Jon Stewart Blasts GOP Candidate For Comparing School Kids To Stray Animals (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart took some time to thank South Carolina last night for the comedic gold it's provided the show (again). From Mark Sanford to Joe Wilson to a guy who had sex twice with the same horse, the state has provided a plethora of material. The most recent of which has been Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer, who Stewart referred to as "a nightmare."

Bauer recently compared public school kids who get free lunches to stray animals, basing his logic on what he learned from his "ignorant" grandmother. Stewart mocked the reasoning, impersonating Bauer: "She couldn't read. Brushed her teeth with a rock. Taught me everything I know."

Making the case that the solution to poverty is starving the poor so they don't reproduce, Bauer was not helping change South Carolina's image. Said Stewart: "You keep giving them a chance, and they keep fucking that same horse."


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Comments

[dutch163]

04:26 PM on 02/19/2010

one of the reason the folks are so "dependent"
is that the jobs pay so little.
like a state job...even important ones like 911 dispatchers
are paid so little that their kids qualify for reduced price lunches
at school

so? pay them a living wage!

[jleed]

07:11 AM on 02/19/2010

This is what all republicans think.

[Cynth Bage]

06:11 PM on 01/27/2010

This proves that those who do not learn from the novels of Charles Dickens will be doomed to repeat the examples and dialog of the worst characters in those books. Does the Lt. Governor of South Carolina really believe that decreasing the surplus population is the answer to everything?

[lindabear]

10:49 AM on 01/27/2010

You cannot write better comedy material than what comes out of these repubs mouths.

[exhale09]

09:37 AM on 01/27/2010

Judgment Day will be interesting.

[LCRover001]

09:28 AM on 01/27/2010

If folks would listen this is not the opinion of a single GOP politician but it has been in different ways said many times before by many different pure GOP politicians.

They see no problem with starving children to de-@th, but r-@nt and r-@ve about abortion.

Just reinforces the fact that the GOP is only concerned about children before birth. The GOP fights up to their birth then they are own their own. If mommy and daddy can't afford to feed you then you should get a job or starve to de-@th. I have a funny feeling these same people would have no problem revoking the child labor laws for their corporate masters.

That these same people refer to themselves as Good Christians, just goes to show that they are li@rs and sc-0undrels that should be pummeled with rotten tomatoes and eggs whenever they boldly craw from under the rocks they dwell, by every person who refers to them selves as a human being.

[mdlawyer2]

11:09 AM on 02/19/2010

Right, but needs a little bit of edification. Republicans only care about aborted white fetuses. When have you ever seen a "pro-life" demonstration in front of an abortion clinic in a minority neighborhood?

[darter22]

08:15 AM on 01/27/2010

After all his gaybashing rhetoric, why doesn't the media drag him out of the closet?

[abbienormal]

08:10 AM on 01/27/2010

How is this not death panels for children?

[PWM]

08:36 AM on 01/27/2010

If you want death panels go to Texas, they have them.

GOPers are hypocrites.

[mcvet]

08:06 AM on 01/27/2010

Someone needs to look into what's in the Water down there. As BAD as these Politician's are, the list goes on and on, you have to wonder what kind of PEOPLE continue to elect them. It would seem to me that the ENTIRE State needs some education, not just the poor. Yikes!

[PeterVanKan]

08:04 AM on 01/27/2010

The man has a point. He's too stupid to realise it of course, but the point is the natural law that what you give energy, grows stronger.
And that is why the attention that this website gives to the pathetic celebrity culture, is worse than what the banks do. They screw us in a legal way. Facilitating the moral downfall of a nation, and making money while doing it, is a million times worse.

[rogwheel]

08:13 AM on 01/27/2010

What in the world are you TALKING about!?!?!!?

[PWM]

08:37 AM on 01/27/2010

Moral downfall? Do you think we were more moral when the jim crow laws were in place during the good old days?

[mamarazzi]

08:04 AM on 01/27/2010

Dear America,

On behalf of the sane people of the state of South Carolina, I apologize for our idiotic politicians. It's true, none of them are known for their Mensa memberships. Like the parents of a bratty, out of control, screaming child, the only thing we can do is apologize again and again, and say, "he's not usually like this; I don't know what's gotten into him," knowing all the while, that yes, he is usually like this.

[exhale09]

08:51 AM on 01/27/2010

On behalf of the sane people in the rest of America...

PLEASE SC voters, stand up, speak out, and go out and VOTE these neanderthals out of office.

[Mum]

05:33 AM on 01/27/2010

From the Washington Post:

"Similarly, Winthrop University political scientist Scott Huffmon said Bauer's words "came out as condescending and insulting," but his overall message about government dependency and personal responsibility will appeal to his evangelical Republican base."

Ah, yes, those people who claim to be Christian, but who never seem to have read the Sermon on the Mount. (Or maybe they did and thought Jesus was joking.)

[Hypnotron]

08:06 AM on 01/27/2010

Thanks for the quote from the Washington Post. It tells us point blank that the politicians know they can make these sorts of statements with impunity, appeal to their base, make a psuedo apology or nonsense clarification later for the benefit of the mainstream media and that it's just politics as usual.

[dhrama]

03:06 AM on 01/27/2010

Some mistake political correctness for basic decency. The former is not necessary, the latter absolutely is.

[gmb007]

01:14 AM on 01/27/2010

Initial foreclosure notices up 84% in Hamptons

http://www.newsday.com/classifieds/real-estate/initial-foreclosure-notices-up-84-in-hamptons-1.1723637

Looks like the "stray animals" might have some big dogs joining the pack?

[roger37]

12:35 AM on 01/27/2010

South Carolina--on the wrong side of everything since Fort Sumter.