As promised, probably one of the funniest hours of tv ever:
For non-Hulu users, TDS is here, here, and here.
And if that wasn’t good enough for you, the Colbert Report spend the entire episode mocking that idiot Glenn Beck:
The best part of the top clip with Stewart skewing CNBC is that for once, while still funny, Stewart looks really pissed and disgusted. As anyone with sense would be.
T Paine
As funny as a catastrof*ck can be.
Laura W Darling
(Colbert Report spent.)
FYI, John, that sort of stuff tends to crash Firefox for me. Just did once.
Napoleon
Stewart cares about what is happening. One of the times he has ever seemed most pissed was when a guest of his around 6 to 9 months ago, in referring to the fact that Bush was president said "he has been good for you" and without missing a beat he snaps "not as a citizen".
Atanarjuat
Laugh it up while you can, monkey boys.
Perhaps Glenn Beck was being a bit hyperbolic with some scenarios, but his last point is precisely on target and worth repeating:
"You not only have a right to prepare yourselves mentally and physically, you have a responsibility."
I absolutely agree, 100%.
-A
Michael
The whole Stewart episode on Hulu.
Napoleon
What is just jaw dropping about people like Beck is he truly seems to be mentally ill or something.
Jack T.
Stewart has been a beast lately. He used to be disgusted with the MSM, now it looks like he’s going to do their job for them. Cramer has had this coming for a while.
Morgan
I actually didn’t find the CNBC segment all that funny. Don’t get me wrong; Stewart did a great job really skewering them in his usual style. I guess I find it harder to laugh when the subject is so serious and the people being skewered are actually somewhat respected and influential and ended up blowing things so badly.
It’s a whole lot easier to laugh at Fox, since no one takes them seriously anymore.
Morgan
Are comments here held in moderation? I feel like my stuff doesn’t get posted here sometimes.
TheFountainHead
The day that John Stewart retires from the Daily Show there will be weeping in the streets and much rending of garments. I honestly don’t believe I’d have survived the Bush administration with my personality intact without that show.
anonevent
@Atanarjuat: Sorry, A-troll, I don’t do "Every man for himself" in good times or in bad times. Some people, no matter how good things are, will never have the resources to prepare for a catastrophe. That would be why God said not to reap the entire field, so that the poor could get food; or not to charge interest to the poor; or why the New Testament says to give help to those in need, as much as you can give, not as much as you want to give.
Krista
Effing Hulu not allowing anybody outside of the U.S. to watch….hopefully comedynetwork.ca will have it posted soon.
Emma Anne
That CNBC guy is sorry now he blew Jon off.
NickM
What commie Bible are you reading?
dmsilev
@Krista:
Does the show homepage allow you to view the videos? The entire episode is there, though the default view is to show each segment as a separate clip.
-dms
Atanarjuat
@anonevent:
anony, I agree that during good times, we should certainly extend some aid to those of us less fortunate (and only for a short time, mind you, so as not to induce dependency).
However, when times are hard, society can’t afford to sustain the weakest links; the herd must be culled during lean times. It’s called survival of the fittest. Ignoring the instinct for self-preservation will only ensure that all of civilization gets dragged down by the least strong.
All in all, you can hope for the best, but always, and I mean ALWAYS, plan for the worst.
-A
dr. bloor
And to think Stewart used to worry about where his material was going to come from after Chimpy McCokehead left office.
Curt
I hope Stephen Moore got some little clue what an absolute tool/fool he looks like by associating himself with Beck’s nuttiness. Jesus, what a douchebag.
ThymeZoneThePlumber
I think what Stewart might suggest is that we take a fact-based, maybe even methodical and scientific view of these things.
So, how many people watch CNBC?
What is the effect of CNBC on the approval ratings of Barack Obama, so far? Describe the correlation, and the effect.
Thanks!
John Cole
@Curt: The definitive “Stephen Moore is a complete moron” moment is when he was on Real Time with Bill Maher a while back. How he still appears on news shows after that is beyond me.
ThymeZoneThePlumber
@Atanarjuat: If you are going to take the time to spoofspam a blog, at least show some effort. This material is crap.
Anton Sirius
@Atanarjuat:
To paraphrase Beck, "And remember my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future!"
TR
Their viewership numbers are tiny, but the particulars of who they are — investors — means their take on things matters incredibly.
Investors take their cues from CNBC, and so when Cramer and company kept on insisting everything was alright and things were already on the uptick, the Dow kept treading water because those investors believed them. Now that they’re bitching and moaning nonstop, those investors still believe them and are scared to buy.
That leads to low Dow numbers and, as the second segment showed, all the *other* networks who *do* have millions and millions of viewers point to the low Dow as "evidence" that things aren’t going well and it’s all because the all-knowing, impartial market has spoken.
That’s why this is important, and why the smackdown was so badly needed.
Atanarjuat
@ThymeZoneThePlumber:
You continue saying the same thing over and over again, as though repetition will make anyone take you seriously.
Obviously, your "Polly want a cracker" routine is all you’ve got. Good luck with that.
-A
Anton Sirius
BTW, running man, there’s no "it up" in Professor Lizardo’s line. It’s just "Laugh while you can, monkey boy." If you’re gonna make an obscure pop culture reference at least get it right.
dslak
@Napoleon: There is a quote, I forgot the source, to the effect of "Every great satirist was also a moralist."
ThymeZoneThePlumber
@Atanarjuat:
Ah, the I Know You Are But What Am I defense.
You are an embarassment to good spoofs everywhere, man. Really. You suck.
camchuck
The best part was when Moore admitted that he would have to reconsider his whole ideology if Obama’s policies actually improve the nation. Not that I believe him, but that statement has been filed in the old memory banks for future reference.
We need to get more wingers on the record with similar statements.
Napoleon
@dslak:
Good quote. I suppose a great example of that would be Mark Twain.
jibeaux
Why do they make ads saying they’re trying to take over the world if they’re only trying to take over the U.S.?
Atanarjuat
@ThymeZoneThePlumber:
Yes, I know, Thymey, I know. You’ve only said so countless times already. Believe me when I tell you this, but I understood your petty criticism the first time you wrote it MONTHS ago.
But keep that beak of yours flapping and saying the same shit over and over. I’m sure that some feathered female somewhere must be impressed with your determination and stamina to repeat yourself so tenaciously.
-A
ThymeZoneThePlumber
I got your routine, right here.
Fwiffo
Come on, social darwinism? You’re not even trying.
ThymeZoneThePlumber
@Atanarjuat:
So, you wanna spend the day arguing with me? Cause I’m up for it.
Try to write some spoof that doesn’t sound like warmed over DougJ material from four years ago, will ya? If you don’t have any more respect for the craft that what you are showing today, you get a big wedgie.
Pay attention. Get a new handle and try writing some decent copy. You are surrounded by better spoofs, why don’t you try asking some of them for ideas?
jibeaux
Man, TZ, you feed the trolls so nicely, but non-trolls just get "prove you’re a girl!" without so much as a cashew.
The Moar You Know
@Atanarjuat: Weak. 2/10. You gotta step it up, bro.
b-psycho
When Steven Moore got the 2012 scenario & said right on cue "you mean soshulism works?", I would’ve been OK if at that exact moment someone in the audience threw a brick at him.
By definition, a fucking SO-CIAL-IST wouldn’t try to save capitalists & capitalism by force.
Atanarjuat
@Fwiffo:
Trying what, Fwiffy? Do you disagree that a society is only as srong as its weakest members?
It may seem cruel, especially to bleeding heart liberals, but sometimes the least able among us should be allowed to sink or swim on their own in order to ensure the continued survival of everyone else. I’m not saying anything radical or outrageous, considering that history has borne out this particular unpleasant truth from time to time.
And Beck is still right: you DO have a responsibility to be prepared for the worst.
I’m really not sure how anyone can argue against that. Really, people, there’s no call to be so knee-jerk contrarian in the face of common sense.
-A
John S.
But….
According to BOB, Glenn Beck is a genius and the rightful heir to the conservative empire!
David Hunt
A nice thought, but they will be entirely impervious to such reasoning if Obama’s policies turn things around. They will find some other event or faux event to give credit to saving the economy in spite of Obama’s evil socia list policies…and if only we’d cut taxes more, the Dow would be at 75000!
Hugh Jass
How come whenever someone posts an opinion that disagrees with most of the other commenters, that poster is automatically considered a "troll" who is writing "spoofs"?
I think Beck is an asshole, and I’d vote for Stewart for President in a minute, but I don’t think that it’s at all crazy to think that the next several years stand a good chance of being really, really bad.
Atanarjuat
@ThymeZoneThePlumber:
Actually, no, I made the mistake of responding to you. You’re clearly obsessed on queering the thread into one about spoofs, trolls, and how you’ve fucking been there and done that. It’s all about you. I get it.
I shan’t make that mistake again.
-A
John S.
Atanarjuat the goat fucker says:
We know, pal. We know.
The Google doesn’t lie, and where there’s smoke, there’s fire!
Just Some Fuckhead
Why are people named Glenn always such douchebags?
ThymeZoneThePlumber
@Atanarjuat:
A blog is only as strong as its weakest spoofasses.
Are you out to take this place down single-handedly?
How long today before you use the word "ilk?"
ThymeZoneThePlumber
Shan’t? Who the fuck says "shan’t?"
Based on your body of work so far, I’d say there is no mistake that you won’t make again, unless you just signed up for a talent transplant.
John S.
They aren’t. Take Brick Oven Bill, for example. Sure he writes some crazy shit that a lot of people disagree with, but I don’t think anyone calls him a spoof or a troll.
But posters that come here and follow the typical patterns of spoofs and trolls are quickly branded as thus. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…
Add to the fact that the proprietor of the blog – John Cole – has outed Atanarjuat as a troll, I think it’s safe to take his word for it.
reece
I am personally very worried about the Koala pox. The real question, though, is how many soy beans will it take to buy some silver bullets.
Fwiffo
@Atanarjuat:
If you’re going to say something self-evidently stupid, you can at least try to be funny. By your logic, nursing homes and ICUs would be the gravest threat to western civilization. We’d better throw granny and the retarded kid next door into the wood-chipper before they drag us down with ’em. WOLVERINES!
Can we get DougJ in here to do some grade-A spoof so we don’t have to choke down this weak stuff?
Paul L.
One of pure joys of my life is reminding progressive Jon Stewart fanboys that Daily show went into reruns during the Writer’s strike.
And someone just minimized the importance of getting any lessons from a comedy skit.
Krista
Not necessarily. We’ve had plenty of people on here who disagree, who haven’t been accused of being spoofs. I don’t recall anybody calling Paul L. a spoof. And there were some other adversaries on here in the past, like Stormy70 and Defense Guy, who weren’t accused of being spoofs. Spoof accusations tend to happen when someone’s arguments are so incredibly over-the-top ludicrous as to be laughable. If I went onto a right-wing site and started painting Republicans in broad, absurd terms, and basically started acting like the very worst caricature of a leftie, then I would fully expect to be called "spoof".
Atanarjuat
@John S.:
Sorry, John, that’s not as cut and dry as you’re making it out to be.
Mr. Cole is the owner of this blog. He has been rather gracious and open-minded in permitting a diversity of opinions on different topics. Do you really think it’s a smart strategy to diss the host of the blog in which one is interested in participating?
I don’t mind what Mr. Cole says about my views or my "spoofiness." So long as I can offer a viewpoint that serves as a sober counterpoint to the leftist hysterics that so frequently occur here, I don’t care what Mr. Cole calls me, even if its late to dinner.
-A
Jill
John,
Jon Stewart is genuinely pissed a lot of the time. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen him being interviewed but in addition to being extremely smart he is grounded, down-to-earth and a true champion of the average citizen. And, truly appalled and angry about a lot of what has gone on, and is still going on, in this country.
He is not afraid of confrontation and won’t kowtow to celebrities when they are on his show. He uses his position to speak out on a lot of issues and is great at holding people accountable for their words and actions. Have you seen his most recent interviews with Bill O’Reilly or Mike Huckabee? He confronted each of them brilliantly.
Colbert is the same; his ego is all shtick. He contempt for what is going on in this country is also quite apparent.
BethanyAnne
Dayam, Anaj, you got PLuk to step out of semi-retirement to show how stupid is *done*, baby.
Atanarjuat
@Fwiffo:
Well, Fwiffy, it hasn’t yet come to that point where nursing homes and the like are the weakest links dragging down the rest of American society, right?
Now look who’s being hyperbolic and intentionally obtuse. I’m apalled, really, I am.
-A
Zifnab
@Paul L.: Wait… if Stewart and Colbert write their own material (making them "writers") and the show went into reruns during the "Writers" Strike… doesn’t that… uh… make sense?
Also – what does this have to do with the Mike Nifong Duke Lacross Rape Scandal? You keep drifting off topic and no one is going to be able to keep up with you, PL.
jibeaux
@BethanyAnne:
That’s awesome, but Paul L.’s not P luk, right? I think there are two Paul L. morans.
Jay McDonough
As great as the Stewart/CNBC take down was, that second Colbert clip made me laugh so hard my stomach hurt.
me
For fucks sake, to prove your point you link to uber-idiot voxday? At least Stewart doesn’t claim to be the "Voice of God."
dmsilev
@Paul L.:
And do you get equal joy from learning that Stewart was an advocate of unionization and active supporter of the writers’ strike?:
-dms
JM
And then we voted those Republicans out of office and began containing the damage they’d done.
Glad you’re all caught up, now.
BethanyAnne
@jibeaux: They both link to Kingdom of Idiots, I thought, so I figured they were the same person. Not positive, been a while since I’ve seen the pluk name on top of a comment.
Joshua Hueco
I can’t drink this coffee, it’s got spoof all in it.
BethanyAnne
@Zifnab: OMG, Zif, you mean there was a scandal at Duke? Maybe if we are lucky someone will drop by to tell us more!
vishnu schizt
Well as usual Anajuajizzsm shows up says the same shit over and over and over and over and over and over and ou…never mind. Love culling line! That’s comedy gold baby, comedy gold! The old saw, "how ’bout we start with you." Too easy, really its all too easy ‘jizz. The contrarian that is. What happened to your ‘ol sign off of country first. You don’t think it should be country first anymore jizz? Don’t you love your country jizz? Come on man it’s country first, or drill baby drill, or clear hold build or four more years or five dollar footlong or what ever fucking advertising slogan the RNC or Limpdickbaugh puts out to get stuck in your reptilian brain. So you can repeat it again and again and again. Kinda like your posts here ‘jizz. Bring back country first man, be a fucking man about it! Own it dude, its what you are about ain’t? Country first? You love your country don’t you? You said it all last year so why not now man? Let’s hear it. You are a man of principles aren’t you? Why abandon them now?
gwangung
Ah, Paul, one of OUR pure joys is watching you demonstrate your moron-level skills with every post your write.
GIven that Stewart is a member of the writers’ guild and given that he supports his writers, not a surprise he went into re-runs. Comment like yours is pretty much the result of utter ignorance of how television shows works.
Then again, you pretty much show utter ignorance of how ANYTHING works.
gopher2b
Oh, CNBC. I confess I do watch Fast Money. They’re entertaining and collectively provide interesting advice (not necessarily useful, but interesting). The woman on that show, however, is a GENIUS. She rarely talks but when she does, its almost always gold.
jibeaux
@BethanyAnne:
You may be right….that’s blowing my mind, baby!
I miss BoB. Big Tuna’s garden variety, but BoB has charm, surrealism, and humor in every bite.
JM
If he wasn’t stupid, he wouldn’t be a Republican.
A member of the WGA supported the strike. And water is wet. Wow. What zingers those weren’t.
Gordon, The Big Express Engine
I think BOB won people over with his post last week about the toothless lesbian catfight and his resulting damaged psyche.
If Assatunahat could give us an amusing personal anecdote about dwarf tossing and midget wrestling, I for one would be willing to give him another chance.
Cris
The studio audience seemed to feel the same way. When TDS juxtaposed CNBC’s optimistic pronouncements with subsequent poor performance, you could hear scattered applause and muffled laughter, but mostly silence.
Which is fine, really. I’m sure the writers understand that was an appropriate response to the segment.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
That’s easy: the people that book these shows are lazy. As is the Village media. It’s always the path of least resistance so once you’re in the door, you get called back again and again and again.
Another reason why may or may not apply here are negiotiated relationships between news organs. The only reason you see Wolfe and Fienman on Olbermann and the other MSNBC shows is that the they have a negotiated arrangement with Newsweek to appear on those shows.
The same thing applies to the Washington (com)Post. One reason that Milbank’s no longer on Countdown relates to a hit job that piece of shit did on Clinton sometime last summer. Olbermann’s no big fan of Hillary but saw what Milbank did as pretty rank and said "apologize or no more appearances here". All that meant was that another WaPo hacktastic political type got more airtime instead.
Egilsson
@Atanarjuat:
You are a huge asshole.
Maybe one day you’ll be the one at risk of getting "culled" from the "herd", or your child, or someone you love. I guarantee you won’t feel the same then, although you are pathetic enough that you might.
Some folks are dependent, and they just need help. I guess you call yourself a "pro-lifer" too?
itsbenj
@Paul L.: wow, are you really that dumb? dear god you guys are hilarious. not even just your own stated beliefs are hilarious, but the sheer extent of what you don’t know or understand, or want to understand. you think you’ve actually made a point in this statement! its kinda cute … but ultimately just sad/funny.
John S.
Like hell it isn’t, Atanarjuat the goat fucker.
John Cole says:
You are what you are.
gopher2b
After watching the Colbert segment I am pretty convinced we are nearing the bottom. That crackpot who said he believed the DOW would go to 2800, employment to 12% etc reminded me of the same crackpots that came on t.v. towards the end of the tech and most recent booms with their proclamations that the market would go to 25,000, buy real estate "God Isn’t Making Any More Land", etc. All overloaded, excited statements supported by zero facts said to the masses. I’m predicting a stock market cover on Newsweek and/or Time soon. Then you know we’ve bottomed.
My one prediction: "Ghost Malls" the movie will be released on July 2, 2011
TheHatOnMyCat
Where is he going to get an imagination, in this economy?
Atanarjuat
@John S.:
I agree, John. You are what you ARE, and in your case, it’s someone who intentionally ignored the rest of what I wrote.
I know what Mr. Cole had stated. I never denied his view (which was couched as an ADMONITION to the rest of you knee-jerk contrarians, as the quote clearly shows).
Anyway, unlike a certain brain-addled parrot here, I’m not going to repeat myself, since the reasons I’ve stated are perfectly valid (and can be referenced above this comment), no matter how desperately you wish to ignore views that inconvenience your own.
Beyond all that, I notice that with all the usual anti-conservative vitriol that is engendered whenever names like Beck (or Limbaugh, for that matter) are brought up, I’ve yet to see anyone disagree with this statement:
"You not only have a right to prepare yourselves mentally and physically, you have a responsibility."
Queering the thread about spoofs doesn’t address that statement AT ALL.
-A
Ash Can
@Hugh Jass:
@John S.:
Actually, John C. (and others) outed Atanarjuat as a spoof, i.e., someone posing as a right-wingnut just to stir up the shit. That’s as opposed to a troll, who posts incendiary crap which he/she actually believes, for the same purpose of stirring up shit. As you can see, a well-written spoof can easily be mistaken for a troll, and there’s disagreement among the posters here on who is or might be a troll vs. a spoof. Regardless, though, even known spoofs can make for good target practice.
(ETA: Whoops, John S, I see you spotted that post of John C’s. Didn’t mean to be piling on.)
Fwiffo
You know, A, you’ve convinced me. I’m going out right now to buy robot insurance and get my koala-pox booster shots.
Gus
Jesus Christ, people. See what happens when you feed the trolls? A perfectly good thread destroyed. My boss likes to say when you get down in the mud and wrestle a pig even if you win you get dirty, and the pig likes it.
TheHatOnMyCat
I’m sorry, when are you going to start not repeating yourself?
TheHatOnMyCat
Obviously, he’s married.
Uli Kunkel
@Gus: there’s one at the Washington Monthly named Al (probably a spoof-troll collective).
It only took several years for people to figure it out, so I think we’ll be enjoying these amusing to-and-fros for a while to come.
28 Percent
@Atanarjuat: thank you Atanarjuat if that is your real name we have the RESPONSIBILTY to be ready it is like Rush said it is in the Constitution that when in the course of human events the power of the government deviates from the contents of the governed it is the responsibility of the people to cast off the shackles of there tax burden and put in a government that listens to REAL AMERICANS. This taxing is disasterous and that is true it will destroy jobs even liberal blogs admit this like "TBogg" if that is his real name he knows that because of taxes Real America is stopping supporting people who will not work and that will mean that people who will work might lose they’re jobs even he admit it:
Tbogg is beginning to understand that Michelle Malkin and her commenters are makeing sense and he is trying to educate his readers maybe you should do that some too JOHN COLE he had a post it was good and he picked his favorite comment from her site about Going Galt which is what we will do if it doesn’t work we will go Beck.
That is right we will not just take it and keep supporting you we will keep our money to ourselves and live off of other peoples work just like you and then who will work? Nobody and then you will learn better then to elect a Marxist. It is sad that you have to destroy America before you understand but some people can not learn any other way.
Atanarjuat
@Fwiffo:
Fwiffy, I’m not sure what robot insurance can do to help defeat a horde of rampaging Decepticons, but the nuclear weapons part is just silly.
As Crysis has clearly demonstrated, one should never shoot nuclear weapons at a -200°F alien energy sphere, as the resulting kinetic blast will only be absorbed and accelerate the destructive expansion of the sphere. Not a wise move at all.
-A
TheHatOnMyCat
@Atanarjuat:
See there, post 85? It IS possible to write spoofy shit and be funny and entertaining at the same time.
Have you considered drinking? Maybe a few jolts of the demon rum would loosen you up.
You are so tight, you are going to get a charley horse trying to maintain that frowny face of yours.
Laura W Darling
@Gus: Here’s one I actually inscribed in my Day Timer many years back I liked it so much. Feels very pertinent:
Quentin Crisp quotes (English Author, 1908-1999)
Edit: 3rd FF crash of the day while this was posting. I do not think I am supposed to be hanging out here today.
Mnemosyne
@Paul L.:
Why, yes, it is completely bizarre that when a show’s host is a member of a union and that union goes on strike, the show goes into reruns. After all, the whole point of a strike is for union members to continue working under the same conditions, right? That’s why when a union factory goes on strike, all of the union workers continue to show up and do their jobs every day the same way they did before they called the strike.
Were you born this stupid or did you suffer a head injury of some kind?
John S.
@Ash Can:
Well, intent is rather difficult to prove on the intertubes…
All I know is whether Atanarjuat is a spoof or a troll, he likes to fuck goats.
John S.
@Atanarjuat:
Ah, the old "I know you are but what am I" retort. Well since you’re asking, I’ll tell you what you are…
A goat fucker! But you know that already. Google confirms the smoke, and you provide the fire.
Brick Oven Bill
‘Stewart’ was born ‘Leibowitz’, and Wikipedia reports that he was bullied because of his Jewish heritage. Why then did Stewart change his name?
The Jews are an asset to this country. Rickover and Einstein are two shining examples of countless others. Rickover is one of my heros that has stood the test of time. But I worry about the Jews who change their names to Gentile names. Why would they do this?
I also challenge the readership to present me with anything Glenn Beck has said that is inaccurate.
Mnemosyne
Hey, Bill’s back! I’m still waiting for you to post your long-form birth certificate.
Atanarjuat
@John S.:
Johnny, once again, you failed to read, or, perhaps, more fundamentally, understand the rest of what I wrote even in that latest comment.
That’s OK. I get you now. You only want to discuss goat-fucking, since it appears to be your favorite and oft-repeated topic.
P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C.
-A
bago
Seriously, Atan is a Brachiator alt and is just wasting my goddamned time. I’m on vacation right now and feeling violated by the people that respond to this.
Brandon T
The Daily Show was in reruns for MOST of the writers’ strike. It did come back toward the end, for a week or so, without the writing staff. It was dramatically less funny, with like 2 good quips per episode instead of 20-30. I suppose it makes sense–there’s a limit to how many jokes a given person can think up in a period of time (it takes stand up comedians awhile to write their acts), so you need a team of writers to be able to push out enough quips to fill a whole show 4 days a week.
Mike in NC
I checked the cupboard and am totally out of Troll Chow and Spoof Treats, so I won’t be feeding any more of them. Must be the damn economy.
Dork
My turn! My turn! Do me next! For a topic, let’s choose….ok, let’s go with Granny Smith apples.
/waiting patiently
Brick Oven Bill
I was challenged to present by birth certificate only this week, in order to obtain a government contract. I presented it. It was easy Mnemosyne.
Rainy
Steven Colbert was hilarious with that Doom Bunker segment. I was crying when he said there would be a revolt in El Kañsas! Haha!
JasonF
@Paul L.:
What a pathetic thing to count as one of the pure joys in your life.
TenguPhule
The BOB government can demand all it wants, it still has no business to demand to touch Obama’s certificate which has already been verified by those who need to know.
TenguPhule/Death 2016, because the GOP is too stupid to be allowed to live.
gwangung
Am I the only one who hears "Money Honey" and think "high class call girl"?
Wile E. Quixote
This is the best take-down I’ve ever seen The Daily Show do. As someone said in an earlier thread the TDS isn’t so much about making fun of any political party or figure as it is about mocking the 24 hour news cycle. And his mockery of the mindless DJIA worship that seems to have replaced whatever rational thought that used to be on the cable networks was brilliant, "The stock market hated Reagan." I want to see this run over and over and over again until what little credibility CNBC may have left is a pile of noisome rubble in the media wasteland.
I have to wonder how long the 24 hour news cycle is for the world. Sure the news networks look invulnerable now and are making a lot of money, but the big three networks looked good in the 1960s and 1970s and look at where they are now. The record companies looked great in the 80s and early 90s and were making money hand over fist, but look at where they are now. Hell, newspapers used to be big, now they’re dropping like flies. I mean how long before people say "You know, there just isn’t 24 hours worth of news in the day. This is nothing more than a huge echo chamber that smells like nasty wet pundit farts. What’s on the other channels?".
Mike G
Their viewership numbers are tiny, but the particulars of who they are—investors—means their take on things matters incredibly.
CNBC is for the individual investors and day traders, who trade in tiny volumes and mostly get fleeced. In my experience the institutional investors with oceans of money to move around think of it as an irrelevant clown show for the masses.
Like the religious right, CNBC make a lot of noise but really aren’t that influential.
bayville
@Wile E. Coyote
You can always expect the MSM to rush to the rescue against those crazy hippies and comics.
NY Mag gets the ball rolling.
Stewart was a little too harsh because, well, I don’t exactly know why. The column never explains.
BDeevDad
Evidently, Cramer did not get the memo:
Catsy
@Brick Oven Bill:
What in the unholy ratfuck does this have to do with anything of substance at all?
Oh, right. It doesn’t.
NonyNony
@Mnemosyne:
@Paul L.:
Yeah, I’ve got to say – I have no fucking idea what Paul L. was trying to prove there. He linked to Vox Day, which is bad enough, but the argument is nonsensical. "Oh look – someone who supports unions shut down his show when the union went on strike rather than work against the union he supports." Yeah … and?
Is he mad because Stewart and Colbert employ other writers to do their show? That they aren’t one-man shows? They’ve never claimed to be – they work on a writing staff with a lot of other writers. If you watch the credits at the end you can even see all of their names! Duh. Stewart and Colbert are funny guys – anyone who saw Stewart’s stand up before he got on the Daily Show has seen writing that’s all his. They’re also smart guys, as anyone who has seen the various interviews that they’ve done can tell. But no one could be THAT smart or THAT witty all of the fucking time all by themselves – that’s why it takes a team to put together a good show.
I know Paul L. is often nonsensical, but this one is completely indecipherable to me.
gwangung
Collective action that’s not controlled by right wing ideology frightens him.
Daughter
That would be why God said not to reap the entire field, so that the poor could get food; or not to charge interest to the poor; or why the New Testament says to give help to those in need, as much as you can give, not as much as you want to give.
Nick @ 10:10 am:
“What commie Bible are you reading?”
Here ya go:
Leviticus 23:22
" ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God.’ "
Leviticus 25:35-37
35 " ‘If one of your countrymen becomes poor and is unable to support himself among you, help him as you would an alien or a temporary resident, so he can continue to live among you. 36 Do not take interest of any kind [a] from him, but fear your God, so that your countryman may continue to live among you. 37 You must not lend him money at interest or sell him food at a profit.
Luke 12:33
Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.
Acts 4:33-35
33With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and much grace was upon them all. 34There were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales 35and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need.
Thoughtcrime
For another gut-busting takedown of Glenn Beck, check this out:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/218576/february-11-2009/truth-from-the-gut
LanceThruster
As cruel as this sounds, it might have spared us the indignity of Joe the Liar/Plumber.
Chuck Butcher
I have no idea what defines Attaboy other than not being particularly good at what he does. There is that mind set that says ‘reason’ says we can’t take care of eveybody and there certainly is some limit. But here’s that rational piece, at some point, before they starve to death the have nots start to break things, things owned by the haves. The have’s found through a lot of socio-economic models that it is cheaper to avoid that outcome. The ones that failed to pay attention had little things like the French Revolution.
The CPUSA (a break things outfit) had its membership explode in the the 30s, the visible government presence in trying to do something tamped that down. Whatever "evldence" you take away from the Depression, that one counts. The social darwinists are so fond of quoting semi-obscure historical authors but pay no attention to the thrust of histrory itself.
goddam, clean back in the early 1500s Machiavelli is telling his Prince that given a choice between keeping the nobility or the masses on his side to pick the masses. (Machiavelli had no high opinion of the masses)
People are comfortable with the status quo, that is damn near a rule. People will tolerate all kinds of bs for a very long time rather than be made to challenge their comfort (even when that comfort sucks). People are fond of pointing at T Roosevelt and saying liberal thought trumped, no, places were beginning to catch on fire – the alternative was to throw gasoline on it.
jamie
"More cowbell,give me more cowbell".
Atanarjuat
@Chuck Butcher:
That was a rather incoherent yet fascinating diatribe, Chuckie.
I guess I should also count you among the multitude here who can’t address Glenn Beck’s very simple and direct statement, which was this:
"You not only have a right to prepare yourselves mentally and physically, you have a responsibility."
After all, Beck is a bloviating conservatard and all, right? Liberals are all Truth and Light, and conservatives are steeped in Lies and Darkness. It can’t be that hard.
-A
scav
Atanarjuat – ever considered your moral and absolute duty to prepare yourself mentally and physically for the fact you’re at best a self-absorbed non-entity?
Atanarjuat
@scav:
Scavey, what the fuck is that supposed to mean, and how does it even refute Glenn Beck’s statement that I’ve quoted several times by now?
-A
binzinerator
@Just Some Fuckhead:
And Tucker. Don’t forget Tucker.
TenguPhule
I agree, let the GOP trail of tears commence.
John S.
Because that’s all there is to your one-dimensional cartoon character.
Ricky Bobby
Laughing hard enough here to shit my pants. Without Colbert and Stewart I think I would have to eat a shotgun.
Future Medal of Freedom winners there.
ellie
God I love Stephen Colbert! I would totally run away with him.
Pixie
God..I almost choked on my tea when he got to the werewolf congress LOL.