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Jon Stewart was born to bash Obama
Salon ^ | Jun 22, 2010 | Matt Zoller Seitz

Posted on 06/23/2010 6:07:25 AM PDT by tlb

The knives are out. The way Jon Stewart is going after Obama, you'd think the president owed him money.

Consider the June 16 edition of "The Daily Show," arguably Stewart's most pointed attack on Obama's mishandling of the BP oil spill since the disaster began -- and his most merciless attack on Obama generally since the president's inauguration. The segment represented the culmination of Stewart's two-year journey from embittered Bush-era liberal outsider to Obama bobby-soxer to betrayed and disillusioned realist.

"I'd like to lay out for you what our battle plan is going forward," said the president in one of the clips.

"Yeah, slow down, Patton," Stewart said. "I thought you said we were at war. It's battle, it's assault. You formed a commission?" He added, "At least he didn't leave himself vulnerable with a premature, self-aggrandizing photo op." Then the show flashed a photo illustration of Obama standing on the deck of an aircraft carrier under a "Commission Accomplished" banner.

The image's surface message was harsh enough: Obama's incompetent handling of the oil spill is a misstep that's different from, but ultimately equal in magnitude to, any of Bush's most grievous blunders.

Stewart did a bit about healthcare reform that called Obama out for hypocrisy, showing a clip of the president insisting he wasn't interested in pushing a single-payer healthcare system, then following it with 2008 campaign clip in which Obama declared, "I happen to be a proponent of single-payer healthcare."

It was about honesty and leadership. It was about saying you believe one thing, then claiming to believe the opposite while pretending you never held that first position.

We've always been at war with Eastasia.

(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dailyshow; disillusionment; obama; stewart
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"The Daily Show" has also dedicated itself to pointing out the ways in which Obama has continued or magnified some of Bush’s worst policies. The program’s June 15 edition featured a segment highlighting similarities between the two presidents, and contrasting the pre-inaugural Obama with his same-named successor. . At one point it flashed a graphic depicting Obama as the needy, power-mad Cartman from "South Park."

"Mr. President," Stewart asked, "does this guy know what you're doing?" Then he cut to 2008 footage of then-candidate Obama promising to "set an example that the law is not subject to the whims of sudden rulers.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-june-15-2010/respect-my-authoritah

1 posted on 06/23/2010 6:07:29 AM PDT by tlb
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Jon Stewart is a disgrace . . . unfortunately, too many young Americans get their political knowledge from this nasty and narrow minded goofus. So, la-de-da, he’s beating up on Nobama . . . who isn’t?


2 posted on 06/23/2010 6:15:00 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: tlb

What a pants load, although about what one would expect from Salon. We all know who the Daily Show is going to support in the 2012 election. A couple of shows mocking Obama 2+ years before the Presidential election and well in advance of the November elections doesn’t turn them into some sort of satirists who are above the political fray.


3 posted on 06/23/2010 6:15:57 AM PDT by rockvillem
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To: tlb
"Commission Accomplished"

I'd love to see a screen-capture of that!

4 posted on 06/23/2010 6:16:05 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: tlb
For quite a while, comedians shrugged and indicated that Obama was so smooth, so polished, so perfect that there were no jokes that could be made. Bush, you know, was comedy gold -- silly photo ops, silly sayings, bad news all around -- plenty of yuks. But not Obama. He didn't have any of that stuff!

Once comedians start realizing that Obama is a joke, they will pile on, and then he's in real trouble. It's the emperor's new clothes.

5 posted on 06/23/2010 6:16:05 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: laweeks

Proudly commenting without reading the article ... nice going!


6 posted on 06/23/2010 6:18:08 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Yes, Chef!)
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To: tlb

Jon Stewart is a Leftist. He’s not attacking Obama for conservative reasons, but as part of an ongoing Rat civil war that started when the Queen was denied her coronation in 2008. He’s doing advance work for her comeback, in the form of destroying the internal opposition to her return.


7 posted on 06/23/2010 6:18:28 AM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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Who knew? Jon Stewart, a racist!


8 posted on 06/23/2010 6:19:11 AM PDT by Harold Hill (I always think there's a band, kid)
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Let’s face it: Jon Stewart has years and years and years of opportunities for his kind of “humor” with this group of clowns in the White House. That aid to McChrystal referred to Jones as a “clown” — I think that term could apply to ALL the members of this Administration. But, of course, this is unfair to clowns everywhere. They are much more funny and competent than the people being compared with them from the Obama-Biden Administration.


9 posted on 06/23/2010 6:19:26 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: tlb

I’m supposed to be impressed by the person who is last to get the joke?


10 posted on 06/23/2010 6:21:51 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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Jon Liebowitz bends which ever way the wind is blowing.

If BO’s ratings were still in the high 50’s, The Daily Show would have nothing but praise for Dear Reader.

Jon needs an audience. That’s what entertainers need, audiences. It’s his job to preach to the choir & that’s what he’s doing.


11 posted on 06/23/2010 6:26:06 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: laweeks

If we are fortunate enough to see a true conservative run opposite the Con-man, Stewart will again be the biggest lap dog for Obama on tv.


12 posted on 06/23/2010 6:26:58 AM PDT by liberty or death
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To: Talisker
Jon Stewart is a Leftist. He’s not attacking Obama for conservative reasons, but as part of an ongoing Rat civil war that started when the Queen was denied her coronation in 2008. He’s doing advance work for her comeback, in the form of destroying the internal opposition to her return.

In a nutshell.

I will give him one though. He respects our troops. A dichotomy...

13 posted on 06/23/2010 6:29:45 AM PDT by maine-iac7
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Just remember one thing. People like Stewert will NEVER be our friends.


14 posted on 06/23/2010 6:30:31 AM PDT by curth (SarahPAC: End of Second Quarter ; Contribute before June 30 - http://www.sarahpac.com/)
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To: Xenalyte
The article's claims are pretty thin. He hasn't gone after Obama but a few times in these 18 months (and then, not really so hard), when the opportunity has been there from the start.

The writer from Salon is pretending that Stewart is going after him to simply feed their own pathetic pretense that the press, and Stewart are even handed.

15 posted on 06/23/2010 6:31:30 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: tlb

hmmmm....wonder if Stewart’s jewishness has anything to do with this disillusionment?


16 posted on 06/23/2010 6:34:00 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: TexasCajun

http://s238.photobucket.com/albums/ff306/taugog/?action=view&current=CommissionAcccomplished.jpg


17 posted on 06/23/2010 6:46:15 AM PDT by MCCC
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To: KosmicKitty
Jon needs an audience. That’s what entertainers need, audiences. It’s his job to preach to the choir & that’s what he’s doing.

You got it. As soon as the dust settles, if it ever does, Lieberwitz will be the same "Obama bobby-soxer" he's always been. His main appeal is to the clueless college crowd that brought us 'The 0ne'.

18 posted on 06/23/2010 6:52:04 AM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: tlb
And the left kept saying Obama wasn't a good source of comedy material...Stewart hasn't seemed to have difficulty in that.
19 posted on 06/23/2010 6:54:26 AM PDT by highlander_UW (Education is too important to leave in the hands of the government.)
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To: MCCC
Freepers rock.

Saved for later use if you don't mind.

20 posted on 06/23/2010 7:02:17 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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