Daily Show: 2008 McCain = 2000 Bush: A case of amnesia.
By SilentPatriot Friday Sep 05, 2008 3:48pm
Jon finds some eerie similarities between John McCain's convention speech and the one given by George W. Bush eight years ago.
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John Amato: McCain wants us to forget that if he wins the election---America will be controlled by the Republicans for four more years that have produced such disastrous results. And the media will only help make this election about personalities instead of issues and then use Palin to distract us from those issues.
Arianna has a great post about this:
Listening to McCain, you'd think it was the Democrats who occupied the White House the last seven-plus years and it was time to throw the bastards out.
Given that 82 percent of voters believe we are heading in the wrong direction, it's a logical position to take. But for the American people to buy into the notion that McCain, who has raced to Bush's side on tax cuts, on offshore drilling -- even on torture -- is this campaign's agent of change, it's going to require an incredible suspension of disbelief. Or a serious case of amnesia.
And this is clearly McCain's campaign strategy: inducing amnesia about the past and confusion about the future, attempting to hoodwink the American people about what he has become. Which is where Sarah Palin comes in. As a major distraction. In the effort to divert attention from the matter at hand -- McCain's embrace of all things Bush -- Palin is the perfect storm...read on
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Amnesia, the Americans should be able to do that!
They have forgotten where they came. Why they came here in the first place. What they were doing before they turned on the TV.
No hay problema!
I knew this set of tapes had to exist and leave it up to Stewart to put them together. I would love to see airplay of this everywhere. This is the irrefutable truth.
OMFG! I'm a glutton for punishment, so I went on the Faux News site, only to find a "top story" about how the McCain camp rescued flags that were discarded in Denver. It went on to detail how the flags were given to people at his rally. Of course my comment about why the McCain wasn't as concerned about the flags over the coffins of 4100 US soldiers who fought in Iraq was DELETED.
I'm so pissed off w/this election now - wtf are people so stupid!?!?
That entire episode was the BEST, ever. Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.
can you say senile? sure yah can.
I think McCain is really George Costanza, in ‘The Opposite Show’
I don't know how many people TDS has in it's audience but the applause was louder and more originally spontaneous than any of the applause at the RNC.
Sweet blissful truthiness!
God Bless Jon Stewart and others like him, Stephen and my hero Keith Olbermann for giving them 'what for'!!!
I think I'll buy a Guy Fawkes mask for November 5th!! (reference to V for Vendetta)
I really hope this Repubican formula is wearing thin for the majority of Americans. If not, I will be very disappointed come November 4th.
I guess McCain's speech writers shot their collective, literary wads on the pitbull, so they had pull something out of the garbage can.
Who says the GOP can't recycle?
I actually was planning on looking up Bush's Philly acceptance speech and comparing it to Mac, so thank you, Daily Show, for saving me some time AND making me laugh and shiver at the same time.
Well done, boys.
IMHO television induces amnesia. It is a drug. A drugged person can be led to believe whatever the television tells them to believe. There is no critical thinking involved -- hey! it's like religion!
This clip would make a very effective ad against McSame. lets hope BO/Biden will run more ads like this to tie them both together.
one of the best Sarah Palin fact-checker articles I've found is on a Canadian blog:
http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/09/04/obama-camp-fact-checks-the-new-thatcher/
TY to C&L and TDS, that was the best
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That was hilarious. If only Obama could use it.
Can someone answer me this, why doesn't the mainstream press pick up on this. I love Jon Steward, but with all due respect, where's Blitzer? Where's Stephanap...? Where's Curic? Where's the rest of them?
I think being compared to Bush isn't McCain's only problem. Palin is starting to really overshadow McCain. In fact, some are even calling for a Palin-McCain ticket. Not a McCain-Palin one. McCain is going to have to come down on Palin and soon.
McCain-Palin becoming Palin-McCain?
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The banners, buttons and signs say McCain-Palin, but the crowds say something else.
"Sa-rah! Pa-lin!" came the chant at a Colorado Springs rally on Saturday moments before Republican nominee John McCain took the stage with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a woman who was virtually unknown to the nation just a week earlier. The day before, thousands screamed "Sa-rah! Sa-rah! Sa-rah!" at an amphitheater outside Detroit.
http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080906/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_palin
JonAtWork @ 18:
They all work for corporate controlled media. What's in it for them to tell the truth? They would get fired.
Dems = LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton
Repubs = Nixon, Ford, Reagan, shrub I, shrub II
Tell me which party has done the best for the U.S.
Answer: neither
They're both bought and sold.
JonAtWork @ 18:
These are great questions! It makes it obvious that their agenda is not to inform the public, but to entertain and propagandize us all. Argh!!!!
VietVet8666 @ 21:
You are saying both parties are the same? Did you receive a head injury in Viet Nam?
The memory Herpes have spread from the White House to McCain!
This whole week of The Daily Show has had to be the best I have ever seen. Hilarious!
The problem is that most of the GOP base are too damn stupid to get the joke. They don't understand you don't put the same people we've had for eight years in charge and expect anything to change.
If we get another Republican administration we won't have to worry as much about illegal immigration, though: the country will be so far in the shitter no one will want to come here.
Jo @ 23:
You are saying both parties are the same? Did you receive a head injury in Viet Nam?
Protip: He's a republican troll who wasn't alive during Vietnam or got deferments like the rest of the cowardly chickenhawks.
WhohohoWW!
That's gotta hurt the GOP!
Jo @ 23:
Jo,
No. But consider both parties.
What is the real difference in terms of outcome?
Black_Knight @ 26:
Protip: He's a republican troll who wasn't alive during Vietnam or got deferments like the rest of the cowardly chickenhawks.
Well that's an insult to my husband who was a medic there for 4 years! What a coward, indeed!!
That was freaking hilarious! Jon Stewart is the best. Thanks Jon and C&L for giving me a big laugh this afternoon.
Palin not ready to be commander in chief "heartbeat away' but she will be in a couple weeks....wow.
Black Night
You are correct. There are lots of fake Viet Nam vets.
I'm a real Viet Nam vet, but I appreciate your concern.
I think it's time those two got a room.
Between the Walter Reed Middle School pic and the graveyard pic it's obvious all the competent people have left the GOP.
Seriously a graveyard? WTF were they thinking?
VietVet8666 @ 32:
Is a "fake Vietnam Vet" like a "fake American?" (Careful with your words.)
I'd like to say the parties are similar, not the same. I'd rather have the Dems being similar than the neocons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VietVet8666 @ 28:
If you read Noam Chomsky or Howard Zinn, you will discover that VietVet has a point!
Glenn @ 37:
Let's get back to McCain. This does no one any good.
New movie poster:
http://www.bgladd.com/McSameStore/McSameAndMrsPalinMovie.jpg
Jo @ 20:
The majority of Americans do have an understanding of what has happened to their country.
The government has been hijacked by Corporations. Many started as US Corporations but are now International.
The only interest of Corporations is the bottom line. They have no allegiance to this country or its people.
When there is a conflict of interest between, and there most often is, what is good for America and what furthers the bottom line, Corporations go with the bottom line, always.
The Republicans have carried the Corporate banner since their conversion from the Party of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.
The Democrats have carried the Corporate banner since the advance of the DLC in the eighties.
There is a difference between the two parties, but not much. Not nearly enough for me.
Unfortunately most of the people are taken in by the election rhetoric. If they really understood what is afoot with these two political parties, they would have no part of it.
Edwin at 36
There are real Viet Nam vets.
And fake Viet Nam vets.
Well, I am beginning to feel a little hope. Democrats are out pacing Repugs in record numbers.
Keep doing the split screen stuff I love it!!! McCain loves Bush; McCain vs McSame; McCain vs Palin; McCain the liar.
When he exposes himself (not literally) there's no way to defend it.
Loonie @ 17:
Well, maybe Obama won't but I just got an email from Barbara Boxer this a.m. with the Daily Show vid of the day after the convention! I love Boxer.
I'd like to make an observation, if I may...
When Bush spoke by satellite to the RNC, he said that "If the Hanoi Hilton didn't break him {John McCain} then the 'angry left' never will"
Well, didn't John McCain admit to the world in his acceptance speech that, in fact, after repeated beatings, they did indeed "break" him?
(For the record, I don't blame him. I can't imagine anyone being tortured in that fashion and despite what the Bush administration says about "enhanced interrogation" we all know that those are just words.)
It's amazing that it takes a comedy show on basic cable to do what the media has neglected for so long. Now why the hell aren't the Dems coming up with ads like that?
Check this out!!
Wasilla is/was meth capital of Alaska!
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/030805/sta_20050308002.shtml
VietVet8666 @ 41:
You mean, there are people that didn't go to Vietnam, but say they did? Please explain.
That series of clips needs to be a MoveOn.org or DNC commercial.
Glenn @ 37:
I have read both. I have "The Zinn Reader" right here on my desk. And "A People's History of the United States" is in my bookcase. Chomsky I can take in small doses. He does not "get down" like Zinn does.
They are both brilliant men and they are both right about the parties up to a point.
But, I do not like to equate the party of Reagan with the party of FDR. To me there is a huge difference.
Joe O. @ 19:
OOHHH. That's gonna leave a mark --- on McCain. Should be cranky about it real soon.
Edwin at 48
There are a lot of guys who say they served in Viet Nam but didn't.
A Viet Nam vet will ask, when did you serve, with what unit did you serve, where did you serve?
When, what, where.
A fake vet will give a bullshit answer.
A real vet will give you a bleedy-real answer to each question.
Brilliant juxtaposition there at the end! And bringing back the shameless mocking of Kerry was a timely reminder too. TG for TDS.
That was great.
[I HOPE you got my email-Sitemonitor]
VietVet8666 @ 52:
OK. I did not know that. Seems a bit crazy, but I trust your answer. (Hope I didn't offend.)
Red Headed StepChild @ 47:
Read the comments after that story too.
Edwin Hussein @ 56:
I'm not American. Thankfully, we Canadians had the good sense NOT TO GO, so it is not part of our national discourse.
someguy @ 35:
Saw that when it aired live on CNN and couldn't wrap my brain around the timing of that image-- let alone the concept.
I liken watching the RNC to what the experience must be like for someone taking a bad trip on mouldy, poisonous old mushrooms.
http://www.dailypaul.com/files/images/bush-endorses-mccain.jpg
Creepy pix
Yeah, McCain has suceeded in using Palin as a distraction. The other problem, however, is that Palin appears to me to be another Bush, but female....and maybe more articulate, maybe more intelligent. She is from an oil-producing state; she doesn't care for the environment; she believes God has a plan to go to war; she's the person people want to have a beer with (not me); she's a governor; and because she is not experienced in international affairs, she will be shaped and controllled by Neocons.
To some extent, if elected, I think she might also become another Cheney, hiding out in that secret bunker, scheming with the Neocons on what war to fight next. She apparently can keep secrets very well.
Maybe somehow Obama can paint her as a female Bush or Cheney, just waiting to do major damage to this country.
Edwin at 57
It's OK.
General Jack D. Rippper @ 60:
Any Repugnican who can manage to get placed anywhere remotely near 1600 Penn Ave after November will be a malignancy and a pox on the face of the United States of America.
Black_Knight @ 26:
Protip: He's a republican troll who wasn't alive during Vietnam or got deferments like the rest of the cowardly chickenhawks.
Another tip, a better one. The Republican trolls never say the Republicans are the same as the Democrats.
That is my observation.
The Republicans keep branding the Democrats with the 'liberal' and 'extreme liberal' party moniker. They are neither.
As Gore Vidal famously stated, we have two major parties in this country, a right wing party and an ultra right party.
As for Vietnam, it was another illegal war that should never have happened.
We were filling in for the Colonial French, during the fifties with our treasure, we wanted their help in Europe. After the false Gulf of Tonkin incident we filled in for them with our blood.
There had never, in one thousand years of Vietnamese history, been a North and South Vietnam. The Geneva accords of 1955, after the defeat of the Colonial French at Dien Bien Phu, called for nationwide elections within two years. The prevailing Vietnamese were to withdraw north of the 17th parallel, the French to south until the elections.
We didn't want elections so we installed our puppet Diem who had been in New Jersey, having no legitimate connection with the political process at all and the twenty year war was on. It was tragic and it was illegal.
War profiteering is a monster that is difficult to stop.
Read Major General Smedley D. Butler here - 'War is a racket'.
It was racket then, it is still a racket.
nrdesieyes @ 49:
Only if they follow those clips with the clip of McCain bragging about how he voted with Bush over 90% of the time.
Jo,
I disagree.
There is difference on the surface.
But no real difference.
FDR got us into WWII.
LBJ got us into Viet Nam.
Shrub I and II got us into Iraq.
Eisenhower nominated Warren, who gave us Brown vs. Board of Education and the Warren Report.
Where is the difference between the two parties?
[You know, I watched this clip, and I am at a loss to see how you guys are on topic. Could you manage to get back on? Thanks-Sitemonitor]
The block quotes were messed up.
Alice X - (Chomsky Nader) - status quObama - change you can pretend in - @ 63:
Alice:
Another tip, a better one. The Republican trolls never say the Republicans are the same as the Democrats.
That is my observation.
The Republicans keep branding the Democrats with the 'liberal' and 'extreme liberal' party moniker. They are neither.
As Gore Vidal famously stated, we have two major parties in this country, a right wing party and an ultra right party.
As for Vietnam, it was another illegal war that should never have happened.
We were filling in for the Colonial French, during the fifties with our treasure, we wanted their help in Europe. After the false Gulf of Tonkin incident we filled in for them with our blood.
There had never, in one thousand years of Vietnamese history, been a North and South Vietnam. The Geneva accords of 1955, after the defeat of the Colonial French at Dien Bien Phu, called for nationwide elections within two years. The prevailing Vietnamese were to withdraw north of the 17th parallel, the French to south until the elections.
We didn't want elections so we installed our puppet Diem who had been in New Jersey, having no legitimate connection with the political process at all and the twenty year war was on. It was tragic and it was illegal.
War profiteering is a monster that is difficult to stop.
Read Major General Smedley D. Butler here - 'War is a racket'.
It was racket then, it is still a racket.
It is a crying shame we have no real journalists in this country. Well, a few, but it would seem most of them are on the comedy shows. A few on PBS and that is about all.
I kept wondering why they were going to Colorado Springs where they are going to win anyway. I thought it was where they could get play on the complicit media for turning out bigger crowds 'now that the campaign is re-energized' etc. Probably part of it but mostly it was to do the bullshit stolen flag shtick. I'll bet the fundie crowd loved it.
natalie @ 3:
This should not be shown on the comedy channel. It should be on msm, everywhere. And especially the Fox "No spin, just lies" news, always playing continiously on all the White House tv's.
John, if your reading this, you got a great big kiss comming. Tongue or no tongue, it's your choice.
Those are "just the facts", put oh so well, as only you can do. That was one of your best yet. Salute!
Joe O. @ 19:
It is no mistake that Colorado Springs is the venue. Colorado Springs is home of Focus on the Family and many of the nation's mega churches. Ted Haggard's former church (remember him?), the New Life Church is in Colorado Springs. Is is the mecca for the radical right and Sarah (who was hand picked by them) is one of their own, a Bible thumping, anti-choice, Dominionist.
Sitemonitor,
Thanks for your work.
I agree: vote for Obama and Biden.
Elect them, and all will be fine.
Count on it.
Why is it that Comedy Central is doing the national news media's job for it? What a disgrace.
I hope Obama chooses either Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert as his press secretary. They've earned it.
Alice X - (Chomsky Nader) - status quObama - change you can pretend in - @ 40:
The Republican Party has been hijacked by the radical religious right wing. Their goal is a complete theocracy and all goes with it: to make abortions illegal, to outlaw contraceptives, to make Christianity the state religion, to receive more in more in the form of "faith-based initiatives". Don't forget they are big international corporations too and they also only care about power and their bottom lines.
Were getting screwed over a third time by the MSM.
Appears they won't even allow Obama on the air at this point.
HelenWheels @ 44:
Barbara Boxer, a true pitbull. Sarah Palin, a media coward, hiding behind and being protected by Big Daddy McCain.
L.A. Confidential @ 74:
The only way this will stop if there is a concerted and organized effot to boycott the sponsors. This is EXACTLY what the religious right did and how they gained their power. They showed their economic strength.
Somewhat OT: Hell has officially frozen over. On a panel discussion of FAUX snooze, one of the regular slantheads just called Palin a "Right Wing Wacko."
global citizen @ 68:
The McCain camp have to pay homage to the people who vetted Palin and kiss their arses. They are merely bringing their girl home to those who are just like her as a way to energize their base and further ensure the radical christian right vote.
L.A. Confidential @ 74:
For Obama to get air time, he has to come out swinging. He has to show more fight than John Kerry did when he first got swift boated. Twenty four hours is a very long time in today's politics. To let even one day get by and not bring out all the heavy guns is a disappointment. Considering all the money his campaign has, I am left to wonder why there haven't been more ads blasting away? He can do it and stay on message at the same time. It is his message that resonates. It is won't be sarcasm and forced smiles. Simple ads, that is all they need.
She knows how to properly field dress a moose and that’s good enough for Freddy. The neocons will run everything, anyway, so she really doesn’t have to know anything.
Religion and Militarism what a combo.
Debby Hussain @ 77:
I'm liking this recent cold front in Hell, if it's as cold as you described it to be :D
McCain = Bush. Four more years of Bush.
He will bleed this country dry. He will nominate extremists to the SCOTUS. He will appoint people to destroy government programs. He will continue to eviscerate the Constitution. And Palin will be right there waiting in the wings.
Obama will have a Democratic controlled Senate and House. He will work for blue collar workers. He will work to improve the lives of those who have been disenfranchised during the 2 terms of Bush/Cheney. He will not appoint religious fanatics to head government departments or nominate them to the SCOTUS.
And Biden will be ready and able to step in if need be, God forbid.
McCain wants us to forget he has voted with Bush 100% in 2008.
Thanks, Jon Stewart, Silent Patriot and John Amato.
The most painful lesson of the past 8 years is to face up to how easy it is for a rouge government to take over a lazy, complacent, spoiled, brainwashed, and politically disconnected populace.
oncall @ 79:
Yep, like this one (imo), which C&L linked to yesterday:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/04/open-thread-916/
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/06/palins-church-promoting-conferen...
Palin’s Church Promoting Conversion of Gays to Heterosexuals
by Associated Press
Saturday, September 6, 2008
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin’s church is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer.
“You’ll be encouraged by the power of God’s love and His desire to transform the lives of those impacted by homosexuality,” according to the insert in the bulletin of the Wasilla Bible Church, where Palin has prayed for about six years.
Palin’s conservative Christian views have energized that part of the GOP electorate, which was lukewarm to John McCain’s candidacy before he named her as his vice presidential choice. She is staunchly anti-abortion, opposing exceptions for rape and incest, and opposes gay marriage and spousal rights for gay couples.
Focus on the Family, a national Christian fundamentalist organization, is conducting the “Love Won Out” Conference in Anchorage, about 30 miles from Wasilla. . . . .
L.A. Confidential @ 83:
The saddest part is that it could happen again. Why this is even close is dumbfounding.
Looks like the McCain camp are thieves as well as Carl Cameron is a liar again.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/06/thrown-away-flags-story-f_n_124...
hello @ 84:
That ad is pure genius!
Here is a partial list of media that need to be contacted regarding sooo many things. Take a minute & address your concerns and make a difference;
60m@cbsnews.com, anderson.cooper@cnn.com, letters@cnn.com, editor@latimes.com, editor@washingtonpost.com, letters@msnbc.com, countdown@msnbc.com, phil.griffin@nbc.com, abrams@msnbc.com