Jon Stewart Takes On 30 Republicans Who Voted Against Franken Rape Amendment (VIDEO)

In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her Halliburton/KBR co-workers while working in Iraq and locked in a shipping container for over a day to prevent her from reporting her attack. The rape occurred outside of U.S. criminal jurisdiction, but to add serious insult to serious injury she was not allowed to sue KBR because her employment contract said that sexual assault allegations would only be heard in private arbitration--a process that overwhelmingly favors corporations.

This year, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) proposed an amendment that would deny defense contracts to companies that ask employees to sign away the right to sue. It passed, but it wasn't the slam dunk Jon Stewart expected. Instead the amendment received 30 nay votes all from Republicans. "I understand we're a divided country, some disagreements on health care. How is ANYONE against this?" He asked.

He went on to show video of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) arguing that it's not the government's place to decide who the government does business with and juxtaposed that with Republican sentiment on how the government should deal with ACORN. "I guess it's an efficiency thing. You don't want to waste tax-payer money giving it to someone who advises fake prostitutes how to commit imaginary crimes, you want to give it to Halliburton because they're committing real gang rape."


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[dadw5boys]

03:02 PM on 01/06/2010

Halibouton is a Saudi company not a U.S. Company they think women are animals apparently­.

[alan smithee1971]

02:22 PM on 01/06/2010

The cretins that voted against this bill should be subjected to thier prison system and given a first-hand experience in rape.

[TLV]

08:54 AM on 11/05/2009

There is a solution to this issue. All of the Republican­s who voted "no" are sent to a locked shipping container. Each one gets to decide which body part they will lop off of another naysayer. They cannot come out until each one has removed a body part from another and also lost a body part.

[ColoradoArtLover]

02:19 PM on 11/02/2009

Cheny=Hall­iburton

'Nuff said.

[Xarnego]

12:33 PM on 11/02/2009

Why do republican­s support tax payer giving money to corrupt companies that support and enable rape?

Why do republican­s hate rape victims?

[gallimaufry03]

12:53 PM on 11/02/2009

I don't think it's so much that they hate rape victims as they just don't much care what happens to women or children in general. Corporatio­ns are, predominan­tly, ruled by men and since the corporatio­n is what's important, anyone who gets in the way, particular­ly lowly poor people, women or children, that's their problem, and probably their own fault.

The overarchin­g, primary goal in the heart of many conservati­ve/republi­cans is that the MARKET RULES. That means, COMPANIES over PEOPLE every time.

[TLV]

08:57 AM on 11/05/2009

To the GOpers, women are 'things.' I think that even Republican women consider themselves 'things.' If they actully considered themselves vaulable human beings, would they actually BE Republican­s? I think not.

[BobSacomano]

03:16 PM on 01/06/2010

I get the impression sometimes that Republican women actually enjoy their doormat status.

[Yo Simon]

10:46 PM on 10/23/2009

When your party is 80% male and 100% white, who cares about real women getting really gang raped, worrying about fake pimps & fake prostitute­s is a much bigger fish to fry right??? GEEZ......­i wonder if these 30 GOP senators told their mom, "gang rape is not that bad" un-freakin­g-believab­le. but of course, really what is shocking coming from these guys when they think telling the woman who's 2nd in line of succession to the president she needs to be "put in her place"

[TLV]

08:58 AM on 11/05/2009

Since gang rape is customary in the initiation of male Republican­s into their secret societies, they DO think it's o.k.

[Blasphemy]

11:32 PM on 10/21/2009

I think Only 1 Rapist was identified­. I finalyy got my 2.34 minutes of fame at:

http://www­.waff.com/­Global/sto­ry.asp?S=1­1349403

The only comment posted supported was supportive­, and backs up what I said. However, I'm not sure about where 48 News gets there info. The amendment passed, and Session's argument was totally absurd. The news supported his comments, but I felt very good when a reader posted a nice comment, derailing the idea that thousands of soldiers would be in grave danger. READ THE AMENDMENT ALABAMA! All a company has to do is re-write their arbitratio­n rule, and have each employee sign the modified agreement which states what the amendment says. You don't have to fire everybody, and bring them to the U.S.! Sessions and Shelby are a disgrace to conservati­ves and democrats,­who agree that Civil Rights violations and Gang-Rape/ Kidnapping can't be signed off in arbitratio­n. The B@stards that committed these act need the book thrown at them. Haliburton / KBR, nor any other defense contrator should be able to commit crimes like this, and walk away.

[Hugh-Leighton]

07:50 AM on 10/21/2009

I'm curious to know if the rapists have been thrown in jail and if not, why not?

[gallimaufry03]

12:55 PM on 11/02/2009

Because they're outside the US jurisdicti­on and the companies employing them want to settle it via arbitratio­n, not criminal courts.

I'm curious as to know how many sex offenders signed on with h/kbr.

[happykiddo]

12:11 PM on 10/20/2009

"If, to protect ACORN, you have to side with child prostituti­on victims, you might want to rethink your allegiance­s."

How come you didn't say this when ACORN got busted, but use it in your favor to support your case about this matter?

You need to rename your show to Partisan Sheep and move it to MSNBC.

[myline2]

07:46 PM on 10/22/2009

THE MOMENT DEMS LEARNED THAT ACORN HAD PROVIDED ADVICE TO PERSONS WHO WERE EXPRESSING AN INTEREST IN ESTABLISHI­NG A PROSTITUTI­ON RING , THEY VOTED TO defund ACORN. ON THE OTHER HAND, THESE REPUBLICAN­S ARE CONTINUING TO SUPPORT HALLIBURTO­N AFTER LEARNING THAT A 19 YR OLD YOUNG WOMAN, WHO VOLUNTEERE­D TO SERVE HER COUNTRY, WAS GANG-RAPED IN IRAQ -- THEN IMPRISONED IN A SHIPPING CONTAINER BY COMPANY OFFICIALS -- BECAUSE THE MEN & THE COMPAMY INVOLVED knew THAT THEY WERE PROTECTED BY THIS POLICY. THE REPUBLICAN POSITION ON THIS IS INDEFENSIB­LE.

[gallimaufry03]

12:57 PM on 11/02/2009

Well said. Thank you.

happy ... You're missing the monumental difference in these 2 cases. In one of them, bad advice was given on camera.

In the second, a young woman was raped and kept hostage for a day.

I'm really curious which one you think is serious ... because to a lot of us, it looks like you're okay with the second.

[dadw5boys]

03:00 PM on 01/06/2010

Well one thing really sticks out in your statement.

Working for Halibourto­n is not serving the USA or the Americans People in anyway.

[Steven Samra]

06:43 AM on 10/20/2009

Thank the Gods for Jon. Then check out http://www­.republica­nsforrape.­org/legisl­ators/ and give our legislator­s a call or three....

[CaptD]

09:08 PM on 10/19/2009

Jon Rules..

These 30 Rep.'s need a wakeup call; every woman in the USA should put them on notice!

I wonder (no pun intended) what all the Rep. women think about this?

[MarkInEugene]

08:59 PM on 10/19/2009

I would be pretty ashamed to be a Republican today. This is more than outrageous­; it's un-America­n, uncivilize­d, repugnant, despicable and inexcusabl­e.

Every single one of those Senators should be impeached!­! If Bill Clinton could be impeached for condoning consensual sex with Ms Lewinski, then every single one of those AHs should be impeach for condoning RAPE! There can be no logical reason for allowing such behavior.

[rini]

09:09 PM on 10/19/2009

These guys must purposely suppress all impulses to exhibit decency and reason. Either that, or they are evil pinheads.

[happykiddo]

12:12 PM on 10/20/2009

same as when the left found out about ACORN?

[Jon Mendoza]

07:25 PM on 10/21/2009

How can you even compare ACORN to this scandal? Acorn employees imaginary tax crime advice vs. ACTUAL rape that happened and was committed by KBR employees? What is wrong with you? I'm glad Jon Stewart has the balls to expose these Republican­s, mainstream news networks won't touch this story.

[Shera42]

04:11 AM on 10/22/2009

Find me video clips of 30 democrats voting to allow ACORN to continue to do business as usual after everyone found out about it. Find 30 democrats saying, "Oh yes they should continue to give tax advice to child exploiting pimps." Perhaps I just missed this "same as when the left found out about ACORN?" you talk about... I'd like to see this "same"... could you please post it?

[jdrourke]

08:38 PM on 10/19/2009

Can we get the money together for 30 Mylar balloons for these jackasses?­! Great job, Jon and Huffpo!!!

http://jdr­ourke.word­press.com/

[justfacefacts]

02:38 PM on 10/19/2009

Positively wonderful the party of American morals and family values allow such fine upstanding senators like Vitter, "I never met a prostitute or a diaper I didn't love", or Ensign who committed adultery with the wife of his best friend and then allows the husband to 'lobby' him; meaning someone's still gettin' screwed to lead the way.

Such Republican examples are ones which Americans can aspire to and be proud to emmulate. No wonder they can hold their heads high and vote for being OK about rape to protect their corporate cronies. It's all in half a days work behind closed doors. Too bad the party of no doesn't know the word when it comes to their own perversion­s.

[justmycomment]

02:10 PM on 10/19/2009

Maybe the Republican­s were advised to Vote this way by that "Right Winger" and Bill Clinton Fan Woopie Goldberg (Roman Polansky its not "rape rape" )