Jon Stewart On Sarah Palin: She's No More Typical Than Us, Than Me, Than Mr. T

Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart met up with Entertainment Weekly to recreate the infamous New Yorker cover and discuss the power of Sarah Palin, why TV news is about as credible as Muzak, and whether Barack Obama is going to be “sworn in on a gay baby.”

As to the Bush administration and the upcoming election, Colbert stated: “Any change is as good as a vacation at this point.  I don’t know if you’ve paid much attention to the past eight years, but it has been a s—burger supreme. If somebody gives me an empty burger, it’s better than eating s—.”
Jon Stewart comments on Sarah Palin saying, “That’s how powerful Palin’s story is—it has cast the first African-American presidential nominee, the oldest [non-incumbent] presidential nominee, and a really wild cork vice presidential candidate completely out of the picture. The press is 6-year-olds playing soccer; nobody has a position, it’s just “Where’s the ball? Where’s the ball? Sarah Palin has the ball!” [Mimes a mob running after her.] Because they can only cover one thing.”

“I keep hearing that she’s ‘like us.’ There’s this idea that people who hunt and have ‘good’ values are somehow this mythological American; I don’t know who ‘this’ person is, I’ve never met them,” said he continues. “She is no more typical ‘us’ than I am, than Obama is, than McCain is, than Mr. T is. If there is something quintessentially or authentically American about her, I sort of feel like, you know what? You ‘good values people’ have had the country for eight years, and done an unbelievably s—tyjob. Let’s find some bad values people and give them a shot, maybe they’ll have a better take on it.”

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