The Daily Show on McCain: The Sweet Talk Express
By John Amato Thursday Apr 24, 2008 11:50am
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.
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I have said this before and I will say it again.
It is so sad that "fake news'" shows like the The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, actually report more news than the main stream media. The main stream media is a disgrace!
oooo, this might step on the 'wright-is-the-same-as-obama' media narrative, i thus advise you to cease and desist.
signed,
hillary and mccain
The Televison Media's morphed into this kind of "you scratch my back I'll scratch yours mode".
It's why we're in a rut and we'll probably remain in it for a long time.
People go to work all day, come home frazzled, make dinner, put the kids to bed, walk the dog, then maybe turn on Stewart and get a few laughs before going to bed and getting up and doing it again.
L.A. Confidential @ 4:
that's the american dream, right?
Organize a MSM boycott. Now! I'm on it.
Oh that Jon Stewart ! Such silly fake news!
I think I'll turn on MSNBC and watch Contessa show us Rev. Wright reruns all fuckin day.
McCain has a good chance of winning, he is rarely asked hard questions, and he sidesteps all of them by playing the POW card or repeatedly disagreeing with the premise of the question.
You get the politicians you deserve. Maybe Rev. Wright was right and God has damned America. From FDR, Truman and Ike through Nixon to Clinton and Bush. How else can you explain the steady decline in the stature of the President?
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
-Will Rogers
StirFry @ 7:
Contessa Brewer looks fucking hot! I would hit that immediately!
McCain: No, of course not. Look, I’ll find you a hundred billion tomorrow.
To get the one hundred billion would that mean he'd have to agree to play "Bad Baby" with his wife?
The revolution will not be televised.
In fact, there will be no revolution.
We are in a gulag.
Government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations… and their buddies, the Corporate Media.
Sit at home, watch the television, the joke is on us.
To claim that he could find 100 billiion tomorrow is tantamount to saying the Senate has completely failed to execute their duties.
ysbaddaden @ 11:
and you can play "Bad Baby" anywhere when already wearing diapers.
I want someone who was tortured for over 5 years using sophisticated Russian brain propaganda techniques to be the next President of the Untied States.
Yep. That would be great. It's just what we need.
Note to DNC: that's how you turn a strength (POW) into a weakness (nutjob psycho).
Geno in Ptwon @ 10:
yes she is, my friend. She did something new with her hair---NO DAMN IT! Turn it off!
100 billion tomorrow, let's see:
- abolish Medicare/Medicaid?
- skip a few months of Social Security payments?
- withdraw from Iraq?
"Well, reporters did ask John McCain today during his trip to New Orleans about Rev. John Hagee's remarks that Hurricane Katrina was punishment for the sins of New Orleans:
"It's nonsense, it's nonsense, it's nonsense, it's nonsense, it's nonsense. I dont have anything additional to say. It's nonsense, it's nonsense, it's nonsense, I don't have anything more to say....it's nonsense. I reject it categorically"
Clinton does not have a radical kook, spiritual adivser but the deck is stacked.
After the thumpin in PA she 1 super. Obama got three for losing.
Fair?
BS!
killthepoor @ 5:
Live in suburbia or exurbia, commute to a job in the city, that you hate. Sit alone in your car for three hours a day (with your cell phone) averaging thirty miles per hour (maybe) on the 'expressway' getting twenty miles per gallon (the Model T got 25) of gas at four dollars per gallon (for now).
Detroit is 32 miles straight down the freeway. Maybe there will buses when the cars are gone or perhaps I will ride my bicycle.
This is a dream alright.
The only problem is anyone from the media will come onto his show, promoting their book, he'll let em, and give em a pass. Won't say one word about their douchebag questions to dems while sucking the McCock.
How many times can you get married in Arizona?
It's so sad that it takes a comedy show to do the only real reporting on the GOP's elderly nominee.
Remember the ridiculous and frightening Values Voter Debate? They had a choir sing "Why Should God Bless America?" All about how their deity really doesn't bless America because of all of its sins.
Watch Rachel Maddow, loooong before Rev. Wright became a household name, opine that if any religious figure on the left said something similar, there would be an uproar.
Stewart is correct. Right wingers can get away with this because the parts of America they damn, well, they don't really believe constitute "America" to begin with. God damn us for our illegal military endeavors that kill innocent people? How dare anyone say that about our troops who defend America? God damn us for teh gay? Of course. Because gays aren't Americans anyway.
The media goes along because it fits the preconception that Republicans by definition love America, while Democrats' patriotism is suspect. The media has simple, stereotypical narratives that it seeks to fulfill.
getalife @ 19:
And Hillary ain't?
StirFry @ 14:
Panties in my case.
getalife @ 19:
Who has a parade on a Monday?
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...Soaking his balls in a chilled gravy boat full of Howard Dean's tears. Give that writer a raise. And, George S., you're the laughing stock of the nation now.
Er, Mr. Stewart is absolutely part of the media, and absolutely part of the mainstream media -- he works for Viacom, ferchrissakes.
Look, I’ll find you a hundred billion tomorrow.
Notwithstanding that any Democrat would be crucified for making such an outlandish claim, I'll bet that could be done. (Theoretically, of course):
• Quickly impeach and convict members of the Bush Administration, and revoke their pensions.
• Repeal the Bush tax cuts.
• Pull out of Iraq.
• Stop fighting the war on drugs.
Have I reached a billion yet?
Karen @ 32:
Errr....100 billion?
Is anyone ever going ask Grampa what that disturbing growth on his face is?
getalife @ 19:
i am so glad a hillary supporter brought up the lack of coverage of hillary and her faith, it provides a wonderful opportunity to mention a story that has not been covered on the msm, nor C&L (as far as i know).
thanks for the opportunity.
Through all of her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as the Fellowship. Her collaborations with right-wingers such as Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and former Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) grow in part from that connection. "A lot of evangelicals would see that as just cynical exploitation," says the Reverend Rob Schenck, a former leader of the militant anti-abortion group Operation Rescue who now ministers to decision makers in Washington. "I don't....there is a real good that is infected in people when they are around Jesus talk, and open Bibles, and prayer."
Clinton's prayer group was part of the Fellowship (or "the Family"), a network of sex-segregated cells of political, business, and military leaders dedicated to "spiritual war" on behalf of Christ, many of them recruited at the Fellowship's only public event, the annual National Prayer Breakfast. (Aside from the breakfast, the group has "made a fetish of being invisible," former Republican Senator William Armstrong has said.) The Fellowship believes that the elite win power by the will of God, who uses them for his purposes. Its mission is to help the powerful understand their role in God's plan.
The Fellowship's long-term goal is "a leadership led by God—leaders of all levels of society who direct projects as they are led by the spirit." According to the Fellowship's archives, the spirit has in the past led its members in Congress to increase U.S. support for the Duvalier regime in Haiti and the Park dictatorship in South Korea. The Fellowship's God-led men have also included General Suharto of Indonesia; Honduran general and death squad organizer Gustavo Alvarez Martinez; a Deutsche Bank official disgraced by financial ties to Hitler; and dictator Siad Barre of Somalia, plus a list of other generals and dictators. Clinton, says Schenck, has become a regular visitor to Coe's Arlington, Virginia, headquarters, a former convent where Coe provides members of Congress with sex-segregated housing and spiritual guidance.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/hillarys-prayer-2.html
fucking suharto! read again, support for the suharto dictatorship. christians? i think not.
this is hillary clinton's brand of religion.
thanks again for the opening.
MSM = McCain Stream Media
Still absent from the media discussion about John McCain and his supporter the End-Times Pastor Hagee is the question of conflict with Iran. Given his own tough talk toward Tehran, does John McCain agree with Pastor John Hagee that war with Iran is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy?
For the details, see:
"McCain, Hagee and the Media's Missing Question on War with Iran."
that wacky old coot!
Didn't mcsame during an interview with dildo or some other ditto head at pravda say we should be concerned with the degradation of the white male christian power structure? I really wish someone would play that in a loop.
Geno in Ptwon @ 2:
I might say this a little differently: the state of critical analysis in the media is terminal, DOA and that is because the ability of the majority of Americans to think critically has been made non-essential (in a similar vein, we don't need our appendix to take a dump any more). Comedians make a living describing the absurd that is so obvious for them and the few of us who can get it. I wonder why is it funny that someone like McCain who is another dumb fuck at the head of the pack who is going to get us all killed, and is only one supreme court decision away from the ability to accomplish that, why is it funny that he require the approval of someone who admires Hitler and tacks Sodom and Gomorrah onto the disaster in New Orleans? It actually is scary. Now that I think of it, when we are scared, we sometimes put a shit eating grin on our face. Kind of like a chimp.
all hail the hypno toad @ 38:
here ya go:
Bill O'Reilly: But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want? They want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure, which you're a part, and so am I, and they want to bring in millions of foreign nationals to basically break down the structure that we have. In that regard, Pat Buchanan is right. So I say you've got to cap with a number.
John McCain: In America today we've got a very strong economy and low unemployment, so we need addition farm workers, including by the way agriculture, but there may come a time where we have an economic downturn, and we don't need so many.
[crosstalk]
O'Reilly: But in this bill, you guys have got to cap it. Because estimation is 12 million, there may be 20 [million]. You don't know, I don't know. We've got to cap it.
McCain: We do, we do. I agree with you.
http://www.democrats.org/a/2007/05/mccain_agrees_w.php
all hail the hypno toad @ 38:
good memory (you, not mcsame that is)
Samson- @ 40:
Cheers, I luvs the intertubes. Now if we could get that to a wider audience.
Hagees God hates homosexuality so much that when a gay pride parade was planned in New Orleans God sent Hurricane Katrina to punish the citys poor African-Americans
galmud @ 43:
and avoided the french quarter
i serisouly think you have to huff kerosene from a gym sock* in order to believe the shit that spews from the mouths of these fucks.
*no insult to huffers that are still smart enough to know that hagee is satan sperm
It bothers me that Jon frequently says he likes McCain, but at least TDS aired this.
Once again, the only way to get actual news into the MSM is to have a comedian deliver it...
John McCain's answers to Steph were a comedians dream.
But you know that Stewart is letting up, you could literally rip that old geezer into threads, much like Chimpy McFlight suit.
I watched McCain "accept the endorsement" of Hagee on the show. But he just cherry picked out all the "bad" parts and "accepts" the good parts.
Why dont Obama take the same tack? Oh, thats right, the media wont let him
Karen @ 31:
Have I reached a billion yet?
If all those came to pass, you would reach a billion in about the time you took to type.
One hundred billion would take a little longer.
He'll print another $100 billion, but no one will really understand that doesn't work. (Hitler did that too.) He has a magic hat? A secret golden goose? He'll abolish Social Security and rob the "nest egg"?
Karen @ 23:
No, they are just rightwing tools.
I wonder if Puppy Dog Blitzer realizes he was shown to be just another gullible sucker, carrying water for McCain.
knifewrench @ 45:
"Wow, a mention of John Hagee’s insane positions and John McCain begging to have his support."
wow is right! a more reminder of the "real" haggee: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03072008/watch.html
worth the watch -- take note of lieberman comparing this rapture kook to moses.
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