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Jon Stewart Slams Palin’s ‘Real America’ Remark

Jon Stewart rips Sarah Palin and the McCain campaign's suggestion that only certain parts of the country are 'pro-American.'

The Daily Show

October 21, 2008

When people hear of two Americas, they usually think of economic inequality. But now Sarah Palin, Nancy Pfotenhauer, and Michele Bachmann have espoused a new way of dividing an already ideologically divided nation: There are “pro-” or “real” American areas and “anti-” or fake American areas. On Monday night, The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart quipped that big cities like Washington DC and New York must be the capitals of fake America…”the ground zero” of “anti-America.” “I guess Bin Laden feels like a real a–hole,” he continued.

Erica Landau

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