Jon Stewart vs. Ted Cruz on the "filibuster". Best political takedown ever. This is it. Period.

[stevenleser]

[malaise]

1. Yep he was great last night

Freaking perfect

[stevenleser]

2. We may have to come up with an adjective that is better than perfect for this.

I'm watching it again and will probably watch it 5-10 more times, it was that amazing.

[HangOnKids]

42. I have watched it 5 times this morning because it was that GREAT! Laughing so damn hard!

I don't know if the "Nazi's stole my knees" or the skullfuckery from the Bore-Ax is my fav.

[Coyotl]

35. Here is the link to the Daily Show, better video:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/wed-september-25-2013-atoms-for-peace

[Tigress DEM]

3. We need a MULTIPLE rec function or a STAR rating so we can rate something like this as 5 star!

So glad he's back!

[stevenleser]

5. Me too, VERY glad he is back. We might not be able to multi-rec it, but I think everyone should

email, tweet, facebook, etc. this out so that as many people see it as possible.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Love his answer for pre-existing conditions. Jon: "you got nothin.." nt

[Thav]

7. That's basically what he said.

"We have a problem with pre-existing conditions, and I think something should be done about it!"

That reminds me of the Family Guy where Lois runs for mayor.

<citizen> "What do you plan on doing about ____ (I forget the exact question)?"
<Lois> A Lot. Because, it's what Jesus wants!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. funny. This is what irks the hell out of me. NO ONE in media asking the

question "What would you do (let the free market work hasn't worked ?" and "Yes or No, do you care
that $20 million + of our fellow citizens have no health care?"

[stevenleser]

24. The Rude Pundit and I both asked the question on my show last week ;-)

But I get ya

[Gothmog]

6. Stewart was in great form

Stewart's takedown of Carnival Cruz was great

[gopiscrap]

8. I love it

[Maeve]

9. His last point needs to be spread more

If the House had spent a quarter of the time they put to "overturning" the ACA actually working to FIX some of the problematic parts (and the rest of the time doing something constructive, like fixing this nation's infrastructure), we would ALL have been better off (and the Republicans would be seen as good guys instead of dicks).
But no, we get filibluster and BS.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. love fili BLUSTER nt

[Berlum]

10. "book about a jerk who hates something before he's even tried it..."

How Republicon is that?

[liberal N proud]

29. He nailed it and Cruz

[mountain grammy]

11. Without Jon and Stephen America's governments would still be broken

but not nearly as funny. Both have been keeping me sane for years. Kind of like DU, but certainly funnier, although there are some pretty hysterical comments around here.

[Heather MC]

12. 21 hours and he never laid out a plan of his own Pathetic

[Stuart G]

16. He said in this piece.."Let the market reform it.."...sure..nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. exactly. All they do is spit out the word Obamacare like it is poison. Wouldn't it

have been great for Republicans to say...Number 1: We absolutely care about people
not having healthcare, Number 2: Here's what we disagree with, why, and our alternative
which we offer as an alternative in tandem with ACA repeal

[pinboy3niner]

13. I was hoping Jon would do it while wearing a hat like Cruz's...

[Roland99]

14. Genius!

[Lucky Luciano]

15. Marking for later. nt

[hue]

17. Perfect!! K&R!!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

19. He ain't speaking for

26,000,000 Texans and 350,000,000 Americans. Jerk!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. Interesting. Population of TX pretty much equals total uninsured in US nt

[underpants]

21. Classic

[KansDem]

25. Don't you mean 299,999,999 Americans?

Because you don't speak for me!

[Liberalynn]

26. Very Funny and True

[90-percent]

27. Jon is brilliant

Tail Gunner Ted laments about Chamberlains appeasement of Hitler in the pre dawn of WW2. If I have my history correct, prior to Pearl Harbor, weren't perhaps ¾ of ALL AMERICANS OPPOSED TO ENTANGLEMENTS IN FOREIGN WARS?

Frankly, I’m proud of the American people of the thirties and their love of peace! However, I appreciate the enormity of what the world faced with Nazi Germany and Japan and America’s long sacrifices to fight and win that terrible war. Considering our views of December 6, we as a country did one hell of a patriotic about face when the fate of the free world needed our help to fight fascism and totalitarianism! (The American people tend to be good. Our leaders and institutions? Not so much)

My point is, as he criticizes Chamberlain in his time, he’s also insulting the majority view of Americans in that time. But he knows his audience is idiots that don’t have enough knowledge to realize his historic reasoning is both bogus and insulting to “the will of the people” in that time.

I’m sure there’s a hell of a lot of other obtuse non-reasoned examples in his 21 hour insult to Democracy and the American form of government. Jon could use this one train wreck alone for perhaps a month of material?

-90% Jimmy

[Berlin Expat]

37. Cruz's fatuous remarks

about Neville Chamberlain are best countered with this quote from Winston Churchill, speaking in the House of Commons on the occasion of Mr. Chamberlain's death.

The fierce and bitter controversies which hung around him in recent times were hushed by the news of his illness and are silenced by his death. In paying a tribute of respect and of regard to an eminent man who has been taken from us, no one is obliged to alter the opinions which he has formed or expressed upon issues which have become a part of history; but at the Lychgate we may all pass our own conduct and our own judgments under a searching review. It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events. In one phase men seem to have been right, in another they seem to have been wrong. Then again, a few years later, when the perspective of time has lengthened, all stands in a different setting. There is a new proportion. There is another scale of values. History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honour.

It fell to Neville Chamberlain in one of the supreme crises of the world to be contradicted by events, to be disappointed in his hopes, and to be deceived and cheated by a wicked man. But what were these hopes in which he was disappointed? What were these wishes in which he was frustrated? What was that faith that was abused? They were surely among the most noble and benevolent instincts of the human heart-the love of peace, the toil for peace, the strife for peace, the pursuit of peace, even at great peril, and certainly to the utter disdain of popularity or clamour. Whatever else history may or may not say about these terrible, tremendous years, we can be sure that Neville Chamberlain acted with perfect sincerity according to his lights and strove to the utmost of his capacity and authority, which were powerful, to save the world from the awful, devastating struggle in which we are now engaged. This alone will stand him in good stead as far as what is called the verdict of history is concerned.

I hope that when I shuffle off this mortal coil, that even those who not have agreed with me would still understand my actions.

Teahadis and Ted Cruz don't possess even an infinitesimal fraction of that kind of class......or intellect.

[90-percent]

44. Thanks for this about Churchill

He was pretty remarkable. He's the kind of World Leader I'd like to go binge drinking with!

-jim

[jmowreader]

58. I wouldn't want to binge drink with Churchill

He was twice as big as I am and drank a fifth of brandy every day. I'd end the evening in the morgue.

[stevenleser]

59. Americans shouldn't try to binge drink with Europeans in general. I learned that lesson the hard way

It was 1999, I worked for a large firm with offices in London. They sent me to London to work with my counterparts on a project.

The 10 Londoners I was working with challenged me to prove that Americans can "hold their drink".

I managed to out-drink 9 of them at terrible cost to my sense of well-being for the next three weeks or so.

p.s., the guy who out-drank me was at the office at 7am the next morning like nothing happened.

p.p.s., that was one of the last times I had a lot to drink.

[BelgianMadCow]

28. This thread illustrates why it's a pity videos now go in a subforum

I remember when great vids would often be among the most rec'd threads right here in GD, and consequently get much more exposure.

[stevenleser]

30. I agree. I think that is something for Skinner/EarlG/Elad to think about.

Videos should somehow all be in GD with some easy way to search for them or exclude them.

[BelgianMadCow]

32. Yup. I have missed the reasoning for it getting a separate corner,

but I figure it had to do with the bandwith load it represents. Do you know?

It would be cool if one could tick a box "video post" so that people can filter for it, and it maybe gets a different icon in the thread list. What I do like about the subforum, is that whenever I'm in a more "passive" mood so to speak, I hop over there and watch some vids whilst say grabbing a bite.

In any case, in a society that is increasingly focused on video instead of text, it's a loss if the well made videos "from our side" don't get exposure.

That being said, I've posted stuff from video & multimedia over here in GD if I thought it worthwile, and it's never been locked or something. So maybe we should just go ahead, dunno.

[Tx4obama]

48. Political/current event videos in the DU Video forum show up on the right side of the DU front page

That is why there is a separate forum for them - otherwise ALL videos from all over DU would end up on the front page and it would be a mess.

[Tx4obama]

47. Videos that are posted in DU Video forum go on the right side of the front page of DU. Perhaps...

... perhaps DUers should consider going to the DU Video forum more often and look at all the videos that some of us spend a lot of time posting there.

It sucks that I post many Daily Show video links every week in V&M and some folks can't take the time to click over to that forum to see them.

[liberal N proud]

31. As I was watching this last night, I realized who Cruz reminded me of

Mr. Haney from Green Acres.

[The Wizard]

34. Mr. Haney had a degree of charm

Cruz is just a reprobate.

[WCGreen]

36. Yep....

[Aldo Leopold]

40. Sounds just like him!

[liberal N proud]

41. I think that was what sealed it.

[The Wizard]

33. The Buffoon Cruz is

such an easy target for Stewart. He may have credentials from the top schools, but he lacks any form of common sense and common decency. Maybe the Republicans put him up there to make others sound reasonable. Pox News hired Beck to make O'Reilly and Hannity sound reasonable.
By the way, is Ted Cruz always drunk?

[Bobbie Jo]

38. Genius.

[heaven05]

39. well I did laugh a lot

because of this particular Stewart segment, yet seriously, a majority of TEXANS/Amerikkkans voted this clown in. You get what you vote for! America when in the hell will the 47% that voted for the likes of this clown and romshit wake up?

[winter is coming]

49. Maybe they figured it was the only way to get him to leave the state.

[heaven05]

50. sounds like it

[Scurrilous]

43. Hilarious!

[SunSeeker]

45. K & R

[PeteSelman]

46. The wingnuts came out of the woodwork when I put this on Facebook.

Such vitriol and hatred for Stewart and the President for daring to mock the sacred Ted Cruz.

[calimary]

55. Welcome to DU, PeteSelman!

Glad you're here! That's part of the beauty of this! Jon Stewart speaks directly to the "money demo" - the most significant demographic that programmers and advertisers and pols alike - all covet most. SOOOO glad we have a Jon Stewart - it's like having a secret weapon in our back pocket! My general yardstick is - if the dingdongs and wingnuts and Dark Ages inhabitants hate it, it must be a good thing for the rest of us who live in the real world and the modern era.

[JEFF9K]

51. Is there a bigger BS conservative buzzword than "freedom?"

[dougolat]

64. To them it means freedom from regulation of any kind!...

some of them have actually said that in the last campaigns.

[Aerows]

52. Epic takedown

Nobody does it better than Jon Stewart!

[malthaussen]

53. "That's easy for you to say, you have government health care."

Awesome.

-- Mal

[tavalon]

54. Sublime

Jon Stewart puts on the act that he's just a comedian and that it isn't personal for him. I don't buy it. He's a bleeding heart liberal. In other words, a man I could stand at the barricades with and feel completely copacetic with.

[pacalo]

56. I totally agree -- this episode was worthy of an Emmy.

[freshwest]

57. Thnx, Steve. This got me laughing instead of barfing at this lunatic. I'll never see him the same.

Instead, I'll be ROFLMAO.

[B Calm]

60. I like the part where he said that he didn't take any risks, he has government health care!

[jmowreader]

62. Turns out he actually DOESN'T have government health care

[Shankapotomus]

61. K & R

[erpowers]

63. If All News Were Like This

There is a least a part of me that wishes all news was like this show. Yes, it is a comedy and some news reports pointed out that Ted Cruz's filibuster would not prevent the Senate vote, I think John Stewart did a better job of pointing out the silliness of Cruz's filibuster and the outrageousness of Cruz comparing the Affordable Care Act to Nazi Germany.