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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+73"Who will you bash when the President is out of office?"
He'll do the same thing he did before the Republicans were in charge... make fun of Democrats.
This isn't a matter of liberal vs conservative or rep vs dem... it's fun (and required) to make fun of the extremists on both sides. - fourcylthrill, on 10/12/2007, -5/+54"Who will you bash when the President is out of office?"
Easy answer to this one... He will bash the President. That's what comedians do. I don't think he'll have a problem bashing the next president, liberal or not. That's his job... He's not a journalist, he's a freggin comedian. He's not making money off our differences, he's making money off of being a good comedian. - vudicarus, on 10/12/2007, -23/+64"I am a liberal but find your act tiring. " Oh right dude. Cos us liberals have such a big voice in the mainstream media as it is. you'll rather have no one calling the bush and the MSM to task. I ***** LOOK FORWARD to the day when I ask the question: Now that the republican's are gone from the executive branch, what will Stewart do?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+37What do you mean "The silence"? Its not like hes shouting in the street outside your window at 3am, if you need some time to think then TURN YOUR MOTHER ***** TV OFF.
Retard - AmishRefugee, on 10/12/2007, -10/+31i don't see how making fun of republicans makes you a democrat. People assume that if you hate one party you love the other which is quite often not true
- Pharaoh777, on 10/12/2007, -13/+33Good video - but the conclusion the submitter comes to is inaccurate. People need to learn to leave their bias out of the article descriptions when they submit them. Am I the only one who thinks this is annoying?
- spurtle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17"Do you remember when he went on CNN Crossfire and ranted on about how the pundits are making politics into a joke."
He was ranting and raving about them making reporting on a newschannel into a joke. Stewart is on Comedy Central making jokes. Crossfire is on CNN turning news into pro wrestling. - growler1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20John Stewart isn't trying to be the "new liberal voice." His show points out idiocy with satire and he's not a hitman for the left.
It just so happens that the President and his cronies (and you, if you're reading this and getting angry) have an indefensible position: It's okay to sacrifice some life, but not okay to sacrifice others.
e.g. -- It's NOT okay to use for scientific research cells that *might*, with luck and a lot of science, become a human. It IS okay to kill innocent Iraqis as collateral damage and destabilize their country in pursuit of ill-advised military goals.
Either you value all human life is sacred or you don't. Those of you with five browser windows open for each of your digg accounts, modding down your betters, should probably consider that. - gwolf, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17Comedy has a very important role in a free thinking society. Politicians can become isolated and out of touch in their thinking. George Bush has become a joke here and abroad because he only listens to Fox news and others who tell him what he wants to hear instead of the truth.
- gootdude, on 10/12/2007, -9/+21If liberals started running the White House, the Daily Show would then make fun of them. The show merely picks apart the days events and pokes fun at them. The past few years have been bashing Bush since he isn't doing such a great job, anyone who disagrees is living under a rock.
Anyone remember Indecision 2000 and 2004 and the Emmy awards won those years. The Daily Show represented the idiots on both sides, and helps the average person wade through all the crap politicians throw at us. - fredkreuger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It's not that.
You just need to stop being a douche. - minox, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11You know Hannity doesn't hide his bias. He is on a ***** show that is based on the premise that he is conservative and Colmes is liberal.
- TheChihuahua, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Baby juicer...awesome. Gotta get me one of those!
- sizzzzlerz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12Jon Stewart is an entertainer, a comedian. You know, like Limbaugh. As such, he isn't required to hide his biases as part of his act. You know, like Hannity. That fact that he is very good at what he does (e.g., skewering the sanctimonious, hypocritc ***** infesting the GOP) is just part of the fun.
Liberal bias? Yeah. So? - ruprecht, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Stewart will be in gitmo soon if things keep going the way they are.
- megaloid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@patience:
When I think of "Gestapo tactics," I think of stuff like, oh you know, beating the ***** out of people in the street, burning their houses, and summarily tossing them into jail. Stuff like that.
Modding people down on websites seems a little mild for the Gestapo, yes? From what I've seen, people get modded up when they state their opinion well, not because everybody agrees with what they're saying. - nybe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7truthiness = infotainment
- monkeychewtoy, on 10/12/2007, -10/+16John Stewart and Stephen Colbert aren't journalists. Their shows are not news shows any more than Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update. Al Franken more closely *resembles* a journalist, but he's still a comedian first, and a reporter second. Stewart, Colbert, and Franken all have 'comedian' on their job descriptions.
O'Reily, however, is supposed to be a reporter. His biased remarks are not jokes. His job is on a real news show. He's also not funny.
Limbaugh is not a reporter or journalist. He's a talk show host. Like Regis Philbin, but bigger and meaner. He can make as many jokes as he wants, (regardless of whatever humor value they may actually contain,) without damaging his journalist integrity. Coulter is an author, and can write whatever she likes. (It's when she publishes it as nonfiction that irks me... burn! (Sorry, that was lame.)) And Savage is a radio talk show host. Same deal with him as with Limbaugh.
Anyway, bulleted points: Colbert and Stewart = Comedians whose jobs are to make jokes, at which they succeed. O'Reilly = 'Reporter' whose job is to report facts, at which his efficacy is calculable as been shoddy at best.
So yeah. It's not bias when it's not reporting. - gwolf, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Stewart will, I am sure, point out hypocrisy wherever he finds it because it’s funny and he’s a comedian. The fact that most of the laughable happenings in politics are coming from the right instead of the left isn’t really his fault is it.
- 0b501373, on 10/12/2007, -9/+14All of you people bashing this show just cant handle the truth within the humor!!
Face the fact your government is one big joke!!! - minox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"It's okay to sacrifice some life, but not okay to sacrifice others." Sorry if this is news, but that is the premise for any war.
- expiredmeatbag, on 10/12/2007, -3/+76 years as president, and this is his first veto?!?!
- joncoop, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Just because The Daily Show doesn't present the information in a traditional news format doesn't mean you can write it off. They cover the same stories as the "real" news shows, with the same amount of slant on things. The only difference is that they admit they are a sham.
- encognito, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9There is a lot of truth in comedy.
- ruprecht, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The Daily Show is more like news than most other "news" programs on TV. Just because it isn't presented by a stiff or by a cheesy twosome nursing coffee cups on a couch spouting the latest partisan party line doesn't make it any less like news.
It covers current events, asks difficult questions, presents current comments in the context of previous comments, is well researched and presented well. Just because it makes one laugh and doesn't have countless pointless stories about car crashes and Amazing Surfing Dogs it's not news? - Maaarrrk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Just to explain simply for some of the NeoCon lovers here:
No real news shows has bothered to show how the pro life stance Bush Jr uses is a complete lie. Easy to prove by just putting two of Bush's own film clips side by side.
The pro life President has killed more people and denied life from more of the unborn (by killing off the parents) than the number of aborted fetuses will ever be.
Bush Jr is the death President and Jon Stewart's show had balls enough to point it out. - growler1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@minox
'"It's okay to sacrifice some life, but not okay to sacrifice others." Sorry if this is news, but that is the premise for any war."'
Not news to me, no. That's why I believe all war is ugly and vicious, and as a practice shouldn't ever be celebrated.
To refer you to my original comment, though, I was saying that either you believe all life is sacred or some is just more sacred than others. The video points out that the President believes that 30,000 in "collateral damage" is regrettable but acceptable...but he uses his first veto on a bill that protects clusters of cells from scientific research that might someday cure diseases.
To me, that seems at the bare minimum a contradictory position. - ZenMojo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Patience. The reason Republicans call us pussies.
- orph3us, on 10/12/2007, -9/+12oh come on!1!1 that whole bit was strong comedy. Liberal schmiberal. How's this for name calling, George bush is a "LIAR". Oh, and the baby juicer comeback to the speakers obvious over-simplification of the issue was HILLARIOUS. Just think if someone would be able to respond to that guy right there with what Jon brought up. The thing is, comedy allows him to get across subtle points where today's politics is all black and white and brutal.
- blacklilyninja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2so....
it begins..
the WAR ON ...COMEDY
the funny this is... while they tell the jokes, they make valid points.
The main point being Bush is an puppet idiot who forgets his script on a regular basis and only values the life that can't say anything against him. However, if those embryos COULD talk there would be a war on them too. It would be a case of national security. Cnn would call it "The War ON TERR...EMBRYOS" - Ampers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I don't really understand why people at so uptight about this (although I am not an American). That clip was from Comedy Central not the BBC World News. Surely you guys can take a jab at your own politics... In Australia we do it all the time.
- cantoral, on 10/12/2007, -9/+11Have six hundred thousand Iraqis died as a consequence of war or thirty thousand? American troops should officially count how many Iraqis die as a consequence of war.
- gr8whitesavage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Man that last comparo really hit the nail on the head.
- galore, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"Either you value all human life is sacred or you don't."
What ???
You value a lump of cells, only visible using a microscope, a lump of cells, that might eventually become a human being, as much as a fully developed human ??
I am sorry, but this is just disgusting. I'd rather flush a microscopic lump of cells down the drain than blow up an Iraqi. - encognito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ bomann,
Let me try to explain to you why I think you are getting modded down. You come off like a pompous jerk by implying that most people can’t tell the difference between “real” news and comedy news AND that the people in this thread who are laughing at the very real hypocrisy evidenced in that clip are part of that crowd. Do you really think that you are so astute and elite in your observations that you need to point out that it is not “real” news? Moreover, I hate to bring this up because I am sure you already know this, being omnipotent and all, but in the “real” newspapers and “real” news shows taking quotes out of context and editing camera footage to advance an agenda is par for the course. - Osjpr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ffs, why are some of you against stem cell research? Half of you who oppose it may opt to abort your children, so why the hell the hypocrisy? F-n luddites
- encognito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hypocrisy is hypocrisy no matter who is spewing it. I thought it was the height of hypocrisy when Michael Moore in his book “Stupid White Men” told the middle and lower classes that they shouldn’t even try to better themselves financially by believing the “lies” of the rich when they say “You can be rich too if you work hard enough and stick to it.”
According to Moore this type of thinking just maintains the status quo which is what the rich guys want. Never mind the fact that he went from poor to rich and highlighted how rich he is by posting the actual tax form that people who make over a million bucks in a year have to fill out. He got rich by working hard to SELL books and films to people who he glibly tells shouldn’t even try to get rich because the system and its top participants are full of lies? - kingcam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not anymore.
- nybe, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5@ DocMalk
"submissive authoritarian" oh man I like that!! Can I steal it bro? - aftk2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4He's using sentences?!
- DooDooFace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If this was the best in the last 6 years, what happened 6 years ago?
- jackminardi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1is it bias at all then?
- applepro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Jon Stewart Show = Genius
Read your local high-end paper people, don't blindly follow liberal leadership unless you know the facts. - rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Listen, you can go ahead and do that, but leave Jon. He's NOTHING like the rest of them.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Hey! Leego my ego!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OqWm0nXy34 - ruprecht, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@DeleteForever: Most english-speaking people outside the USA. That's right, people do speak english in other countries! That's right, there is such a thing as "other countries"!
- p51d007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What's really "sad" about the Daily show, is that a LOT (according to polls if you believe them) think that it IS a news show. THAT in itself is a sad commentary on the youth of
today. - megaloid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yeah, but Hannity's humor is like O' Reilly's, or for that matter, Jimmy Swaggart's: unintentional. A talking head has no introspective capacity, just an ego that is wildly disproportionate to his ability.
- metamethod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0something to consider:
the role of jester in a royal court
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_jester
they present poltical issues as satire to avoid displeasure from their would-be executioners.
excuse: i kid. i kid. -
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