���The Daily Show��� Gets Pounded Over Crass Tweet Celebrating SCOTUS Abortion Ruling
The culture wars are certainly alive and well in these United States, but, every once in a while, something happens that makes you think there���s reason for at least a little hope in what unfortunately appears to many conservatives and other traditionalists to be an otherwise hopeless situation.
On Tuesday, after the Supreme Court���s Monday ruling that overturned the Texas HB2 law requiring a minimum standard of care at abortion clinics, as well as that doctors who perform the procedures have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinics, plenty of liberal media outlets were in a particularly celebratory mood. Among them was Comedy Central���s decidedly left-leaning satirical news program The Daily Show, which launched the following euphoric message from its official Twitter account: ���Celebrate the #SCOTUS ruling! Go knock someone up in Texas!���
Unfortunately for the social media manager over at The Daily Show, the tweet went over like a lead balloon with a large number of people, including plenty who publicly claimed to be pro-choice. Sample Twitter responses to that effect included:
@zacharybright: ���I'm pro choice, but this is in poor taste.���
@bond_alexander: ���This is offensive and completely misses the point. Delete the tweet and fire whoever wrote it.���
@bamaredsoxchick: ���Just wow. Abortion is not a laughing matter. BTW I'm pro choice.���
For her part, Alyssa Rosenberg of The Washington Post actually used the tweet as the basis for an article on Wednesday explaining why it���s time for The Daily Show to go the way of the wind.
The Daily Show posted a follow-up tweet, once it became clear the ensuing backlash was hardly a minor one, saying, ���Friends, we���re certainly not promoting abortions. Just excited about #SCOTUS reaffirming right to choose.���
Too late for them, the damage had been done���but it was not altogether uninspiring to see that some on the ���other side��� of the abortion debate are not as bereft of decency as those behind The Daily Show clearly are.
by Robert G. Yetman, Jr.
