Jon Stewart Jokes About Staying After Another Wave of Candidates Joins 2016 Race
"Does anyone have something racist that seems completely out of nowhere?"
Jon Stewart seems to be getting cold feet about leaving “The Daily Show,” as another wave of candidates threw their hats into the 2016 race this week.
Although he remains unmoved by the campaign announcements of George Pataki, Lindsey Graham and Rick Santorum, the possible candidacy of Donald Trump (or as he refers to him “Fuckface von Clownstick”) has Stewart reconsidering the abdication of his desk to Trevor Noah — as the show’s host poked fun at the new candidates in another presidential vetting segment.
While some candidates, like Pataki and Santorum, are just kicking off their campaigns, Stewart pointed out that they are “losing ground to candidates who are in midseason, mildly racist form.”
Firstly, Stewart went after Carly Fiorina, who claimed that the Chinese cannot “innovate” and “aren’t terribly imaginative” — an irony not lost on Stewart, pointing out that the allegedly unimaginative Chinese invented paper and printing, while suggesting Fiorina drove Hewlett-Packard, a printing company, into the ground as CEO.
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