At the end of last week, the Supreme Court handed liberals huge victories on ObamaCare and gay marriage. On Monday, the conservative majority of the court realigned, handing the right its own set of wins. But not all wins are created equal, Jon Stewart said on Tuesday's Daily Show. And the big conservative victories — striking down new EPA rules restricting toxic emissions from power plants and upholding the use of a painful death-penalty drug — are odd ones to celebrate, he said.
"So yes, gay people have the right to marry and poor people have the right to insurance, but on the bright side, America can still kill prisoners painfully and everyone else slowly," Stewart said. Noting the giddiness at Fox News of the victory for coal power plants, especially, he asked, rhetorically, "you know the losing team in that game was lungs?" To wrap things up, Jordan Klepper stepped into the old Stephen Colbert role, playing the faux-conservative yin to Stewart's yang, and it's a good fit. Watch below. Peter Weber
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