I’m the hardest-hitting journalist in the media
I’m the hardest-hitting journalist in the media. And I’m appalled by that fact.
(Jon Stewart)
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I like Jon Stewart, but I don’t like Jon Stewart lols. *sigh*
Yeah, it isn’t funny It’s just someone trying to make an observation that they think everyone will agree on.
I “get” not finding it funny. I think it’s much funnier if you’re a fan (though I can’t be sure if you are or not) and can read it in his voice. Most of the humor comes from how spot on it is with his personality. I can easily see him saying this (maybe he actually has–in which case it loses most of it’s value as humor).
I do remember him using a clip of himself when mocking the media recently. I believe it was right after his Cramer interview.
Jon Stewart <’3
This isn’t funny. It’s sad.
funny in a sad kind of way…
no, it’s sad in a funny kind of way.
It doesn’t bode will that people take a *comedy show* as journalism.
It’s at best commentary with goofy faces and schtick.
Sort of like modern politics
Are you sure you’re not talking about Fox News?
Are you sure you’re not talking about ANY kind of modern news?
It’s sad that John is one of the most courageous interviewers on TV right now. It’s sad that only a comedy show will hold both media and political figures to account for things they’ve publicly said.
The news don’t make sense to me until it’s been filtered through Jon Stewart! We need this guy!!!!
no, its sad, and funny, but later sad again. then its funny again, and sad 1 last time, then funny again.
Then it gets a little verklempt, then it has a giggle.
Then it puts the lotion on its skin.
I can imagine Jon Stewart as a sad clown.
I completely agree. It’s totally correct. And appalling.
Nitpicking, but I would put ‘journalist’ in quotes. John Stewart is a (pretty unfunny/unclever IMHO) comedian. It’s just sad that some people think The Daily Show is a real news show.
Hmm… yeah, put ‘comedian’ in quotes too.
Way to miss the point.
Take a look at his interview with Jim Cramer when you get the chance.
… a fairly tedious experience, if you ignored the hype.
He also uses that as an excuse, which really falls flat. He goes after people but when called to back himself up, says “I’m a comedian!” and when he’s not funny, he says he was being fer real. He wants to have his cake and eat it too.
I’m a huge fan of the Daily Show, and you can’t hold his comedy routine to the same journalistic standards as a real news show, and on that point I think he can use that excuse. If he’s going to be funny and do it for the laughs, then by all means he doesn’t have anything to be criticized on.
But when he gets serious and does the thing he did with Cramer, he loses the validity of the “It’s just a comedy show, you can’t criticize us” argument.
Yeah, that’s about the size of it. While I didn’t exactly care for the Cramer thing, it was actually funny seeing a grown man cry like that, especially a guy with a schtick like he has heh.
You seem to assume that any journalistic standards remain in real news shows.
I don’t dislike him; it’s just not a show I choose to watch. He seems to have a sense of humor from what I’ve seen.
Only when people criticize his show as a whole does he tell them that it is comedy. He always backs himself up factually if having an intellectual discussion. When he is not funny he doesn’t even realize it because everyone laughs anyways, so your point is moot.
Her argument sounds good? Evidently you don’t realize she’s distorting reality. Anniee uses loads of excuses and fact distortion to get through her miserable existence, so perhaps she’s projecting her rationalization onto him.
Jon Stewart is a comedian whose topic in chief is politics. He is also a participant in the broadcast industry. As such, he occasionally steps out of his role as comedian, and calls issues to light *because* no one else is doing so. He is to be commended. With Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala, he protested the format of the show Crossfire,”*not* in his role as a comedian, but as a concerned fellow broadcaster who saw a program deserving sharp criticism. Same story with the Jim Cramer interview, in which he demonstrated that a show purporting to help investors was actually feeding them the Wall Street party line, and setting them up for failure.
The only time Jon Stewart points out his comedian status is when someone needs to be reminded of same. To say he uses his clout as a comedian with a popular show is one thing. To say he hides behind his comedian status is the opposite, and pure fiction.
Testify Sister!
WELL said!
He’s not a comedian just when he’s explicitly declaring it. He’s a comedian at all times. A good portion of his material is showcasing absurdity in mainstream news. So yes, he does get to cop out with the “I’m a comedian” excuse because that is his role. It’s very unfair, and he’s plainly pointed that out when interviews/debates get heated.
At the same time, it’s not a double standard. He harps on the fact that his show is fake news with no journalistic standards. The people he goes against, however, do. So if these people want to level the playing field while talking to Stewart, they can simply renounce their status as a trusted news source.
It shows how starved we are for real journalism. Yeah, the newspapers sucked in a lot of ways, but a 30-year desk reporter was a freaking shark.
I don’t think the term journalist is being used correctly in all this – someone referred to Couric as a journalist recently and it was a real facepalm moment.
Rush Limbaugh?
R. Limbaugh, cult leader.
Not a comedian. Not a journalist. Not a (sane) leader. Also, not in touch with reality in any way, shape, or form.
At least on The Daily Show I can tell when they’re pulling things out of their ass.
It’s also sad that people who get their news from the Daily Show actually test better in current events than those who watch Fox News.
PortlandMark…
Thats going on facebook
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…Right. And tht’s WHY it’s appalling, you see?
It’s also funny how some people think that Fox News is a real news show. This one time, I left it on after House, and the “reporters” were all
“Reporter” 1:”blah blah fact#1 blah”
“Reporter” 2: “I can’t believe that fact#1-”
“Reporter” 1: “Oh [name], we don’t know that, we just report that stuff”
Yeah. At least John calls it comedy and admits it’s biased. That being said, the above picture is true and I agree with it. The news has gone SO far downhill. For example, “OMG, which dog should Obama get?” on Fox and CNN.
From Wikipedia:
A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren’t biased.
Jon Stewart sounds like just as legitimate a journalist as anyone else on television newscasts.
you’re retarded
I like his “Oh, really?” eyebrow action.
I do too. Jon Stewart can do more with one eyebrow than most journalists
can do with five questions and followups.
Hahah, yep. He’s can give people that “how much crack did you smoke before the show?” look by just raising an eyebrow and a curl of his smile.
I know Leonard Nimoy has guested on the show at least once (16 January 2007). I think he and Stewart traded tricks in the green room before they went on.
Allow me to clarify: they traded eyebrow trick techniques in the green room before they went on the air.
If only John Belushi could have been there with them….he was the eyebrow champ.
I’m sorry, it’s too late. The mental image is already there.
Apologies to all, especially when I think of what my poorly worded remark may have kick-started down the hall in the slash writers’ lounge.
*pales* Oh no, what have I done?
Allow me to explain by interpretive dance, Frunobulax: one can concede every one of your nitipicks (though only for the sake of argument, since one disagrees with most or all of them), and Stewart would still be the hardest-hitting journalist in the media.
(Well, in the US corporate media. Just to be precise.)
Werd.
No you’re not, and no you’re not.
hmmmmm …. does he imagine that he is, though?
When your audience applauds at the set up to a joke because a Bad Guy is mentioned and will be mocked…. but doesn’t laugh much at the punchline, does that make a comedian feel good?
I think that Jon Stewart being considered a ‘journalist’ is a source of horror to Jon Stewart.
I agree.
I doubt it… he’s becoming too much of a public scold for that to be the case.
Do you predict lottery numbers, as well as the mind reading?
Once every five years is ‘too much’ for you? Interesting….
I’m sure he is also pleased by it at some level. Did you see his grin when Bruce Springsteen complemented him on his efforts? It took him a second or so to get back on his standard expression.
He is also appalled because this could go on far too long. His intended niche is to be poking fun at the market leaders in the news business. This falls apart if he is perceived to be the market leader. It will appear that the show picks on the little guys.
Mostly it is sad for us. We can’t win an Emmy.
i wouldn’t say that the show picks on the little guys, it might a little, but they spent a large amount of time dealing with congress and the administration, and it seems they’ll do the same still, just, this economy thing has way better material.
I think he would be appalled to be a market leader, seeing as how i don’t think he believes he is a real news caster. So seeing all that sarcasm completely lost…
I should think swift would be appalled if people took him seriously and started to eat babies.
People should eat babies?
*hides my 11 month old*
Stingy.
>_>
I don’t know what you’re talking about.
I am rather paranoid, people do understand the Modest proposal reference yes? or did i do the lit major thing assuming some work that’s well known in my department is well known everywhere else.
I’d say only about half your average internetters would get the Swift reference. If that many.
Ah good. I’ve been getting more paranoid lately as I reference literature stuff and no one has a clue what I’m talking about.
maybe i’m a bit weird, but i like the obscure references,
literary or otherwise. at least as long as there is enough
reference given so that i can hunt it down and thereby
learn something new that is. so keep up the obscure
references so this old hag can keep her brain ‘nimble’
and fight off alzheimers one more day
then i shall. It’s just rather amusing as most of my friends are math and science based majors, so there will be times when watching tv and someone makes an obscure literary reference, and I just start cracking up.
anyway just remember
“quotation is a suitable substitute for wit” Wilde
I think it might have been nice of you to capitalize the first letter of Swift’s name, but I wouldn’t worry about who can or can’t keep up with you. Unless you’re an educator, that kind of thinking will only slow you down.
See, first I read it with the “S” capitalized, then realized it wasn’t, then got confused. But I had to say something about the eating babies because I thought it was funny. The saying it. Not the eating of babies.
I don’t think “A Modest Proposal” is particularly obscure. Don’t most of us have to read it in school at some point?
doesn’t that become recursive and blow the stack?
@FaileV
but that stuff i learned outside of public education
my literary education is sadly lacking – the only things i can remember ever discussing in school was xanadu and romeo & juliet. colridge i tuned out after being corrected that he wasn’t on opium, and for shakespeare, that one is so overdone that ugh sums it all up. however if you want tax codes, corporate financial structures, an indepth analysis of the laws of robotics, or the proper care and maintenance of firearms, then i’m right at home
No, you didn’t. It’s not an obscure reference by any means.
Purported obscure reference is not obscure.
Not on the interwebs, chester.
I love that essay! Gotta love satirical commentary, even back in the day.
FaileV was referring to Johnathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” a satirical essay in which Swift “suggests” the Irish eat their babies to make it through some tough times.
Ya think?
LOL
Annie finds herself amusing. That’s good.
No, he suggests that the *English* eat the *Irish* as a source of luxury food. He goes on to say that babies would be the best source as the meat would be tenderest and most cost effective, providing more money for the Irish poor, “solving” both overpopulation and poverty. There’s no Irish on Irish eating; it’s a satire on England’s political and economic cannibalizing of Ireland.
It’s also a commentary about slavery and the horrible state that all slaughter animals were kept in back in the day as you were to ‘fatten up the child until around the sixth month when it would be nice and plump, the meat tender and supple” or something to the like; and how you would pay the Irish good money for their babies. Same as the tribes in Africa selling each other off. But yea, that is a disturbing but chillingly awesome essay. ^^
Ummm….”all slaughter animals were kept in back in the day”….Have you seen how the meat packing and feed lot industry works NOW? Back in the day was luxury in comparison.
I’m not going to get into an argument on how livestock is kept today as I am vegetarian and know perfectly well how they are treated TODAY thank you, I was merely saying what the damn essay is about thank you. There was no need for your cynicism to be directed at me and you should think before you type, thank you.
Speaking from the industry, you’d be surprised how nicely we treat the animals. Granted, they’re not free range or anything, but we do everything but air condition them to keep them comfortable and fed, because an unhappy chicken (or cow or sheep or what have you) is a skinny chicken, and we can’t get that much per pound.
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*walks away grumbling* Stupid pampered chickens getting food all day and I have to work at a stupid job to get money to buy my own food. *kicks rocks*
haha it’s all good, I’m aware that those shock tactic video’s that PETA and the like show are the few and far in between for the industry. But I’m also a veggie because I can’t process meat well, specifically red meat, so when I saw how they killed the animals it just kind of… helped me no longer eat them. If that makes sense.
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I know right! I wish that I didn’t have to work for my food. Just have it plopped right down in front of me. The only creature I have no sympathy for is the fish. I need to get my complete protein and fatty acids from somewhere.
But….but….they’re Sea Kittens! [link] (p.s. that link didn’t originate with me, but I can’t remember who first posted it, so I credit them silently with it
)
I tend to annoy PETA babblers when I state I don’t care. If I was a grub on the ground, the chicken wouldn’t care about my feelings… And I doubt that hardcore vegans truly grasp how their plant matter is harvested and how many animals die for that. Or getting the gas for their cars, the electricity for their computer so they can b!tch about my eating habits, etc.
@froo yea I heard about that. I would still not care. is that bad of me? I mean, tuna, how can tuna taste that good and not be eaten? I’m sorry, not going to happen lol. Even if it’s called a sea kitten it will go in my belly.
Ever had Escalar? It’s a white tailed tuna and OMG it’s so good I can’t even explain it. I drool just thinking of it.
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@DWN as long as it doesn’t verge on shear cruelty then I’m fine. Cows produce so much methane that not eating them would actually be bad for our planet. Thank god I’m not vegan though. I love dairy, fish, and eggs far too much to give them up.
Disclaimer: My post was in reference to EtymologicalDisaster saying I was stingy to which I went along with the joke and pretended to be ignorant of my food, I mean baby hoarding.
That said, I was ignorant of the satirical reference but wasn’t asking about it, I was going along with the joke that I am hoarding babies for my own consumption.
I’ve never been pulled up so sharply from a nice rambling joke thread before. Cheers, DWN!
I do what I can in my humblest of ways.
I’ll be pretty (very) surprised if he actually goes after *this* administration or any liberal members of congress. They don’t actually allow that, do they?
He already has. He goes afer anyone who shirks.
Anniee doesn’t watch comedy. She is comedic, however….
Concur. And Win.
Annie, You obviously haven’t watched the show itself, have you?
Nope, not since Kilborn – their attacks on Christianity were too much for me. I don’t watch most leftist shit anyway.
Not that that has anything to do with what I said.
explains much
Christians with no sense of humor make baby Jesus cry.
And Christians with no sense of humor is why there are so many attacks on Christianity.
Lovely self-sustaining spiral.
Uh… Colbert is a Sunday School teacher, and he was there the entire time they were doing whatever it is that offended you.
Perfect example, Anniee! Thank you for that demonstration in anti-humor.
I’m sorry, I didn’t realize you think it’s funny to point and sneer at people simply for believing in God. Try that on the Muslims sometime and see how far it gets you.
Fail.
Oh please… it’s a mental illness…
“Simply for believing in God”?
That’s simply dishonest. If U.S. Christian fundamentalists behaved like adults, or at least kept their immorality to themselves, the rest of us wouldn’t have a problem with them. Instead, we get the creationist movement, the anti-abortion rights movement (easily the closest thing to Stalinism the U.S. has seen), the antihomosexuality movement, childish whining about the media, and perhaps worst of all, a fairly widespread insistence that the United States “is a Christian nation”.
You’re right that it’s silly to claim that someone must be mentally ill to believe in god, but it’s dishonest to pretend that the Christian fundamentalists’ behavior has nothing to do with why people make that claim.
And yes, the Muslim fundamentalists have most of the same problems. Of course they don’t wield the political power in the U.S., so they’re far less of a concern.
Not much argument here for what you’ve just said.
Fister does indeed categorize simple belief as a mental illness, and that was my objection. The rest? Yep. Highly debatable.
Anniee’s imaginary friend tells her it’s not a mental disorder… and that must true, since he’s Anniee’s friend… and he wouldn’t lie to her… since he’s her friend. He tells her this… and he wouldn’t lie, since he’s her friend.
Her only real friend in the whole wide world… so of course it’s not a mental illness…
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People like this lady just make your religion sound ridiculous. Try living more by the sermon on the mount lectures and less by the old testament you guys claim doesn’t apply any more, and maybe you’d see more respect.
Jesus Camp is one of the scariest things I have ever watched in my life so far. Those kids speaking in tongues, used for anti-abortion rallies, and that 10-12 year old boy talking like (and aspiring to be!) a fundamentalist minister…I nearly crapped myself. Anyone who has no idea what I am talking about PLEASE search for “Jesus Camp” on the internet, it will blow your mind. You think those terrorists on 9/11 were insane? These are the Christian counterparts.
I attended a ‘Charismatic’ Church for a short time, and everything you say is true. Truly scary stuff how people, especially at a young age, can be pulled into something that is questionable. I can understand how people get involved with cults since most people are looking for validation and acceptance. Unfortunately, we tend to foist these things on our children, that would be the only explanation for Jesus Camp. Kids looking for approval from mom and dad.
Wow, you pray to your god with that mouth? I guess you’re not one of those Christians who believe in humility, compassion, and good works, huh?
I’d say your reaction to Failerella was a bit over the top. I mean, to start your reply by calling them assmunch and ending with a fsck you displays just how mental you really are.
She uses those words in church, too, because she
doesn’t want to be a hypocrite. Just ask her.
Oooooo, maybe she has Tourette’s and we’re just being really insensitive to her disability.
ROFl!!
Wait a tick……weren’t you protesting a few weeks ago that you get most of your information from leftist sources? Hmmmmmmmmm…………..
I actually remember reading that statement, and it’s the first thing that popped into my head after this was posted.
So…I have to *watch* leftist television as well as constantly read leftist drivel and news? Thanks, but no thanks. I watch TV to unwind, not to steep in stupidity.
You steep in stupidity simply by living in your own, God delusional, brain…
Isn’t watching TV, by nature, “steeping in stupidity”? I mean, there are educational channels, but the rest of TV is there to make you drool while they force feed you stories. Do you unwind by watching educational channels?
God I love TV
“Do you unwind by watching educational channels?”
In a word, usually. Not always, though. And I really don’t agree that all television is by nature stupid; I just have a low tolerance for *watching* leftist stuff. Reading it is different, IMO. This is, of course, a very subjective issue, so YMMV.
Well then. Since you freely admit that you don’t watch the show, maybe you should take your own advice and not criticize that of which you’re entirely ignorant. Sort of the way you think no one who doesn’t listen regularly to Boss Limbaugh shouldn’t talk trash about him.
Oh, wait. That would be applying the same rules to conservatives as to liberals. Can’t have that in your world.
/no one…shouldn’t… //no one…should…
Late night and too much driving, bit burnt out this morning.
Honestly froo, the only thing consistent in Anniee’s posts is the level of drool on the floor when she’s done.
Or the railing that she was right and we were wrong, and I’m a bigot, and you’re a shrew, and every other name in the book. *sigh* We keep trying to help her, and she bites at us like a rabid puppy. Will you please smack me the next time I try to help her?
Please DON’T ever “help” again. I’d rather have sharp sticks jammed up my urethra than your version of “help” coupled with the weepy innocent act afterwards.
No problem. You’re lower than pond scum at this point, because you keep batting away those hands who are trying to pull you into a decent discusstion. You haven’t managed to do anything but insult, jab, and smack, all while making knee-jerk reactions and statements that aren’t backed up by fact. If you could throw a single cite in with the crap you spew, you might be taken seriously instead of treated as the village simpleton who needs to be fed by a caretaker and changed regularly when you soil yourself.
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I tried, I really did, as did many others who saw potential in you. Now go forth and spew, but don’t be surprised when you get smacked for it.
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And quit throwing around names and attacks that you don’t understand the meanings of, especially if you want to hang around.
She’s just trying to make you a better person. The least you could do it show a little gratitude.
Oh I know, dhoti – calling people brain-damaged monkeys is the BEST way to “help” them – just ask ol’ froodenrat.
“You haven’t managed to do anything but insult, jab, and smack”
“Hehe, true. She is like watching a brain-damaged monkey trying to slap down a banana………hehe”
Fail.
“And quit throwing around names and attacks that you don’t understand the meanings of, especially if you want to hang around.”
You can’t stop me from hanging around, and that apparently really bothers you. Suck it up.
“but don’t be surprised when you get smacked for it.”
I could do like you and help bullies hurt other people to save my own skin, except…oh wait. This is the INTERNETZ! SERIOUS BUSINESS indeed!
Here’s a hint: I don’t like you, and I don’t like Fister, and I don’t CARE if you like me. Is that clear enough? I’m not going to change ANYTHING in order to please you or him, especially what I believe or know.
“If you could throw a single cite in with the crap you spew”
#1 I have put in MANY citations. Moron.
#2 If I make a FACTUAL claim that you want to dispute, I suggest you DO SO JUST ONCE instead of calling me pond scum and brain-damaged monkey, then whinging that you’re just trying to HELP and BE NICE. You’re the biggest fool I’ve ever met – worse than Fister because you claim to be something else and Fister knows he’s a dick.
Anniee is a liar and a poseur. she claims deep economic knowledge while clearly having none, claims MENSA membership while clearly being barely able to cope with day to day reality, and seems to be a fundy, which is all but admitting to being a paranoid schizophrenic…
Be careful, she’ll call you a bigot.
Shit! I am a bigot. I find people like Anniee an affront to humanity…
@Anniee: Well put, and not just this, but everything tonight. Keep up the full-court press on the hypocrisy and intimidation tactics that have become the new normal.
@Fester: Careful with that knee-jerk dogma there, buddy — you’re in serious danger of breaking a joint, and who knows how long the wait is for a replacement in your socialist paradise?
@Fester: I suppose it takes the perspective of an outsider to really and truly reflect on the human condition.
“seems to be a fundy, which is all but admitting to being a paranoid schizophrenic”
“careful, she’ll call you a bigot.”
Because there was CLEARLY nothing bigoted about the sentiment you are supporting, right?
Let me give you a scenario, so-called Christian. Richard Wurmbrand was tortured in communist gulags for 14 years for spreading a forbidden book to people who wanted it – the bible. Tortured. People caught with bibles would be imprisoned, and distributing them was worse.
Based on your stated philosophy, froodenrat, you would not want to undergo any discomfort, so first of all, you would obviously not own a bible in those circumstances! I mean, that is just basic, right? If people are whacking you, you look to what you are doing that upsets them, not whether they are right or wrong for doing it, right?
But you take it a step further than that – in trying to “help” someone like Wurmbrand “get along” in the oppressive communist society, you would not only suggest to him that owning bibles was risky, you would turn him in to the authorities (and 30 pieces of silver!) for his own good.
After his 14 years of torture, if he happened to ask you why you did that when you call yourself a Christian, you would say to him, “Hey, THEY locked you up and tortured you, not me! I was just doing my best to get along and HELP you. Jeesh, you’re ungrateful.”
You are a disgusting person. I can’t believe you admit that so openly.
You’d know, aisle sweeper…
@Anniee
his choice. I don’t have an imaginary friend.
Dhoti, thank you. I can’t tell you how nice it is to see sanity in a place like this once in a while.
@Dhoti
I’m not a socialist, it’s just that you’re such a right wing zombie , Reagan was a socialist…
Anniee thinks Dhoti is sane! Well, that’s what little rep he had trashed forever…
@Anniee: As you’ve said before, Interwebs is srs biznis. This isn’t RL, this isn’t a situation where I can minister in any other way than to let peopel know what my beliefs are (as I’ve done) and let them make their own decisions, and more importantly, this isn’t a situation where I’m being openly persecuted for simply having a Bible. The abuse came from me acting like an ass, not from me holding beliefs.
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That was a cute argument, but it has nothing to do with the point. My ministry involves letting people use their free will to make decisions, as even God Himself won’t force a conversion. And if I come in here guns blazing and Bible thumping, well then, I guess that will turn off more people than me trying to be nice and actually debate, now won’t it?
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As far as thinking you’re an idiot, that has nothing to do with you personally, and more to do with the fact that you can’t seem to form an argument without either getting mad, flouncing off, or making no sense. If you’ll notice, any time I’ve said anything negative to you (ok, 95% of the time), it’s been in reference to something you’ve said that I thought was stupid. Personal attacks are not my style, and never will be.
You might want to take a look at Romans 14 and get back with me, Anniee, as far as trying to change the minds of the people.
One last thing: your argument about being persecuted for the Bible is invalid, because this isn’t a Bible debate site.
I’m sure anyone really cares what a McDonald’s cashier like yourself thinks of their credibility. LOL
Froodenrat, nope, you’ve admitted openly to being THAT kind of person. I find it loathsome, despicable and kind of horrifying. If you hadn’t acknowledged that you carry that attitude over into your REAL LIFE and your beliefs, I wouldn’t have said what I did. As it stands, it’s entirely valid. You were a fool to admit that. But then you’re a fool, period.
You’re bringing the Bible into a political discussion and using it to form a view of how I act in real life. You’re wrong. Sadly, sadly wrong. I may keep my political views under wraps in situations where it’s not prudent. but that’s not the case with other things. And besides, it’s all about delivery.
Cute strawman, and even cuter name. I asked you to refrain from that, because it’s neither adult nor conducive to conversation. Quit harassing me./
@Anniee: I, for one, am very concerned about the opinions of trolls in paper hats.
anniee makes up stuff…
she invents being an ‘economist’, yet works shifts
she invents a ‘gay daughter’ while espousing fundamentalist Christian values,
she pretends to be in Mensa, while exhibiting an IQ well below 100
In the end, the best she can do is sexual insult, and accusing onthers of being Nazi, while barely knowing what the term means.
It would appear that Anniee is a mental cripple, a poseur and an easily exposed liar.
Fester, you’ve established you’ll pretty much pull anything out of your ass in order to be heard, so by all means, keep screaming into the void…
*snerk*
Ironic troll is ironic.
Thanks for the validation Dhoti. Since you’re the master of anal scrapings I’ll take it as a complement…
You do that. That’s the point of being a troll, right?
Troll… it’s only the retarded who think I’m a troll…
The ones who go for the sexual insult, the ones who choose to tell me my politics, the ones who make aggrandising claims for their ’social status’ whant a metally deficient illiterate could see their lies… People like you, who makes high falutin claims of their depth of economic experience, when actually a dim newspaper vendor could out class you in a one on one debate.
“Troll… it’s only the retarded who think I’m a troll…”
And it’s bigots like you who keep denigrating retarded people. And gays, and religious people, and blacks, and…ad infinitum.
Projection again? Your imaginary friend will be angry if you lie…
My, you’re a pointless bag of puss aren’t you?
He’s a bag of CAT? Vagina? What?
Oh…you meant PUS? Loser.
Honestly, I’d be surprised if Fester even came out of a vagina, much less has encountered one in the interim.
Ah, the ever fresh nose gay of typo crit and sexual insult.
How very, very, banal…
The talentless shift worker with pretensions, and dear old Dhoti, the fast food king…
I’m amused by your pretentions, as though honest work is far beneath your standing. I guess it really cuts to just how loathsome you truly are. Kisses!
Loathesome… me… yep. I am.
Again, from you it’s validation.
I still find the fact you think that making sexual comments are an insult somewhat pitiful… you’re just repressed.
“I’m amused by your pretentions, as though honest work is far beneath your standing. I guess it really cuts to just how loathsome you truly are. Kisses!”
Honest and work are two words he doesn’t know the meaning of. My apologies to all the honest cashiers in the world who I insulted when I called Fisty a cashier. I only did it because he fancies himself a mathematician LOL.
Annie the liar claims she knows ‘honesty’… how quaint.
Sad, empty, hated little person, who has to make up family to talk to…
I bet her dog abandoned her for a better place.
Still Jesus loves her, and her delusions about being an economist, when they actually check the plate after she’s handled it in the Hellfire church she attends…
Why has Dhoti’s avatar changed?
I’ve seen it swap between two different one’s.
One is his ‘work’ id… although Captain Capitialism stealing his employer’s bandwidth just shows the measure of the man…
The guy in the mail room needs a PC too…
noooooo… no you wouldn’t, lol. Not getting in on this argument, since I’m agnostic and don’t think my opinion would be of much importance in this discussion that’s retrograded into little more than a pissing match between everyone. Just saying I’ve had to have several tubes jammed up there after surgeries before and trust me, worst pain ever. Not even breaking my foot compared. >.<
Why would I want to help her? If she ever became reasonable I’d lose my biggest source of amusement on this site. I mean, it’s not like that lols have been that funny lately.
Hehe, true. She is like watching a brain-damaged monkey trying to slap down a banana………hehe
as a brain damaged primate, i resent the comparison between me & that annie , however if you want to compare her to a troglodyte or a luddite or even a flat-earther, i’m ok with that as long as you don’t add the brain damaged part
I could alter that to ‘troglodyte of sub-par intelligence who can’t find her butt with both hands and a map’ if it makes you happy
lol, don’t forget to include knuckle-dragging ditto-head
Well, as a Rush-listener myself, I can’t apply that insult in good faith, LOL. I’ll keep ‘knuckle-dragger’ though
i understand, but on the other hand, it is possible to listen to him or other venom spewing entities without relinquishing the ability to form ones own opinions (even if they agree). it’s not the listening that makes a ditto-head, it’s the giving up the independent thought and/or self-determination and becoming a mindless follower.
besides i’ve been known to listen to him too, until he repeats his over-miss-emphasized catchphrase of the day for the 4th or 5th time. usually by then he’s said everything he can on whatever topic he’s ranting on and is starting to sound like an old lp stuck in the same track over and over again ad nauseam. so i won’t hold it against you that you listen to him as long as you don’t hold it against me that i think he is the wannabe king troll; besides to paraphrase sun tzu, the best way to know your enemy is to study them
Like you, I love Theatre of the Absurd!
LOL, two drool references in the same thread. I didn’t even see yours, Jane. Hats off.
It was actually a funny comment on her part. I’ve seen funnier, but it rates an honorable mention.
Presumably you’ve never read the Thomas Covenant series of books which featured (as a minor but essential character) “Drool Rockworm” the cavewight? Because anytime I see the word, that’s what I think of.
Hint: the word “WATCH” is key there. Moron.
It may well help if Anniee had an IQ over 60…
That fact that you don’t watch the show and yet are making statements about what the show would or wouldn’t do has EVERYTHING to do with what you said.
Comprehension FAIL.
Yes, you’re right. You fail at basic reading comprehension. Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery.
Funny, that’s what I told her yesterday.
Her learning curve is a downward spiral shape, it’s true.
Well, you know every bell curve has to have an anchor point.. in this case it’s Anniee and Dhoti.
Anniee the fundie speaks… he imaginary friend got butt hurt by the nasty jesters…
I wonder how she copes with Romans 1…
Commenting on something that you are uninformed of- sounds like Limbaugh to me- are you Fred Savage?
I have to say, you are quite possibly the worst “Christian” (I use the term lightly) that I have ever laid eyes on. You come here to insult, cause distress and spew curses. I believe that goes against about every rule that has ever been and ever will be incorporated into the Christian religion.
Just pointing out a simple fact. Now feel free to vomit verbal nonsense at me. I do enjoy a good laugh….
Sweet sauce
Though obviously I watched the Cramer yawn-fest. Cramer’s a shyster, anyone who didn’t know that was sleeping.
Lot like Anniee
That’s just it he has made fun of parts of the administration already. The whole tax evasion thing fed his jokes for like a week.
In addition to mocking Congress and the administration, the Daily Show also mocks the supposed real news programs on networks such as FOX, CNN, and MSNBC. I suppose the real danger isn’t that those programs would be considered the little guys, it’s that those programs would be considered irrelevant. And they would become their own self parodies. The Daily Show rarely gathers its own news, it mostly feeds off of those other news sources.
They will be in a world of hurt if they really need to send their own reporter to Whitehouse briefings.
“And they would become their own self parodies.”
They already are.
That’s okay, comedians know how to laugh at themselves, unlike some people, who just love to get offended about everything
Well, some of them do; and you are absolutely right.
I think he was talking to you, dear.
Annie has no self reflection. She simply lies.
Annie is a vampire??!?!??!!!
Hehe…yep. And apparently a real thorn in the side to Fisty, since he can’t contain his hardon for me every time I show up.
Still with the sex, sex, sex… I bet you’re popular at church picinics… the fat girl who puts out for lard…
Still Anniee is fun to bait…
No shit, sherlock. Doesn’t change the fact that he was right.
It warms my heart to know that you understand the fact that you get offended at everything. Makes me proud.
Anniee has no self reflection… she thinks that she’s making a point when actually, she is the point…
I’m heading back to my Colbert assessment
Exactly. Colbert’s writers could plagiarize Anniee’s
stuff, and take weeks off at a time.
Sweet!
Oh, now that I realize you were going for
self-ridicule, it all makes sense!
in between his attempts at comedy (some of which I find funny, some of which I don’t) … he actually does manage to tell it like it is, on quite a few issues… and when he does, he doesn’t pull punches (the recent interview with Jim Cramer and his attacks on the financial news media comes to mind).
… and the fact that no-one else actually does the same, even a little… IS appalling.
Too serious people are too serious.
Calling Jon Stewart a journalist is like pretending that the SNL comedians who’ve done the Weekend Update segments are/were actual journalists. It isn’t nearly as much journalism as it is comedy. Otherwise, people like Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and many other late night talk show hosts are journalists, as well.
And while many will say that he “tells it like it is,” he really only tells it the way he sees it. Extremists on the other side of the political fence do the same thing.
Come to think of it, Leno is one of the few people to ask Obama even a remotely challenging question….
I think Gore Vidal mentioned that
Ehm. I think the whole point of the lol was that it is not at all supposed to be journalism, but that regular media tends to be wusses?
FTW
have you guys seen what they call “news” these days?
It’s mostly there to sell anti-depressants…
And it works! *nomnomnom* mmmm antidepressants…
you know i have as much or even more fun reading all these comments as seeing the pictures.
sso thank you, you make my classes ten times more fun
Lou Dobbs is funnier than Stewart and he’s for real (although he can sometimes be a blowhard). He blasts Republicans AND Democrats and it is truly hilarious when he reads readers’ letters, i.e. (hypothetical letter):
Dear Lou:
Get those cheats in Washington into jail and get the hardworking kids who made mistake out! If we spent as much time on our education system as on bribes we’d be a better nation! Idiots!
Uhm – how is that funny?
You have to have been there…
Holy dude, you people argue a lot. There’s a very simple solution for when you get offended while on the internet: Go to a different site! See? Simple as that.
Reading these comments is usually rather funny, but seeing these pointless arguments unrelated to the LOL is just. . .I don’t know, frustrating?
In all honestly, there have been times when I’ve been nervous to post because I don’t want to get ‘bullied’ by some of the regulars. It’s ridiculous. Just because you are a regular does not mean you are in charge of the forum. If someone posts something particularly stupid, IGNORE THEM!
Crikey.
Another sane commenter. Hmm, I hope it isn’t a trend
But Anniee is a pathological liar…
LOL, you won’t get bullied by the regulars for just posting, C’est
Now, if you spew unprovable crap, then yes, you will get called on it, but just posting won’t get you flamed 
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You’ll have to forgive ‘us regulars’ for getting into it with our resident trolls. When people spit stupid, it has to be addressed, especially when they refuse to even try to be polite.
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You’ve posted in the past, and you’re not a troll, so you’ll be fine
The thing is y’all always say to not feed the trolls, yet the trolls are still fed quire regularly. Wouldn’t it be easier to just ignore the stupid once you realize it cannot be reasoned with?
You’re absolutely right. You can chalk up a massive fail on me for that. I couldn’t help it with our main troll, however, because she really did exhibit a spark of being able to converse intelligently. Apparently I’m not very good at the gently guiding into the light part, so I’ll refrain when I can.
Gently – hehe. Gently strumming my pain with her fingers LOL. Yes, I know it’s a real blow to your “nice” guy image, but you did it to yourself.
“because she really did exhibit a spark of being able to converse intelligently”
Yep. With intelligent people. Or people who aren’t complete assholes. You can’t stand it that some people just don’t like you or want your approval. Ought to pick the company you keep a with a little discernment if you want that. You lost credibility exhibiting your coprophiliac obsession with Fister’s diapers.
You’re stalking me again darling. Do I need to post Fester’s still as of yet unanswered claims?
Honey, if you want to make yourself look THAT stupid, by all means do.
See, here’s the problem. You’re asked a question, asked to back something up or answer a claim, and you can’t do it. You start throwing names around.
Do what you will. You’re a lost cause.
Asked to back up WHAT? Those “claims” are nonsensical, speculative, non-fact-based, non-falsifiable…they’re just slander for slander’s sake; there is nothing there that CAN be answered, even if they deserved to be.
Erm, no… basically you’ve falsified your own comments over time…
There again, anyone who goes to the lengths you do to prove that being morbidly is anyone’s fault but the fact you eat like a dog is unlikely to be overly good at telling anything like the truth…
But post them again; as I say, they only make you look a LOT more stupid than you normally do.
Oh for the love of all that’s holy would you two just knock it off already! As entertaining and hilarious as I find your collective insult slinging I can’t help but be reminded that you both have revealed that you are parents, and as self-professed conservatives you’d both slap your children into next Tuesday if they publicly slung the ridiculous crap you are both spewing.
Deny away, and try to justify it by saying “she said it first…” and then listen to yourselves say it. It’s exactly what your kids say…
Home training, ladies. Represent. Use it face-to-face AND here.
Sheesh.
Nice spankitude, akshully. My kids are adults, though. Too big to beat anymore
Like she’s that old… she writes like an 18 year old…
She just lies and lies and lies…
If she’s a mother, it’s sitting yowling in a crib half full of excrement…
Maybe she spent too much time trying to live vicariously through her kids. I’ve seen women who do that, to the point where they lose the ability to express themselves in age-appropriate (mature) style. They come across as awkward and ineffectual, being cognitively lost somewhere between generations.
The prize economist and mensa member?
The selfish b!tch is just emotionally stunted if she’s over 25…
And don’t forget, she beats her children. Or did. They probably got big enough they could run away.
Exactly. Can’t you just agree to disagree?
Anniee, you need to stop it with the insults. They don’t help your case any. They make your arguments about as effective as a four year-old trying to throw a Cadillac.
Froo, plz2stop feeding the trolls, kthx. To me, it sounds as if you keep explaining why your arguments are better than Anniee’s. However, you’re losing credibility as well because it seems like you don’t know when to stop.
I really don’t want to get into any arguments, but as I’ve said before, I enjoy reading the comments pertinent to the lols, and this arguing is childish.
She had no credibility when she came out swinging with her list of qualifications, that she pretty quickly established as false
Basically, she is a lying liar, who lies… all the time
She’s nothing like the age she claims, she’s got none of the qualifications she claims, or if she does, she got them by saving Rice Krispee box tops, since no accredited establishment would have handed something to someone that terminally dim. About the only thing that rings true is the excessive research she’s done to cherry pick the ‘facts’ that absolve her of being obese…
No “excessive research” needed there, Unc. Writing a book that rationalizes obesity is lucrative, so there are plenty to be found. Anniee needs only read such books. Unfortunately, it’s much more likely she’s as caustic IRL as she is here, so she likely reads her books alone…while snacking.
she’s happy, since she eats LARD!
@ Fester
Were you referring to Anniee or Froo?
@C’est Moi: He’s referring to Anniee, and to [LINK].
Anniee. I’ve yet to see Frou invalidate something she’s said. about her personal life. And Frou will change her opinion if presented with facts.
Anniee hands out opinions like they’re real, and simply lies about other stuff she writes… I don’t mean ‘jazz up’ I mean bald faced lie.
Anniee has a hard-on for froo the size of Dallas. With no comprehension of situational ethics, she finds it impossible how someone behaves one way in one place, and a different way in another. I wonder how Anniee’s fellow rabid fundies handle her sailor’s mouth…
Hell, I don’t even think it’s situational ethics; it’s a matter of being polite to people even if you have a different point of view on something. Or as we call it around here, “acting like you were raised right.”
Heh…you’re late to the party, pup. All Fister’s big turds have already been snarfed down by froodenrat. If she didn’t want attention she shouldn’t have advertised what a loathsome and despicable person she really is. C’est la vie.
Annie is simply loathsome and despicable, since she’s a liar who disproved her self.
The really strange thing is that she is devoid of invention or anything else…
Froodenrat? Fisty? weak… but the best she can do…
that and the sexual insult. It says a lot about a person on how they simply goe for their own weaknesses, rather than anyone else’s… I bet she was taunted with sex and names at school… and it still bites… the fat, plain girl who clung to politics and god since they were the only place she felt she had ‘power’
Can’t you three just stop already? This is so petty, you don’t even know each other!
Which three?
Me, Fat Nan, and who?
@Diss: Again, we sound like neighbors. Have you seen any clips from “Greater Tuna,” or any of the spin-off plays? It takes place in Texas, but the attitudes could be about most small towns.
@ Fester
You, Froo, and Anniee.
Riiight.
Let’s consider…
You want me to tolerate a loudly ignorant, lying, sociopath with a borderline personality disorder… I see.
And who the hell are you, again? I have a mother, thanks…
I’m not trying to act like your mother, I’m just tired of these f’n ridiculous arguments between intolerant regular(s) and stupid trolls. I love reading the comments, but oinly when they pertain to the LOL. This arguing you do is just stupid. You aren’t any better than Anniee in my eyes.
Bully for you… and you’re entitled to your opinion.
However, where have I been a pathological liar, which is what you’ve just called me? Where have I claimed qualifications I don’t have? hmmm?
God, but you’re prissy…
@ C’est Moi: Of course you can have your opinion, but do you see how it’s not up to you to dictate how other people behave, any more than it is up to anyone else to dictate how you act?
You’ve made your point that you don’t like how some people post. For the record, I don’t like how some people post, also. At this point, you can ridicule or ignore.
Word to the wise: Others have tried their hand at being bossy, and it never ends well.
amen to that lol
ive tried watching his show a million times. i dont get it
This ‘Humour’ thing a problem?
To unmute your TV, hit the red button on the center left of your remote.
I’ve seen his show live! What… you don’t care? Fine, I’m leaving!
Hehe – cool. What was it like being in the audience? Give us the poop!
Anniee is a lying liar who lies, and writes like a teenager…
I’ve decided this must be Anniee:
[link]
LMAO!! Yes, the resemblance of the crazy/stupid is perfect!
ROFL
IT’s Fat Nan, the Klan Groupie!!!
Yes! That’s the one I meant when I said “the crazy lady at the McCain rally”
I find it ironic you would be calling for the poop, when all you do is drop sh*t everywhere you go.
Jon has shown up as a guest on shows to directly address issues. He can without effort reduce the blow dried pretty boys to mouth-breathing turd-flinging monkeys. One guest appearance to complain about the base concept of HARDBALL got the show canceled by its own network. Nothing is more dangerous to an opponent than Jon when decides something isn’t funny and needs to be exposed.
Jon Stewart was on CNN’s “Crossfire,” not MSNBC’s “Hardball.”
“Crossfire” was canceled, but not directly after Jon Stewart appeared on it,
complaining.
Jon Stewart appeared on “Crossfire” 15 October, and the show was
canceled the following 6 January. According to the NYT:
Mr. Klein specifically cited the criticism that the comedian Jon Stewart leveled at “Crossfire” when he was a guest on the program during the presidential campaign. Mr. Stewart said that ranting partisan political shows on cable were “hurting America.” Mr. Klein said last night, “I agree wholeheartedly with Jon Stewart’s overall premise.” He said he believed that especially after the terror attacks on 9/11, viewers are interested in information, not opinion.
I know he did so with ‘Crossfire’. Tucker Carlson is still seething about it, although he DID lose the bow-tie….
News papers have full page ads of exclusive coin collections and a free safe to store them in, retirement and tax consulting forums with free lunches, gold recycling, banks near foreclosure, Amish heaters made of Chinese parts, and a magic air conditioner that is a fan blowing air over a blue ice pack.
Jon follows bad animation of kids cursing at the messed up world that has been formed around them by the adults.
The court jester is the only one allowed to tell the truth.
Both advertise bad movies and magic little penis pills.
Egad. This thread is full of irrelevant nasty from every angle.
My cat’s mouth smells like cat food
Ralph Wiggum!
Daddy, these rubber pants are hot!
Everybody’s hugging!
Wow, a “journalist”.
since many of you seem to be slightly missing the point of the show…The Daily Show as a whole (it’s producers, writers, as well as Mr. Stewart) is a satire of modern news programs, which tend to blow things out of proportion for entertainment value and to boost ratings, as well as cherry-pick and interpret stories and soundbites which tend to allow for political bias. And yes, The Daily Show tends to show a liberal bias, but more importantly (for me, anyway), they at least call out “real” news programs as the borderline (if not pure) yellow journalism that many of them tend to be.
(*applause!*) Well said.
No, your perception is off. Not missing the point of the show. Comment directed at idiot thinking this guy is a journalist. Unless, by your comment you were saying that this guy is some sort of accidental journalist (sounds like some movie).
I think the point is, the guy has wound up as the last TV journalist in the US, since the others are doing ‘Who’s the Daddy?’ type Mo-Po shit or kissing the arse of the people the station owner wants them to kiss… and like good hookers, they’re kissing it like they like it, or they’ll get replaced like the Meterologists did with Ken and Barbie lookalikes who can read a teleprompt…
He’s the Democrat Rush Limbaugh. The big exception being that he doesn’t have time to do much serious stuff since it’s only a TV show.
It’s Reich boy talking gibberish now…
ah… it just wouldn’t be the interwebs without some eegit making a Nazi reference nonsequitor…
And when did you stop mining turds to crawl out of your own asshole long enough to make these reverse victimization claims?
I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn’t answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
A hundred floors above me
In the tower of wang.
I have eaten
the Wang
that was in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
it was delicious
so sweet
and so cold
Two Wangs diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair.
O, what noble wang is her o’erthrown!
The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword;
The expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
The observed of all observers quite, quite down!
And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
That suck’d the honey of his music vows,
Now see that noble and most sovereign wang
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh
That unmatched form and feature of blown youth
Blasted with ecstasy. O, woe is me!
To have seen what I have seen, to see what I see!
Nothing, not even the Wang, has such small hands.
>_>
*has big hands*
ever considered retraining to OBGYN…
Lynn does state that I got her off through her jeans with the application of my right hand on our first date… So you might have a good idea though my early stage arthritis might bullocks that up.
So, you’re not familiar with old Jewhater Hyundai’s output? That’s cool
BTW, for the record, since you’re calling me an idiot, there is no such word as “nonsequitor” since it’s actually a Latin phrase “non sequitur” – note: one ‘O’, and a space…
Now please, continue to insult my intelligence…
It’s so much fun watching the right-wingers scream about how Mr. Stewart is a “leftist”, as if that would somehow prove him wrong about everything even if it were true. It appears that standing up for the truth and/or the Constitution is enough to be called a “leftist” these days; that’s the only reason they claim that Stewart, Olbermann, and people like them are “leftist”. It is kind of sad, really, how unamerican the right-wing has become without even realizing it.
Please, right-wingers, continue to drive away the sane people. You are only marginalizing yourselves by acting like self-serving loons, and real leftists like me are sitting back and enjoying your steady march to complete irrelevance.
Leftist!
*points*
SB, picture for you…
Grindhouse?
Try that one… sorry
Sutherland FTW!
Ok but in all fairness can we at least agree that Olbermann is absolutely nuts, regardless of political leaning?
Guy scares me, even when he talks on Sunday night football, like he wants to take off his shirt and yell at mice, Andy Rooney style….
I don’t think he’s nuts, but I don’t care for the format of his show…anyway, he always covers the exact same news as Rachel Maddow, and I’d rather watch her, I like her style more.
OK, Maddow I find to be just as crazy, but in a silent, stealthy assassin way. She would just as soon cut me as look at me….
Really? I think she comes off as intelligent and rational. And she’s always respectful of her guests, even when she doesn’t agree with them.
yeah but the gleam in her eyes says that off camera should very well be be a raving psycho…. but what do i know, could be a delusion…
It’s light reflecting in her glasses. Those glasses…
I’m a straight woman but I saw Rachel on the View the other day and she had thses dark, dorky glasses on. It made me want to make her take them off…..
That and she seems to have no idea that she’s hawt. OR would be surprised to be told.
I know, she’s so cute and adorable it makes me wish I played for her team, but alas I likes the men.
Yeah, she’s slowly edging out Ellen DeGeneres for my number 1 favorite lesbian!
I had never heard of Rachel Maddow, do I looked her up on YouTube. All I can say is wow.. she’s quite impressive and I like the way she delivers her arguments. [LINK]
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I may be a dyed in the wool Republican, but I really like this lady!
She does a good job with arguments, and is nice to her guests, even if she doesn’t agree with them.
Welcome back, Age of Civil Discourse!
What is it with the k.d. lang do? It’s like moustaches on Iraqi men, they canlt ALL think it suites them. It doesn’t look that good on Katie-Dawn, and does NOT work for Maddow…
Maybe Fat Nan can clarify, since she claims to have a dyke daughter…
*shrugs*
I don’t know…I’ve known some lesbians with perfectly lovely hair, but I don’t “get” the very short butch ‘do. There’s certainly a few women who have pulled it off nicely over the years (Mia Farrow comes to mind) but it’s very unforgiving.
My ex used to want me to wear my hair like that….looks like total crap on me, I can tell you. But then he was a truly weird bastard.
Mia Farrow is gay?
I still say that John Wayne Limbaugh has the edge on Teh Crazee!
No (well, not that I know of), just an example of somebody who could pull off an extremely short hairstyle and look kinda cute. [link]
And it’s even shorter here. [link] (Thanks, google image search!)
Ugh… Little boy look. Not my thing.
Oh, believe me, when he talked me into having my hair cut like that I cried every time I looked in the damn mirror until it grew out.
you need cheek bones to DIE for with a do like that.
It helps if you don’t have funny-looking ears, too.
I still am not digging it on her. Just makes me shudder a bit.
I’ve always been at odds with short hair on women though some can pull it off. I prefer long hair, just seem so lovely to me.
I think that gleam might be intelligence…Rhodes scholar and all….
I’ll take your word for it…..
She has a doctorate in fact. From Stanford I think…?
But as awesome as Rachel is, Ana Marie Cox might be just the tiniest scotche awesomer. She’s got this pixie thing going along with the sharp mind and playful wit.
Give me a half hour of Rachel and Ana Marie on a comfy couch
making outtalking about absolutely anything, whatever catches their interest, and I’ll call it must-see TV.He’s afraid of teh gey, I think…
He can sense the impending rejection, I think…
No sense of adventure…
Some adventures aren’t worth having. Can you imagine a Dungeons and Dragons campaign called “Return to the Tomb of Filling out your Tax Return…”
Wasn’t that the last Indiana Jones movie?
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God that movie sucked monkey balls…….
I still haven’t seen it but I might for completionism sake… I haven’t heard from anybody who liked it.
It was decent (if sillier than the other movies) up until the last 15 minutes. That sucked such major ass that it’s going to be relegated to the evil planet along with Highlander 2 and Mission Impossible 2.
I’m sorry. I’m in love with Shia and refuse to feel guilty abou8t the enjoyment I had from seeing him on a motorcycle.
I enjoyed that part, but the last bit of the movie ruined the small amount of pleasure I got from the silly hair they gave him.
I hear the hair was George Lucas’ idea, and we all know how those have been turning out recently. My biggest problem with the movie was the whole beginning sequence when they’re standing outside of that hanger. That dialog is painful.
Ok, now you’re just grasping at straws.
well, huh.
I have yet to meet the “right-winger” who wants Stewart’s show to be banned. There are may “left-wingers” who want, say, Rush Limbaugh to be driven off the air waves thru government influence. Heck, the Obama folks are the ones with the track record of trying to silence private citizens.
Evidence points to the lefties scorning the Constitution. (Second example : look up “bills of attainder”)
There’s a difference between freedom of speech, and using a platform of influence to purposely spread hate and lies the way Limpaugh and his band of evildoers have done for a quarter of a century. But a dittohead like you wouldn’t know.
calling them evildoers is giving less weight to your argument but I do agree with you completely. with freedom of speech comes a responsibility and also the knowledge that what you say can be thrown back at you and gives someone the right to basically tear you a new one.
There’s also the whole “do not incite riots” thing. Like shouting FIRE in a movie theater… bad idea.
*raises hand* Erm, this is my right wing side talking here…….when will the President step forth and ask for the death threats against innocent people at AIG to end? (I’m not talking about the idiots who brought it down, regular minions who had nothing to do with it are getting threatened, picketed, and harassed). Probably all that would need to happen is for Obama to say ‘Hey, this isn’t right. Let us handle it.’
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I know, I know, I’m delusional and all that rot, but isn’t allowing a silly riot to happen just as bad as inciting one?
I think it would be classy of him. Just a nice gesture and a sign of understanding leadership. However, in his position, I would probably snap from the pressure and demand a harem as appeasement… When criticized I will point out the success of sexed up presidents and have any further dissenters killed…
Well, I find CS gas and tear gas works well to stop riots… you need to follow up with a solid baton charge backed with plastic bullets… that the general idea?
have Obama go all Rambo style lol
that image made me smile
I think that those that are threatening those at AIG need to analyze just WHO they are threatening and I personally think that violence is never the answer unless you yourself are within arms length of bodily harm. That being said, I dn’t think at this point that even Obama saying “you know what, stop it.” would do anything at this point. People are pissed.
Also, no offense, just wondering, when did it become the presidents job to be the person to say such a thing? Shouldn’t it be common sense to, you know, not threaten people who had nothing to do with AIG’s collapse?
I’d like to see Obama do that as well. It is obviously wrong to be threatening the AIG people and their families.
It’s worth reminding us here, though, that the right, and in particular the religious right in the United States have made a long habit of the same kind of inciting to violence: from Sarah Palin’s campaign rallies to the antiabortion rights movement’s constant insistence that those who disagree with them are committing “murder” (and Bush’s eager assent to that kind of language) to Bill O’Reilly’s creepily Stalinist “enemy of the state” comment to essentially everything that Ann Coulter has ever written.
What you’re suggesting would definitely be the right thing for Obama to do, but his failure so far to do it is far from the worst example of this.
Oh, and basic fairness means that I should point out that McCain did stand up to that kind of behavior a little later during his campaign. Pointing out to that woman who called Obama an “Arab” that she was simply wrong and out of line was certainly the high point of his campaign. I only wish he’d done it earlier and more emphatically, but kudos to him for doing it.
Stepping outside of one’s campaign message to point out – in public – that one’s supporters are misbehaving: major win.
Jon Stewart is annoying, fails to be funny, and he’s pretty much an asshole.
Well, no one is forcing you to watch……
Yes, yes you’re right. That’s why his ratings are dismal.
Hug the Seven Dwarfs for me…
NEXT!
I disagree with you forever.
No Jon, the rest of the media has just inflated your head to unsustainable proportions.
As I’ve said before, Stewart really dislikes being called a Journo… he’s a stand-up…
But please, don’t let little things like ‘reality’ get in the way of being bitter…
Glanced at all these comments and one thing stands out: Whether pro or con, Jon Stewart provokes smarter and better informed posted comments than most blogs or political websites. Seems the effect of his show carries over to PunditKitchen.
Sez you.
that is sad not funny
That’s the point. It’s sad because it is true. Among all the talk-show hosts, pundits, political commentators, and newscasters, Jon Stewart and the writers (I have to give them credit because he does not write all his jokes by himself) of the Daily Show actually manage to cover current events on a *gasp* DAILY basis (with the exception of Friday, Saturday and Sunday, which they go over on Monday). Yes, at first the show appears to be leftist, but this seemed to be the effect during the Bush Administration; it was SO easy to make fun of the conservatives and Republicans because their blunders were very obvious, especially in the case of our former president, George W. Bush. You cannot deny that a show that makes fun of right-wing politics will seem leftist. Combined with the Colbert Report, which satires on the know-it-all opinionated egos of pundits, these shows are practically the most informed and up-to-date current event programs as of yet. What other similar shows have a wide range of authors, politicians, and actors interviewed? They had liberal, conservative, Republican, Democrat, and everyone in between on that show (not so much right-wing/Republicans due to the constant barrage during the Bush administration). I am sorry to go on this rant, Amara, but this is the sum of all my feelings after reading a lot of the comments. I don’t want my post get lost in the mayhem above.
To other pundits he’s just a “silly clown” but in reality his show is not different from most pundit shows. You have a person (or persons) talking about current events and throwing on random gibberish. The only real difference between him and any other pundit is that the random gibberish he throws on is of a higher quality than most. People often mistake pundits for news (with some even being touted as “news” shows) but as far as pundits go you could do much worse than Jon Stewart.
I can’t imagine who would read this far down on the comments list. My apologies to you, poor sucker. Hit “Stumble!” again.
Jon Stewart is a medieval clown. You may not agree with what he says, but you must at least acknowledge that he tries to speak truth to power in a way that is not often seen on television. That honesty reveals details that might otherwise go undetected.
He’s obviously biased–and I happen to share his bias 94% of the time–but he does 2 things that most “journalists” don’t. First, he gives everyone a fair shake (anyone see his John Bolton interviews, or Bolton’s comments on Stewart’s interviews?). Second, he sticks to his guns when important guests dodge his questions or dismiss him as merely another platform from which to sell their wares. I’ll continue to watch him, even if I don’t share his opinion, because I understand where he’s coming from, and he’s not coming from a point of view dictated by sponsors or partisans.
Sad but true.