Jon Stewart Rips Mubarak For Anderson Cooper Attack: 'Now You've Gone Too Far' (VIDEO)

On Wednesday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart responded to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's announcement that he will not seek re-election, and gave him a thorough berating for the attack on Anderson Cooper by his supporters.

The first thing that stuck out to Stewart in the 30-year President's speech Tuesday was that he claimed to have never wanted to be a dictator.

"I just knew as a child that I wanted to oppress people," Stewart mocked.

And when Mubarak announced he would not seek re-election, he noted that he had made the decision before the revolution. He said he had "spent enough time" serving Egypt and its people. Again, Stewart impersonated him:

"Egypt, you can't fire me, I quit! Because you're a bunch of stupid heads! Stupid!"

Mubarak also mentioned that he would still supervise the new government, and with that, even more violence broke out in the streets between anti- and pro-Mubarak demonstrators.

As Stewart pointed out, the Mubarak supporters happened to be much better equipped, armed, organized and on horses. And when they attacked CNN's Anderson Cooper, Stewart declared, "All right, Hosni. Now you've gone too far."

"Hands off Anderson Cooper! There is not to be a silvery wisp out place on that man's glorious head!"

Watch the full clip below, as well as hear Stewart reveal the single person who is allowed to physically assault Anderson Cooper.

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Comments

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain]

09:33 AM on 02/17/2011

Stewart is certainly a journalist, a funny one though...
http://hussainabdulhussain.blogspot.com/2011/02/serious-business-jon-stewart.html

[elias anderson]

01:07 PM on 02/04/2011

Stewart is more a journalist than 90% of the talking heads on TV, but much respect to Cooper and other journalists like Brian Williams that are over there. I was able, as a DISH customer and employee, to watch this in full HD, and have access tot he most HD channels in the industry. The bit with Asif Maandvi reporting from the Egyptian embassy was hilarious.

[Theatrixnyc]

11:10 AM on 02/04/2011

Head on over, Jon. Hold a ralley for the people of Egypt. Play "Love Train" for them, and tell them how Anderson is no different than Beck, and that they should try harder to get along. I'm sure they would be very receptive to your ideas.

[Bflogal99]

12:52 PM on 02/04/2011

He could call it the Ralley in the [Nile] Valley.

[jdrourke]

10:47 PM on 02/03/2011

Look, if Cooper can handle Larry King for all those years, then Mubarak doesn't stand a chance...

http://jdrourke.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/dear-egypt/

[rayzrface714]

07:32 PM on 02/03/2011

That was not a speech,that was a bad B-movie script and the character playing the lead is so far out of touch with reality that to accept the facts he quotes cannot be considered anything that a sane a reasoning people would expect from their leader! Sad state of affairs,that due to the extreme conditions which exist in regards to political affiliations that we have to tiptoe through the tulips and worry about making the wrong move? Even though all the moves we have made in the last 20 years don't strike me as the right and proper thing to do? Thank you.

[LMPE]

06:02 PM on 02/03/2011

I would have dubbed Hosni Mubarak's speech with lines from a mafia movie.

[DeePDX]

04:13 PM on 02/03/2011

Nobody puts Anderson Cooper in a corner!

[Blush2112]

02:58 PM on 02/03/2011

Maybe it's me, but doesn't Mubarack remind you of the count from Sesame Street?

[Blush2112]

03:08 PM on 02/03/2011

*Mubarak (sp)

[HekmagaJuximakLives]

04:04 PM on 02/03/2011

Ha Ha Ha One Protester....Two Protester....THREE Protester Ha ha ha

[dekadente81]

02:55 PM on 02/03/2011

Wow, the guy charging on a horse doen't f around.

[Francois Bergeron]

08:37 AM on 02/04/2011

I think he was running away at this point, they got his pal...

[NAMU2010]

02:55 PM on 02/03/2011

Stewart is always good for a laugh! I think he has a man crush on AC!

[MFS001]

02:23 PM on 02/03/2011

The way Huff Post uses verbs in their headlines is often somewhat inaccurate. "Rips" is not the best word to describe what was essentially a tongue-in-cheek bit.

[kinoptikation]

02:21 PM on 02/03/2011

Funny and enlightening, although the Katy Griffin ended it on a low point

[Imzadi]

06:25 AM on 02/04/2011

I could not agree more.

[3Nox]

02:12 PM on 02/03/2011

Is it bad of me to think "Don't hurt the horses!!"

[JoyinAZ]

02:44 PM on 02/03/2011

No, that was my first thought too.

[Imzadi]

06:25 AM on 02/04/2011

Mine as well.

[Francois Bergeron]

08:38 AM on 02/04/2011

Well if you look at the video, they threw a rider off and beat him silly, but they took ok care of the horse.

[LenaPagan]

10:33 PM on 02/04/2011

I saw a video where they beat a horse, too :( So unnecessary. It isn't their fault.

[markburn]

01:07 PM on 02/03/2011

HP should better bring the Aasif Mandvi-segment from the same episode:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-february-2-2011/arabian-fights

[babyjesussaysso]

01:18 PM on 02/03/2011

That is better.

[Vegan Girl]

12:41 PM on 02/03/2011

I was sooooo crazy about JS, he was the priest of my worshipping secular humanity. But he broke my heart with his response to Wikileaks. He is still on my chitlist for that.