After Vice President JD Vance criticized Pope Leo’s recent Iran War comments as being a possible departure from traditionally understood ideas around just war theory, CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, responded by telling Vance to “sit down” because he has been a Catholic since the 60s while Vance only converted in 2019. Colbert then went to a commercial, and when he returned, he joined with actress and comedian Rachel Dratch to promote abortion. Meanwhile, over at Comedy Central, The Daily Show host-of-the-week Ronny Chieng also invoked abortion to suggest Vance and others were being hypocritical in their pope criticisms.
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Over on Comedy Central, Chieng at least played the part of Vance’s TPUSA event where he talked about Just War Theory and the historical example of fighting the Nazis, but still didn’t get it. Sarcastically chiding the audience for booing, “Shut up! Shut up. Shut up. He’s right. Be careful when you talk about theology, pope.”
Dropping the sarcasm, Chieng continued, “Let me just remind you guys that what the pope basically said was, ‘War is bad.’ That's not controversial, alight. It's literally the pope's job to say things like that. That's like if Miss America wished for world peace, and JD Vance burst on stage like, ‘Oh, yeah, even with Hitler? Stay in your lane, bitch!’"
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. steve malzberg
. steve malzberg
