Jon Stewart slams media for obsessive Wright coverage
By SilentPatriot Wednesday Apr 30, 2008 4:45pm
Jon Stewart took off the gloves and pummeled the media last night for it's non-stop, wall-to-wall coverage of The Most Important Issue Facing America, things a Presidential candidate's former pastor said.
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"Who will end this vicious cycle of questions with no answers?!"
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The right-wingers and the media have been hating America for much longer than this guy. They must have forgotten about the Clinton years and Mitt Romney's recent 'change' campaign. Change what...if America is so goddamn good?
Wright is not the issue.
The issue is how Obama handled it.
He is a coward.
He stands for nothing.
You should change the cartoon to show Hillary at the gas pump praising the Jeremiah Wright media coverage. Forget that, she doesn't remember how to pump her own gas.
PeterDay @ 2:
Right. Barack Obama gave a national speech, addressing issues on race that our country needs to deal with. He has answered questions in debates, press conferences, Fox News, you name it. He has said that he finds Rev. Wright's comments offensive and unacceptable. How does that make him a coward? How does it prove that Senator Obama "stands for nothing"? How do you think he should have handled it? Please try to be specific.
Oh Please PeterDay, give us a break. Robertson, Hagee, all of the so-called leaders of the religious right have made inflamatory statements and hardly anybody calls them on it. Amd Americans now know it. The press is using Wright to deflect attention on the war, poverty, and Bush in general.
PeterDay @ 2:
Jesus fucking christ! You reichwinger/hillarybots better make up your minds (such as they are). If Obama distances and denounces what this Wright character says - then Obama's a coward. If he doesn't back away from Wright's comments, than he's embracing a racist who hates America. Which meme is it gonna fuckin' be??
At what point do we stop laughing and get angry? I can't help but think that Colbert and Stewart just continue to distract us all further...
Bummer! The windows player didn't work for me. I even got a warning that "the plug-in preformed an illegal operation" and a suggestion the I restart navigator.
Okay PeterDay, whatever you say. I won't even ask you to back up whatever it is you are talking about. What did you want Obama to do or say?
Oh Lord please save me from the media in this country and deliver me from McCain. Amen.
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 6:
I'm gonna buy you a cocktail just for that comment alone.
I am disgusted with the way they treat Sen. Obama. The double standard is sick; "Separate but equal" is is still around McCain's crazy pastors are different they said, McCain is a maverick for firing a suspected terrorist, they said, yet Obama has been no far from being directly called a jihadistjust for his name.
Bob Schwartz @ 3:
It's worse than that! What if somebody calls up at 3am demanding a cup of coffee? What then??
Hilarious! John was right on the mark. The story is totally irrelevant to what affects Americans. Unfortunately, it isn't going to go away.
A lot of people are going to wonder how Obama could know his pastor for 20 years, and then act surprised that this man surrounds himself with Farrakan goons as "bodyguards" and stirs up racial animosity. Let's face it--Wright is weird.
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 12:
Hillary will obliterate them!
Frank Dufek @ 7:
Ah yes. And here we have the "I would prefer to not be concerned with these things" Who else is pointing out this kind of assinine behavior? Stewart and Colbert are providing a vital national service. Who else in national media has even mentioned that the Pentagon and "news outlets" have been using paid shills for several years?!
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 12:
She'll call the guy who borrowed his boss' truck to take her for a ride and he'll tell her how to do it.
pissed off patricia @ 10:
POP, Make mine a martini - shaken, not stirred. :-)
A former DNC head and Clinton supporter has switched to Obama. Hurrah. So when are the rest of the superdelegates going to do their jobs? Obama won the nomination already.
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 6:
It is going to be: heads I win, tails you lose.
So Hillary getting choked up over a moment of heart felt actions is news 24/7 for over a month. BUT obama sitting in a church Sunday after Sunday for 20 LONG YEARS LISTENING to a pastor preach hatred for whites, wanting to bring damnation down on America and blaming us, America, for the twin towers attack, is not news. He didn't leave the church he didn't condemn the pastor- he only FAKES OUTRAGE after he got caught.
Well we all know why. obama is a man and the good old boy blue pill poppers WANT HIM TO BEAT A WOMAN FOR THE NOMINATION. And anything negative about him should be swept under the rug....while the manufacture crap about Hillary. TYPICAL MALE REACTION.
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 17:
That's the only kind we make in this house and the glasses are in the freezer chilling as we type. I hope Sapphire gin is okay with you.
The Daily Show is brilliant at connecting the dots and at using our tabloid news media's insipid coverage against itself. This one is a keeper!
It was sad watching Hillary try to use the coffee machine. These people are so out of touch with the average American. There should be term limits so we can throw them out. Warner, Spector and even old Byrd should have to go.
Marge @ 20:
Nice work. You have conflated a 20 second sound bite into 20 years of preaching hatred. You have become the Republican party. How does that feel?
Oh PeterDay . . . where did you go? I thought you might have enough courage to explain what you think Obama should have done! But maybe you stepped out for a moment. To pick up your Klan robe from the dry cleaner . . .
Marge @ 20:
No, Obama DID beat a woman for the nomination over two months ago.
Marge @ 20:
Marge I'm gonna make you a martini too. A great big one! It'll chill you right out. Really we understand you aren't happy with Senator Obama. We get that. So don't get all worked up. Okay?
pissed off patricia @ 21:
That'll work for me - muchos gracias, Patricia! :-)
"Dominating cable news like a missing white girl."
Right on the mark!
Oh, yum, I'm making cyber margaritas over here...please help yourselves.
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 6:
Yo! Buddy....pal...your dude Barry the Ignorant refused to renounce Wright...and that wasn't a bad tack to take. Showed some principle but...
Where was that principle with Rezko and what in hell are you gonna do with Auchi?
Senator 'Hope' is a total fabrication. Barry the Cultist...Barry the Crook....Barry the Liar.....Barry the Ignorant...Barry the Slick Talkn' Hustler these are all far more apt descriptions of Mr. Obama.
Thing is they make it hard for folks to vote for him.
This stupid issue is Obama's "Dean Scream." He's done for. It's over.
Marge @ 20:
Non sequitur much?
Obama has given his opinion of Wright's behavior, and it's both reasonable and correct. If you would like to discuss Hillary and Douglas Coe you're welcome to get your worm forks out.
Otherwise, this is a tempest in a teapot. If you're too lazy or ignorant to follow what Obama has said and would rather allow Wright to speak for him, you deserve the mockery you're entitled to.
telecom @ 32:
How do you figure that? He won pleged delegates, states and the popular vote. He's catching up to Hillary on the supers too. He's the likely nominee. So how do you figure that he's done for?
Peoples Front of Judea @ 24:
Not to mention that Hillary getting "choked up" was played as a POSITIVE story for her. And Marge, if you think the "choked up" story got anywhere near the press attention that Jeremiah Wright has, you haven't been paying attention. Or you've been too busy ironing PeterDay's Klan robe.
Leslie [Hussein] @ 30:
You trying to get us all liquored up? If so, thank you so much. But even cyber-wise, I don't think I should mix margaritas and martinis.
A.Citizen @ 31:
If Obama is a fabrication, he's a fabrication of TV news talking heads and idiot pundits. And you've swallowed the whole thing hook, line, and sinker. Give yourself a nice pat on the back.
If this is what the media is doing about Wright, then by this logic, the media should be slamming George and Barbara for having a sh**head son. But then that would be the smart thing to do.
Is there still time to Impeach?!?
A.Citizen @ 31:
Okay, the bar is officially cutting you off. Even if it was just Kool-Aid, you've had enough buddy.
pissed off patricia @ 36:
Nope, cyber martinis and margaritas are too dry. :-)
telecom @ 32:
Since the Wright debacle, superdelegates continue to declare for Obama. In fact, one of Hillary's super's has defected.
But you're half right. It is over. Hillary cannot overcome Obama's delegate lead, even if she wins all the remaining primaries.
And just for your information, the "dean scream" was something the candidate did. This is something that someone the candidate knows has done. World o' difference. And it will be past and behind us in just a couple of days.
Meanwhile, let's talk about Douglas Coe, or John Hagee. Both equally valid topics of discussion if you want to get irrelevant.
Why is there so many anti-Obama posts in here? Has the RNC infiltrated C&L?
Leslie [Hussein] @ 40:
LOL
Marge @ 20:
First of all, nobody needs to "manufacture" crap about Hillary; she generates an ample amount all by herself (must have been traumatized by all that sniper fire, I guess). Now, marge, I may be guessing about this, but I'm sure Barack Obama has accomplished a bit more with his life than just sit in church listening to a preacher. You know, like he went to Harvard, made Law Review, went out and became a community leader, got himself elected Senator for the State of Illinois. And Hillary has done, well, what exactly?
Leslie [Hussein] @ 34:
Your concern is missplaced. You should be concerned that you live in a country where an election can be decided on a "Dean Scream." If that's the way it's going to be, it's not Obama who's done for - it's us!
P.D. @ 42:
Damned if I know!?
Marge @ 20:
Hey Marge - I've got an idea for you. Why not show your anger over Obama and men by voting for McSame in November? Then sit back and watch him choose the next 2-3 Supremes which will basically outlaw a woman's right to choose, shred the Bill of Rights even further, continue the illegal occupation of Iraq and the bleeding of our national resources in the Middle East to maintain oil hegemony. Will that help to make you hate men less?
P.D. @ 42:
Not the RNC -- the Clintonistas. But these days, it is damn hard to tell the difference.
Stop the Hillary bashing already, she has nothing to do with this media made "scandal." The enemy here is the media and those fucking racist, like Beck(exactly why this man is still on tv is painful to think about).
P.D. @ 42:
The trolls smell blood and the elite are in a panic that Obama is going to pull this thing out. Same thing happening over at DK. Everywhere in fact.
It's all doooooom! Dooooom! "Dean Scream!" "Willie Horton!" "AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Most of these people are concern trolls and who the fuck knows their real opinions.
Whether it's Hillary or Obama, we have to support either one. McCain is itching to strike Iran. Our country is tanking. We don't have that long before everything collapses.
Thanks John Stewart for pointing out the obvious.
Rev. Wright, Rev. Wright, blah blah blah.
I get so frustrated with the daily garbage that spews from our mainstream media who've become paparazzi. They do nothing but run constant political theater, distracting us all from how fucked up everything is and reaping the advertising profits.
Hell, the only real sources of TV news are either non-profit (PBS) or foreign (BBC).
I don't give a shit about some narcissistic moron who shamelessly grabs his 15 minutes of fame at the expense of our political process. Shame on the whores on CNN, FOX, and MSNBC for helping to destroy any intelligent debate in this country and serving this crap to us.
slippy hussein toad @ 50:
Agreed.
hood @ 49:
Hillary has done plenty to be bashed about. For example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N64fDLplBfQ
Quoth the candidate who was SHITHAMMERING Obama about his "bitter" comment:
oh, being interviewed by BIll O'Reilly.
This comes on the heels of her declaring that Obama's "given a speech" and that her and McCain would pass the CIC test.
She's asked for a bashing, fella. Asked HARD.
hood @ 49:
Actually, she's had quite a bit to do with keeping it alive in the media as a scandal. But it hasn't won her the nomination. Because she lost that two months ago!
yakfitguy @ 52:
Why the anger at Jon Stewart? WTF?
A.Citizen @ 31:
UH, maybe I'm not very well versed in wingnut/Hillarybot speak but who is Barry??? Obama's name is Barack. He calls himself Barack; his wife calls him Barack; so who the fuck is Barry?? A fictional creation courtesy of the Hillarybots, reichwingers, and so called MSM, that's who Barry is.
Is C-L an Obama only site? Afraid of debate like their Messiah? Rev. Wright is an issue your Messiah only threw under the buss because it was killing him in the polls. Don't kid yourself. Oh wait I should have said Malcolm X terms like Obama uses Hoodwink or Bamboozle yourself.
slippy hussein toad @ 54:
Let's not forget, "as far as I know" he's not a Muslim.
ricksramblings @ 58:
Does you mommy know you're here?
ricksramblings @ 58:
Quote Repugnicans much, do you?
Your right, she does stand for nothing. The pandering and the flip flopping, the denials, dirty campaigning, Oh wait I thought you were speaking of Hillary McBush.
HE's Muslim !!!!no wonder he threw the guy under the bus! That explains his love for Malcolm X speak.
ricksramblings @ 58:
Ramblings is right. Hey, maybe it would help your credibility a little bit if you learned how to spell bus. Here, I'll help ya out: B.........U.........S. Got it?? Very good I have no idea what that last sentence meant.
Did someone say
MISSING WHITE GIRL???!?!?!!?!?!??!?!!!!!1??!?!?!?!?!?!!!??
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 64:
It's right wing for "where did I put my white hood, goddamnit?"
I love JON and KEITH, but for the life of me I can't understand why neither one will touch the largest fraud trial in American history,, this too involving the Clintons, along with secret tapes and letters, so it up to us on the bolgs to get this story out.
Gotta give it to faux and the reslugs. They're barely trying and they've already got everyone dancing to their song.
Watching him burn by his own doing after a coddled press for a year and think he should be POTUS is a joke.
goat hussein sage @ 66:
Oh OK! Now I get it! Thanks GoatHusseinSage.
I am talking about the PETER PAUL trial. Please go and google PETER PAUL TRIAL, this is right up there (to me) with watergate.
J.C. @ 56:
No anger at John at all. It's obvious they media has made such a huge deal out of something so stupid.
Sleep with dogs and you get fleas. Wait until Rezko and Auchi make the big news. Ayers was just a warm up. Obama will never be POTUS because your past does matter. This is not a game with do overs this is the biggest most important job in the world, Your Messiah has been sleeping with the most radical of the radicals and now should answer for it.
ricksramblings @ 73:
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Well, at least Obama Has Now Lined Up a New Spiritual Adviser: One Who Takes a Vow of Silence
ricksramblings @ 73:
The past didn't matter for an AWOL draft dodging alcohlic coked up frat boy loser like shrub.
MargeAggedon @ 76:
It won't matter for a wife cheating, carpetbagging, flim-flam, Keating 5 panderer either.
The media, of course, is elated with their victory; they've achieved their goal. They "persuaded" Obama to betray a friend. Mission accomplished.
goat hussein sage @ 77:
It definitely won't matter for a Tuzla-lying, NAFTA-lying, in bed with corporate lobbyists who could care less about voters candidate either, who already lost the nomination two months ago. Oh, and did we mention Norman Hsu, "obliterate" Iran and Monica Lewinsky?
Peoples Front of Judea @ 15:
With all due respect, I learned that without the aide of Comedy Central news. Also, when I learned these facts it wasn't from a comedian with an audience laughing as he makes light of true crime and moral depravity.
"So they go, primarily women and children and the aged. They watch as we poison their water, as we kill a million acres of their crops. They must weep as the bulldozers roar through their areas preparing to destroy the precious trees. They wander into the hospitals with at least twenty casualties from American firepower for one Vietcong-inflicted injury. So far we may have killed a million of them, mostly children. They wander into the towns and see thousands of the children, homeless, without clothes, running in packs on the streets like animals. They see the children degraded by our soldiers as they beg for food. They see the children selling their sisters to our soldiers, soliciting for their mothers.
What do the peasants think as we ally ourselves with the landlords and as we refuse to put any action into our many words concerning land reform? What do they think as we test out our latest weapons on them, just as the Germans tested out new medicine and new tortures in the concentration camps of Europe? Where are the roots of the independent Vietnam we claim to be building? Is it among these voiceless ones?
We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. We have destroyed their land and their crops. We have cooperated in the crushing of the nation's only noncommunist revolutionary political force, the unified Buddhist Church. We have supported the enemies of the peasants of Saigon. We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men.
Now there is little left to build on, save bitterness. Soon the only solid physical foundations remaining will be found at our military bases and in the concrete of the concentration camps we call "fortified hamlets." The peasants may well wonder if we plan to build our new Vietnam on such grounds as these. Could we blame them for such thoughts? We must speak for them and raise