Comedian Jon Stewart said that based on Biden’s performance in last month’s debate, he wouldn’t be suited for an easy job like being a cashier at Home Depot. This week’s episode “The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart”
Stewart, along with guests Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor of Pod Save America and CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers, analyzed Biden’s future as a president and the party’s response to past crises.
“The night before it was discovered that Bill Clinton had been having an affair — I think it was Gennifer Flowers, I can’t remember who — and then there was the Paula Jones thing, the Monica Lewinsky thing, and the Democrats went along with it,” Stewart said Thursday. “So people said, ‘This is awful, I’m disappointed in the president,’ but ultimately the Democrats went along with it.”
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Jon Stewart and co-host of Pod Save America
Sellers noted that Republicans followed suit after former President Trump announced his intention to continue his campaign in the 2016 presidential election, adding that Republicans are “following” rather than “falling in love.”
But Stewart said the two cases are different because the issue is Biden’s mental state and personal health.
“I think you’re gently selling a fundamental aspect of how people perceive you. To be honest, I don’t know of any interview where Joe Biden performed the way he did and got the job,” he said. “I’m not talking about the presidency. I’m talking about jobs like being a cashier at Home Depot. I’m talking about jobs where you don’t think, ‘Oh, this is the hardest job in the world.'”
Sellers countered: “John, that’s the only problem, and the only problem with looking at it that way is the fact that it belittles everything he’s accomplished in his first three and a half years.”
Maher urged Biden to step down and predicted a Trump victory, saying failure to do so would do “great damage” to the country.
Stewart went further, saying Biden’s problem wasn’t how he’d performed over the past three and a half years as president, but his ability to get the job done over the next four.
“Nothing happens in a vacuum,” Sellers continued. “My friends on the left just want to exaggerate what they saw in the debates. That’s fine, they’re talking about age. But I’m also talking about the accomplishments that came before and the threats that lie ahead. We do ourselves a disservice by saying our candidate is old. I know that, and I know he’s going to falter.”
Stewart interjected that it was more than that: “cognitive decline.”
Jon Stewart filming “The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart.”
Stewart, who returned to host Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” on Mondays, has been increasingly critical of Biden in recent months but has become even more unhappy with the president and his administration in the weeks since the debate.
On his show this week, he blamed Democrats and the White House for allowing what he described as a “shocking display of cognitive impairment” at the debate.
“The bottom line is that for a campaign built on honesty and decency, the reporting on the debates has been patently fake and the journey to redemption hasn’t gone particularly well,” Stewart said Monday.
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