Watch: Jon Stewart finds the one Katie Britt line he says wasn't ridiculed enough

Jon Stewart found the one moment in Sen. Katie Britt's repeatedly ridiculed rebuttal to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address he felt had not been ridiculed enough.

"Who smiles," asked Stewart on the Daily Show Monday, "when they say the line 'steeped in the blood of patriots'?"

This was one of many lines delivered by the Alabama Republican last week that inspired parodies and even a horror movie take.

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But for Stewart, a New Yorker, it wasn't the "creepy" tone that bothered him so much as the notion that Republicans are somehow more American than citizens who live in liberal cities and states.

Daily Show viewers were treated to a montage of Republicans declaring "We the people" that also included Fox News host Mark Levin tearing up a printout of the Constitution.

"You said that's what they do!" roared Stewart. "Why'd you f---ing rip it up?"

Stewart noted Republicans enjoy painting the Constitution on buses and dressing up like the founders who wrote it.

"It's an article of faith that Republicans love the Constitution," said Trump. "Do you, communists?"

Stewart then pointed to the leader many Republicans would like to see return to the White House and the presidential immunity claim he hopes will protect him from special counsel Jack Smith's election interference charges.

Viewers were then treated to a clip of MSNBC host Ari Melber explaining former President Donald Trump's argument: "Trump's lawyer claim the president has a legal license to murder his American political rivals."

Stewart took out a small copy of the Constitution.

"Just gonna check," Stewart said. "I don't see anything in here about assassinating your political rivals.''

Stewart then noted the former president's problematic history interpreting the Bill of Rights, cutting to the interview where Mark Esper, who served as his defense secretary, recalled Trump wanted to call in the U.S. Military to shoot protesters in the wake of George Floyd's death.

"He says, 'Can't you just shoot them?'" recalled Esper. "Shoot them in the legs or something.""

Stewart did a similar fact check on due process, cutting to Trump calling for the shooting of people suspected of robbery. This spurred the Daily Show host to make a request to Republicans.

"Do you," said Stewart. "But stop framing it as patriotism."

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