Jon Stewart Mocks Obama’s Butchered Spanish During Puerto Rico Trip

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by Frances Martel | 11:34 pm, June 15th, 2011

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President Barack Obama took the first trip of any sitting president to Puerto Rico this week since John F. Kennedy, and during his four hours on the island took plenty of time to attempt to pronounce the names of staples in Puerto Rican culture. Needless to say, Jon Stewart had a field day with the amount of effort it took the president to pronounce “arroz con gandules.”

Stewart first joked that President Obama’s escape to the island was precisely to get away from the traffic due to the New York Puerto Rican Day Parade this weekend, though he only spent about half a day there. The President spoke to the crowd at his speech about how “boricuas” enriched the country, name-dropped some Puerto Ricans celebrities, and barely managed to pronounce the traditional dish “arroz con gandules.” Close enough, no matter how much effort it took, it seemed Stewart concluded.

Stewart then turned to the show’s “senior Latino correspondent” Al Madrigal, who attempted to explain how Latin Americans aren’t a unified political constituency– for example, “Mexicans want immigration reform so they can stay in the country; Puerto Ricans want immigration reform to keep the Mexicans out”– and that the old days where you could “just throw a campaign ad on Telemundo” are long gone. Today, he explained, wearing the wrong color guayabera (ironically somewhat mispronounced by Madrigal) could do serious political damage, and mixing up the types of Latin American rice could win or lose an election.

The segment via Comedy Central below:

Part 2

Al Madrigal, arroz con gandules, barack obama, Comedy Central, daily show, immigration, Jon Stewart, Latino Vote, Latinos, Puerto Rican Day Parade, Puerto Rico

brownsound

Well great. Wake me up when Stewart mocks 0bama for something important that 0bama’s butchered. Like the economy, jobs, our health care industry, etc.
slickerwick

That was boring. John (or his writers) were lacking. He’s usually funny as hell.
OxyCon

Glenn Beck and crew was actually funnier with their ATM bit from today then Stewart was:

http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/06/15/obamanomics-no-jobs-because-of-atms/
Jaurez

OxyCon said:
Glenn Beck and crew was actually funnier with their ATM bit from today then Stewart was:

http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/06/15/obamanomics-no-jobs-because-of-atms/

That was sweet. Now Obama wants to get rid of atm’s. What a freakin lacky.
OxyCon

slickerwick said:
That was boring. John (or his writers) were lacking. He’s usually funny as hell.

His heart just wasn’t in it. He phoned it in.
Nature Freak

MEDIAITE PLEASE CANCEL MY ACCOUNT. THIS IS NOT THE HOTEL CALIFORNIA (AT LEAST I HOPE NOT!)
Nature Freak

THE INTERATIONALE

Stand up, all victims of oppression
For the tyrants fear your might
Don’t cling so hard to your possessions
For you have nothing, if you have no rights
Let racist ignorance be ended
For respect makes the empires fall
Freedom is merely privilege extended
Unless enjoyed by one and all

Chorus:
So come brothers and sisters
For the struggle carries on
The internationale
Unites the world in song
So comrades come rally
For this is the time and place
The international ideal
Unites the human race

Let no one build walls to divide us
Walls of hatred nor walls of stone
Come greet the dawn and stand beside us
We’ll live together or we’ll die alone
In our world poisoned by exploitation
Those who have taken, now they must give
And end the vanity of nations
We’ve but one earth on which to live

And so begins the final drama
In the streets and in the fields
We stand unbowed before their armour
We defy their guns and shields
When we fight, provoked by their aggression
Let us be inspired by like and love
For though they offer us concessions
Change will not come from above

Words: billy bragg music: pierre degeyter
LOGICandREASON

HEY OBA-MAO, PANDERING TO “LATINO VOTES” IS AN OUTDATED TACTIC, IT’S THE ECONOMY STUPID!
Just4thefax

Fact: I think Jon Stewart wants to make some real cash and work for the number one news network Fox News and he is trying to let them notice his hopey – changey thing.
Dem4Ever

Racist
Steve_27

How about his butchered english?
Dem4Ever

huh?
RichS

Nature Freak said:
THE INTERATIONALE Stand up, all victims of oppressionFor the tyrants fear your mightDon’t cling so hard to your possessionsFor you have nothing, if you have no rightsLet racist ignorance be endedFor respect makes the empires fallFreedom is merely privilege extendedUnless enjoyed by one and all Chorus:So come brothers and sistersFor the struggle carries onThe internationaleUnites the world in songSo comrades come rallyFor this is the time and placeThe international idealUnites the human race Let no one build walls to divide usWalls of hatred nor walls of stoneCome greet the dawn and stand beside usWe’ll live together or we’ll die aloneIn our world poisoned by exploitationThose who have taken, now they must giveAnd end the vanity of nationsWe’ve but one earth on which to live And so begins the final dramaIn the streets and in the fieldsWe stand unbowed before their armourWe defy their guns and shieldsWhen we fight, provoked by their aggressionLet us be inspired by like and loveFor though they offer us concessionsChange will not come from above Words: billy bragg music: pierre degeyter

Nice words unless you realize the the Communist Party is responsible for killing more people then any other political unit ever.
Pablo

Since the Freak is incapable of closing his browser, could we please get a moderate to grant his request and put him out of our misery?
Nationman

Just4thefax said:
Fact: I think Jon Stewart wants to make some real cash and work for the number one news network Fox News and he is trying to let them notice his hopey – changey thing.

garbage.
http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

el polo loco

By the way, do you remember the IDIOT Obama comment about the US citizens learning a foreign language?

Problem is, Obama only knows english, not so good either.

Anyway, hypocrisy is the communist………….erm Democrat standard!

Maybe he knows AUSTRIAN! Frelling MORON!
http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

Hey Mediaite, you have a fringe freak like Nature Freak doing things that are reminiscent of Loughner, I hope you have reported.
tatboy

Al Madrigal needs to work on his delivery.