After Stephen Colbert covered Rep. Allen West's (R-FL) disgraceful e-mail attacking Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) on Wednesday night's show, last night Jon Stewart also covered West's comments, as well as the response.
Actually, all this is just a backstory to the thing that really caught my attention, which was Allen West's response to this entire thing.
KELLY O'DONNELL (7/21/2011): In a statement to NBC News, his office says, "Congressman West does not hate women."
It brings us to our new segment....
Video and transcript below the fold.
Something caught my eye yesterday. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz caused a bit of an uproar when she laid into Florida Republican Representative Allen West over his support of the Cut, Cap, Balance bill.
REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, D-FL (7/19/2011): Incredulously, the Gentleman from Florida who represents thousands of Medicare beneficiaries, as do I, is supportive of this plan that would increase costs for Medicare beneficiaries. Unbelievable, from a member from South Florida.
Slam!! I'll bet Allen West totally disagrees with her premise that Cut, Cap, and Balance raises costs for Medicare beneficiaries, and he's going to lay down a substantive statistical refutation of that accusation, Congressional-style.
RICHARD LUI (7/20/2011): Allen West, who fired off this e-mail, saying:
You want a personal fight, I am happy to oblige. You are the most vile, unprofessional, and despicable member of the US House of Representatives. If you have something to say to me, stop being a coward and say it to my face.
(typing) Say it to my face. Hey, how do you make a frowny face emoticon? What is that there? Whaddaya got there, colon parentheses there? Send!
Otherwise, shut the heck up. ... You have proven repeatedly that you are not a Lady, therefore shall not be afforded due respect from me!
Adding, "Please find attached as a token of my disrespect, a picture of Anthony Weiner's cock. Good day. I said good day." That thing still freaks me out.
Needless to say, the bit about not being a lady got some attention of some of the women in Congress, who held a press conference to inform Allen West that as women, he can suck their dicks.
7/20/2011:
REP. GWEN MOORE, D-WI: Once again, we have been told that in order to be a lady, that we need to just stay in our places.
REP. JACKIE SPEIER, D-CA: In any other employment environment, he would be subject to a sexual harassment claim for creating a hostile work environment.
And this hostile work environment is why we wear these ancient amulets around our necks, to protect us from the hostility.
Let me show you how they work.
(to the women) You are not a lady. I don't think you have... I don't respect...
You can't hurt me with unicorns and rainbows!
Ohhhhhhhhh!!!! Son of a....! Wow, we know how to make smoke graphically?
Actually, all this is just a backstory to the thing that really caught my attention, which was Allen West's response to this entire thing.
KELLY O'DONNELL (7/21/2011): In a statement to NBC News, his office says, "Congressman West does not hate women."
It brings us to our new segment....
Let's watch.
MICHELE BACHMANN (7/12/2011): I just want to make it absolutely clear, I abhor slavery.
Eh, all right. I just popped in here, I'm not exactly sure what the story is going on here, all the hubbub about the migraines and everything. But did I miss a larger previous issue where Michele Bachmann came out in favor of slavery?
But of course, my favorite, favorite one happened in the heat of a conversation. See if you can catch the statement of clarification that probably won't do Fox News psychiatrist and part-time Lex Luthor impersonator Keith Ablow any good.
7/19/2011:
JESSICA GOTTLIEB: I'm not sure that, if you see a little girl as her breasts being sexual, that that doesn't reflect more on you.
(crosstalk)
KEITH ABLOW: I assure you I'm not a pedophile, at all.
At all. Nailed it! We'll be right back.
Jon also looked at the fundraising numbers for the Republican candidates running for President, and likened them to the law of the jungle of survival of the fittest, in this case, the most well-funded. Meanwhile, Stephen looked at the ramifications of California teaching gay history to schoolkids and complained that NBC isn't doing enough coverage of women's butts.