Jon Stewart Calls Out McCain for Hypocrisy on Supporting Veterans
By SilentPatriot Thursday May 29, 2008 11:45am 
Jon Stewart takes John McCain, President Bush and the rest of the GI Bill opponents to task for talking a big game when it comes to "supporting the troops," but actually voting against them when it comes down taking care of them once they come back home.
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"This new bill is more generous for our troops, which is a huge problem with [Bush and McCain who always say] 'support the troops.'"
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Once again, JS does a better job of holding pols accounable than the combined efforts of the MSM "journalists".
McCain is a shell-of-man that is mentally and physically unfit to hold any state or U.S. political position. When he had a chance to really support the troops with this bill, he cut-and-ran. How telling. Yet, he eagerly desires to keep our troops in a debacle and failed war. Even more telling. Reich-wingers, please prepare yourself for a huge defeat in November.
There is not one good reason not to support the GI bill.
Still waiting for a good excuse from McInsane.
Except for his math, Jon is brilliant.
Keep pounding those hypocrites with the truth. It just might stick this time around.
McCain the Liar @ 3:
McBush and the 22 reich-wingers do not want to support this bill because it was authored by a Dem. Fact. This is more proof that reich-wingers care more about their party than they do for America. Fact.
"Has John McCain's 'Straight Talk Express' taken a detour thru Bullshitsville ?"
-JS-
Excellent segment.
Chico Hussein @ 6:
No. BushShitVille.
"Did you think I said 'Support the Troops"? No, no - I meant 'Support the CROOKS'!"
Very smart and equally funny. I'll bet he gets all the ladies at parties. The More McWar speaks the greater our chances become in November.
Left&Left @ 10:
The debates can't come soon enough. It will be interesting to see what "requirements" McCain's folks will put in place.
Dr. (Bitter Hussein) Matt @ 5:
No doubt, this has been the most partisan administration in history. They have gone out of their way to ignore or marginalize ANY DemocratIC point of view no matter how sound it was.
Now that their house of cards has crumbled and America is siding with Democrats, they all of a sudden want to reach out across the aisle and proclaim 'bipartisanship'. They wont recover from this for years.
Yellow Elephant Safari @ 8:
same thing.
McCain the Liar @ 3:
The proverbial will freeze over first,
or the wingnuts will use the old 'stabbed in the back' S&D routine for the failure to support the troops.
McCain’s GI Bill based on ‘The Eagles’: "You Can Check Out Anytime You Want, But You Can Never Leave"
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 14:
The wingnut bloggers tried this a few months ago with the stories of the US troops avoiding combat,
and staying in safe areas or bribing people to leave them alone.
"Well, we don't want an educated military . . . they might learn that we're a bunch of idiots sitting in our ivory towers sending young men and women to a meat grinder I wouldn't want my dog within 200 miles of . . . wait, is this mike on?" McCain gaffe #1024
Don Davis @ 15:
McCain does have an exit strategy for Iraq, it involves fifteen hundred coffins a year for one hundred years...
Why the hell hasn't Comedy Central made it's own 24 hour News Network yet??
Blue Lensman @ 11:
Oh, I can see it now.
No live TV shots. Two podiums, each with a photo of the candidate. McNasty's will be of him in uniform before his capture, brimming with youthful vigor, smiling, proud and strong.
Obama's will be of him when he was a teen with his large scary 'fro.
The candidates will be out of sight, their voices coming from small speakers next to the photos.
Tony Snow will be the moderator and will not hesitate to silence the answers if they are deemed not in the national interest.
Stewart nails it - SWEEEEEEEET !!!!!!!
Once again, it's only Jon Stewart presenting the facts alongside the spin, rather than just regurgitating the spin.
Ooops, there is Bill (who?) Moyers.
danger hussein al-malak choom al-khadra @ 19:
This just in, Buckwheat has been shot.
I repeat, Buckwheat has been shot.
Here's the footage now...
Don Davis @ 15:
As Crowley's family fortune was based on beer, so is McInsanes, coincidence !?
One was an interesting worldly man of varied interests, the other is a scummy GOP fortunate son poltician.
seevee @ 20:
Will the 'voice of Sauron' be alive in November ?
All lip service, and nothing more.
I have ALWAYS hated those damn yellow ribbons on the back of cars and SUV's, like they really support the troops by putting a stupid little magnet on the back of their cars...and then send them off to a stupid illegal occupation to die for nothing.
This country is run by idiots, for idiots. We the public eat this crap up like it has substance. Flag pins, magnetic ribbons, flags on front porches, ribbons on trees....all this is hype bullshit. Means NOTHING.
If you support the troops...then do something of substance, such as support them when them come home, mangled and broken and otherwise. Gonna cost you a dollar or more, so that eliminates the right wingers from even considering supporting them in reality.
Idiots. The land of idiots. We are #1....in idiots!!
Jon's punchline is the best part every time. I wish he would do that with McSame sitting there with him - and doing the usual grinning like a opposum eating sh*t like he always does.
Has anyone seen the movie "Fire in the Sky"? If you have, doesn't McCain look just like the little alien man?
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 26:
They've got that covered. Cheney will be at the controls of the Voice Slpicer 2000 (pat.pend.) and it will sound very much as if he were there. Kinda.
Quick! Who can name all those faces at the end of the clip?
danger hussein al-malak choom al-khadra @ 19:
Because there's not even enough news to fill the 24 hour channels we currently have.
Loved it!
I watched last night, John nailed those unpatriotic
B@st@rds!Northern Trombonist @ 30:
I can't but I was watching for Lindsay Active Duty STATESIDE Graham, who donned the uniform but never saw combat. weasel. He didn't make the montage in an otherwise brilliant spot on take down.
Chico Hussein @ 12:
The only thing that makes me more sick than this war of aggression on Iraq is the war of aggression on democracy at home. Party over country. Puke.
Never mind if something is a good idea for the people you are supposed to be representing, we can't let a dem win anything! jerks.
if everyone would just keep calling him
JOHN "THE BUSH REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN
his handlers would go off their nut trying to part the man from the party...
IT IS THEIR WORST nightmare.... short of finding him in a stall with craig
Big Dick Cheney @ 36:
How do we know they haven't found him yet and just haven't released the info......
Wow. Could there be a clearer example of dishonesty from McCain than the way he spun that 16 percent figure? Blatantly disingenuous. And once again it takes a comedy show to point out what the "news media" ignores.
I'm surprised the military haven't stormed the White House yet. In almost any other country they would have overrun the Presidential Palace by now if they'd been treated like this.
ONE OF THE BEST!!
So true, Obama can hammer away at McSame with this issue until he's a pulp
The Democratic party needs to make a list of every republican who voted against the Webb-Hagel bill, and recruit Democratic Iraq/Afghanistan veterans to run against all of them in their next election cycle.
500 billion plus for an unnecessary war, and these cheap right wingers are afraid of this kind of chump change to send ex-troops to college? Mind-boggling.
I guess smaller government only applies to helping real Americans, instead of feeding the Military Industrial Complex.
I don't know the exact numbers, but I'm guessing funding the tuition of our service men and women is a bargain compared to the war.
Billy Shears @ 41:
NAYs ---22
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennett (R-UT)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lugar (R-IN)
McConnell (R-KY)
Sessions (R-AL)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Not Voting - 3
Coburn (R-OK)
Kennedy (D-MA)
McCain (R-AZ)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
McBush is too busy to vote on a bill to help the troops. There's no way he can lead them. Fact.
danger hussein al-malak choom al-khadra @ 19:
Because you can only make fun of and laugh at the news and our media system for about a half hour. After that it just gets down right depressing
johnnypunchclock @ 42:
Old man yells at cloud!
wheeee @ 45:
It certainly is not an "entitlement program" considering most troops make yearly salaries that are less than poverty and yet they put their lives on the line.
booshco's mantra
Support the Troops
So they don't fall out of their coffins.
The best reason not to support our troops? It's the patriotic thing to do. Use the troops; send them in 4 or 5 times, but really; who wants to pay the real costs of a war? It's much easier to give hundreds of billions of dollars or lets say a trilion dollars to the war machine, and just fuck the troops. After all, aren't we all just a bunch of expendable resources that can't be counted on to vote Republican again?
Ah yes, the "I support the troops" magnet on the back of the gas-hog SUV.
What better metaphor for our time? The brain-dead consumer supporting death and consumption. I hear that the oil companies are at record profits. Where will the vampires go the next election cycle? My guess is that they will spur a crisis so another Big Father can come in, take more of our liberties, and make us all safe again. Joe Stalin was an amateur. Unless the electorate learns quickly how they are being manipulated, we're in for an even bigger "Reagan revolution." They are looking for their new spokesman now. Dennis Miller?
Once again, Jon Stewart has peeled away the lies and obfuscation with humor and delivered a rapier-like blow the heart of the bastards that promoted and continued this war while refusing to support the brave men and women who have to live with death every day.
As a Vietnam veteran, I have lost all respect I once had for McCain. Too bad the NVA didn't do a better job with that SAM missile.
The only way to end this war is to re-institute the draft, as Rep. Charlie Rangel proposed. But this time, NO DEFERMENTS, period. The sons and daughters of middle class and poor families have alway borne the burden of this war, but when the rich boys and the preppies and the 101st neo-con keyboardists have to actually pick up a rifle and face B40 rockets and IED's, their rich mommas and daddies will end this illegal fucking war damn quick.
Everybody knows that one of the best Republican tactics of today is to SAY that you support the troops. But when it comes down to ACTUALLY supporting them, they show their true colors and don't. It's truly disgusting. And EVERY Senator who didn't vote for the GI Bill is a Republican. Coincidence, no doubt. Ugh. Fuckers.
The Champ is out.
GOOD ONE! How would we have survived the last 7 1/2 years without Jon and Stephen?
Question not heard about lately--Did not our country start it's public education system because our founding citizens believed the country would benefit from educated citizens? Yes it did. I am 72 years old and have heard no comments about this in many years, but I believe it to be true at all educational levels, including those deserving troops coming out of the military. Exactly what have the rest of us done to deserve their service when helping then improve their education would benefit us and our country as well as return to them something for their service. God only knows we have done nothing for them up to now!
ferrofluid (Obama 08) @ 18:
Except that between October 1st and April 30th, there was an average of 1.25 U.S. troops killed in Iraq, which would be about 450 a year. There was also a serious decline this past month in deaths from all sides of the conflict. Plus McCain has predicted an end to the war in the next 4.5 years.
Secondly, McCain didn't support that bill because he created a different one that allocates the college money based on terms served. You all act as though he's trying to take away all the benefits. I guess that makes you all fact-distorters, like Bush.
Ryan said:
"McCain does have an exit strategy for Iraq, it involves fifteen hundred coffins a year for one hundred years...
"Except that between October 1st and April 30th, there was an average of 1.25 U.S. troops killed in Iraq, which would be about 450 a year. There was also a serious decline this past month in deaths from all sides of the conflict. Plus McCain has predicted an end to the war in the next 4.5 years.
"Secondly, McCain didn't support that bill because he created a different one that allocates the college money based on terms served. You all act as though he's trying to take away all the benefits. I guess that makes you all fact-distorters, like Bush.
Personally I don't find losses of 450 lives any more acceptable. He has also said that we could stay 100 years; he just has a goal of getting out in 5 years.
McCain is proposing acheaper bill that will encourage reenlistments, making the same troops available for stoploss again. It seems unreasonable to accuse others of distorting facts when McCain was pretending the study was against Webb's proposal (of course, he may not realize or recall the reality).
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