With the vice presidential debate a week away, it was Tim Walz’s turn to get Comedy Central’s The Daily Show to produce a humorous look at his life story. However, instead of looking for jokes in Walz’s life or policies, The Daily Show chose to create a satirical ad mocking Republicans for not falling in love with him and his “sinister niceness.”
The narrator began by mocking the idea that Walz could be a radical, “He developed a taste for blood from his father and grandfather, who owned a meat locker. And was indoctrinated into communism while working on a farm, where he evenly distributed fertilizer, regardless of which crops worked the hardest.”
Any discussion of Walz’s military controversies surrounding his rank, deployment history, the timeline around his decision to retire was ignored. Instead, the narrator claimed, “Soon, Walz…
