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A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

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  1. 1.

    Some Guy

    That was truly a special moment of payback. Combined with his Beck parody, JStew is doing some truly historic TV this Spring.

    On an unrelated note, this graf from TPM’s coverage on the great Republican cave in FinReg made me smile too.

    “This afternoon, entering a Republican caucus meeting, the Republican Deputy Whip John Thune candidly acknowledged that the politics just aren’t playing out for the GOP, and that members don’t want to take a tough vote against regulating Wall Street.”

    Go figure: make them stand up and vote on their bullshit and they cave. Like Cole has been saying. They have no ideas, no vision, nothing. Just a lot of hostility. Make them vote their bullshit and watch them fail.

    Who would have thought carrying water for the worst white collar criminals would be bad politics?

  3. 3.

    Tunch

    I think I’ll be laughing about that one for a couple of years.

    You thought that was just a big fucking hairball?

  4. 4.

    electricgrendel

    I wish I had that chorus behind me all day every day.

    That was my exact same reaction when I watched that clip earlier today.

  5. 5.

    Fencedude

    The “lupus of news” line sent me rolling out of my chair. The Go Fuck Yourself chorus was just the icing on the cake.

  7. 7.

    Elizabelle

    That was teh awesome.

    My favorite was Bernard Goldberg castigating Stewart’s “unsophisticated” audience, when it’s more informed on the real world than Foxmatons.

  8. 8.

    Tom Betz

    @beltane: I suspect that the first draft was “the AIDS of news” but he decided to tone it down.

    And AFAIC, Stewart’s 15-minute-long parody of Glenn Beck already won him the Emmy.

  9. 9.

    rob!

    Judd Apatow was on Fresh Air last summer, and he surmised that TDS and Colbert will have a huge cultural impact years, decades from now, as the kids who grew up on those shows will become adults and be level-headed, politically-engaged, culturally-accepting adults. I have no idea if he’s right, but God I hope so.

    On a separate note, we were watching Glee last night, and, whatever you think of that show, I think it represents where America is going: its got people of all stripes: white, black, asian, gay, handicapped, etc., all mixed in one big mess o’humanity. None of these kids are judged for what they are–the show just has them to what they do.

    The GOP is seeing this vision of America, and it terrifies them. They desperately wants to turn the ship around and have it go the other way, back to the 1950s when minorities knew their place and you could pay your doctor with poultry.

  10. 10.

    Brian J

    This is just one what I suspect is many surveys and profiles that prove Goldberg is simply wrong when he says that Stewart’s audience is “unsophisticated.”

  13. 13.

    KRK

    I wish I had that chorus behind me all day every day.

    So the dude could warn everyone you’re unstable and lactose intolerant?

  14. 14.

    beltane

    @rob!: My 14 year son and his friends are all huge Jon Stewart fans. He is like their Walter Cronkite and Richard Pryor all rolled into one.

  17. 17.

    litbrit

    Four different people sent me this clip today, including my husband. I’d already seen it on the 7pm repeat of TDS, as it turned out, but I dutifully watched it again and again because really, how often can one do that with anything, even the funniest comedy bit? This is a classic for the ages.

    I put it on my Facebook page, and came over here, and lo and behold, here we go again.

    I fully expect Jon Stewart to appear in my dreams about two hours from now. Which will be fine by me, with or without the Go Fuck Yourself Chorus. ;-)

  21. 21.

    rob!

    @beltane: that’s great.

    One of the things I love about the whole TDS/Colbert Comedy Axis is that this group, while liberal, are very different from the comedy liberals of the 70s (or the caricature of 70s liberals that persists to this day, at least): Stewart, Colbert, etc., are politically engaged, smart, pro-troops, staunchly patriotic, and (as far as we know) free of the self-destructive addictions of drugs and other excesses.

    If JStew and Colbert are the new face of liberalism, I’m TOTALLY OKAY with that.

  22. 22.

    SIA

    I saw this last night and have watched it at least 4-5 times. It fills my heart with JOY.

    The media can’t stop watching him, even though he tears them to shreds 4 nights a week.

    Jon Stewart has been at the top of his game the last few months. “Social commentary” doesn’t get any better than this. Go fuck yourself Bernie.

    ETA: Has “Chickens for Healthcare” made it into the lexicon yet?

  23. 23.

    RareSanity

    StewBeef!

    Anybody else catch Tracy Morgan? I would love to see him be a guest “correspondent”.

  26. 26.

    Ecks

    TDS sometimes struggles a little to keep up with the vast number of hours of teevee it has to produce, but holy jumping christ on a popsicle stick, that was unadulterated genius.

  27. 27.

    JSpencer

    Jon Stewart is such good medicine – and the perfect antidote to fools on fox. An American treasure to be sure.

  29. 29.

    El Cid

    I too was blown away by Stewart’s Beck. But this bit reminded me how much Goldbutt was bringing a spork to a gunfight. You just don’t take on a comedian with his own nightly show unless you plan to look silly.

  30. 30.

    SectarianSofa

    Awesome.

    I didn’t realize, though, what a complete and total tool that Goldberg fellow was. Amazing. And he attempted the sort of take-down of Stewart that could appeal only to mean-spirited grandmothers from 1985. “edgy” ? How could Stewart consider himself “edgy”?

  31. 31.

    YellowJournalism

    @rob!:

    On a separate note, we were watching Glee last night, and, whatever you think of that show, I think it represents where America is going: its got people of all stripes: white, black, asian, gay, handicapped, etc., all mixed in one big mess o’humanity. None of these kids are judged for what they are—the show just has them to what they do.

    Glee rocks my world each week. It, like Chuck, gives me a happy, satisfying high that I wish would last all week long. I love dancing around to the music with my boys. The fact that they not only had a Madonna night but had Jane Lynch actually singing Vogue was pure pleasure. (I don’t care what people say nowadays: I. love. Madonna.)

    Top that off with this Jon Stewart clip after a Jin-Sun reunion that brought tears to my eyes, and you have a near perfect night, TV-wise.

  32. 32.

    Quaker in a Basement

    @El Cid:

    You just don’t take on a comedian with his own nightly show unless you plan to look silly.

    Especially if you’re a pompous, lying, self-important goober. (Is it possible Bernie doesn’t know?) Stewart couldn’t hire a more perfect straight man.

  33. 33.

    ChrisZ

    I’ve never really liked that kind of over-the-top ridiculous sketches that Stewart does, I much preferred the first part of the clip to the second. Just pointing out that Goldberg’s “comeback” was just to call Stewart unfunny while telling Goldberg to go fuck himself was enough for me.

    That being said, I too would love to have that chorus with me at all times.

  34. 34.

    asiangrrlMN

    I’ve watched this a few times, and it never gets old. I really like the guy giving the response in the chorus. “Now you’re just making shit up!”

  35. 35.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: So you’ll be entertained for a grand total of five minutes then demand something either involving a stripper pole or Alan Rickman. Can’t do both because there are some realms of weirdness even I won’t venture into.

    Hi hon. I think I’ll be unconscious starting Friday morning. Maybe.

  37. 37.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Don’t get my mother’s hopes up. She’s distracted with the horses so the grandchild pressure has gone way down, plus my youngest brother just got married so that helps there as well. Trust me the baby being half-Taiwanese will have no effect on her whatsoever, especially since my younger brother fancies Japanese girls. In fact, I want to get him a nice Japanese lady to settle down with. But my Cupid arrows are retired for now.

  38. 38.

    slag

    Awesome. Unsurprisingly, Jon Stewart’s choir talks back. Don’t know if I can say the same for Bill O’Reilly’s.

  39. 39.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: Oh, lordy. If I told my mom I was seriously shagging someone, it would get her hopes up, too. Yes. We will just keep that entre nous (and the rest of BJ-land).

    @slag: Hell, no. They would get killed if they uttered a word against him.

  40. 40.

    Steve

    When will George Carlin finally choose between comedy and social commentary? Gosh, I guess never.

  43. 43.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Hell if you go far back enough I’m sure there were some ancient Egyptian satirists who indulged in this kind of tomfoolery as well. Of course since writing was so limited in those days it would be very unlikely that any of it was written down, but it’s still kinda fun to think about.

  44. 44.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: Yep. I would wager a bet that for as long as there have been humans on this earth, there have been comedians skewering the sacred cows of the day and getting in trouble for it.

  45. 45.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: The history of the troubadour, which inspired much of what became European culture, started as basically those who could and would speak harsh truths that otherwise could not be voiced. And they were usually safe, because they traveled from court to court and not only teased their current hosts but also traded bits of juicy gossip and happenings from other noble houses as well. If you got the reputation of being unfriendly to them, your court would suddenly turn very dull, as they were excellent at communicating with each other and who gave them safe passage versus who gave them trouble. Our modern tradition of comedy as social commentary has deep and ancient roots, but it has also been a vital part of European and European descended societies for centuries at least. It really was remarkable how much they actually COULD get away with.

  47. 47.

    Comrade Baron Elmo

    Like a lot of viewers, I was worried that the outcome of the 2008 election might dull The Daily Show’s edge. Let’s face it — if Obama served a thousand-year term as president, he still couldn’t manage to equal the cornucopia of blunders, fuckups, evil deeds and idiotic statements racked up by Bush and his pack of clowns in less than a decade.

    But in reality, Obama’s ascendancy was the best break TDS could have gotten — Jon and company simply devoted much more of the show to covering the asshattery of the media, just in time for right-wing insanity to hit warp speed on our TV sets and in our newspapers.

    And yes, the Goldberg smack-down was glorious… surely up there with Stephen Colbert’s Press Club speech as a shining example of how best to fight Wingnuttus Americanus.

  49. 49.

    Mum

    @rob!:

    I love your entire comment, but the “pay your doctor with poultry” phrase is definitely emblazoned on my brain.

  51. 51.

    Sir Nose'D

    @Brian J: That current events knowledge survey is obviously liberal-biased. It does not even ask who John Galt is, for example. Also, too.

  52. 52.

    chopper

    @Joe Max:

    that one time when he said ‘euripides trousers, you mend-a-these trousers’, that was clearly just as much social commentary on the crappy quality of pants back then.

  53. 53.

    Lee

    My wife and I commented about the look on O’Reilly’s face as he was leading into Goldberg.

    To us, it looked like he was thinking “Goldberg, you are about to get your ass handed to you”.

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