Daily Show: Terror Attack + Election = Republican Victory
By SilentPatriot Tuesday Jun 24, 2008 5:00pm
In light of Charlie Black's ridiculous and revealing comments to Fortune magazine Monday, Jon Stewart shows how Republicans are calculating their winning November strategy.
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"Why is it that a terror attack helps Republicans? Well, it's quite simple. A terror attack, when added to an election, equals Republican. Why is that? Let's show our work. First we have to solve for 'R.' Now, if you add 7 1/2 years of Republican administration, times the five years we've been at war, which has divided the nation, add in the government's incompetent response to the domestic disaster of Katrina, minus the equity in your home thats disappeared, plus the price of oil squared, over the boon that the Iraq war has been to terrorist recruiting, times tortue, minus the resoucres we could have been using in Afghanistan, plus the resources we could have been using to catch bin Laden, carry the Cheney and...."
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I wish every American would watch Stewart and Colbert. They have more truth in their skecthes than MSM has in a week of reporting!
Brilliant once again.
Please don't smack me up the side of my head for wandering off the path for a moment. I am watching a live press conference on CNN now being held by Senator Obama. He already seems presidential. He is taking the questions, dealing with them knowledgeably and seriously. He sounds like a president. He acts like a president.
Okay now I'm back on the path. I'm guessing that Charlie Black has had some seriously sleepless nights since he made that those comments. The saddest part is they may well be true and come true. God, what a shame that would be.
You know the "Half Hour News Hour" sometimes approached this kind of comedic brilliance...and then quickly fled with shit in its pants.
New Math.
absolutely awesome, John Stewart continues to embarrass the rest of the media with his razor sharp analysis
Jon Stewart has been stepping out lately he even mentioned the control that the I lobby has on discussion about the I/P conflict recently (this was a first, so I applaud him).
Wonder if Jon will touch this issue
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
If Israel attacks Iran,what would the U.S. do?
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The presence of U.S. forces in Iraq, like these F-14B Tomcats, means that Israel would require a U.S. green light to fly in and attack Iran.
By Ron Kampeas Published: 06/24/2008
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- As the question of an Israeli attack on Iran edges from if toward when, a new question looms: What would the United States do?
The question is preoccupying not just the White House but the Obama and McCain presidential campaigns, although neither would address
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A number of neoconservatives in Washington, known for their closeness to the Israeli defense establishment, now predict that Israel may strike between the election in November and the inauguration of the next president on Jan. 21, if only because that’s a time when Israel can count on U.S. support.
"Israel would be unlikely to do it before the U.S. election," said John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who is close to the pro-Israel community in the capital. "But after the election and before the inauguration would be a window."
Israeli officials will not name a date, but some have grown more pronounced in recent weeks about the increased prospect of a strike should Iran develop nuclear weapons capability.
"A year from now Iran will be very, very close to the completion of its first nuclear bomb," Ephraim Sneh, a member of Israel's ruling coalition, said earlier this month at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference. "I may predict that there is -- will be no government in Jerusalem which would allow it to happen."
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20080624iranpolicy20080623....
JUST HOW IS IT THAT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND ISRAEL KEEP IGNORING THE MOST RECENT NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE ON IRAN.
####hey Jon this would be a great skit on your program
Now the American Prospect says that there will be no attack on Iran
http://www.prospect.org//cs/articles?article=talking_to_iran_is_not_so_c...
Talking to Iran Is Not So Controversial
Don't look now but there is a broad consensus on what the next administration should do about Iran.
Ilan Goldenberg | June 25, 2008 | web only
If two years ago you were to tell me that the Democratic presidential nominee would make engaging with Iran a central element of his campaign, I would have thought you were joking. After all, talking to a country that has historically enjoyed a favorability rating of a whopping 10 percent in the United States and has a president known for his anti-Western rhetoric probably isn't going to be all that popular. Not to mention the fact that the most substantive interaction Americans have had with Iran over the last 30 years involved watching blindfolded hostages and burning American flags on their television screens.
if israel decides to attack iran......that's it.. were in....and some people are convinced the republicans are the experts regarding the war for oil... i mean.. against terror ..could the public get fooled again
Patricia, I'm watching CNN too. The question about Nader pissed me off. How many faux pas has McCain had compared with Obama? Don't you love how MSM white-washes everything Mccain says? Remember the head scarf controversy? Well I don't see many Islamic people in Mccains audiences. Do you? It likes more like a white bread convention.
The writer who wrote that part should be given the biggest damned raise any writer ever got. It was so perfectly outstanding!
Patty D. @ 9:
I had a couple of things going on, like a freakin' phone call so I missed the Nader question. What did Obama say?
Yeah, Jon Stewart is funny and all, but sometimes he just goes a little too far. The other night he was actually knocking Barack Obama for his changing stance on accepting public money. Even his audience didn't know if they should laugh or not.
Some things are ok to poke fun of but not when it hurts America.
Leave the Democratic nominee alone, Jon. One time is one too many.
I have noticed Stewart attacks Obama specifically and Republicans generically--but not McCain specifically. Anybody agree? And if he does, why does he?
Total Assininity
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kathleen @ 13:
Probably because McCain is such an easy target. He's a walking self parody. That may actually even be their stategy.
But but...but the Repugnicans are in charge! How would another terror attack on the US reflect well on them if they are in charge? Now that 75% of people think we're headed in the wrong direction - how do they think that another attack on their watch... am I missing something?
Sorry Patricia, I was away for a minute. Obama said it was sad that Nader had to basically had to stoop to that level, after all the good things Nadar has done(???) Like protecting consumers.
kathleen @ 13:
McCain has often been Jon's co-host. He has had him on many times
McCain attacks himself, no one else has too. Today he will attack himself regarding something he said yesterday. Some days he can do it in the same day.
Mickxotic @ 16:
The crazier things get, the better for republicans. Because well....they're crazier. Same thing goes for Al Qeda.
This is a little off topic but I guess it fits really.
I recently made a list of items that easily came to mind to send to a wide eyed, big ol' conservative republican texan fox-bot that I work with.
He sent me the e-mail with the little kid wearing the t-shirt about the mess that the Democrats were going to make of the country and this was my response to it.
I've wanted to make this easy to read list of non refutable items for a while now and I was wondering if anyone had anything to add ... or if such an easy to digest list exists somewhere else.
I like it to be simple because it NEEDS to be simple for one of them to read, let alone comprehend - what with their alternate reality and all ...
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Hah ha boy I sure hope it isn’t worse then …
Endless war,
Torture of prisoners in secret prisons around the world,
Tapping of my phone and the complete lack of privacy of any and all of my records,
Division of the country through wedge issues like abortion and gay marriage,
Complete destruction of the value of the dollar,
Record oil and gas prices,
Unemployment,
Loss of jobs overseas,
Loss of jobs to migrant workers,
Incompetence during disaster relief,
Destruction of Habeas corpus,
Destruction of the Geneva Convention,
Using 9/11 as a political tool.
The Mortgage crisis,
The Credit crisis,
All time high number of billionaires,
Highest poverty level in modern history,
Ceo’s getting paid 500 times more than workers,
Highest budget deficits of all time,
Highest trade deficits of all time,
Biggest federal budget of all time,
Biggest national debt of all time,
The highest ranking cabinet member to ever be convicted of a crime and then pardoned,
Calling people who disagreed with the Iraq war un-American, or saying they supported the terrorists,
Calling people who disagreed with the president un-American or the “blame America first” crowd,
Telling people who don’t believe in torture that they have forgotten 9/11 and must want the terrorists to win,
Corruption at high levels of government with countless members of the party resigning in shame,
No alternative fuel research or development … only more and more of the same industrial age thinking,
Or how about fostering the notion that anyone who is not a member of the ruling party is not a “REAL American” as this e-mail implies??
… Because if the Democrats mess is worse then that we are screwed dude!!!
Patty D. @ 17:
Very diplomatic way to handle it on Senator Obama's part. Just as he has handled most of these incredibly stupid things that have been said about him throughout the campaign.
I liked what he said about the Charlie Black remarks. Good work, Senator. Smack them down on their foolishness, but do it so tactfully you don't have to get down in the mud with them.
pissed off patricia @ 19:
Exactly. He keeps doing it again and again. This must be their strategy. He couldn't possibly be that stupid, could he?
Watching Bill Bennet on CNN makes me gag! Why are they constantly bringing up gays and abortion? The American people are losing everything, and he wants to bring up so-called 'Moral Issues'. Wasn't he busted funding Romney or Guiliani while he was a so-called 'Anyalisit'?
Kathleen @ 18:
Co-host? A frequent guest, yeah, and often kinda funny. But TDS doesn't target politicians at all in the same way it lampoons the media.
And, kathleen, you must have missed the other TDS clip today, where Stewart says, "I love you, McCain, but you're old as shit!" I'd say that that's an attack.
Mickxotic @ 16:
They would simply explain it away by saying that if the dems had folded on the immunity for telecoms earlier, they would have been able to prevent the attack by wiretapping the "bad guys". Hence, the attack would be the fault of the dems so vote repub.
GuyCybershy @ 23:
McCain right now is the dems golden goose. Why waste time and effort on him when he is making his very own ads to be used against him by the 537s
Oops, make that ...ads used against him by the 527s.
Andy K Jong Il @ 25:
Kathleen might have also missed the time when Stewart grilled him about his speaking engagement at Bob Jones. That was rather intense for Jon.
GuyCybershy @ 23:
it's a strategy...not always but i believe they put info. out their surrogates/mccain then they qualify it or change it.....but now the misinformation got out their..some got all the information some didn't......it's a sophisticated linguistic strategy....not always but often
Patty D. @ 1:
It's the only way they can get it out, by dressing it up as comedy because the rest of the media is so crap and castrated.
karl @ 30:
Well it's a "linguistic strategy" that's not working so damned well. If I were one of his campaign advisers, I would flush it!
Peter G @ 29:
I think you mean kathleen, not Kathleen. There seem to be two of
themyou, right?pissed off patricia @ 32:
it's not working with us....but some of the peeps out there......well they're out there
Mickxotic @ 16:
Well, yeah, you are missing something ... if there was another terror attack, the Republicans would blame it on the Democrats, since they're in charge of Congress.
pissed off patricia @ 32:
They can't flush it because McCain is incapable of rational argument. He is there to lower the bar just as far as he can. He is incapable of understanding the issues he discusses. He is politician, and our political system rewards his kind of incompetence extremely well.
Andy K Jong Il @ 33:
I stand corrected.
kathleen @ 13:
Because he only has 30 minutes?
Jon and the Team at the Daily Show are incredible!
They hit closer to the truth than any other component of the U.S. media, outstanding!
Classic moment on tv. Tonight chris matthews was talking to his guests after just showing what Sen Obama said today when he was asked about Nader's comment. Matthews said, "Don't you like the way he thinks before he (Senator Obama) speaks. I could learn something from him.
To which I replied out loud, You sure as fu*k could.
I think Jon knows he doesn't have to come down hard on McCain because his audience is savvy and they know what McCain is all about, he doesn't need to harp on him.
dennis @ 12:
Sorry but fuck that noise.
We don't need a sycophantic zombie media of the left to counter Fox News.
Stewart should be free to poke fun of anyone anytime.
Hunting With Jesus?
I hope He's not hunting with Dead Eye dick chainey
Or his crucifixion will seem like just a dawdle.
pissed off patricia @ 3:
I don't understand that... if we are attacked again (may the gods have mercy on us) how can the Republicans think this will help them... It just means that they failed to protect us and that our fight over there isn't protecting us over here.
The Republicans would be better off (and we all would too) if there wasn't another terrorist attack.
Terrorist attacks prior to elections and voting in Spain and England completely backfired on the incumbents.
It's not Jon's job to polish Dems.
His/their primary target is the media and then the usual insanity of the human critter.
Dems have just been numerically smaller targets recently.
They still sometimes deserve a shellacking.
Provided as an equally breaking news-flash, Colbert's not a hard-line conservative.
I am looking foreward to January 20th when the Dems will put parasites like Charlie Black and Rove out to pasture.
These sociopathic hedonist have made $millions from their association with our government. Forcing a disassociation from government of these assclowns will bring absolute joy to most Americans.
pissed off patricia @ 19:
sort of explains all those bandaids on his face.
Punching oneself in the da face is mavericky.
Patty D. @ 1:
They're a hell of a lot funnier, too.
A corrupt, deceitful, conservative big oil White House http://www.aztlan.net/oiltanker.htm
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A lying war profiteering Republican vice president http://www.rawstory.com/news/2005/Cheneys_stock_options_rose_3281_last_1...
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A busted budget, depleted military, alienated allies, emboldened enemies, 4000+ dead Americans, hundreds of thousands of civilian dead and a national reputation in shambles.
If only somebody got a blow job and lied about it there could have been impeachment.
Seems people are forgetting the anthrax attacks. Did that hurt bushie at all? If I remember correctly, it helped secure a bit more power for chimpy. So yeah, wouldn't surprise me at all if they did benefit, too many idiots out there. Come on, there were even plenty of anti-war independents voting for mccain in the primaries.
kathleen @ 13:
I agree. And I think it's bullshit. And it breaks my heart, because I otherwise love JS.
Someone tell me how a terrorist attack on U.S. soil would help John McBush? It would be an attack on a Republican president's watch (the second one, counting 9/11) who has said our forces fight them "over there" to keep them from striking "over here."
In my view, an attack now would undermine what McBush and the Chimp have been saying this whole time.
mrplow @ 50:
Last night he said something to the effect "I love you man,but you are so old" in regard to McCain.......baby steps,but its something.
mrplow @ 50:
Mc cane probably threatened Jon Stewart. (treat me nice or I'll hit you with mah cane)
Damn, that was one big explosion. In fact, I think that's the biggest one I've seen outside of A-bomb footage.
I know this is kinda off-topic, but anyone know wtf that was?
Oh, and for those of you whining that JS doesn't attack McCain personally, have you seen the thread 2 Doors Down (not to be confused with similarly-named band)?
Stewart doesn't read the blogs much. Bin Laden is DEAD!
kathleen @ 13:
Jon has actually stated that he likes McCain, and I have too noticed him ridiculing Obama, as if Sen. Obama didn't get enough crap from the rest of the media.
dennis @ 12:
Good Lord, I hope not. Are we that worried about criticism that we can't accept humor being poked at us, when we make mistakes. In this case, I would have to agree with Stewart on this one. The good news is that the democrati party will be in charge over the next two years (almost for certain). The bad news is that people will be poking fun at the democratic party for the mistakes that they are sure to make. Get used to it. It's not unlike when the press decides that information being passed out by the administration is misleading or even wrong and then asks questions about it...oh yea, I forgot, that was last century.
hood @ 57:
See my comment above. I hope that Obama is ridiculed for the next eight long years. It'll be fun.
What the...?
All he said was the truth! One terror attack, and the politics of fear become even more noxious than 2004, which was plenty noxious itself. At least, here, the emphasis is on things that are more Obama's playground. It's seldom one finds such an honest Republican.
i always thought a DICK CHAINY was a torture thing they tied to your undisclosed location
It's just what the Repuglickends are pushing for. McCain said last night during a campaign tele-conference: "I don't know what would make a draft happen unless we were in an all-out World War III."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/25/mccain-world-war-iii-woul_n_109...
Don't worry John, Bush might give you your wish before leaving office
Didn't know that Jon Stewart is left handed. Anyway, JS has made fun of McCain numerous times. The one that sticks in my head was the 1200 page medical report dump that McCain had open for just three hours, on the Friday before memorial day weekend. "Is 50 the new dead?" He could attack McCain all show long but no self respecting comedy writer loves such an easy joke. Though, I imagine, it's tough to resist.
looks like a usual Stewart gets right to the heart of the problem.
We have a media in the pocket of the neocons. saying whatever they are paid to say without reguard for the fact or truth!
dennis @ 12:
Poking fun of Obama or any politician hurts America? Absolutely not. I certainly hope that when Obama gets elected, Jon Stewart won't stop poking fun of him when he deserves it. No politician is above being the object of scrutiny and pointed barbs – No one, and that includes Obama.
Starbright @ 65:
Amen, Starbright. For a leftie, dennis12's sounds strangely neocon.
Thank God for John Stewart!
Devastating!!! I heard somewhere that this Obama fella is quite
popular world over. I heard elsewhere that Bin Laden would quite
prefer McCain. I read that with certain hardwhere terrorists like to effect the outcome
of elections. Remember when Santorum alluded quite directly
to "unfortunate events" in 2008 that would change voters minds?
I ask you, being a Ray-publican, where would he get an idea like that?
(from being a republican?)+(Remember anthrax?)=Pass FISA (NOT)
UNBELIEVABLE ! ! ! THE TOTAL TRUTH OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR COUNTRY IN A MATTER OF SECONDS. Wake up MSM . . . if you want to stay in the game you had better start giving REAL NEWS! A huge applaud to you Jon Stewart!
glennjamin @ 66:
I agree. Jon pokes fun at everyone. I hate when they go on vacation. I miss Real Time with Bill Moyers too. I like the news with a touch of levity. Especially after watching FOX and the horrible Sean Hannity in particular.
"carry the cheney"...that's genius...
kathleen @ 13:
Absolutely.
This election should be a slam dunk, but funny stuff is happening everywhere.
Frybread @ 51:
That would be the LOGICAL conlcusion. BUT, these are not logical times.
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