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Jon Stewart outlined the latest developments in the Ray Rice domestic abuse scandal on Wednesday night’s episode of The Daily Show, complete with a scolding for the NFL.
After video surfaced of the Baltimore Ravens running back dragging his then-fiancee Janay Palmer out of an Atlantic City hotel elevator — “because a gentleman would never leave his fiancee’s body unattended,” Stewart noted — TMZ Sports posted the shocking video of the incident, leading the Ravens to fire the player while the NFL suspended him indefinitely.
It’s a move that follows the league’s “two-game slap” to Rice in July, and the establishment of the rule in August for players’ first domestic abuse offense, which would lead to a six-game suspension. “If you hit a woman, they will not let you hit a man for six more weeks,” Stewart explained.
Of the reports that the NFL was sent the elevator footage in April, Stewart told the league, “You done f—ed up. … So you had the tape, and you want us to believe that you did not look at it? Well, I think we’re all pretty aware of the NFL’s obsessive-compulsive tape-watching addictions. For God sakes, you get 24 angles in high-res slow-motion just to see whether or not a man’s knee goes over an imaginary line before his hand crosses a different imaginary line before his hand crosses a different imaginary line!”
He warned, “So NFL, perhaps next time you attempt to bury the damaging information about your league’s contact, I guess we’ll know to throw the red challenge flag.”
Watch the clip below:
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