CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, and Comedy Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, both reacted to Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino denouncing those who have compared ICE and Border Patrol to the Gestapo by trying to argue the comparisons are legitimate.
The background for all the anti-ICE rhetoric was the Saturday shooting of Alex Pretti, but instead of waiting for an investigation to take its course or commenting on the specifics of this case, they tried to put it into a wider pattern. Stewart began by playing a clip from a recent Bovino press conference where he said, “Politicians, community leaders, and some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric…Calling law enforcement names like Gestapo.”
After mocking Bovino’s pronunciation of “Gestapo” by adding a bunch of unnecessary H-sounds to various words, Stewart got to his point by putting up a picture of Bovino in a Border Patrol trench coat and declaring, “I get that that language can be hyperbolic, certainly. But one thing that may not be helping your case, Sergeant Bovino, or whatever—can we get a quick fit check on this mother[bleep]? You know, first of all, it is slightly terrifying that you might be dressing for the job you want.”
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. steve malzberg
