Jon Stewart tackled America's ongoing vaccine debate on Tuesday, mocking both conservatives and liberals who deny science.
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I thought this guy(Stewart) was a liberal champion?
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"There's no red America. There's no blue America. There's just a needlessly sick America," Stewart said on "The Daily Show" in a segment titled "Les Measlesrables."
Stewart skewered a pair of prominent Republicans and possible 2016 presidential candidates — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — for fueling antivaccination activists, as well as “science-denying affluent California liberals.”
“They’re not rednecks. They’re not ignorant," the "Daily Show" host said. "They practice a mindful stupidity.”