Jon Stewart Hammers Lindsey Graham For Hypocrisy In The Sotomayor Hearings (VIDEO)

In one of his funniest segments of the year, Jon Stewart took the Senate Judiciary Committee to task last night for their odd behaviors and hypocritical questioning of Sonia Sotomayor. Stewart focused mostly on Senator Lindsey Graham, the man who told Judge Sotomayor "unless you have a complete meltdown, you are going to get confirmed" a mere four days ago, and has since become her biggest antagonist.

Graham asked Sotomayor to answer for anonymous accusations by lawyers who had appeared before her, claiming she was temperamental and angry. In response, Stewart read anonymous comments about Lindsey Graham from the Internet that included people calling the senator the "ass of the year," a "sad sack of shit," and a "racist idiot douchebag." Jon also pointed out that Lindsey is featured on the site men who look like old lesbians. "Well, Senator Graham, someone apparently believes you look like an old lesbian. Do you??? And may I remind you you're under oath," he shouted in an odd accent.

Finally, Stewart juxtaposed Graham's questioning of Samuel Alito to his current behavior, showing the senator bending backwards to ensure the good name of a man nominated by a Republican president.


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Comments

[Prohest]

02:49 PM on 07/28/2009

Damn i LOVE Stewart & Colbert..

[WalidMaaytah]

07:39 AM on 07/20/2009

It's not fear my friend - It's contempt! The guy looks, walks, talks and radiates RACISM. I can see that you revere this qualiy. It's ok, for it takes all kinds, good and bad, conscientious and racist and half-brain fanatics, to make up this crazy world. One day you'll outgrow it, grow up and see the evil and ugliness of racist mentality and ideology!

[erikmartin]

02:32 AM on 07/20/2009

I notice that liberals always express veiled fear towards Lindsey Graham. Personally, he is the one and only current member of the Senate that I respect. His questions are the highlight of every confirmation hearing. If he ran for president, I guarantee he would win, regardless of who the Dems put up.

[golferman]

06:46 AM on 07/20/2009

I don't think so.

[Pleneras]

07:41 AM on 07/20/2009

There is not one good thing that man has done for the American people. He like Pat should wear the white hoods in public.

[writeon1]

11:34 PM on 07/19/2009

I enjoy Stewart a lot more than most of the "real" news programs. The one's that pretend to be real... I just found a blog that totally makes fun of FOX as bobble heads at http://newsy1.wordpress.com

[htowncarrie]

09:32 PM on 07/19/2009

Jon Stewart must be doing something right. Stories about his show always attract the trolls en masse.

[shafff]

07:42 PM on 07/19/2009

"barring a meltdown", BO is as safe as a safe for the 2012 elections

[IslandGyal]

04:40 PM on 07/19/2009

Welcome Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor! A wise Latina....

[Dbos]

03:17 PM on 07/19/2009

I feel so sorry for the people of South Carolina. They are represented by two ignorant people in the US Senate

[ShinjiIkari]

10:12 AM on 07/20/2009

To say nothing of a Governor who thinks he's a cross between a Fiscal Conservative and Ayn Rand but who apparently spends his time trying (and failing) to write love letters of the caliber of the teen romances in the Harry Potter series.

[bertha112]

02:54 PM on 07/19/2009

Good job Stewart, nailed it again!!!

[Carol Snow]

03:03 PM on 07/19/2009

Ditto

[DemsDeBreaks]

10:27 AM on 07/19/2009

Thank you, Jon & Stephen, for underscoring the truth amidst the hypocrisy of Washington, and for making us laugh at the same time we cringe at our elected officials' fraudulence and deceit. I truly think these two men have more influence to change the faces in Congress and the Senate than anyone else in the country. Keep telling it like it is - you're the 21st Century version of Walter Kronkite.

[SC341]

02:00 AM on 07/19/2009

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[SC341]

01:57 AM on 07/19/2009

This show is so NOT FUNNY.

[rainbowrecruiter]

02:25 AM on 07/19/2009

oh yest it is!

[dutch163]

07:56 AM on 07/19/2009

Lindsay? is that you?

[SC341]

01:56 AM on 07/19/2009

John LEIBOWITZ is not funny.

[pfc1369]

08:48 AM on 07/19/2009

He's funnier than Michael WEINER, squirt.

[DBtv]

11:46 AM on 07/21/2009

Are you prejudiced against black folks, too?

[richie42]

11:33 PM on 07/18/2009

Graham DOES look like an old lesb.ian

hahaha

[Hawaii5-0]

02:35 PM on 07/19/2009

I'm sure the DS will get a call from the AOLS, American Old Lesbian Society, to complain about the comparison next week.

[BannedInBoston]

09:44 PM on 07/18/2009

IF I HAD A HAMMER (The Hammer Song)
words and music by Lee Hays and Pete Seeger

If I had a hammer
I'd hammer in the morning
I'd hammer in the evening
All over this land
I'd hammer out danger
I'd hammer out a warning
I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land