Jon Stewart on Dick Cheney

The Daily Show's Jon Stewart marvels at former vice president Dick Cheney's recent interview on CNN, and his "willful obliviousness to the impact of his policies, both economically and in the realm of foreign policy."

He offers some possible titles for Cheney's upcoming book. Among them: "The Bush Administration: If We Did It, Here's How It Happened," "A Heartclogging Work of Staggering Evil," and "I Know How to Make the Caged Bird Sing."

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Jon Stewart Smacks CNBC Good

Jon Stewart of the Daily Show had a lot of fun eviscerating CNBC last night. In a great little segment he points out that CNBC and it's commentators have just been shills for Wall Street, who hyped a failing system to the detriment of its viewer/investors.

As he so often does Stewart uncovered what mainstream news doesn't generally cover or investigate. He points out that CNBC really is just a cheerleader for the American oligarchy, cheerily misleading the average American into an economic ambush.

Jon Stewart points out that CNBC consistently boosted the Wall Street without exposing what any reporter close to the situation must have known. Through a combination of fantastical stock market theories, suck-up interviews with CEOs of failing companies, affirmations of robust financial health for riverboat gambling financial empires that were about to collapse and become multi-billion dollar welfare recipients of our money -- and more boosterism -- CNBC, with rare exception, has become an advertorial for the looting, unregulated, "default swap," hedge fund, con artist, gambling ways that have destroyed the fundamentals of the heart of our financial system.

Watch the segment here:

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Though I recommend you watch the entire March 4th Daily Show because Jon Stewart provides one of the most concise primers of the Wall Street mess I've seen.

Cluster F#@k to the Poor House

Just for fun, the Daily Show's take on the debate over the stimulus plan.

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Jon Stewart Replies to Dick Cheney

Last Thursday night Jon Stewart had the best response to Dick Cheney's Politico interview. Dick Cheney is a cowardly little punk who is just trying to protect his rep. I absolutely loved Jon Stewart's questions for Cheney, it's too bad no reporter has ever asked these questions.

Watch the video here:

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Dana Perino on the Daily Show

Earlier this week White House Press Secretary Dana Perino visited the Daily Show this week, and I have to wonder what drugs they are keeping her on. She has to be drugged, or completely delusional. During the interview she told Jon Stewart with a straight face: "We're pretty proud of what we accomplished."

Stewart: "Why? . . . The country's in a very tough place, and it's very hard -- the economy, foreign relations-- he's walking out with very few areas that are looking shinier than when he walked in."

Perino: "I disagree on foreign policy. . . . I would say to people, 'As compared to what, when he got there?'"

Stewart: "The lack of wars."

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Marriage, Bible-style

This week Jon Stewart had Mike Huckabee on his show this week. The two men devoted an entire segment of a two-part interview to a debate over gay marriage. Huckabee's key point during the debate was that people should have "the right to live any way they want to" but that marriage is about men and women, basically making babies. Huckabee argued:

"Anatomically, let's face it, the only way we can create the next generation is with male-female relationships."

I have never understood why straight couples are going to stop having babies if we allow Gay and Lesbians to enter a legally recognized relationship. You can watch the debate here:

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Next time you hear somebody bring up the Marriage as defined by the bible I would like you to remember this. Huckabee tried to claim that 5000 years of marriage has been man and woman. Stewart points out that this is a crap argument.

Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos passes along a comment about what the law would say if we had traditional Biblical marriages like the Mormons and their buddies on the far-right are demanding:

A. Marriage in the United States shall consist of a union between one man and one or more women. (Gen 29:17-28; II Sam 3:2-5)

B. Marriage shall not impede a man's right to take concubines in addition to his wife or wives. (II Sam 5:13; I Kings 11:3; II Chron 11:21)

C. A marriage shall be considered valid only if the wife is a virgin. If the wife is not a virgin, she shall be executed. (Deut 22:13-21)

D. Marriage of a believer and a non-believer shall be forbidden. (Gen 24:3; Num 25:1-9; Ezra 9:12; Neh 10:30)

E. Since marriage is for life, neither this Constitution nor the constitution of any State, nor any state or federal law, shall be construed to permit divorce. (Deut 22:19; Mark 10:9)

F. If a married man dies without children, his brother shall marry the widow. If he
refuses to marry his brother's widow or deliberately does not give her children, he shall pay a fine of one shoe and be otherwise punished in a manner to be determined by law. (Gen 38:6-10; Deut 25:5-10)G. In lieu of marriage, if there are no acceptable men in your town, it is required that you get your dad drunk and have sex with him (even if he had previously offered you up as a sex toy to men young and old), tag-teaming with any sisters you may have. Of course, this rule applies only if you are female. (Gen 19:31-36)

This was a comment from an excellent post by jem6x on Newsweek's great cover story on the Bible and gay marriage. Go check it out.

Newspapers & the Clusterf#@k to the Poor House

Jon Stewart dedicated his "Clusterf#@k to the Poor House" segment yesterday to newspapers.
He joked:

"What's black and white and completely over?"
"Give up? It's newspapers."

Stewart dramatically declared that major newspapers companies are in turmoil because of,

"THE INTERNET!"

Specifically Craigslist which has brought about the industry's demise.
"Online ads are cheaper, they receive wider distribution, and, perhaps most importantly, many newspapers still stubbornly refuse to post classified ads like, '57 Year Old Man looking for No-Strings-Attached Shemale Scat Gang Bang."

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It has been a bad year for newspapers in what has been a long line of bad years for the newspaper industry. Just recently the nation's leading newspaper publisher, Gannet, predicted its full-year sales would fall about 8 percent, but its forecast was largely in line with analyst expectations. At the same time the Tribune Co. Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Sun of Baltimore, along with other dailies has the distinction of being the first major newspaper publisher to seek bankruptcy protection.

Advertising revenue has been falling across the board. Losses from the shift of readers to the Internet were exacerbated this year as consumers and advertisers alike pulled back spending in a deepening recession. Although most papers have remained profitable, they have counted on generous cash flows to pay interest and principal on loans.

Though some large papers are missing their payments. The Star Tribune of Minneapolis skipped a $9 million quarterly debt payment in September to conserve cash. Around the same time, the investor group that owns The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News skipped an unspecified interest payment in an apparent bid to force lenders to renegotiate.

Other publishers have begun talks with lenders to win flexibility on required financial targets that are more difficult to meet as revenue shrinks, even if debt itself does not increase and a company continues to make basic payments.Those chains include Freedom Communications Inc., which owns The Orange County Register in Southern California, and Media General Inc., which publishes the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia. Failure to win new terms could prompt companies to miss required targets, leading to technical default.

The Tribune bankruptcy could have ripple effects in the industry, by making new financing more difficult or more expensive for the Times and other publishers. That's because default on loans is seen as more likely and creditors could get nothing as part of Tribune's reorganization.

Daily Show: Battle of the Ideological Cable News Networks

Jon Stewart takes on MSNBC and FOX.
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Colbert & Stewart Covering Election Night

I missed this the other night, and I am trying to catch up on my Daily Show and Colbert report (you have to love the internet) and finally saw how Jon Stewart and Stephan Colbert covered the announcement of Barack Obama winning the election.

If you missed it too, watch it here:

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Daily Show: McCain Recycles His Stump Speeches

Now for something entirerly different. The other night on the Daily Show, John Stewart pointed out how John McCain recycled many of the lines used in Tuesday's economic stump speech. Remember this was the fresh new speech.


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The Daily Show tackles the rape-kit controversy

LibertyAirBlog is proud to bring you another great clip from the Daily Show. The best source of political commentary today (which is actually kind of sad for America). Jon Stewart again shows the sheer absurdity that is Sarah Palin.



Seriously the crowd has the only reaction an honest caring person can have when hearing about the rape kit story.

Stewart also shows, Sarah Palin = George W. Bush with Lipstick