Jon Stewart & Co. Smack Down Racist, Poorly-Spelled Miss America Backlash

Jon Stewart was hoping the Miss America pageant would be a nice distraction from all the controversy brewing this week, but alas, twas not so. Stewart sighed as he took on the racist backlash to the first Indian-American Miss America, while correspondent Aasif Mandvi saw nothing but good news in the win.

Stewart acknowledged this was a small step for diversity in the Miss America pageant, a “beautiful mosaic of woman of size zero to nearly two.” He reacted to some of the vicious tweets simply by pointing out the bad spelling, too fazed by the backlash to what should have been a nice story to waste any more time on the ramblings of the ignorant.

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But when Mandvi came on, it was nothing but positive news. On all the negative Twitter reactions, he said, “It’s Twitter! You’ve got 140 characters and 120 of them are racist for no apparent reason!” But he used the Miss America win to declare “Indians are taking over America!”, saying the U.S. was so worked up about Mexicans they didn’t see the real threat coming.

He concluded, “You took this country away from the Indians, and now a different group of Indians is taking it back!”

Watch the video below, via Comedy Central:

[photo via screengrab]

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