Citing the importance of political optics, many have vocalized anger over President Obama’s notable absence during Sunday’s march in Paris showing solidarity with Charlie Hebdo victims. The massive demonstration drew over 1.3 million people, with world leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, also in attendance.
Jon Stewart is among those unhappy with the president’s decision. But unlike most of Obama’s critics this week, The Daily Show host got to the real reason Obama should have joined his fellow heads of state in “the most powerful game of Red Rover ever.”
“How could the U.S. not be there when representatives of such beacons of freedom and lack of censorship as journalist-punishing Russia was there?” Stewart asked. “Journalist-jailing Turkey was there! Egypt, nuff’ said! Palestinian-jailing cartoonist Israel was there!”