Jon Stewart Rips GOP For 'Pitting Americans Against Americans' With 'Take Our Country Back' Rhetoric (VIDEO)

Conservative rhetoric is by no means a new subject on "The Daily Show," but on Tuesday night's episode, Jon Stewart began the show with a lengthy segment on just that -- and what it means in the wake of Occupy Wall Street.

You'd think the GOP's "Take it to the streets," "Ready for battle" expressions would coincide with what's going on in cities across America right now, but the party is primarily opposed to the populist uprising. Specifically, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, whose sentiments on class warfare caught Stewart's attention most of all. Cantor had previously said that Americans need to "Take this country back" but now, after a month of Occupy Wall Street protests, fears class warfare and is accusing the movement of pitting Americans against Americans. Stewart saw a hole in his logic right away:

"If Republicans don't condone pitting Americans against Americans, well then, who is that we americans should be 'taking this country back' from?"

Of course, Stewart was ready with a slew of clips to back up his argument, showing just who conservatives think America's enemies really are. The list goes on and on, including (but not limited to) liberals, federal employees, activist judges, global warming advocates, the entertainment media, "Tenured professors who can flunk you if you're conservative," according to Newt Gingrich, and "gay people who are living together."

There are so many that Stewart had to put it all into a Venn diagram, and in the process, might have just figured out who Mitt Romney really is.

Watch the full segment above (or click here to watch on "The Daily Show" website) to hear the rest of Stewart's analysis, including how hard it must be for the GOP to "Love America so much, but hate almost three-quarters of the people in it."

Comments

[CainStain]

03:15 PM on 10/23/2011

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Vote Cain /H Keller 20999

[MrEthiopian]

11:07 PM on 10/21/2011

If the truth hurts, your a Republican.

[m2abare]

09:50 AM on 10/21/2011

Stewart is nothing more than a modern day court jester. Funny, yes. Creative,yes. Important to the real issues, never.

[Flokk]

02:10 PM on 10/21/2011

You wish.

[bonthomme]

02:32 PM on 10/21/2011

There's that 'real' word again. 'Real' issues, 'real' Americans.

'Real' isn't whatever you pretend it to be.

[Venec]

07:03 AM on 10/21/2011

Hulu has no love for people living abroad

We are the 1.3%!!

[John Lewis]

05:22 AM on 10/21/2011

I think saying republicans hating 73% of Americans may be too low an estimate.

[TheBluesGuy]

10:06 PM on 10/20/2011

Take our country back, Republicans? How far back do you want to go? 1930? 1880? Just how far back do you want to take our country?

[Sabra Bruning]

08:43 PM on 10/20/2011

KISS OBAMA GOODBYE, LIBERALS!

[PBOHIO]

12:14 AM on 10/21/2011

Dreaming again huh??

[VioletDatura]

12:32 AM on 10/21/2011

seriously, that's all you got? Go back and find Cantor; he needs your lunch money.

[Sabra Bruning]

08:42 PM on 10/20/2011

"Take Our Country Back" is not rhetoric;
consider it more of a banner.

This country has dug a hole SO DEEP financially
and have slide down further morally SO FAR, that
what else do those who care say but TAKE BACK
OUR COUNTRY???

Get it? Or get with it....

[VioletDatura]

12:35 AM on 10/21/2011

No one takes someone who cheered the Bush administration on in the biggest, most expensive Frat party ever seriously.

[PBOHIO]

12:36 AM on 10/21/2011

Who put us in that DEEP financial hole??
Morals?? You mean like Ensign, Vitter, Billy Graham, Ted Haggard, Chris Lee, Schwartzenegger, Mark Sanford, Giuliani, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Gingerich??

Those who care?? You mean like those listed above? Or are you talking about us "morally corrupted "liberals""?? Do you mean those who are NOT Evangelical Christians or Dominionists? You mean like those "hippies and bums" that are in the OWS movement? Never mind that there are many, many middle aged and seniors in the group...

Oh,,I think we get it,,,it's really too bad that YOU don't get it.

[memull]

08:14 PM on 10/20/2011

Folks...lest ye forget that the brilliant Stewart and staff are on The Comedy Channel and not a network. Bear in mind that all of the histrionics are for laughs even if there is an underlying truth to what is being said. This is what makes Stewart and Colbert so topical and funny...they can make their political points in the guise of comedy while still being frank and forthright.

[bjreg3]

08:00 PM on 10/20/2011

As the leftist Jon Stewart spreads his equally divisive rhetoric.....daily

[VioletDatura]

12:35 AM on 10/21/2011

Thanks for watching!

[PBOHIO]

12:39 AM on 10/21/2011

So,,maybe you think we should be listening to that "Fair and Balanced" news channel?? Or how about Becks Web TV or Rushs' radio show?

Jon Stewart has more truth and honesty in his little finger than the above mentioned programs. None so blind as he who will not see........

[NYBill]

01:02 AM on 10/21/2011

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
--Thomas Jefferson

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
-- Voltaire

"I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty."
--President Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)

[Reiner-von-Sinn]

06:41 PM on 10/20/2011

Stewart is brilliant!

Cantor, King, Bachmann et. al. not so much They seem forget we have two very important things ...

Memories and digital recorders!

[Feenicks007]

07:48 AM on 10/21/2011

That is hilarious coming from someone who literally just posted quotes from other people.

[bonthomme]

02:37 PM on 10/21/2011

He wasn't saying anything. He was showing clips of Republican­s spewing abundant divisive and hypocritic­al rhetoric from both sides of their mouths. No writers needed.

[emlr]

04:32 PM on 10/20/2011

OT
Why won't Colbert's video about Limbaugh load? Rush got his hands in HP somewhere?

[PBOHIO]

12:41 AM on 10/21/2011

I couldn't get it either. I'll try to get it from YouTube....

[Chazz280V]

03:07 PM on 10/20/2011

Jon is a Satirical Genius!!! :-D

[shewolf2002]

10:22 AM on 10/20/2011

Go, Jon, GO!

[Captjashook]

10:12 AM on 10/20/2011

Cantor knows what he is doing, as do the rest of the 1% and their wannabee friends. This isn't by accident. They intend to keep the money that they have inherited, scammed, bullied and SOMETIMES worked for.

They are fearful men and women who will say or do anything to hold on to their power, even if it means destroying you, your family and your country.