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CRUZ or LOSE!
Posted on 05/08/2015 12:18:27 PM PDT by drewh
Jon Stewart of The Daily Show is no stranger to trashing conservatives, while hiding behind the guise of a court jester. This time, he set his set the tone of his Tuesday show with a game he called “Let's get rid of Ted Cruz."
Stewart took issue with Senator Cruz’s contention that Obama worsened racial tensions, "Here's how glaringly challengeable a statement that is: a CNN reporter followed up about it."
Stewart then showcased a clip of CNN’s Dana Bash asking Sen. Cruz to provide examples of Obama’s racial tension. This was apparently so preposterous that the Daily Show host pretended to read the book War and Peace, "And you know, Ted, while you struggle to be specific, I'll read a little something just in case it takes you a while."
Ted Cruz’s answer was displayed, "I think he has not used his role as president to bring us together. He has exacerbated racial misunderstandings, racial tensions from back at the beer summit to a series of efforts to pit Americans against each other."
In response, Stewart bellowed, "Come on, Cruz! All you did was take, like a minute to say the exact same thing, just a rephrasing of what you said before!"
If Stewart stopped following his leftist script and actually paid attention to the clip he just played, he would notice that Cruz actually gave a specific example of Obama intensifying racial animosity, namely the “beer summit” that came after Obama said the cops who took in black professor Henry Louis Gates “acted stupidly.”
In fact, if he watched more of the video he would see that Cruz invoked the example of Joe Biden’s infamous claim that Republicans wanted to put his black audience "back in chains." Mentioning this latter fact, however, might ruin the punch line and, more importantly, the leftist talking point.
Stewart then moved on to Cruz’s accusation that Obama has a pattern of straw manning and vilification, "Strawman and vilifying a caricature huh? What would that look like if say someone was, I don’t’ know, describing Americans who didn't agree with them on, I don’t’ know, marriage equality and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act?"
The Daily Show then cut to a clip of Sen. Cruz describing the bullying of traditional marriage advocates and people of faith as a "jihad."
In reaction to this, Stewart jabbed "So you want president to bring people together. Who understands that if you're pro-marriage equality you're the same as ISIS. Got it!"
Naturally, Stewart never brought up the occasions in which liberals charged conservatives with waging jihad against food stamps, public education, and Americans.
Stewart finished his segment off by showcasing a montage of out-of-context-clips of Ted Cruz saying partisan things, before quipping "Remind me again how President Obama has failed us as a leader?"
If he were a journalist, Stewart’s gerrymandering of clips, partial quotations, and selective condemnation might sink his career. However, Stewart is not a journalist; he’s just a comedian pretending to be one.
Hillary and O says the check’s in the mail
Stewart is an idiot.
I think we all know what would result if Cruz were actually present to respond.
I thought Jon Stewart was retiring. Retire already.
He’s hanging around like toenail fungus.
Even after he’s gone though, his staff of writers and producers will just fall in behind another talking head, and keep actively misleading people.
Ted Cruz Ping! He hasn’t been the same since his sister Fran was killed in a kiln explosion!
I lived through the 60’s black race riots and have NEVER seen racial relations worse than Obama and Holder and Sharpton and Company have made them today.
This is just plain awful now.
I am too old to have any hope of seeing this damage repaired.
I love it. Ted’s been my guy since day one.
Jon Stewart Little got the “holy 5hit, we gotta stop Ted!” memo. They all got it.
Donating a little more every time I see a hit piece. $5 for this stuff and $10 for the 1000+ word groupthink mindguard pieces like what solon puts out.
Dollar a day Freeper always my first priority.
I might go broke...
Fawn’s dead? I just talked to her last week. She was gonna make a pot for me.
The liberals were John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn and John McCain.
I bet if Stalin could have spoken English, he could have been a better comedian than Stewart. He also would have been more conservative.
Maybe you need someone to console you...
Right! Fawn, not Fran!
> I love it. Ted’s been my guy since day one.
And mine. He gets the most flak, deflects it like he’s teflon coated, and doesn’t take it personally, knowing its all a big game while holding his ground unfazed by what lies the leftists made up about him that week. This makes them wet their panties. He’s the man for the job and boy does he have a lot of cleanup to do when the amateur golfer leaves the WH...
I’ll get my coat...
Otter: Evening.
Shelly: I’m Shelly Dubinsky, Fawn’s roommate.
Otter: I’m Frank Lymon from Amherst, Fawn’s fianc?. Actually, we’re engaged to be engaged. What’s wrong with everyone here?
Shelly: Why don’t we sit down, Frank? I don’t know how to tell you...so l’ll just tell you. Fawn’s dead.
Otter: She’s dead? [Laughs] Did she put you up to this? That minx. What a lively sense of humour. [Shelly hands him a newspaper clipping] “Sophomore dies in kiln explosion”? Oh, my God!
Shelly: I’m terribly sorry, Frank.
Otter: I just talked to her last week. She was gonna make a pot for me.
Shelly: If there’s anything I can do....
Otter: You’re so nice. I really shouldn’t impose on you.
Shelly: No, really. Anything.
Otter: I don’t think I should be alone tonight. Would you go out with me?
Shelly: I’ll get my coat.
Otter: And could you get three dates for my friends?
It isn’t that Liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
Ronald Reagan
Stewart is a fricking idiot. I don’t understand why a conservative would watch his program or write about it.
OF COURSE HE TRASHED TED CRUZ. HE’S A LIBERAL; WHY WOULD YOU EXPECT ANYTHING ELSE? HE SHOULD BE IGNORED.
Sorry, caps are the closest I can get to screaming on FR.
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