Daily Show Calls Religious Freedom 'Crazy' While Mocking Karen Pence's Christianity
Wednesday, The Daily Show followed CBS’s lead in trying to shame VP Mike Pence’s wife Karen after it was announced that she would be returning to teaching art to students at a Christian school in Northern Virginia. Because the school is Christian, it holds Christian policies for its students and faculty. Apparently that’s a shocking thing in 2019, as host Trevor Noah took aim at Pence and America’s “crazy” right to religious freedom.
The very short segment began with Noah taking cheap shots at the Pence’s relationship:
“Moving on to other hiring news, Mike Pence's wife Karen or ‘Mother’ as she's called during their BDSM late-night kink sessions, announced she is going back to work,” he began. The Daily Show then played a news brief pointing out the “controversy” of Karen Pence going to work at a Christian school, which “bans gay and transgender students and makes job candidates sign a pledge...
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