Daily Show: Has Michelle Obama sufficiently proven her patriotism?
By SilentPatriot Tuesday Aug 26, 2008 11:00am
Jon Stewart examines the media's bizarre obsession with questioning Michelle Obama's patriotism in the context of her amazing convention speech.
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"She's got to [prove her patriotism]! She's a Democrat. She must prove she loves America, as opposed to Republicans who everyone knooows love America. They just hate half the people living in it."
Of course Karl Rove disagrees, writing in the Wall Street Journal that Michelle "could have done better 'on saying I love America.'”
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Foist!
Stewart was on fire last night.
First
Has there ever been another presidential candidate or their spouse questioned about their patriotism? If not, it seems to me the patriotism question is a form of some sort of racism. I'm not trying to light a fire, it just seems strange that our first serious bi-racial candidate and his wife would face such unusual scrutiny.
Karl Rove could have done a little better...like honoring the request of the Congress for information regarding his involvement in and knowledge of the outing of a CIA agent, and other treasonous activities.
Karl Rove could have done a little better in honoring the laws of this country by responding to subpoenas, and understanding that NO ONE, not even the President, is above the law.
Karl Rove could have done a little better in honoring the traditions of America and the law of America by respecting that all people are created equal, that everyone is entitled to a presumption of innocence under the law, that disagreement on policy issues does not make a person a traitor...but rather a patriot.
Karl Rove could have done a little better by not engaging in yellow journalism in his present job, and character assassination in his former job.
Bill @ 2:
fail
pissed off patricia @ 3:
Every Democrat that's run for the office in the past 15 years.
pissed off patricia @ 3:
Exactly......but what would you expect from the Repukes and MSM.
Right on John, Repukes love their country, they just hate half the people in it.
Michelle could learn a thing or two from Hillary. Speaking of Hillary. Why isn't she the VP nominee? I will keep asking until I get an honest answer.
Liberal AND Proud @ 4:
I collect Pigs, I have over fifty (50) that have been given to me as gifts. I also have a collection of Pig ties. Right now I am in search of a Pig with Karl Roves face, preferably in baked clay, but will take brass of Copper casting.
Willing to pay top dollar.
Anyone seen one yet?
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
Since it was Senator Obama's choice, I guess you will have to ask him why he didn't choose her. He didn't consult with any of us when he was making his decision.
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
Because she isn't. Let it go...Jeez!
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
Tell you what, LAC - Let's go the "General Petraeus" route on this one - Tell me the answer you want and I'll give it to you. Will that make you happy?
Liberal AND Proud @ 4:
Oops! My comment on this post got mixed in with the original verbiage.
For clarity's sake, here it is again:
Bingo! Reply of the day thus far.
That pudgy, nose-picking, yellow-bellied traitor has a lot of nerve giving “patriotism” advice to the luminous Michelle Obama.
☻Bangkok Bob ☻ @ 9:
Only pig I've seen with Rove's face is a consultant for Fox news, but I don't think you want that one.
Michelle faced the dual dilemma of humanizing herself to a society that has appropriated the image of "the angry black woman," and of presenting her husband as a typical caring father.
It is infuriating that this Harvard and Princeton grad is forced to, in some sense, apologize for achieving what every family wants, what all parents work for their children to have, merely because her blackness causes anxiety in the same people who have claimed for years that all black folks need to do is "work hard" to succeed.
When women like Michelle Obama do succeed, they're supposed to minimize their accomplishments so that certain people don't feel insulted. The talking heads never ask why, because white anxiety about black self-determination is self-justifying, even in 2008. Meanwhile, John McCain runs solely on his biography, as the press sits in a rapturous silence. "I used to be a POW" will not reverse the housing crisis, it will not bring health care to the uninsured, it will not regulate the credit card industry, it will not prevent the government from taking your laptop or tapping your phone with no evidence of wrongdoing. But you wouldn't know that from watching CNN.
By far and away the best line of the night...the best line of the entire show, ever!!
“She’s got to [prove her patriotism]! She’s a Democrat. She must prove she loves America, as opposed to Republicans who everyone knooows love America. They just hate half the people living in it.”
This is so true, and it definitely got the biggest applause I've ever seen on the show.
Thank you John Stewart. Why can't you be on the big channels so they can hear the irony of this screwed up, ass backwards country?
Everybody knows all black people hate America. Duh!
That, plus POW, is John McCain's strategy in a nutshell.
Kilgore Trout @ 6:
John nailed it. What the Repugs want is the other half of the country to do is move to France if you want that fancy liberal European culture stuff. If you don't Nascar and Murica' LEAVE!
Why do you think Jazz Musicians do better and are far more popular in in Europe for example and can barely survive in the United States?
MikeinMD @ 12:
The answers are so old I've practically forgotten the questions.
Supporting the constitution makes her a patriot.
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
ask hillary.........that's if you want an honest answer.
Yep, last night's show was fantastic. I thought the Hillary child psychology segment was much funnier but the part about Michelle Obama was on point. A great show overall.
I'm guessing Colbert was so pissed about not being sent to Denver that he lost his voice yelling at his staff, haha.
Bill @ 11:
So your suggesting then when-if Obama becomes President there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the Obama right or wrong?
Forget it
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
If you don't already know LAC....then you're a total (________)! You can fill in the blank.
Seriously though, I've tried to hear your point of view with an open mind, even defended you in some cases.
But this ridiculous post....I just can't take you seriously at all.
Get over it.
And WTF does HRC not being veep have to do with this thread anyway?
Sound like a goddamn broken record!
moniker @ 20:
If that's the litmus test, I know a pretend cowboy, part time brush clearer, who lives in a pretend ranch house in Crawford Texas, who is in big trouble.
If she really loves America why didn't she erupt into fireworks?
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
why should she be?
L.A. Confidential @ 23:
That's not what he's saying at all...what he's saying is, it's time for you to stop having your little pity party in here, and move on with your fuckin life!
God DAMN give it a rest.
DeLaRocha @ 22:
But what did he miss?
He should ask MS Dowd . .
.. this Democratic convention has a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution, that I had to consult Mike Murphy, the peppery Republican strategist and former McCain guru.
“What is that feeling in the air?” I asked him.
“Submerged hate,” he promptly replied.
DeLaRocha @ 22:
colbert will probably go to the republican convention.
Stewart is on target, as usual.
So, it looks like Katrina's long lost brother, Gustav, finally showed up to the party. Latest projections show him hitting Louisiana as a cat3. Can NOLA stand it? What will Bush do? This could be not merely the final nail in Bush's political coffin, but more like nail, superglue, and duct tape...
masha @ 27:
Oh ho ho ho ha ha!
Duhhhhhh I DUNNO?
linus bern @ 26:
HA! Awesome!
Watching some of McCain's ads now that show Hillary praising McCain and dis-ing Obama, might give some hint to your question, LAC.
FUCK KARL ROVE
Arrest that traitor who outed the CIA agent Valerie Plame!
What the fuck is wrong with America?
Oh yeah, it is stupid, greedy and racist.
Who died and made the likes of Karl Rove the patriotism police? Karl- you are fired!
in some respects it's a clever strategy for simpleton's.
question her patriotism and compare with mccain the POW....personally it may be code for some also
which is sick but some people's reality.
Well look at Wright-Powers-Etc.
How do you trust a guy like that when he'll toss his own closest friends in the street for political gain.
Tweakerbell @ 31:
I live on the SE coast of Florida and I'm watching this storm too. I don't know what will happen if it pulls into NOLA as a cat 3. This is like a nightmare for that gulf coast area.
In light of the GOP and their supporters great patriotism...I think that an Army Recruiting Station should be established in a trailer parked right outside the convention hall.
If they really honor John McCain great service to the country and his symbolism as an American hero, they should all enlist.
Tweakerbell @ 31:
NOLA landfall by Gustav possibly expected on first day of GOP convention.
Yes, there IS a God.
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
About what? Michelle isn't a politician, but she has a pretty firm grasp on the English language and speaks standard English like the rest of us. There's nothing she could learn from Hillary with regard to her speech at the convention.
Michelle Obama executed brilliantly what she had to do, but it's ridiculous that she had to do it. The section of this country that thinks she's a wild, angry radical have obviously never had a real conversation with any African-Americans. As a general rule, real Afrocentrists don't straighten their hair. That's one of the most widespread capitulations to white notions of beauty, and activists from Malcolm X onward have denounced it as self-hatred. Now go look at Ms. Obama's hair again.
L.A. Confidential @ 32:
Seriously, did god anoint her or something? Was there some reason that she and only she could rightfully be chosen. There were certainly a lot of reasons to pick her. But there were equally as many not to. Among them "John McCain is ready to be president, Barack Obama is not."
MikeinMD @ 12:
Good one Mike. Your reference to that poster as LAC made me think of lackey, which just may be the case here.
Mike, where you at in MD.?
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
Still can'tfigure it out, huh? I thought she answered your question pretty well last night but you still want to whine about it. It's called the democratic process.
Did anyone see the segment where the Daily Show team makes fun of the PUMA's? That was awesome.
cobsjo @ 15:
BRAVO!!! Thank you!
pissed off patricia @ 39:
Same here...I'd rather the keys (where I'm at) get hit with this storm than NOLA...those poor folks don't need this at all.
The Guinness Book Of Records has just added Karl Rove as "Most Audacious Man in America".
liberalNmoderation @ 49:
Speaking of Hillary. Why isn’t she the VP nominee? I will keep asking until I get an honest answer.
Because Obama picked Biden.
liberalNmoderation @ 51:
Ah fuck it...I need more coffee...or a nap.
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
Here's a question for LAC. What's a major reason for the fact that the 2000 election was close enough that Bush could steal it? I suggest it might have something to do with Obama not wanting the Clintons in the WH with him.
Of course those people have to prove their patriotism ..they're ...you know...different ....
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
And how many McCain points are you earning with this?
maybe i have selective hearing......now with gustav
i hear less off-shore drilling talk
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
LAC, you're PUMA embracing and trolling for Hillary is getting old.
constituent @ 57:
You mean there might be a correlation between all those rigs being evacuated and shut-down and the sound of crickets chirping on the crazy side of the aisle in the House and Senate? You mean that all that talk about off-shore drilling might have just been political posturing and not a result of real concern for the well being of the American people?
Say it isn't so.
earl @ 55:
yup....I'm waiting for the day when a faux noose pundit actually drops the "N" bomb on national tv. Live would be even better.
McCaint Remember @ 41:
THATS PRETTY 'EFFIN SICK
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
The party nominee wanted somebody else. There's your answer.
....not that I think it's going to satisfy you.
pissed off patricia @ 10:
POP, will you marry me?
Or can I at least carry your books to school for like, the rest of your life?
earl @ 61:
Might be sick but just think of the satisfaction we're going to have watching the sick pukes on the right trying to spin this for the American people.
liberalNmoderation @ 60:
And ironically, as a well-spoken, intelligent charming woman she is about as different from that bunch of drooling idiots as she can be.
Why do Democrats always have to prove their patriotism? Why do WE have to prove to THEM??!!
Lisact @ 66:
Because we never attack theirs. But after what they've done to our country it's time to start.
Do they expect her to fly a flag in front of her house and have some magnets for her car? Isn't that what a patriot is? That's what a lot of my redneck friends here in Texas seem to think.
☻Bangkok Bob ☻ @ 9:
I am firing up the clay right now... give me a minute. How much did you say?
Why would Hillary take the VP position only to run against Obama in 4 years? Why would she play second fiddle unless she plans to get all Cheney like in office. I mean really she should of won the nom. but didn't. She is better off having more power out of office wielding a big stick and kicking repub. butt then being VP where she would just be mocked for taking it. She will be more effective out of the pres off. then in it.
"They just hate half the people living in it."
Brilliant!
earl @ 65:
Yes indeed...and that is what frightens them so.
Susie @ 69:
TOP!
thomas @ 47:
The bizarre blonde in that piece that looks like a Coulter's clone was the same PUMA that Chris Matthews had a run in with on Monday.
VietVet67 @ 68:
that reminds me of a story. i was at a friends office. he had just seen his last patient of the morning. i was out in the recpetion room...my friend and his patient were talking about the flags after 9-11. anyways the patient had his son at the office. he had to be about 9 yrs. old
he said to his dad...dad where were the flags before.
my friend(who's a republican) and i thought that was interesting/ironic. anyways i think you get my point.
earl @ 61:
calm down.
dont you get the satire ?
take a chill pill and don't take live so seriously, you'll live longer too.
thomas @ 47:
That was awesome... the sad fact was that many of them thought the Daily Show team was being sincere.
All the redneck trailer trash who voted for cowboy Bush are now standing in the unemployment line with the rest of America. How's that foreclosure going for ya?
How's that no medical insurance going for ya? How's that gas price going for ya?
How's that Iraq-nam thing going for ya? How's that "spreading freedom around the world" going for ya? How's that "Wanted Dead or Alive" thing going for ya? How's that "Mission Accomplished" thing going for ya? How's that congressional perverts thing going for ya? The list goes on and on.....
azmtdog @ 74:
got a web add. for that segment?
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
LAC,
You've proven last night and today from your beyond dumb ass posts that you aren't even a Hillary supporter. I believe you are a Republican rent boy because of your consistent, purposely disruptive, anti-Obama, anti-Democracy propaganda bullshit.
Calling you a troll would be an insult to dennis, Johnny2Bad, and man hating Marge.
To the people who want to know WHY HILLARY IS NOT THE VP? Have you ever thought of the fact that maybe she didn't want to be VP? Maybe, just maybe, she turned it down. What difference does it make? Is Hillary the only reason you live? Is Hillary the only reason for wanting to see better government in this mess we have now? Grow up, people.
In the primaries you fall in love, in the general YOU FALL IN LINE!!!!!!!
L&L @ 80, and DJ @ 81....
Thank you!
Lisact @ 66:
Because we're always on the defense, apologizing all over the damn place to these hate spewing Mother Fuckers, feeling bad for being "mean" to these freaks all while they piss on us. We have let the Repukes set the rules of the game for so long that we've become the "Washington Generals" to their "Globetrotters". Repukes laugh at us all time for being weak.
But we do maintain the moral high ground.
I can understand Karl Rove point that she should say "America" instead of "this country"
If you were an elitist, you have to keep track of what country your in, as you could be in China giving away Americans job, or in Africa planting false information for America, or in Iraq painting rosy picture of the war effort. To someone like Karl Rove, saying this country could be confusing to the Neo-con, as they prefer to say America as one day it wont be just a country but a global name.
Fuck Karl Rove.
Bitter Bud Hussein @ 63:
Sure you can carry my books. Thank you :)
Why is Rogue allowed to walk around in public? Is he on some kind of work release program? With all of the cops they have there, how come somebody doesn't arrest him?
constituent @ 75: