Lindsey Graham is not a good person. That’s subjective of course, based on what you believe, but Jon Stewart firmly believes that Lindsey Graham is a bad person. That’s apparent from the hours of jokes that Stewart has made on The Daily Show at the South Carolina Senator’s expense.
Some of Stewart’s most intense jokes over the years centered on a pervasive rumor that Graham is a closeted gay man. These aren’t rumors that Stewart manufactured—they’ve been circulating even among top Republican party operatives, and Graham has had to even directly address the speculation about his sexuality on multiple occasions. But on Monday night’s monologue, in which Stewart compared the Trump administration’s current talking points about its aggression towards Venezuela to previous talking points made to justify the invasion of Iraq, the host walked back some of its most virulent gay jokes about the war-mongering senator.
“Now, to be fair, some things have changed over the last 20 years,” Stewart said in the middle of his monologue. “You know, back in the Iraq war, we used to play clips of Lindsey Graham and make jokes, suggesting that he’s secretly gay. But now we know that that was inappropriate.”
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It was a small acknowledgment in a much longer segment. Immediately, Stewart jumped into other clips comparing the side by talking points from 20 years ago when politicians were trying to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq with the current illegal airstrikes on Venezuela. He also broke down another major commonality between the two geopolitical conflicts: their massive oil reserves.
While the show moved on quickly at breakneck pace to do a classic TDS takedown of the Trump administration’s sinister ploy to go to war with Venezuela, it’s worth revisiting the ample material of Stewart’s previous flaming of the southern senator.
Many times in the last two decades, Stewart has played a clip of Graham speaking in his flared southern accent and then immediately played it up to be more effeminate and flamboyant afterwards. It reached a point that there was even a think piece in The Hill about the morality of these jokes back in 2015.
At one point, there was even a TDS super cut of Graham discussing his permanent bachelor-hood, with the video’s implication clearly being that Graham is a closeted gay man.
Fortunately, Stewart doesn’t need to rely on jokes about Graham’s sexuality to take hard jabs at the senator, or any of the politicians involved in this terrifying scheme to wage war on our Latin American neighbor. The depravity of their policies and total lack of morality provides plenty of scathing fodder for the show.
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