Ellen DeGeneres: Mitt Romney is scary

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Ellen DeGeneres weighed in on the upcoming election while in Washington to accept the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Monday.

“Well, I am certainly hoping our president stays put,” DeGeneres said on the red carpet before the Kennedy Center event.

And what if Mitt Romney wins instead? “If you’re a woman, you should be very, very scared of that, for many reasons,” she said. “And obviously as a gay person he doesn’t believe in me having the same rights, so of course I’m not happy about that.”

DeGeneres added that “as a woman who wants to have the choice to do what she wants to do with her own body,” she’s especially concerned about Obama losing.

During the show, which airs on PBS stations next week, various comedians including Jimmy Kimmel, Lily Tomlin and Jane Lynch toasted DeGeneres for her career accomplishments.

“Because of Ellen, this is my story, in 1998, I mustered the courage to come out of the closet — despite the fact that I’m not gay,” joked Kimmel.

Lynch called DeGeneres one of her role models and a “sterling example of how to be a force for compassion, good and understanding in the world.”

Taking the stage last to accept her prize, DeGeneres thanked her colleagues and took another swipe at Romney.

“Thank you to PBS,” she said. “I am so happy to be a part of your final season.”