Speaking to a college audience in Boston, Mass. Friday, "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart used a portion
of his time to respond to Sarah Palin's comments about "pro-America" parts of the country, shedding
the profanity restrictions that govern his Comedy Central show.
"She said that small towns, that's the part of the country she really likes going to because that's the pro-
America part of the country. You know, I just want to say to her, just very quickly: Fuck you," Stewart
said to raucous applause.
Palin addressed a North Carolina fund-raiser Thursday night saying, "We believe that the best of America is
not all in Washington, D.C. We believe...that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit,
and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working
very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation."
The comment was quickly picked up by media outlets and the Obama campaign, whose spokesman Bill Burton
asked in an e-mail to reporters, "What part of the country isn’t pro-America?"
Stewart didn't let his own harsh language stop him from criticizing John McCain and Palin for divisiveness.
"I can't take it anymore...After eight years of this divisiveness, we're back to this idea that only small-town
America is the real America," he said.
"McCain made an interesting vice presidential choice," he said. "I like the woods...I just don't know if I would pull
my vice president out of the woods randomly."
Stewart also joked about Palin's recent statements on Barack Obama's links to domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and
Obama's abortion stances, distorting her statements:
"I've never seen someone with a greater disparity between how they sound when they're saying something and
how terrible what they're saying is," he said, launching into an impression of Palin. "Don'tcha know, Obama, by golly,
he just is a terrorist?... Oh, you know, he just, gosh, kills babies, you know."
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