Jon Stewart brings it.

[XemaSab]

http://www.thedailyshow.com/

[daleanime]

1. Change?

:argh:

[saracat]

2. OMG. Jon nails it.

[awoke_in_2003]

29. It is pretty sad...

when a "news" show on a comedy station seems to be the only people that keep archival tapes so people can be reminded of what politicians have said (and failed to deliver on).

[Go2Peace]

3. Wow, that hurts. So how soon will DU start calling Stewart a "hater"?

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[Selatius]

24. You must not have been there when they tossed Jon Stewart under the bus.

It's quite crowded under there.

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[katandmoon]

4. K&R for Jon Stewart.

[Go2Peace]

5. Watch the next one. He is calling Afganistan the "Ore on Terror"

[katandmoon]

6. He was on fire tonight.

[Toucano]

10. Your free ride to rubble-town is OVER!

That was classic!

[XemaSab]

"I hear Pandora is lovely this time of year."

:banghead:

[XemaSab]

11. dupe

n/t

[XemaSab]

8. I didn't mean to detract from the existing thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8567538

[Toucano]

9. I am getting a bit tired of Obama's cadence.

Jon hits that, too.

[Go2Peace]

12. Link to full video

The full episode is here:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/tue-june-15-2010-james-tabor

[ixion]

13. Outstanding commentary.

Big k/r. Thank you, Mr. Stewart! :patriot:

[SmileyRose]

14. When you lose Jon, you've lost period.

Stick a fork in Obama. He's done. It pains me greatly to say so. I am in my 50's and he is the first candidate I ever actively campaigned for.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

16. LOL. Yeah even Jon Stewart disagrees with that assertion.

When Fox made that claim, Stewart laughed at it.

[tavalon]

18. He was a great candidate and he still is a great speechifyer

Alas, he needs a swift kick in the ass and someone needs to get that stupid ring to Mt. Doom because it's clear, as a leader, he isn't all that good and he is liking what power that ring gives him just a little too much.

I'm actually to the point of not giving a fuck about what goes on in Washington. Actually, that's not true. I'm caring too much about something that is beginning to look like the same puppet show as we had the eight years prior.

It's becoming ever more likely that Bill Hicks was totally, completely right. He may have died of pancreatic cancer but it was brought on by a broken heart. He wasn't strong enough to be a Christ even though he had the vision. My vision feels more like Cassandra's and I'm just about as brokenhearted as he was but I have a family to care for so I think I'm going to let it go.

I fought so long, so hard with so many of you here on my side, fighting just as hard. But the last two months have been hard for me to take.

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[tavalon]

15. I didn't laugh once

But that doesn't mean Jon didn't hit the bullseye, over and over and over again.

I'm thinking about taking the summer off and deciding just before the midterms whether I care to vote or not. I haven't missed a single voting opportunity in the last ten years. But this whole government is beginning to look an awful lot like a dog and pony show and I'm not sure I care to play anymore.

[CrispyQ]

25. ...

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery..." — Zappa

[Confusious]

28. Second that .

Everything you said. I've been wondering the same things myself.

[nc4bo]

17. Umm, yep.

Thanks Jon. :thumbsup:

[madrchsod]

19. the emperor has no clothes.....

[madokie]

20. I now go back under the rock

from whence it is I came.

I liked it better in the cool of believing, not so much here in the now of reality

rec.

[Radical Activist]

21. Good criticisms.

I hope Obama sees it. I wish Stewart would have told the whole story by showing the positive changes Obama made on each of those issues. He paints a misleading picture. But hey, everyone does it.

[glinda]

22. yet he doesn't criticize Pawlenty.....

[liberation]

36. But the whole point was that Obama did not change anything on each of those issues

That is what the whole f*cking tirade was about.

You seem to be trying to have "misleading" mean that "it makes Obama look bad."

[Radical Activist]

47. Yet, that isn't true.

You're confirming my point that the piece left viewers with a false impression. Obama has changed things on each and every one of those issues, but not in totality as much as we would like.

He arranged for the release, hearing or trial of most Guantanamo detainees. Claiming that he shifted them all to other places like Bush did is simply not true with the exception of just a few people. Why not mention how many detainees have been released to freedom or given a trial since Obama took office?

There are new restrictions and safeguards on wiretaps.

I forget what else was in the video but I recall that on each issue there were good things Obama did that Stewart left out. It simply isn't true to say that he didn't change anything.

[badgerpup]

23. THANK YOU!

:hi::hug:

I can't tell you how FRUSTRATING it is to read a subject heading about how one of "Our Guys" (i.e., Rachel, Keith, John, Stephanie, etc.) has just kicked some extremely deserving ass all around the block and back...
but that's ALL there is to the post.


:wtf: :grr: :banghead:


No link, no 'splanation...some of us still don't have TV's and rely on the intarwebz for this sort of thing.

Thank you so much for including the linky! :yourock:

[Joe Fields]

26. shhhhh...we mustn't speak ill of the un-dead.

[bvar22]

27. I'll be saving this clip,

and posting it to those perpetual threads at DU insisting that I didn't pay attention during the campaign, that Obama is doing exactly as he promised.

[Grinchie]

44. 3D Chess after all...

Or forgiving Obama for just protecting his family and life in order to escape the fate of JFK if he rattled too many Military Industrial Cages of the Corporatocracy.

I don't buy it. He knew it was a screwed up thankless job when he ran, and instead of honorably and ethically navigation the ship of state, he handed it over to Autopilot and went to the bar to get drunk with power.

It's been 1.2 years since Obama proved himself a big fat, DLC stooge, and I'm still in awe at the peoples ability to ignore the facts and still hope for his Slogans and Jingoism while the Country carrens closer to overshoot and collapse.

[burnsei sensei]

30. The spell of power

made neoconservativism, and it's making this Third Way version of neoconservatism.

[uponit7771]

31. NOT Stewarts best work, shows out of balance critique from sloppy ass'd news clips...

...and not the first time either.

Stewards formula can't be take the 20% Obama has fucked up on and claim Obama's 80% like Bush...

Notice I did say Obama has screwed the pooch on some issues though but to take clips from our sorry ass'd M$M is sad.

Stewart was able to splice Bush's words in clips not splice news clips of Obama in clips...Bush's words were a LOT more credible in regards to how totally fucked up Bush was while he and a LOT OF DUrs don't recognize how fucked up our M$M is...NO, you can't believe a damn thing they say and I mean a DAMN THING.


P.S. Notice I did say Obama has screwN the pooch on some of those issues.

[liberation]

37. You seem to be confusing disclaimers with doublethink...

... a common mistake.

[eternalflame]

32. Just watched the two first clips..

I recommend more people to watch them

[rambler_american]

33. Gawd that made me sad

K&R even so.

[Voice for Peace]

34. it actually felt to me like he was trying to HELP Obama with that segment

to show him so simply and graphically how he had apparently lost his way. Not to "rip him a new one" or whatever.

[Beacool]

38. I just saw tonight's opening and Jon nailed it again.

:7

[depakid]

39. When a leader becomes the object of well taken ridicule, that's not a good sign

[SemiCharmedQuark]

42. Right. Unlike all those other presidents who were never ridiculed by comedians.

Ridiculing presidents is the American pastime and every single one of them, even our beloved FDR, got it.

[pundaint]

40. Let's hope that this can become Obama, as warmaker's Cronkite moment. Let the Change begin!

[DeSwiss]

41. K&R!!!

It's difficult to run away from one's own words.

[Grinchie]

45. Especially painful when one doesn't even attempt to.

It's like Obama isn't to be bothered with such nonsense...

[cwydro]

46. K and R

The change we were waiting for...oh yeah.

[okieinpain]

48. that was pretty good. I guess president obama deserves it. n/t.