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***NJMaverick*** · 03-27-2011, 07:38 AM

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**jaxx** · 03-27-2011, 07:56 AM

He ripped them all the proverbial "new one". Next question should be what the hell were the voters thinking letting these people into office?

**Sugarloaf** · 03-27-2011, 08:41 AM

(03-27-2011 07:56 AM)jaxx Wrote: He ripped them all the proverbial "new one". Next question should be what the hell were the voters thinking letting these people into office?

In our case it was just 39% who voted for LePage. He would not have won had an independent candidate not jumped into the race, taking votes away from the democratic nominee. It was a disaster for us.

Still you have a point. The other 61% of us are pretty creeped out that we have people amidst us who voted for this joker. Banghead

**OptimistesMaddie** · 03-27-2011, 11:58 AM

(03-27-2011 07:56 AM)jaxx Wrote: He ripped them all the proverbial "new one". Next question should be what the hell were the voters thinking letting these people into office?

The Democratic voters and the Moderates were punishing President Obama because he didn't deliver their Unicorn. They didn't pause for a second to think of the implications of their not supporting Democratic candidates. Yep, I said it outloud, they were selfish people being led around by the nose and not performing critical thinking.

The short game may be satisfying but the long game may be catastrophic!

***There Is No Spoon*** · 03-27-2011, 07:57 AM

It's a bit difficult to laugh while thinking of what these cretins are doing.

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(03-27-2011 07:38 AM)NJMaverick Wrote:
The Daily Show
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How typical of the professional left, which Stewart became part of when he held his rally. I wonder if he now understands when Rachel was trying to school him about drawing a false equivalency between the parties, what she was talking about. Probably not. There's still money to be made spouting off without having the facts.

***NJMaverick*** · 03-27-2011, 08:10 AM

(03-27-2011 08:02 AM)kahuna Wrote:
(03-27-2011 07:38 AM)NJMaverick Wrote:
The Daily Show
Tags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook

How typical of the professional left, which Stewart became part of when he held his rally. I wonder if he now understands when Rachel was trying to school him about drawing a false equivalency between the parties, what she was talking about. Probably not. There's still money to be made spouting off without having the facts.

True, there is a certain irony in Stewart mocking what he helped create. Had Stewart and the rest of the professional left not worked so hard to demoralize the liberals and turn them against the Democrats, many of those GOP Governors never would have gotten into power.

**jaxx** · 03-27-2011, 09:30 AM

I know the feeling Sugarloaf. My district voted for a teabagger with a pizza parlor and 10 kids. Also a teabagger beat out Giannoulias for the US senate. I keep saying the same thing...what the hell were the voters thinking. Thank God we retained the governor and the state house and senate.

**Cha** · 03-27-2011, 01:34 PM

Thanks Mav! Reminds me when after a terrible day of bush-cheney dictating their war agenda on Iraq and America I'd watch Jon Stewart and could actually laugh about it.

He didn't say much about Walker(maybe he got Walker and Koch(fake)talking in another segment but he certainly pinned rick scott(ugh!), kasick, and lepage(doesn't understand how murals work roflmao

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Those poor states...I know the majority got what they voted(they say lepage only got 39% though-fucking dictator) for but there are people who live there who knew better than to trust those lying scuzzballs.

**nofurylike** · 03-28-2011, 04:06 AM

yep, he knew he was creating material for his future jokes when he joined the PL back before 2010 election.
nothing else matters to him.

***NJMaverick*** · 03-28-2011, 06:57 AM

(03-28-2011 04:06 AM)nofurylike Wrote: yep, he knew he was creating material for his future jokes when he joined the PL back before 2010 election.
nothing else matters to him.

That thought crossed my mind

**RoyGBiv** · 03-28-2011, 07:11 AM

Pardon my ignorance, but what specifically did Stewart do that has so many so irritated at him?

I don't watch him regularly, usually just through clips like this one, so I'm curious.

Is it the rally thing? If so I think people both misinterpret it and overestimate its importance or influence. Having heard many accounts from people I know who actually went, the atmosphere "on the ground," so to speak, was vastly different than how it was portrayed, even by the broadcast itself. Whatever Stewart's plans for it, it was a very positive atmosphere in the event.

**kahuna** · 03-28-2011, 08:07 AM

(03-28-2011 07:11 AM)RoyGBiv Wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but what specifically did Stewart do that has so many so irritated at him?

I don't watch him regularly, usually just through clips like this one, so I'm curious.

Is it the rally thing? If so I think people both misinterpret it and overestimate its importance or influence. Having heard many accounts from people I know who actually went, the atmosphere "on the ground," so to speak, was vastly different than how it was portrayed, even by the broadcast itself. Whatever Stewart's plans for it, it was a very positive atmosphere in the event.

It's the hypocrasy. He may have said many positive things. But the thing he said that got the most attention was the false equivalency he drew between the dems and repukes.

***There Is No Spoon*** · 03-28-2011, 08:14 AM

(03-28-2011 08:07 AM)kahuna Wrote:
(03-28-2011 07:11 AM)RoyGBiv Wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but what specifically did Stewart do that has so many so irritated at him?

I don't watch him regularly, usually just through clips like this one, so I'm curious.

Is it the rally thing? If so I think people both misinterpret it and overestimate its importance or influence. Having heard many accounts from people I know who actually went, the atmosphere "on the ground," so to speak, was vastly different than how it was portrayed, even by the broadcast itself. Whatever Stewart's plans for it, it was a very positive atmosphere in the event.

It's the hypocrasy. He may have said many positive things. But the thing he said that got the most attention was the false equivalency he drew between the dems and repukes.

Funny, I didn't even take that seriously as I saw it as the media latching onto and overemphasizing that aspect of it. Throwing out the baby with the bathwater is why liberals can't form coalitions and instead spend altogether too much time countering arguments from those that can and do - i.e. the so-called "Tea Party". They may be morons, but they organized and got their people elected. Granted it was almost a gimme after the bigots realized they had a black President, but you get the point of what I'm saying.

**RoyGBiv** · 03-28-2011, 08:22 AM

(03-28-2011 08:07 AM)kahuna Wrote: It's the hypocrasy. He may have said many positive things. But the thing he said that got the most attention was the false equivalency he drew between the dems and repukes.

If you're referring to the rally, it's not even what he said or didn't say that I'm talking about when I mention the positive atmosphere. I'm referring more to a sense of tranquility and an shared understanding that the people who were there were all of a like mind, that they were tired of being told what they liked, didn't like, feared or didn't fear, and they could all just talk about things. Stewart didn't directly have a lot to do with that. He just provided the setting.

I think the bulk of what I've seen him do expresses a general emphasis on vast differences between parties. Certainly he can be just as caustic toward self-styled liberals, but then so can we when we see some subset of them doing something stupid.

Anyway ... I won't go deeply into defending him. I don't watch him enough to get the full impact of what he may have expressed over an extended period of time.

***NJMaverick*** · 03-28-2011, 08:48 AM

(03-28-2011 07:11 AM)RoyGBiv Wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but what specifically did Stewart do that has so many so irritated at him?

I don't watch him regularly, usually just through clips like this one, so I'm curious.

Is it the rally thing? If so I think people both misinterpret it and overestimate its importance or influence. Having heard many accounts from people I know who actually went, the atmosphere "on the ground," so to speak, was vastly different than how it was portrayed, even by the broadcast itself. Whatever Stewart's plans for it, it was a very positive atmosphere in the event.

For months leading up to the 2010 election Stewart was attacking the President and the Democrats. He repeatedly tried to paint the picture that there was no difference between the two parties or President Obama and President Bush. Stewart was a perfect professional left patsy aiding in their efforts to help the GOP by demoralizing the Dems, especially the liberal Dems

**CTLawGuy** · 03-29-2011, 05:09 AM

(03-28-2011 07:11 AM)RoyGBiv Wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but what specifically did Stewart do that has so many so irritated at him?

I don't watch him regularly, usually just through clips like this one, so I'm curious.

Is it the rally thing? If so I think people both misinterpret it and overestimate its importance or influence. Having heard many accounts from people I know who actually went, the atmosphere "on the ground," so to speak, was vastly different than how it was portrayed, even by the broadcast itself. Whatever Stewart's plans for it, it was a very positive atmosphere in the event.

What annoyed me recently was his attempts to compare Libya to Iraq and paint Obama as a hypocrite. Either he was being wilfully misleading in order to be funny or he was wilfully ignorant about the situation.

**SemiCharmedQuark** · 03-28-2011, 07:19 PM

Here is an example;

When the GOP was dismantling union rights in WI, Stewart spent his time bashing Dems for fleeing to IL. He didn't mention why they did it, he just portrayed them as cowards.

**Cha** · 03-28-2011, 09:44 PM

(03-28-2011 07:19 PM)SemiCharmedQuark Wrote: Here is an example;

When the GOP was dismantling union rights in WI, Stewart spent his time bashing Dems for fleeing to IL. He didn't mention why they did it, he just portrayed them as cowards.

Wow! That's way too bad..you'd think he would be a person who wouldn't take things out of context like he exposes fox "news" for doing!

**CTLawGuy** · 03-29-2011, 05:12 AM

(03-28-2011 09:44 PM)Cha Wrote:
(03-28-2011 07:19 PM)SemiCharmedQuark Wrote: Here is an example;

When the GOP was dismantling union rights in WI, Stewart spent his time bashing Dems for fleeing to IL. He didn't mention why they did it, he just portrayed them as cowards.
Wow! That's way too bad..you'd think he would be a person who wouldn't take things out of context like he exposes fox "news" for doing!

Cha, this is not surprising. The media's, including Jon Stewart's, number one job is to maximize viewership, not to report the truth. There is no mechanism to force the media to tell the truth about anything.

***There Is No Spoon*** · 03-29-2011, 08:36 AM

(03-29-2011 05:12 AM)CTLawGuy Wrote:
(03-28-2011 09:44 PM)Cha Wrote:
(03-28-2011 07:19 PM)SemiCharmedQuark Wrote: Here is an example;

When the GOP was dismantling union rights in WI, Stewart spent his time bashing Dems for fleeing to IL. He didn't mention why they did it, he just portrayed them as cowards.
Wow! That's way too bad..you'd think he would be a person who wouldn't take things out of context like he exposes fox "news" for doing!

Cha, this is not surprising. The media's, including Jon Stewart's, number one job is to maximize viewership, not to report the truth. There is no mechanism to force the media to tell the truth about anything.

So Jon Stuart is "media" now?

roflmao

This is part of the problem. Jon Stuart is a comedian - he makes money by making fun of pols - whoever is in power at the time can expected to be a target.

**Cha** · 03-29-2011, 02:55 PM

(03-29-2011 05:12 AM)CTLawGuy Wrote:
(03-28-2011 09:44 PM)Cha Wrote:
(03-28-2011 07:19 PM)SemiCharmedQuark Wrote: Here is an example;

When the GOP was dismantling union rights in WI, Stewart spent his time bashing Dems for fleeing to IL. He didn't mention why they did it, he just portrayed them as cowards.
Wow! That's way too bad..you'd think he would be a person who wouldn't take things out of context like he exposes fox "news" for doing!

Cha, this is not surprising. The media's, including Jon Stewart's, number one job is to maximize viewership, not to report the truth. There is no mechanism to force the media to tell the truth about anything.

Still, whether Jon is the media or not he's gotten accolades for reporting real news(with comic relief of course..nothing funnier than the truth) and purportedly a well informed audience. It's not for nothing Stewart went after Jim Cramer and before that the crossfire duo for manufacturing "news".

**janedrake** · 03-28-2011, 09:17 PM

It's good at least to see that their local news channels are getting word out about these horrific governors.