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As I wrote in my post from the previous evening's show, I was pretty sure Jon Stewart would be following up his segment on Mitt Romney's disastrous visit to London with his debut in Israel. He didn't disappoint and went after him for his aide losing his temper with reporters in Poland as well.

Stewart then showed part of Mitt Romney's speech in Israel and thought he possibly managed to at least make it through that country without any headaches, and then he managed to insult both the Palestinian and the Jews with his "culture" remarks, which he's also now on his third flip flop on: Take Three: Mitt Romney Now Says He Stands By Palestinian ‘Culture’ Comments:

On Sunday, Mitt Romney boldly declared that Israel’s economic superiority over the Palestinians was due to its culture. On Tuesday morning, he dismissed any notion that he had even discussed Palestinian culture. On Tuesday night, Romney reversed himself yet again, in an op-ed entitled “Culture Does Matter.”

“During my recent trip to Israel, I had suggested that the choices a society makes about its culture play a role in creating prosperity, and that the significant disparity between Israeli and Palestinian living standards was powerfully influenced by it,” Romney wrote in the National Review. “In some quarters, that comment became the subject of controversy. But what exactly accounts for prosperity if not culture?”

Good grief, what a nightmare. The man can't even take a consistent stance on what he said within the matter of a few days, much less a few years.

Stewart finished his segment with Daily Show "reporter" Al Madrigal, and making a mockery of Romney's statements about the "cultural" difference between the Israelis and Palestinians, and what it's like for them to be living under Israeli occupation.

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A Romney aide frustrated by questions about a series of gaffes the former Massachusetts governor made while Britain, Israel and Poland exploded on Monday and told reporters to "shove it."

During a visit to a memorial to Pope John Paul II in Poland, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney ignored questions from reporters about his overseas gaffes and his suggestion that Israelis were culturally superior to Palestinians, but traveling press secretary Rick Gorka responded with rage.

"This is a holy site for the Polish people," Gorka said. "Show some respect."

"We haven't had another chance to ask some questions," the reporter explained.

"Kiss my ass; this is a holy site for the Polish people," Gorka shot back, adding, "Shove it."

The aide later called two of the reporters to apologize, according to Politico.

"It was inappropriate," Gorka admitted.

From Diane Sweet:

I suppose that one blown fuse is understandable, what with Romney imploding all over Europe. Team Romney certainly didn't catch any breaks on this leg of the journey, either. Romney was greeted by a crowd of Obama supporters chanting "Obama! Obama!" in Gdansk, northern Poland, on Monday during a scheduled stop to meet with Poland's Prime Minister, Donald Tusk.

There were even more Ron Paul supporters on hand to "greet" Mitt Romney. Paul has quite a large following in Poland, and supporters unfurled a huge Ron Paul banner, and the group has a scheduled protest for Tuesday during Romney's foreign policy speech in Warsaw. Man, I hope his staff gets to take a nap before that one!