Being a temp host of The Daily Show gives you a platform to bring on guests to talk about issues you care about and for current temp host John Leguizamo, that meant bringing on The View’s Ana Navarro on Monday to claim that Republicans are the real socialists who “hate you” and “hate me” for being Latinos.
Leguizamo was lamenting that GOP efforts to portray Democrats as socialists appear to be working. Navarro agreed and urged Democrats to be more forceful in their rebuttals, “You know what we need him to say? We need him to say, ‘let me tell you what socialists do. They attack the free press. They attack political opponents. They attack private businesses.’ Guess who’s doing that in America today?”
Criticizing the media is not attacking the free press and fighting wokeness is not socialism, but Leguizamo was not about to push back against one of his heroes, “See-- see-- you know what's happening, you know what's happening, you know what time it is.”
After some discussion about how different Latino communities need to unite with each other and with other minority groups, Navarro claimed “The problem is that we get focused on, did they cross the border or did the border cross us? Were they political refugees or are they economic refugees? Were they rich before the revolution in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua or did they come here because they were poor? Who cares?”
Anybody who wants a sensible immigration system knows the difference between someone fleeing political persecution and someone leaving a country run by incompetents who have ruined their country’s economy.
However, wanting a sensible immigration system and secure border makes you a racist in Navarro’s mind:
This much I know, John, the people who hate you, the people who hate me, don't care about that. They don't care how much of your DNA came from Spain or how much of it came from indigenous America, they came that you’re a Latina and they want to otherize us. As soon as we realize that and the quicker we realize that, and that we have to band together and fight against discrimination, bigotry, together, the more powerful we will be and not fall prey to this kind of stupidity.
Sounds like Navarro is attacking her political opponents, does that make her a socialist?
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Here is a transcript for the March 27 show:
Comedy Central The Daily Show
3/27/2023
11:29 PM ET
ANA NAVARRO: But we need more than laughter. You know what we need him to say?
JOHN LEGUIZAMO: Right, what?
NAVARRO: We need him to say, “let me tell you what socialists do. They attack the free press. They attack political opponents. They attack private businesses.”
Guess who’s doing that in America today?
LEGUIZAMO: Right, right, right. See-- see-- you know what's happening, you know what's happening, you know what time it is. Also, how we get divided sometimes, Latino people get divided. Is it us doing it? Is it them doing it to us? I mean, Nicaraguans, Cubans, Colombians, Puerto Ricans, aren't we stronger together and better together?
NAVARRO: It’s like, don't we know how to do math? Listen, by themselves, Cubans are three-and-a-half percent.
LEGUIZAMO: Right.
NAVARRO: Mexican-Americans are 11 percent.
LEGUIZAMO: Oh, stats.
NAVARRO: Together, we are almost 20%. And guess what. If we build alliances with other groups like African-Americans—
LEGUIZAMO: Yes!
NAVARRO: --we are unstoppable!
LEGUIZAMO: Yes, black and brown together, man! Black and brown together we're so strong together. Why aren't we getting together? The Black Caucus, the Latino Caucus in D.C.
NAVARRO: We also need the gay caucus because we need to accessorize.
LEGUIZAMO: Oh, yeah.
NAVARRO: But, we, you know, what we need to understand as different communities is we can't fall victim, we can't fall prey to let's compete for the same small piece of pie. No, damn it, give me a bigger piece of pie—
LEGUIZAMO: That’s right.
NAVARRO: -- so we all can eat! And we need to understand that we rise upwards together.
LEGUIZAMO: Absolutely!
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Preach girl!
NAVARRO: It is too easy to pit us against each other.
LEGUIZAMO: Preach, mama, preach! [speaking Spanish]
NAVARRO: It’s too easy-- and we have to – and not only-- we have a problem because not only do they –
LEGUIZAMO: What is the problem? What is it?
NAVARRO: The problem is that we get focused on, did they cross the border or did the border cross us? Were they political refugees or are they economic refugees? Were they rich before the revolution in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua or did they come here because they were poor? Who cares?
LEGUIZAMO: Right. Yeah
NAVARRO: This much I know, John, the people who hate you, the people who hate me, don't care about that. They don't care how much of your DNA came from Spain or how much of it came from indigenous America, they came that you’re a Latina and they want to otherize us. As soon as we realize that and the quicker we realize that, and that we have to band together and fight against discrimination, bigotry, together, the more powerful we will be--
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Preach it.
NAVARRO: --and not fall prey--
LEGUIZAMO: Yes.
NAVARRO: -- to this kind of stupidity.
