“Day by day Present” host Jon Stewart ripped MSNBC on Monday for refusing to indicate “disturbing” footage of a pickup truck that displayed a decal on its tailgate that depicted President Biden hog-tied.
“This weekend, there was one story that was so disturbing, so darkish even the information couldn’t deal with it,” Stewart mentioned on his present, earlier than taking part in a mash up of MSNBC hosts, together with Ali Velshi and Katie Phang, who refused to indicate the “violent and dehumanizing imagery” on-air as a result of its “disturbing nature.”
After the clips performed of the hosts declining to indicate the decal, Stewart mentioned, “This has gotta be devastating. Information channels present pictures from Ukraine, from Gaza, from pure disasters. They get by way of them dispassionately. I can’t think about how devastating this footage should be.”
Stewart then lastly performed the footage, which confirmed the cartoonish big sticker depicting Biden hog-tied at the back of the truck.
Former president Donald Trump had shared the image on social media platform Truth Social final week.
“That’s what was so disturbing and dehumanizing you wouldn’t present it on tv?” mentioned an incredulous Stewart. “An airbrushed Biden decal on the again of a truck?”
He added, “Aren’t you an identical networks that present re-runs of 9/11 yearly? I imply, I don’t suppose it’s nice that Trump was posting issues like this, nevertheless it’s not like folks actually suppose Joe Biden was tied up at the back of the truck.”
Stewart then performed a clip of MSNBC anchor Velshi claiming: “In the event you’re driving behind it, it could seem as if Joe Biden had been really restrained on the automobile’s flat mattress,” which prompted “The Day by day Present” viewers to erupt in laughter.
“In the event you suppose that’s actually Joe Biden tied up on the again of the pickup truck, I don’t know that you’ve the psychological acuity to be working a motorized vehicle,” Stewart deadpanned.
