Jon Stewart Hammers Nancy Pelosi for ‘Politically Craven’ Move Against Tammy Duckworth

Jon Stewart Hammers Nancy Pelosi for ‘Politically Craven’ Move Against Tammy Duckworth

On his Tuesday broadcast, Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” anchor Jon Stewart attacked newly-reelected House Minority Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for her insistence that Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), a double amputee Iraq War veteran whose pregnancy has made her unable to travel, could not vote by proxy in House Democratic leadership elections.

Stewart pointed to Pelosi’s claim she is a champion of women’s rights, but according to Stewart, this contradicted those claims.

“You are suppressing the vote of a minority pregnant woman who is a wounded war veteran,” Stewart said. “She is everything you supposedly stand for stuffed into one individual. She is a Democratic demographic ‘tur-Duckworth.’”

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