After Vice President JD Vance criticized Pope Leo’s recent Iran War comments as being a possible departure from traditionally understood ideas around just war theory, CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, responded by telling Vance to “sit down” because he has been a Catholic since the 60s while Vance only converted in 2019. Colbert then went to a commercial, and when he returned, he joined with actress and comedian Rachel Dratch to promote abortion. Meanwhile, over at Comedy Central, The Daily Show host-of-the-week Ronny Chieng also invoked abortion to suggest Vance and others were being hypocritical in their pope criticisms.
Colbert introduced a clip of Vance by reporting, “Yesterday, at a Turning Point USA conference down in Georgia, Vance had some sharp words for Pope Leo over the pope’s criticism of Trump’s Iran war.”
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