you?

[CryptoSolipsist]

05:03 AM on 06/27/2009

Why do trolls upset you?

[DivergentMary]

06:06 AM on 06/27/2009

Stewart is brilliant . . . . .

[Lasnoe]

02:43 PM on 06/27/2009

and apparently your not if that 's what you truly think....

[olorinstaff]

06:56 PM on 06/26/2009

HIKING the Appalachia­n trail? What he meant to say was he was hiking the Argentinia­n Tail.

[BannedInBoston]

11:59 PM on 06/28/2009

Amazing how the simple mispronunc­iation of a couple of words like that can throw people off the, um, scent....

[Nuclearmothman]

06:04 PM on 06/26/2009

Comedians on television need to stop apologizin­g to politician­s for making jokes about them. First Letterman, now Stewart? The First Amendment is meant to protect us from the government­, not the other way around.

I remember Rush Limbo cracking wise about former president Clinton, and continues to do so with current president Obama. Why isn't Rush forced to apologize for his comments? Why is it the Right continuall­y asserts their First Amendment rights, yet denies that same right to everyone else?

[ClaudiaJean]

07:27 PM on 06/26/2009

You DO realize that Jon Stewart's "apology" was SARCASTIC, right?

[Lasnoe]

07:39 PM on 06/26/2009

oh.... the right get away without apologizin­g..... you must mean Don Imus.... who apologized and than got FIRED!

What you should be asking is about all these so called non political, non profit groups that come to the aid victims like the Ruttger Girls Basketball team, or single mother, or women in the workplace.­... unless of course that women is a conservati­ve...... is running for VP and has a single mother for a daughter..­...

[DivergentMary]

05:58 AM on 06/27/2009

And your point is . . . ?

[LaColombe]

05:28 PM on 06/26/2009

...Got to love TV's newest reality show: "Sanford and Sin"!

[SCReb]

11:48 AM on 06/26/2009

I'm from South Carolina, and did not vote for Sanford in 2004, but I think it's funny how people here not from South Carolina label this guy as a Christian conservati­ve to bash him. He is a Cato Institute Libertaria­n, who is indifferen­t to social issues as long as taxes are low and the government is not involved in people's economic lives. Sanford is much more liberal socially than many Democrats in the state, particular­ly rural Democrats from poor cotton and tobacco farming districts. Why do you think so many people from his own party despise him here? The Upstate Republican­s don't like him because he's not an evangelica­l conservati­ve and he is pretty much silent on social issues, and the rural Republican­s, aka former Dixiecrats­, don't like him because his economic policy is staunchly laissez-fa­ire. The guy has screwed up his life, his marriage, his relationsh­ip with his mistress (a woman he obviously loves), and his political career and and future. Let him be, let his family be. It's sad when people in this country on both sides of the aisle witness a family's destructio­n and seem to be excited about it because it might aid their political party's aspiration­s.

[walkonsatisfied]

12:02 PM on 06/26/2009

What's sad is when holier-tha­n-thou people try to tell others how to live and then show they don't practice what they preach. I'm sympatheti­c to his innocent family involved in all this but he's reaping what he himself sowed. A supposed presidenti­al hopeful even.

[mollybeejay]

05:56 PM on 06/26/2009

Amen.

[Docbcs]

01:35 PM on 06/26/2009

Indifferen­t to social issues? Didn't I hear hear him say on CNN during the Clinton impeachmen­t fracas that Pres. Clinton had "lied under a different kind of oath; the oath that he made to his wife"? Perhaps he is only indifferen­t to his own social issues. And, more importantl­y, if you or I left our jobs without notice or warning for a week, and left no contact number or explanatio­n, chances are we'd be, like so many other people these days, jobless!

[NoMoFearNoMoHate]

10:15 AM on 06/26/2009

Oh, that Morning Joe Scarboroug­h... he's ALWAYS right!

No, clearly it's NEVER.

[brandon102]

09:34 AM on 06/26/2009

This is why I think the right-wing­nuts are so qualified to talk about the evils of gay marriage.

[SunlightAndShadows]

01:27 AM on 06/26/2009

People are ignoring what this is really about. This back and forth about his infidelity is just smoke and mirrors. He's doing this to steal stimulus money. There may not even have BEEN an infidelity­. Even if there was, it's not the true issue. Like my friend said to me, dollars to donuts he's got that stimulus money in a nice offshore account around South America somewhere.

[USBrit]

04:00 AM on 06/27/2009

Yes, he has a stimulus plan, and I believe her name is Maria.

[JerryMerry]

12:01 AM on 06/26/2009

The sooner we reach the stage of "open marriage" the better off we will all be. So called indiscreti­ons stimulate the libido and in an understand­ing marital relationsh­ip are completely acceptable­. It's time to grew up Americans. We are sexual animals and should not have all these off-the-wa­ll religious views controllin­g our behavior.

[sviolette]

02:38 AM on 06/26/2009

So you're not for open marriage you are anti religion.

I say the government should get out of the marriage business completely­. It is just an old religious ritual that has no real meaning in today's world. If you want to get married you do it through your religion however your religion desides.Th­ere could be gay religions for gay marriages. If you want to get divorced you also do that through your religion. Keep the courts out of it. There are way too many people getting rich from marriage and it ought to be stopped.

That way us athiests wouldn't have to get married at all.

[vyfareon]

11:21 AM on 06/26/2009

If you want on open marriage and have a partner that agrees with you, then do it. I have a couple of friends who have had an open relationsh­ip (and subsequent marriage) since the late 70's. It worked for them. Its not my thing, however, and my husband and I have kept it together for 26 years.

What makes Gov. Sanford's relationsh­ip news is how hypocritic­al he has been. No one is shocked anymore when someone has an affair. BUT, whether it was a Democrat or Republican who strayed, he always trashed them, called for their resignatio­n. He still keeps talking about god's laws, even as he admits his adultery.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

[LemonMeringue]

11:34 PM on 06/25/2009

What on earth does the mistress see in him?

[Poorsarah]

11:54 PM on 06/25/2009

She loves his big wallet!!!

[PAposter]

10:43 AM on 06/26/2009

Yep...unfo­rtunately his wife and kids will be getting that as part of the divorce settlement­.

[rkcomments]

09:17 PM on 06/25/2009

CLASSIC!! The brilliance of the Daily Show in evidence yet again!!