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The First 'dude' on The Daily Show

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 10:15 AM

America loves a winner!

Heckuva Job, Summie!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Stewart: "I remember very clearly you said -- we can't expect different results with the same people and I remember when you hired Larry Summers ...

-- Laughter --

Stewart: I remember thinking well that seems like the exact same person and why would you ... so in some respects I get your frustration with this idea that ‘Well jeez, are you never satisfied?’ But again, the expectation I think was audacity going in there and really rooting out a corrupt system and so the sense is has reality of what hit you in the face when you first stepped in caused you to back down from some of the more visionary ... like bringing a guy like Larry Summers ...

Obama: First of all ... if you look at how we have handled this financial crisis -- if you had told two years ago that we're going to be able to stabilize the system -- stabilize the stock market, stabilize the economy -- and by the way -- at the end of this thing it, will cost less than 1% of GDP ... I'd say we'll take that because we saved taxpayers a whole lot of money. And in fairness, Larry Summers did a heck of a job trying to figure out how to ...

Stewart: You don't want to use that phrase dude.

Obama: Pun intended. Larry was integral in helping to think through some really complicated stuff.

Read more: http://thepage.time.com/2010/10/27/heckuva-job-summie/#ixzz13gc5bphr

Barry's groupies and such might pretend that this appearance on TDS was a success, but what an unmitigated disaster for the President.

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 10:35 AM

EVILDINOSAUR

I was waiting for this to come up here. I don't care if it was success or failure or whatever. Screw the politics of it. I enjoyed watching this.

"Haha, mine is an evil laugh."

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 10:54 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by EvilDinosaur:

I enjoyed watching this.

"Haha, mine is an evil laugh."

I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it a bit as well, but likely not for the same reasons.

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 11:09 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

I'm looking forward to it. We get Daily Show the next day at 7:00...no way I'd have stayed up late to see it last night, but I'm dying to see it tonight.

If Jon Stewart didn't nailed Obama on at least four or five things, I'll lose respect for him. Obama's too easy a target in so many ways, and he knew it...that he'd go on Daily Show knowing he was going to get clobbered is enough for me to say "Good for YOU!"

How many Tea Party candidates have gone on Daily Show? Can you name them? Did you somehow EXPECT Stewart to go soft on him? Duhhhh...!

Should be fun to watch. NOBODY goes on Stewart expecting anything but to be lampooned and called to task...if you ever thought otherwise, you were deluding yourself...oops, I forgot who I was addressing...

Glad you enjoyed it...good political comedy is worth its weight in gold. I know I will, too!

ETA: Gee, does "Barry" have "groupies"? I didn't know. If he does, there as much poor deluded fools as those who worshiped "Dubya".

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 11:20 AM

STORYMARK

Wait... I thought Stewart was just some Liberal zombie.... how could he be so disrespectful as to actually ask probing questions?? Didn't he see how he was supposed to do it anytime Bush went on Fox?

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 11:32 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:
Wait... I thought Stewart was just some Liberal zombie.... how could he be so disrespectful as to actually ask probing questions?? Didn't he see how he was supposed to do it anytime Bush went on

John IS a cheerleader for Obama, but even so, he's not so blind as to not see how horrible a job Barry's done.

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 11:41 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Oh, your precious little black-and-white world, Raptor...you need to crawl back into it and pull the covers over your head.

No; Stewart is a political satirist, a left-leaning one, unquestionably, but the fact that he gets his best material from the right in no way says he's an Obama cheerleader! The right just gives him so MUCH good material, but he's right in there calling out the Dems just as much as he calls out the right. Unfortunately you only see it through your own "rose"-tinted glasses, and apparently anyone who mocks the right MUST be a hard-core water carrier for the left and MUST be 100% a cheerleader for any Democratic Prez.

It's too bad Fox News doesn't do it with humor instead of their dead-on, we-take-ourselves-totally-seriously, oh-yes-we-ARE-fair-and-balanced attitude. They'd at least be fun to watch if they did.

Where IS that right-wing political satire show? Stewart even does TONS of self-deprecatory comedy about himself...is the right incapable of that, too?

Wake up and smell the roses, Raptor, someone with a liberal viewpoint doesn't mean they have to be hard-core Democratic supporter, believe it or not.

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 11:46 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

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Wake up and smell the roses, Raptor, someone with a liberal viewpoint doesn't mean they have to be hard-core Democratic supporter, believe it or not.

But you'd never admit the same for anyone w/ a conservative view point, towards a Republican, huh?

Naww...

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 12:06 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Just FYI:

http://vodpod.com/watch/2891876-daily-show-mass-backwards?u=moderatein
themiddle&c=moderateinthemiddle

He even went after Cramer SERIOUSLY:

He takes on EVERYONE, from liberals to conservatives...MSNBC to Fox to CNN.

On the other hand, Fox responds with great humor:

I found that just HYSTERICAL, and a perfect example of what I said in my last post!

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 12:29 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

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But you'd never admit the same for anyone w/ a conservative view point, towards a Republican, huh?

WRONG, I'd LOVE it...gimme examples, I'll eat 'em up! PUBLIC ones I mean, not people here on FFF, but actual conservatives on TV or in print...

That's what I lament, is that we don't see ANY of that, especially not done satirically or humorously or...well, at all.

So GIVE! I'm waiting with baited breath (I'm not being sarcastic, I really WOULD love to see/hear/read anything like that, honest)

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 12:43 PM

STORYMARK

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:
Wait... I thought Stewart was just some Liberal zombie.... how could he be so disrespectful as to actually ask probing questions?? Didn't he see how he was supposed to do it anytime Bush went on

John IS a cheerleader for Obama, but even so, he's not so blind as to not see how horrible a job Barry's done.

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."

You're right. He's no O'Reilly.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 12:44 PM

STORYMARK

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:

Quote:
Wake up and smell the roses, Raptor, someone with a liberal viewpoint doesn't mean they have to be hard-core Democratic supporter, believe it or not.

But you'd never admit the same for anyone w/ a conservative view point, towards a Republican, huh?

Naww...

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."

Sure. I know lotsa folk like that.

Just not here.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 1:12 PM

MAL4PREZ

I finally sat down to watch this interview, and my first thought: as disappointed as I've been with some aspects of Obama's administration, holy shit do I appreciate the new age we're in. Can you imagine "Can't fool me twice!" W carrying out half so rational a conversation as this? Thank the powers that we have a president who's capable of thought and conversation.

I may not agree with every outcome of BO's presidency, but there's no doubt that this man knows what's going on. He *thinks* when he speaks, rather than regurgitating (poorly) the talking points he's given. It's so refreshing after 8 years of blind cluelessness in the Oval Office.

Which leads to my second thought: can you imagine if W had come on The Daily Show? Stewart would have ripped him to shreds! Good lord. I wish. Shrub would have sat there grinning stupidly, with no idea of the snarky circles of irony Stewart was running around him. Kind of like O'Donnell with her priceless 1st amendment moment.

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 1:48 PM

DREAMTROVE

It was a mixed bag:

On the one hand, Rap is right, the president did terribly. Not only did he fail to inspire and try to make excuses, blame the republican superminority and even the last admin. a few times, he used "bush phrases" unconsicously on several occasions. This only comes from talking to the same "group of folks" as bush did. This proves that Obama is a member of the same neocon social circle, which is what some of us have suspected for a while.

On the other hand, he did it at all. This is a plus. At least he's trying.

Jon Stewart did very well, he stared down a sitting president and told him his mind. There's a jew with balls of steel. I think this one was a cage match, and while both were liberals, there was a winner, and I think it was the short guy.

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 2:33 PM

MAL4PREZ

Quote:
Originally posted by dreamtrove:
On the one hand, Rap is right, the president did terribly.

Now, do I have to be a con to see this terrible-ness? Cause I don't.

Jon Stewart was fabulous no doubt - he asked the zinger questions that I really, really have been wanting to see Obama have to face. Stewart put Obama on the spot, no doubt. But Obama handled it quite well. He was thoughtful, he was reasonable, he admitted the problems but explained himself rather than ignoring the question.

Which has been the status quo approach from politicians as long as I've been paying attention, and still is with the majority of them. (Certainly with the "the press should say only what we want them to say" TPiers.) For at least a few decades now, any interview or debate has the politician just blatantly ignoring any question they don't want to answer. It's disgusting. How refreshing to see something different.

Obama showed what he did back in 2008: that he thinks about the issues and he's willing to explain the reality of the processes he goes through. the limitations on both sides. He brings up the nitty gritty, rather than ignoring it.

I think, given OB's situation, stuck in this economic mess and political firestorm, he did a fine job. As for blaming the other side: the obstructionism OB has faced is not an excuse, it's a reality. But that's an issue for another thread.

Certainly though, Stewart was better. My lord, if only the "news" people were as good as this comedian!

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 3:07 PM

DREAMTROVE

Mal,

He could have done worse, but he failed to sell the admin's job.

Curious that the war was not a topic for discussion. that must have been an agreed precondition.

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 3:31 PM

RIGHTEOUS9

He certainly didn't do terribly. He gave answers I expected, but he gave them well.

Stewart asked good questions, but as somebody that seems to respect the president and appreciate the complications of the office in the current world, he didn't push too hard on any point, and this is probably in part due to a certain respect for the office as well as the man.

I actually don't think Stewart would have been "harder" on Bush had he gotten an interview. Bush of course would have been his own worst enemy, but I would expect that Stewart would have felt even more pressure to be respectful and somewhat deferential with that particular Commander-in-Chief, again, in respect to the office.

.......

Back to Obama... I'm not sure on what particular point he did horribly. It seemed fair for him to point out when the jobs were lost, it seeed honest to say he and washington haven't done enough, and it was just smart politics to not divide his party by airing out its dirty laundry to the world and admitting that yes most republicans and half the democrats are wholly owned by special interests, and that he chose people for offices in order to appease the powers that be so that he could get something done, even if it was far less impressive than what he had seemed to suggest during his campaign...

What's funny about all the vitriol on the right towards Obama is that they often seem confused as to why people on the left haven't been super happy with him. They insist that Obama is going the wrong direction, and make jokes about the "buyer's remourse" we must have.

This is convoluted, because Obama hasn't exactly made any U-turns. If he's going the wrong direction, it's because we were already speeding along in the fast lane towards the edge of a cliff, and all he's managed to do is to glide us into the slow lane. If those are the two choices though, I'll take the slow lane, and hope it buys us time to consider eventually taking an off-ramp.

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 3:42 PM

MAL4PREZ

I think he came off very well about Health Care Reform. I was pretty disappointed with how that went down, and still harbor some regrets. Clearly, lots of voters do, and it was great to see Jon voice that frustration: not the right wing posturing about "socialist death panels" yada yada yada, but the disappointment that HCR didn't do enough. (You know - the opinions that actually lead the polls, despite what Faux News is always going on about.)

I though BO did well to explain the complexity of the situation. It is the American (human?) way to expect change to happen instantly, to think it's just a matter of *wanting* it enough. But politicians who think that way end up taking us where Bush did--forcing sudden change on the Middle East, for example.

In the end, I think it's better to move a little slow rather than to force stuff through. Especially when you're the leader of a diverse nation where everyone has different ideas of what needs to be done. I think Obama expressed that well.

Or I guess, I guess I nearly forgot that the reason I like him is that he gets that. He knows the reality of the system he's in, and he's not afraid to talk about it. Even if it's not the best sound bite or political hook.

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Friday, October 29, 2010 2:16 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

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...not the right wing posturing about "socialist death panels" yada yada yada, but the disappointment that HCR didn't do enough. (You know - the opinions that actually lead the polls, despite what Faux News is always going on about.)

It's not " right wing posturing ", in the least. It's the fact.

Barry's recess appointee to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Dr Donald Berwick, is a romantic about national healthcare.

“The decision is not whether or not we will ration care, the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.” - Dr Berwick

THIS is what is meant by death panels. No, there's no sign on a building directory which will say " Death Panels - 3rd floor ", but the idea that the Federal Imperial Gov't, and not the individual, will determine who gets what care, based on cost, is in effect , a death panel.

It's worse than the media is telling you, because the Left is so mesmerized by the fantasy of Universal Health care, just as the Left is hell bent on making socialist ideals work , despite their colossal failure, time and time again.

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."

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Friday, October 29, 2010 2:31 AM

KANEMAN

Man, that was hard to watch. Forget the "dude" bit. How about the "yes we can,but...."

The president was disrespected, looked foolish, and his body language was pathetic. I think he was expecting softball-ish-ness. Whoevertold Barry to go do that interview should be fired. I loved it.......What an asshole.

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Friday, October 29, 2010 2:56 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by kaneman:
Man, that was hard to watch. Forget the "dude" bit. How about the "yes we can,but...."

Reminds me of the line from Jurassic Park...

Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. - Dr Ian Malcolm.

Sure, we 'CAN', but it wasn't a good idea to do so. Nov 2, America will hopeful start to come to its senses and turn this boat around.

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Jon Stewart's Comic Relief 2010
By George Neumayr on 10.28.10 @ 6:08AM

Once upon a time jesters courted kings. Now enfeebled kings court jesters. Panting after the approval of the smug comedian Jon "Stewart," Barack Obama taped an interview for The Daily Show on Wednesday.

The smirking jester is also scheduled to hold a kind of charity benefit for his sickly king this weekend, a Comic Relief 2010 called The Rally to Restore Sanity. Obama and the Dems are suffering from a debilitating political disease, but Jon, Whoopi, Robin and Joy, among other celebrity jesters, stand ready to help them in their affliction.

No cure appears likely, though. Comic Relief 2010 may raise a little money and get some college students to the polls, but it is surely too little too late. As many dismayed Democratic strategists even suspect, Obama's ill-advised Daily Show appearance is a harbinger of defeat.

It is reminiscent of John McCain's odd decision to host Saturday Night Live shortly before election day in 2008. McCain's campaign started as a joke and ended as one, with McCain fishing for laughs off SNL parodies that were predicated upon his imminent defeat.

At a time of high unemployment, Obama is content to play the empty celebrity, appearing on shows as shallow as his policies and delivering trendy messages about the latest anxiety of the coastal elite -- the "gay teen suicide epidemic."
"Can The Comedian Save The Vote?" asks Matt Drudge of Stewart. No, this jester can't save his king. Still, Stewart is feeling his oats, basking in near-universal approval from the liberal elite. They can't get enough of him and live in dread fear of losing his approval. A desperately contrite Rick Sanchez, so grateful to Stewart for taking a reconciliation phone call from him after his firing, pronounced the comedian the "classiest" guy in the world.

While Stewart engages in a lot of cutesy mugging and seemingly self-deprecating humor about such accolades, he takes himself very seriously indeed. His own liberal assumptions are exempt from mocking, and he claims to be deeply pained by "phoniness" at the highest levels of society. Yet somehow this concern about phoniness doesn't extend to something as basic as his own name, which is not Jon Stewart but Jon Leibowitz, or his own role in high society. The self-proclaimed puncturer of all things phony has a phony name, and the jester has no intention of dropping his mask or reforming his juvenile ways.

The most respected liberal in America, according to one recent poll, throws his spit balls, then makes sure to hide in the bushes. On Crossfire several years back, he made it clear that he thinks others -- but not he -- are "hurting" society.

A cocky celebrity wanting it both ways is hardly news, but it is notable that the Democratic Party is now led in large part by comics. Stephen Colbert testified before Pelosi's Congress as an honored guest; SNL alumnus Al Franken sits in the Senate; comedienne Joy Behar vets presidential candidates on The View; and Bill Maher is treated like Mark Twain.

Had Joy Behar lived a century ago, she would have been a lewd barmaid somewhere. Now she is an important Democratic "opinionmaker," browbeating this or that public figure. She stomped off the set in an elephantine huff the other week after Bill O'Reilly failed to pay sufficient homage to Islam. But this week the defender of religions of peace cast Sharron Angle into the fires of "hell" and called her a "bitch."

One wonders how long Behar would avoid a stoning if she ever talked like that in Saudi Arabia. The ladies of The View are lucky the show is not shot in Riyadh.

Liberalism, perhaps under the influence of its foul-mouthed jesters, has suspended some of its old sensitivities, as its practitioners call Meg Whitman a "whore" (an honorable if insufficiently regulated line of work from liberalism's point of view), Angle a "bitch," and everyone from Juan Williams to Christine O'Donnell "crazy." Is that any way for liberals to talk about the mentally ill? And who knew that New Age NPR executives used "feelings" and "psychiatrist" so easily in punchlines?

Obama himself, trying hard to impress Jay Leno early in his term, used the "Special Olympics" as a punchline during that late-night appearance. But it is his administration and party which look increasingly lame and laughable as they court comics.

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."

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Friday, October 29, 2010 5:04 AM

HKCAVALIER

I find myself wincing in anticipation of reading these threads, this time of year.

Thinking gets so distorted around politics, I don't get it.

People on the left and the right both seem to maintain enormous denial about the truly horrendous position this country is in, has been in for years--not just the last two. Obama pretty much described the situation as I see it. The central issue of contention is: did Obama stop our economic free-fall or didn't he? Economics is such a shell game, it can be very hard to read, but from what I can gather, Obama's policies have stopped our economy from bleeding out. It's not ideal, it's not sweeping change and reform, but isn't that kinda like expecting the EMT to give you a million bucks and tell off your parents instead of getting you to the hospital in one piece? First things first, no?

And I'm glad he was asked to defend HCR, and I felt it was his strongest section of the interview.

I just don't understand how rational people can demand so much more of this guy than we've gotten, given the circumstances. The complaints sound like the bleating of spoiled children the day after Christmas 'cause they didn't get a pony. "Yes we can, but..." is the only rational and honest thing the Pres. could say right now, yet somehow, that's his fault?

I'm curious what these "Bush phrases" DT is talking about are. At least, I think I'm curious about that.

Oh well, carry on.

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

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Friday, October 29, 2010 5:12 AM

RIGHTEOUS9

Wow, scathingly insightful hatchet piece!! Stewart's last name isn't really Stewart??? PHONY!!

the rest of the nonsense is just as ridiculous, including the simple lumping in of Stewart and crossfire. If the guy is going to make the point that Stewart is bad for society in the way that crossfire was, or more importantly, since he's calling Jon a hypocrite, in the way that Jon said it was, then it seems like the burden is on him to make that connection. Jon told the hosts on crossfire that they were doing a disservice to America because they were just yelling back and forth across a table, that they were not allowing for any information to be exchanged.

Now, you've all watched this interview, and most everybody has commented that Jon asked some serious questions. Obama was given time to answer, and was asked follow-ups. You could watch numerous interviews with Jon speaking to dyed in the wool concervatives and he always has calm and enlightening discussions with them.

give me a fucking break dude

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I understand that republicans don't do humor very well, so there's no harm in trying to label people who use humor as a vehicle, "clowns," and "jesters," but comedy can be done in a way that is commentary on society, and it has been claimed before, for good reason, that comedians are our new philosophers. What a surpise that you guys don't really have any. I imagine philosophy isn't your bag of tea...

...wait, when we call O'donnel and Juan Williams crazy, we're denegrating mentally handicapped people? hahahahahahhahaha....maybe you guys do have a sense of humor after all

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Friday, October 29, 2010 5:17 AM

JONGSSTRAW

I read that Obama is going to be on HBO's Cathouse Saturday night. He wants to bring out the whore vote in Nevada for Reid. Then it's off to Bellevue Mental Hospital in NY, where an enthusiastic crowd of Obamacare and Stimulus supporters will greet him with open arms as one of their own.

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Friday, October 29, 2010 5:19 AM

KANEMAN

Stewart's last name is not really stewart.

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Friday, October 29, 2010 7:10 AM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Quote:
Originally posted by HKCavalier:
And I'm glad he was asked to defend HCR, and I felt it was his strongest section of the interview.

It was a pretty strong section.
I was personally glad to see he brought up all the things they have accomplished, especially what they've done for students. Being a student, that has been kind of a big deal to me. The changes to financing let me finish out my current degree with a great deal of peace of mind, and they are likely going to allow me to start on a very long and expensive track, with a minimum of worry. It was accomplished in the first year, and no one's really been talking about it. I know that Jon wanted to get some answers on what hasn't been done yet, and I admire doing that rather than just playing up the positive, but I do wish they could have spent a little more time on things like that. At least it got said.

Just because something can't be explained doesn't mean it becomes yours.

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Friday, October 29, 2010 7:14 AM

LILI

Doing it backwards. Walking up the downslide.

John Wayne's name wasn't really John Wayne.
He was born Marion Robert Morrison.
Bono was born Paul Hewson.
Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Baker.
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
Alice Cooper was born Vincent Damon Furnier.
Robert Jordan was born James Oliver Rigney, Jr.
Charlton Heston was born John Charles Carter.
Jon Stewart was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz. (That looks to be far less of a change than most.)
It there some kind of point to drawing attention to the ancient practice of nom de plumes and stage names like it's a huge, screaming, brand-new deal?

Facts are stubborn things.

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Friday, October 29, 2010 12:29 PM

KANEMAN

I went to comedycentral and TRIED to watch it again....I can't watch it all. Stewart killed that guy...it is usually funny, but that was our president. It is not the "dude" that gets me. It is the total disrespect for Obama. I wouldn't even do that....the "I just talked to a women in the ..." joke.and all the other ones. HE CLOWNED the president of the united states. Shame on Obama's people for putting him in that position....It would be like the Nazis putting hitler on the Letterman show.....Well, it's true....

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Kwicko, I formally condemn your mother for not aborting you. Yeah, I'm sure her brother was happy to have a son, but you are inexcusable....

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Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:33 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Ended up being sick as a dog Friday through this morning, so just catching up.

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The president was disrespected, looked foolish, and his body language was pathetic. I think he was expecting softball-ish-ness. Whoevertold Barry to go do that interview should be fired. I loved it.......What an asshole.

That’s amazing. What world do you think he saw that in? Or is it just desperate need to type those words in the hopes he can make SOMEONE see it that way? Amazing. Does Kane really BELIEVE Obama expected softballs, or is he just frothing at the mouth in an effort to convince someone (or himself)?

Oh, I caught the “disrespected” thing...coupla pundits arguing back and forth for ages about whether Jon should have said “Dude” or not, because it was disrespected.

Amusing. Note how the discussion goes on for a while about the actual show and what people thought of what they saw, then our beloved RWAs come in and start turning it into “the left sucks”, “Obama sucks”, and ragging on death panels.

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the idea that the Federal Imperial Gov't, and not the individual, will determine who gets what care, based on cost, is in effect , a death panel

Oh, Raptor, you walked right into that one! So that’s worse than right now, when “the idea that the insurance companies, and not the individual, will determine who gets what care, based on cost, is in effect, a death panel”. In other words, you prefer the status quo and the insurance companies making the decision for those who can’t afford to pay out of pocket (as in, virtually all of us).

That Neumayr article is hysterical (well the couple of sentences I read of it before barfing). Snark at me for not reading it if you want to, but when something starts OUT like that, it’s not worth reading, it’s so obviously a smear piece. It don’t get much more slaggier: George Neumayr, editor of Catholic World Report. Hee, hee, hee. “Media critic and columnist George Neumayr writes that the Democrats’ economic stimulus plan will include enforced abortions and euthanasia for less productive citizens.” Hee, hee, hee...is he even a real person???

Yeah, Rose, one of the big things I don’t get is how Obama/Dems haven’t touted what they HAVE accomplished, because there have been some good things. I don’t know why—well, yes, I do, they’re ballless and so afraid of peeping it would seem...or else they’ve been drowned out so totally by the screamers...I dunno. But it seems weird to me they’re not harping on what they’ve DONE. I obviously don’t understand politics. {biggrin}

The “not his/her real name” is as far as I got right now...I’ll read the rest later.
Thank you, some of you, for your ability to see perspective, it’s refreshing to see people who can see bad AND good in something (anything?), instead of just trashing it.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

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