Watch: Jon Stewart Mocks GOP Hypocrisy On The Pope, Climate Change, Same-Sex Marriage
Watch Jon Stewart mock the GOP on their hypocrisy toward the Pope and his attempt to get the world to act on climate change.
In “Popeular Science,” Jon Stewart took the GOP to task Thursday night, appropriately mocking Republicans for their devotion to the Pope – until it comes to his new warning on climate change. Pope Francis has issued a 200-page encyclical stressing the importance of acting on climate change, and now Republicans are pushing him aside.
“The Republican Party has been pretty pro-Pope,” Stewart said, “sharing as they do a yearning for the simpler morality of the 15th century.”
“Let’s leave science to the scientists,” Rick Santorum responded.
Jeb Bush hailed his faith and how it influences his actions, seeing no need for church and state separation, but when it comes to the Pope and climate change, no need to heed the Pope’s warnings, Bush thinks.
“The Daily Show” host, however, has found a way to get the GOP to listen.
If they could only think of climate change like they do same-sex marriage, Stewart offers, then they could talk about “taking a stand for preserving traditional sea levels.”
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Image: Screenshot via Comedy Central
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