Comedian Evan Sayet: ‘What Forrest Gump Says About Liberals’ (Video)

After the audience erupted into applause, Evan Sayet shifted to a more poignant tone to highlight just what exactly it means to be a true conservative. Hint: it doesn’t involve years spent at the university.

Building to his coming tour in June, conservative comedian Evan Sayet posted a video on the internet this week that hilariously examined the Oscar winning film Forrest Gump and what it has to say about liberals and conservatives.

According to Evan Sayet, Forrest Gump can be viewed as a comparison between two characters, with Forrest Gump as the conservative and his longtime love Jenny as the liberal:

What was the message in that movie? The message was this: the smartest liberal, remember Jenny, she did everything the liberal intellectuals told her to do; she tuned-in, turned-on, dropped out, and took drugs. She almost jumped off the hotel balcony to commit suicide, remember? She believed in social justice, man, and she joined the Black Panthers and she got beaten up, remember? She didn’t believe in the Judeo-Christian tradition of monogamy, she slept around, free-love, and she died of AIDS. The entire point of the movie Forrest Gump was that the smartest liberal was stupider than a mentally-retarded conservative.

After the audience erupted into applause, Evan Sayet shifted to a more poignant tone to highlight just what exactly it means to be a true conservative. Hint: it doesn’t involve years spent at the university.

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