By:
SilentPatriot on Thursday, May 1st, 2008 at 2:45 PM - PDT
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?!”
Check out The Daily Show website for all the clips from last night’s hilarious show.
And kudos to our own Jamie for this perfectly on-point cartoon:
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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: