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Video: Jon Stewart covers Sarah Palin's Tea Party Convention speech with use of a 'telepalmter'


Stewart called Sarah Palin a walking contradiction after her Tea Party speech.  AP Photo Ed Reinke

After Sarah Palin used crib notes on her hand during a Tea Party speech on knew that it somehow would show up on Jon Stewart's Daily Show.  Last night Stewart did not disappoint by devoting a significant segment to the Tea Party as a whole and Sarah Palin's speech particularly.

Stewart first shows a clip of Tom Tancredo's speech at the Tea Party convention in which he claimed Barack Obama was elected by ignorant people who could not even spell "vote."  Tancredo ended up advocating a return to the literacy test requirement even though the test has a racially discriminatory past.  Even if Tancredo's claim about Obama voters were true Stewart illustrates the mental deficiencies of Tea Party voters as well.  One Tea Party sign urged voter to say no to the "Pubic Option" in health care reform while another urged Americans to support the "consitution."

However Stewart saved his harshest criticism for Sarah Palin's keynote speech.  Stewart claims that Palin is walking contradiction in that she criticizes President Obama for "lecturing" Americans while she simultaneously gives a speech from a lectern about what it means to be a real America.  In addition Palin criticized the President for his use of a teleprompter while she consulted her own hand to answer pre-screened questions after he speech.

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Comments

  • A. L. 2 years ago

    Thank you for posting the Jon Stewart video. There is no better cure for ignorance than humor.

  • Sick Twisted Freak #327 2 years ago

    I gotta Achy Breaky Hopey Changey Heart.

  • Gigi 2 years ago

    What would libs have to talk about if they weren't making fun of conservatives?

    HA HA HA. Are you never embarrassed by your obviously hypocritical double standards.

    Including:
    the 'racist' comments allowed by libs,
    the immoral behaviour allowed by libs,
    the teleprompter overlooked by libs,
    the wardrope spending allowed by libs,
    the 'stupid' comments allowed by libs,
    the lying promoted by libs,

    Don't you guys ever see yourselves? Yuk.

  • klatoo 2 years ago

    Hey anybody know what a corpse-man in the military is?

  • G.W. Bush 2 years ago

    A corpse-man in the military is a dead American soldier. I should know.

  • Gigi 2 years ago

    G.W.,
    Along with nearly every lib in congress who voted 'yes' and had access to the same intelligence. You libs always ignore history and just make crap up. You forget it was on tv, radio, internet... You know some of us don't get all our news from Katie!

  • klatoo 2 years ago

    The progressives are soooo elite. A monkey like you would never understand. We've evolved you see.

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