Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Lindsey Graham Cries Wolf

Jon Stewart lampoons Sen. Lindsey Graham's hysterical panic attack on ISIS. Graham yells that ISIS will come over here and kill everyone.

How stupid is Graham? The Senator wants to arm and train the Free Syrian Army to fight ISIS. One problem with that is that the Free Syrian Army is working with ISIS and both groups have made a peace agreement.

According to Agence France-Presse, ISIS and a number of moderate and hard-line rebel groups have agreed not to fight each other so that they can focus on taking down the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Other sources say the signatories include a major U.S. ally linked to the Free Syrian Army. Moreover, the leader of the Free Syrian Army said Saturday that the group would not take part in U.S. plans for destroying the Islamic State until it got assurances on toppling Assad.

The deal between ISIS and the moderate Syrian groups casts doubt over President Barack Obama's freshly announced strategy to arm and train the groups against ISIS.

Lindsey Graham is a stupid man.

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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Jon Stewert On the Fox News Coverage of Ferguson

This is one of the best commentaries Jon Stewart has delivered on The Daily Show. Fox News has a history of factually inaccurate racist attacks. New Orleans has a mostly black population. Bill O'Reilly accused the victims of Katrina to be drug addicts.

Many, many, many of the poor in New Orleans are in that condition. They weren't going to leave no matter what you did. They were drug-addicted. They weren't going to get turned off from their source. They were thugs, whatever.

O'Reilly came back from vacation to attack Al Sharpton and justify the shooting of Michael Brown. To show how bad of a journalist O'Reilly is, he reported that Brown broke police officer Darren Wilson had a broken eye socket.

CNN debunked the story that Wilson's eye socket was broken.

Now, CNN’s Don Lemon has reported that Wilson did not, in fact, have a broken eye socket, but was treated at the hospital for swelling around his face and eyes. Lemon has not revealed the source of the information, citing instead “a source close to the investigation,” which, frankly, is just as shady as the opposing rumors.

“The source says it is not true, at all, he did not have a torn eye socket,” Lemon said. “Unequivocally.”

The story of Wilson having a broken eye socket was first planted in the blogosphere by Jim Hoft. Hoft is known as "The Dumbest Man on the Internet." Hoft has a history of either running with false or factually inaccurate stories. The fact that O'Reilly would report Hoft's claim says much.

Hoft ran an X-Ray that people believed was of Wilson's eye. Charles Johnson found it to be a stock jpeg you can find on Google.

And there’s more evidence that Hoft is trying to pull a fast one again; here is the original image posted at the AAPOS site, showing a CT scan of a blowout fracture (on the left), compared to the image posted at Gateway Pundit by Hoft (on the right):

Notice the difference? In the version posted by Jim Hoft, the text at bottom right that says “UNIV OF IOWA” has been crudely erased. Caught you, Jim.

This gives you an idea of the level of fact-checking done by Bill O'Reilly.

How you can tell O'Reilly is spieling racist garbage is when he compares the Michael Brown investigation to the OJ Simpson trial verdict. OJ Simpson was accused of murdering two people. Michael Brown was shot dead by Darren Wilson. The two things have nothing in common. O'Reilly uses OJ Simpson to demonize Brown. What O'Reilly will not mention is that Michael Brown had no criminal record.

Bill O'Reilly is a horrible person.

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Friday, August 01, 2014

Quote of the Day: Free Palestine Edition

Litbrit made this great image. Politico reports he Senate just approved $225 million for the Israeli Iron Dome defense program. I support Israel's right to defend their civilian population from Hamas rocket attacks. The question is who defends the Palestinian civilians from Israeli drone attacks.

Cable news media should show photos like this to Washington politicians that falsely make the claim that Israel is going out of its ways to not target civilians. Israel shelled a United Nations school being used as a safe haven for Palestinian evacuees. Attacking a United Nations facility is a clear violation of international law. The United Nations has condemned Israel for the attack.

The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which operated the school-turned-shelter in the Jabalya refugee camp, said it had gathered evidence, analyzed bomb fragments and examined craters after the attack. Its initial assessment was that three Israeli artillery shells hit the school where 3,300 people had sought refuge.

“I condemn in the strongest possible terms this serious violation of international law by Israeli forces,” said Pierre Krähenbühl, the UNRWA commissioner-general. “This is an affront to all of us, a source of universal shame. Today the world stands disgraced.”

The Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has gone insane. Could you imagine the United Kingdom, Sweden are France attacking a U.N. facility. Israel isn't a democracy. Palestinians don't have a vote because they live under a government that has implemented a decades long apartheid policy.

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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Jon Stewart Vs the Neoconservatives

Jon Stewart plays clips of how wrong the neoconservatives were about the Iraq war. Stewart saves his best jokes for John McCain. However, Stewart's Lindsey Graham's impression is the best moment in the video.

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Saturday, March 15, 2014

Daily Show Mocks Eric Bolling

Eric Bolling is the gift that keeps on giving.

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Thursday, January 09, 2014

Quote of the Day

"As a guy who grew up in New Jersey, I'm disappointed, ashamed of the state I grew up in. Political payback through traffic congestion? To see New Jersey sink to such a piss-poor, third-rate quality of corruption....This is New Jersey! A state renowned for its piss-rich, first-rate corruption."

Jon Stewart, Daily Show host, on the Chris Christie BridgeGate scandal.

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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Hurricane Katrina Talking Point From Fox News

Jon Stewart has this reaction to Fox News comparing the Obamacare rollout to Hurricane Katrina.

“Are you out of your –” Stewart began to say, before stopping once he heard his audience’s collected groan. “Do you know you’ve disappointed our audience? They think you might be out of your f*cking mind.”

Fox News is running hard with the Hurricane Katrina talking point.

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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Daily Show on 'Bipartisan Curious' Republicans

These so-called reasonable Republicans deserved to be mocked for not voting against the tea party caucus.

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Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Daily Show Mocks the War on Christmas

Jon Stewart mocks the annual "War on Christmas" coverage by Fox News.

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Thursday, November 08, 2012

Bullshit Mountain on Election Night

Watching Karl Rove go down in flames is hysterical. Fox News failed on such a grand scale on election night because the fantasy bubble their were creating got popped by American voters. The Mitt Romney landslide predicted by Dick Morris never happened. The myth that Fox News sold about Obama not being mainstream could not be held when the President won the popular vote and electoral college. This is what happens when a propaganda outfit pretends to be a news network.

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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Fox News: Still Reciting GOP Talking Points

Fox News was caught running a Senate Republican Communications Center press release verbatim. Fox News does no actual reporting. That would require hiring actual journalists and firing partisans whom regurgitate Republican talking points. Roger Ailes has no interest in running an actual news organization. Fox News has been caught so many times reading Republican talking points that Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy read a RNC memo for pundits to the audience with no shame. Jon Stewart takes Doocy to task.



Remember this the next time a Fox News host complains about how liberal and unbalanced the media is.

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Mitt the Ripper Ad



Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart have had great fun pointing out the legal loopholes set up for Super PACs. Colbert's Super PAC released an attack parody that compared Mitt Romney to a serial killer. The attacks in ads are often over the top. Colbert and Stewart. What is funny about this ad is it would not be surprising if a Republican opponent of Romney's did compare him to Jack the Ripper. I'm surprised that Newt Gingrich hasn't thought of it first.

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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Jon Stewart Fact-Checks Fox News



Jon Stewart calls Fox News a dynasty of fibs.

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Monday, June 20, 2011

Jon Stewart & Chris Wallace Interview



The Chris Wallace interview of Jon Stewart was fascinating. Stewart easily deflated Wallace's charges of liberal media bias.


The bias of the media is towards laziness, conflict, and sensationalism.


What was laughable was Wallace telling Stewart that Fox News employees do not get marching orders. John Moody's "marching orders" show a conservative bias. Moody has been more than happy to carry water for President George W. Bush.


"His political courage and tactical cunning ar[e] [wo]rth noting in our reporting through the day"


Fair and balanced!

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Sunday, March 06, 2011

Jon Stewart on Conservative Attacks on Teachers



Jon Stewart highlights how Republican pundits accuse teachers of being fat cats but refuse to ask Wall Street to sacrifice.

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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity Closing Speech

The Brad Blog has the video of Jon Stewart's closing speech at "The Rally to Restore Sanity."

Money quote:


But unfortunately one of our main tools in delineating the two broke. The country's 24-hour political pundit perpetual panic conficinator did not cause our problems but it's existence makes soling them that much harder. The press can hold it's magnifying up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminatiing issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic.

If we amplify everything we hear nothing.


The Nation has the full transcript.

I think Jon Stewart is somewhat naive about the true nature of people. The fact is this country is extremely divided and I don't see that changing any time soon. Stewart's message of civility in public discourse is needed. We may not be able to reach for the stars. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Daily Show on Republican Economic Plan

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Jon Stewart mocked the irrationality of Republicans being for deficit reduction and the extention of the Bush tax cuts. President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney and Bill Frist all said in 2006 that the tax cuts pay for themselves.


President Bush, for example, commented on July 11, “Some in Washington say we had to choose between cutting taxes and cutting the deficit…. that was a false choice. The economic growth fueled by tax relief has helped send our tax revenues soaring.”[1] Earlier, in a February speech the President stated, “You cut taxes and the tax revenues increase.”[2] Similarly, Vice President Cheney has claimed, “it’s time for everyone to admit that sensible tax cuts increase economic growth and add to the federal treasury.” [3] And Majority Leader Frist has written that recent experience demonstrates, “when done right, [tax cuts] actually result in more money for government.”[4]


We all know how that worked out. Republicans haven't learned anything during the Bush years about economic policy and they are willing to remain ignorant.

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Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Muppet Steele

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The Daily Show mocks Michael Steele's comment that the Afghanistan war was Obama's fault.

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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

David Alexrod Interview

John Stewart interviewed White House senior advisor David Alexrod. My favorite moment of the interview is Stewart asking Alexrod why President Obama allowed Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner to continue to make financial policy after their oversight failure of the 2008 economic meltdown.

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Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Glenn Beck to the Left of McCain

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John McCain was once for immigration reform. That was before he fell from grace with the GOP base and Arizona passed a anti-immigration bill. McCain plays to the xenophobic Tea Paty base by being against reading terrorist suspects their Miranda rights. Shockingly, Glenn Beck is to the Left of McCain on the Miranda rights issue.

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