Jon Stewart Ridicules Rand Paul’s ‘High Cigarette Tax Caused Eric Garner’s Death’ Argument (Video)
In an episode which focused on the Eric Garner choking death case in New York City, Jon Stewart started off his Thursday night Daily Show with an apology. It seems that on the previous night, he was wrong when he said that no one would be indicted by a grand jury for the choking death of Garner by New York City cop Dan Pantaleo. Someone DID get indicted: The man who filmed the entire exchange between 6 cops and Garner.
“Let that be a lesson to you kids out there,” Stewart said. “Photographing crime does not pay.”
Stewart then ripped the media for pointing out how much more Garner weighed than Pantaleo. Quipped Stewart: “He outweighed ONE cop by 150 pounds. What about the other 5 cops?”
“Or maybe that’s how much racial progress America has made,” Stewart pointed out. “It used to be that black people were only three-fifths of a white person. Now they are like 6.”
After picking on his favorite target of late, Sean Hannity, Stewart then turned his attention to Rand Paul’s ridiculous statement that a high New York cigarette tax is what led to the death of Garner. Paul had blamed the $5.85 tax on smokes for driving “cigarettes underground so as to not make them so expensive.”
“What the f*ck are you talking about?” Stewart asked after playing a clip of Paul’s comment. In a nod to Kentucky’s high rate of smoking, Stewart said, “I guess now we know what it takes for a senator from Kentucky to admit cigarettes can kill. I don’t know what to say. I appreciate the purity of your anti-tax dogma, but the cigarette tax is truly the least salient aspect of this case.”
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