Comedy Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, flipped conservative media the double bird for highlighting instances of violence that occurred in New York after the Knicks won the NBA Finals. He further claimed conservatives who were looking forward to the UFC fight at the White House were being hypocritical in their condemnations. Later in the show, Stewart welcomed Sen. Raphael Warnock to promote his new book in order to claim that liberals are the better Christians.
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Later, when Warnock joined the show, Stewart marveled about how Warnock was trying to make religious liberalism palpable, “Here is what I want to ask you. The reason why I bring it up is, there is certainly a tradition within the Republican Party to claim faith as the foundation for all of that governance should occur. That they would like to see more of that in there. And it feels like the argument you are making is with maybe some of your fellow politicians. I know you have sat down with Mike Johnson, who is obviously—and forgive me for not having the language of this because I do not come from a faith tradition other than… So, you are basically working off of the same book.”
Warnock eventually attacked Republicans for passing the One Big Beautiful Bill by recalling, “But I was struck by the fact that when they passed the One Big Ugly Bill, they got together, the Speaker of the House held hands with other legislators, prayed a prayer, then they went and cut a trillion dollars out of Medicaid. A trillion dollars. They kicked 15 million people off of their health care. They kicked veterans and seniors and children off of SNAP, and I don't understand how you read the Book that I read—I’m Matthew 25 Christian.”
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. steve malzberg
. steve malzberg
. steve malzberg
