Stewart Rips Vance's 'Imperfect' Apology After Paris Tweet — SkimNews
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- Jon Stewart on Monday's Daily Show tore into VP JD Vance's anti-immigrant rhetoric, mocking a town hall exchange in which Vance told a questioner his rhetoric had merely been "imperfect"
- JD Vance at the town hall fielded a voter who asked, "Why are you scapegoating immigrants for the issues you're supposed to be solving as the vice president?" — Stewart interrupted: "In no way, not in any planet, not in any timeline does JD Vance appreciate that question"
- Stewart singled out Vance's false Springfield claims that Haitians were eating residents' pets, noting Vance has admitted the accusation was "just a useful lie" — and called Vance's "imperfect" defense "sloppy word choice"
- Vance days after the town hall tweeted that "Western liberals imported the third world into France," blaming immigrants for the Paris riots over the weekend — prompting Stewart: "What are you talking about? It's like blaming immigrants in America for remembering the Alamo"
- On the All In podcast last month, Vance made a campaign-style appeal: "Give us another couple years to continue to work on the amazing things that we've been doing for the past two years"
Why it matters: Stewart's segment crystallizes a contradiction the vice president volunteered himself: at the town hall, Vance conceded his anti-immigrant rhetoric was "imperfect" — then days later tweeted blaming immigration for the Paris riots, giving late-night comedy its own words to throw back at him. The timing matters because Vance used the same All In podcast appearance to ask voters for "another couple years," meaning the rhetoric Stewart mocked is the same one Vance is actively selling to the electorate.
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