Jon Stewart Mocks Santorum for Misinterpreting JFK Speech
On Comedy Central’s Daily Show, host Jon Stewart ridicules Rick Santorum for his comment that the 1960 JFK Religion speech made him want to throw up.
Stewart highlighted the fact that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum inverted the meaning of John F. Kennedy’s famous 1960 speech pledging to keep the Pope out of politics.
Santorum said the speech made him want to vomit. “To say people of faith have no role in the public square, you bet that makes you throw up. What kind of country do we live in that says only people of non-faith can come in the public square and make their case,” he said on ABC’s This Week.
Stewart commented, “I can only assume you Rick Santorum were in some type of ill-ventilated vehicle or difficult G-force situation because Kennedy’s speech lays out why someone who practices a faith that voters are not as familiar with shouldn’t be disqualified from office.”
“How do you hear ‘all faiths are welcome’ as ‘no faiths are welcome?’” he asked. “Do you hear Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I have a dream’ speech like this, ‘No black or white children can play together, only children of no color are allowed to play.’”
Jon Stewart of Comedy Central's Daily Show
