John Oliver & The Daily Show take the piss out of CNN's John King and his Magic Wall® that was used this election season to illustrate the Electoral Map.
Pink Floyd did have it right after all.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
The complete clip can be seen on The Daily Show website.
Jon Stewart looks at the Obama Victory coverage, including the new and very, very strange toys the networks employed to jazz up the electoral results.
The Daily Show's John Oliver went to a Barack Obama and a Sarah Palin rally and found that Americans are more unified than we're led to believe: We're all scared sh%#less.
Jon Stewart looks at who the 24 hour cable channels use to fill up their time slots and asks exactly what their qualifications are for their punditocracy.
With a little creativity or a whole lot of batsh@t insanity, that f@#%ing guy could be you!
There are more Comedy Central videos available at Indecision 08.
With all this talk of "real Americans" and the superiority of small town values, The Daily Show's Jason Jones went straight to the heart of these values -- Sarah Palin's hometown of Wasilla, Alaska.
A place where no means maybe; where strangers are just friends you haven’t thrown up on yet.
You can see more of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report at Indecision'08. And you can read Jon Stewart's clarification of his "F*ck you" to Sarah Palin at an appearance at Northeastern University at HuffPo.
[Note from Dave: I was present, observing in the back, while Jones was interviewing customers at the Mug Shot Saloon in Wasilla. (You can see some of it in the unfortunately brief video I made of my time in the Mug Shot here.) Most of the interviewees, I think, were alternately excited and amused at the idea of being national TV. Considering that they were some of Palin's biggest fans, I suspect they were about as amused at the outcome as Mark Chryson was.)
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This was just too good to let slide, but with all the discussion of the bailout bill and the Vice Presidential debate, it got lost. On last Thursday's The Daily Show, Jon Stewart showed an absolutely schizophrenic appearance by John McCain discussing the bailout to prove once and for all, McCain IS Gollum.
We loves the bill! We hates the bill! We loves the bill… hates the bill!
That’s an unfair joke…it’s an unfair joke because Gollum is an old man, corrupted by his quest for ultimate power and…oh.
The Daily Show exposed the McCain hypocrisy in full detail. Their recent attack ads against Obama that included Paris Hilton might make the Hiltons a little unhappy since they donated the max to McCain's camp. Attacking their daughter wasn't so nice. Then Stewart takes a look at all the uppity remarks that McCain has made about the McCain Presidency.
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It's another brilliant segment on the election. The GOP knows that anything they float out there will be debated by the media like "Is Obama arrogant?"and they will fail to look at McCain's own arrogant behavior when Obama hasn't actually been arrogant.
Lara Logan is a big C&L favorite because she's been in a war zone and not backed down from right wing narratives. She joins Jon Stewart and rocks the house down with this astute observation of the American media.
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Stewart: Do you watch the news that we're watching?
Logan: No
Stewart: ...in the United States? Do you see what we're hearing about the war? So, we might actually know everything?
Logan: If I were to watch the news that you hear in the United States---I'd just blow my brains out because it would drive me nuts.
Really?
Are the Villagers watching? Do you hear?
Jon Stewart takes an in-depth look at the phenomenon known as Baracknophobia, defined as the "irrational fear of hope."
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"The Irrational fear that behind the mild-mannered persona, Barack Obama is intent on enslaving the white race. It's true. Wake up, white people."
Which attempt at smearing Obama is your favorite? Mine is a close tie between Sean Hannity calling Obama a "radical liberal," and Steve Doocy claiming Obama plagiarized a speech from Mario Cuomo, despite only three words being the same.
The Prince of darkness returns! Novakula dusts off his old weather beaten type writer to give us his idiotic tirade against the very popular Sebelius. Here's their response to Novak.
Sebelius spokeswoman Nicole Corcoran condemned the Novak piece as forwarding his "personal agendas and hyperbole." She pointed out that Novak's column failed to mention the 8.5 percent decline in the Kansas abortion rate since Sebeliushas been in office and added: "Clearly, the people of Kansas don't share Mr. Novak's narrow view of Governor Sebelius, having overwhelmingly voted to re-elect her in 2006 in an endorsement of Governor Sebelius's centrist, mainstream approach."
Wow, she supports women's rights. What a shocker. C&Lers may remember the odious wild man named Phill Kline.
Kline was one of those over the top an anti-choice lunatics that O'Reilly just loved. His positions finally drove him out of a job in Kansas, but he's still hanging around. He was also being investigated for some money issues. Click here for the video.
Anyway, back to Novak, here's a blast from the past Daily Show clip that has been a big favorite here.
Stewart: ..for that Douchebaggery, Robert Novak is hereby awarded the highest civilian honor awarded to douchebags: The congressional medal of douchebag…
It's an honor well deserved.
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart tried to warn him in 2006, but John McCain didn't listen. Battered by all sides over his embrace of End Times Pastor John Hagee, John McCain is finally experiencing the blowback from his pandering visits to "crazy base world."
Two years before he shared a San Antonio stage with John Hagee, John McCain in the spring of 2006 sought to jump-start his GOP presidential bid by repairing his frayed relationship with the religious right. On April 2, 2006, McCain appeared on Meet the Press and retracted his famous 2000 claim that the late Reverend Jerry Falwell was an "agent of intolerance." On May 13, 2006, McCain delivered the commencement address at Falwell's Libery University. There, the two men walked on stage together, where Falwell then praised his former foe, "the ilk of John McCain is very scarce, very small."
But weeks before McCain journeyed to Lynchburg, Virginia to deliver that speech, he traveled to New York to appear on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. There, Stewart jokingly warned McCain about the risks in pandering to evangelical GOP voters through his looming rapprochement with Falwell:
Mr. Stewart takes a look at John McCain in a way that the media will not.
Stewart: Hagee's God doesn't damn America. Hagee's God just destroys the parts of it he doesn't like. How are you going to distance yourself from that, Senator?
McCain: I'm glad to have his endorsement.
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Wow, a mention of John Hagee's insane positions and John McCain begging to have his support.
“New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God,” Hagee said, because “there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came.”
I wonder why the media will never cover that? I almost forgot, we're dealing with McCain's Media! And then there was Stephanopoulos. I forgot that McCain said he could a uncover billion dollars just about anywhere. Maybe on one of Keating's jets perhaps?
George: Even by your own accounting 300 billion dollars a year, that means your previous promise to balance your budget in the first year---that's gone.
McCain: No, of course not. Look, I'll find you a hundred billion tomorrow.
Jon Stewart does what he does best and demolishes ABC debate moderators Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos for the pathetic questions they asked on Wednesday.
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The first hour of last night's debate was a 60 minute master class in questions that elevate out-of-context remarks and trivial, insipid miscues into subjects of natural discourse...which is my job! Stop doing my job! That's what I'm here for! I'm the silly man!
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The Daily Show takes a look at Chuck Norris and his support of Huckabee, the anti-evolution candidate---Chuck, the incredible action hero endorsement if there ever was one...Do you have a partial gym in your house?
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From Thursday's show, Jon Stewart looks at the logic-- or lack thereof -- behind Bush's veto of SCHIP.
No healthcare for poor kids? You know, I thought something like that was only done by cartoon villains. You're slowly going from Nixon to Mr. Burns.
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BUSH: ...I believe in private medicine, not the federal government running the healthcare system...
STEWART: Yes, I don't think there's an uninsured kid out there who wants to be suckered into some slippery slope socialized medicine scheme. These kids don't want the government telling them what they can or cannot die from. It's just wrong.
