Jon Stewart Demolishes Conservatives For Calling Obama A Tyrant

Comedy Central

Daily Show host Jon Stewart lambasted conservative cries of "tyranny" on President Barack Obama in the wake of his sweeping, aggressive proposal to curb gun violence.

Stewart played a round of clips that reacted to Obama's 23 executive actions and decried them as "un-American," "fascistic," and ones that "rip our Constitution to pieces."

Stewart highlighted the comments of Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Dana Perino, pointing out that they had a different opinion under President George W. Bush. He played a clip of Hannity justifying Bush ordering warrantless wiretapping because he was "keeping our nation safe."

Stewart conceded that Obama's use of children at his gun-control announcement was "some manipulative political [expletive], but he said that much of the discussion on both sides hasn't been very rational — like the comparison of Obama to Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

"Here's what concerns me about this — the whiff of self-fulfilling prophecy," Stewart said. "If you're girding yourself for a massive battle with a despotic, black-copter uber-government, stock up on guns, ammo, Campbell's cream of mushroom soup and it doesn't happen — then you just look like an [expletive] with a soup fetish."

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