Jon Stewart is doing a great job getting Republicans on his show and have "rational discourse". Last night he had Rick Santorum on, who was hawking a new book. The first thing they did was agree that ice cream is a delicious treat but too much could spoil the appetite. They moved on to another simple issue, homosexuality.
Santorum talked about virtue and Stewart said he lived in NY, a sea of homosexuality and it seems virtue is unrelated to homosexuality, and Santorum agreed. Though he went on to say that for raising children the ideal is one man one woman, not that others can't work (he mentioned single women). He went on to say gov't should encourage the ideal. Stewart asked if you can legislate an ideal and Santorum said "of course you can, you have to, we owe it to children, children need a mom and dad...it doesn't mean that one parent can't do it but we should be for the ideal"
That doesn't make any sense to me. I thought the government was supposed to protect the minority position because the majority position doesn't need protection. If you legislate that you need a father and mother for children that doesn't allow for single parents. If you have an allowance for single parents, wouldn't two same sex parents be better?
Santorum said he was concerned about the popular culture and the influence on children, that they are bombarded with things that don't promote virtue. Stewart brought up the same thing he has previously, is our culture worse now with things like Victoria Secret ads (which Santorum brought up) or back (only) a few years when segregation was around. Santorum said Segregation and racism were bad and we needed a strong federal government to correct that. Is he a federalist?
Overall, another really good Daily Show, Stewart's on a roll.
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I saw the show and I felt you could almost see him holding back and not doing what he did to Bernard Goldberg. I think if he wasn't a US senator he wouldn't have let him off so easy.
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