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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Wed Oct 2, 2013, 05:18 PM Oct 2013

Jon Stewart destroys callous Fox News host: F*ck you for mocking the poor

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/02/jon-stewart-destroys-callous-fox-news-host-fck-you-for-mocking-the-poor/

While Daily Show host Jon Stewart seemed to be in good spirits mocking conservative media’s “no biggie” attitude toward the impact of the government shutdown, he bore down on Fox News Radio host Todd Starnes, who dismissively said Democrats would start getting their “potted meat and Tang and get in [their] survival bunker,” to the amusement of Sean Hannity and other cohorts.

“F*ck you,” Stewart said after a few seconds of mocking faux-laughter. “First of all, Democrats aren’t the ones with survival bunkers — that’s you guys. And second, I know that for you, potted meat and Tang is short-hand for sh*t you wouldn’t possibly imagine eating unless there was a catastrophe, but for the people actually affected by the government shutdown, it’s the sh*t they eat that they can no longer afford.”

Stewart argued that, while many of Starnes’ colleagues took great pains to tell their viewers that they weren’t affected by the curtailing of federal programs instigated by GOP lawmakers, they were purposefully ignoring the very real effects a prolonged shutdown could have on NASA, the Food and Drug Administration, food programs that primarily benefit women and children and the Environmental Protection Agency, among other agencies.

“How bad can it be if it doesn’t personally affect Sean Hannity?” Stewart asked sarcastically. “It’s not like they shut down Smith & Wollensky for private events — that would really be f*cked up. Or closed our nation’s strategic flag-graphic reserves. Or if Roger Ailes implemented a ‘no grunting’ policy in the Fox mens’ room.”

Watch Stewart attack conservative callousness, as posted on YouTube on Tuesday by “Just Fun News,” below.

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Jon Stewart destroys callous Fox News host: F*ck you for mocking the poor (Original Post) Playinghardball Oct 2013 OP
What's truly sad about this is that it takes a "comedian" to do it, the Very Serious People won't Fumesucker Oct 2013 #1
+1 Shrike47 Oct 2013 #2
The Very Serious People are physically afraid of teabaggers/wingnuts IMO. tularetom Oct 2013 #6
Spot on, as usual... KansDem Oct 2013 #3
and always worthy of a second look Supersedeas Oct 2013 #17
F*cking Hypocritical Cretins rock Oct 2013 #4
Stewart: "Are you tired of thinking with your penis?" DinahMoeHum Oct 2013 #5
Kicked and highly recommended. hunter Oct 2013 #7
Sad that the media needs a court jester to point out the court Rex Oct 2013 #8
K+effin.R ..nt TeeYiYi Oct 2013 #9
KNR. DirkGently Oct 2013 #10
If Stewart ran for President NickB79 Oct 2013 #11
great clip Liberalynn Oct 2013 #12
March of Dumbs - March of Dimes trof Oct 2013 #13
K&R stonecutter357 Oct 2013 #14
. blkmusclmachine Oct 2013 #15
Kick Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2013 #16

rock

(13,218 posts)
4. F*cking Hypocritical Cretins
Wed Oct 2, 2013, 05:40 PM
Oct 2013

Can you be BOTH a hypocrite and a cretin. Apparently so if you're a Republican. In fact, it's mandatory!

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
8. Sad that the media needs a court jester to point out the court
Wed Oct 2, 2013, 06:55 PM
Oct 2013

is full of shit and likes it that way.

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