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Jon Stewart brilliantly skewers Sarah Palin's 'barely coherent' speech

Jon Stewart brilliantly skewers Sarah Palin's 'barely coherent' speech

American conservatives have just held a "Freedom Summit" in Des Moines, Iowa, in which a number of political heavyweights on the right delivered, or at least tried to deliver, speeches to boost their profile in the build-up to the 2016 presidential campaign.

Donald Trump spoke about his plans to build a fence across the US-Mexico border, Ted Cruz did his best Ned Flanders impression and Mike Huckabee delivered possibly the worst interpretation of Otto von Bismarck's sausage/governance analogy ever.

You should never see a law or a sausage made. I have seen both and I still eat sausage...

If you're going to have some sausage, you've got to kill some pigs, and folks, there are a lot of people in America who want the sausage, they just don't want to kill any pigs. We need to do some pig killing... to get to the sausage.

  • Mike Huckabee, (hopefully not) future president of the United States
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