Jon Stewart: I've got as much authority as McCain in the Georgia situation.
By SilentPatriot Thursday Aug 14, 2008 8:00pm
Jon Stewart mocks President Bush's lack of short-term memory about when it's OK to invade other countries, as well as McCain's presumptuousness for dispatching "Droopy-Dog and Howdy Doody" (Lieberman and Graham) to Georgia, despite his status as candidate for President.
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Do you guys have any short term memory? Do you have anything? You just said, yeah let's be clear about it, you can't just overthrow a government, occupy a capital, knock over their statues, stack their prisoners, refer to the, refer to the horrific level of civilian casualties as birth pangs of democracy. Of course obviously this situation isn't just the dangerous escalation of once mordent cold war hostilities. It's a chance for our Presidential nominees to get inside the Commander in Chief simulator, and play a little make believe.
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gees... McCain looks like he's been huffing too many computer fumes... We all are. Our computers are releasing chemicals which we inhale...chemicals which are suspected of causing health problems...but i bet republicans don't care.
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It's really very simple. In order to hide behind the National Security Act, the United States must have an enemy.
When he was three-quarters of the way through a quart of Old Bushmill’s Irish Whiskey at the Turnberry Club in North Miami Beach, former Iran-Contra notable Major General Richard V. Secord used to say, “Son, there’s no more heroes, and nobody makes any money without a bogeyman.”
although different i recall the grief obama took from the RNC/media about acting like he was president already on his trip to europe/mid-east.
And now Russia threatens to invade Poland!?!?!
Does anyone doubt that Russia is taking advantage of the present weakness of our military due to prolonged tours in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Way to go Bushie!
Hmmm...
as far as I can tell, the Russians have not done much out of the ordinary in Georgia. Compared to their savagery in Chechnya, they've been relatively decent in a foreign country, much more decent than the US would be in a situation like this in some ways.
What are people complaining about? It's not like Putin's another Iosif Dzhugazhivili.
Friggin hilarious! :)
"My friends, I'm full of shit."
McCan't
Excellent.
Btw, has the site been extremely slow for anyone else these past few days?
On the other hand, the download of this video was uber fast.
Bush has made sure that we are no longer a super power to be contended with. It still hasn't sunk in that this is not a simple game of Risk. It is a real situation and real people die. He has squandered all of our wealth, our reputation, our military force, the lives of our loved ones and he still thinks he can talk like we are something in todays world. He is an idiot as is McBush, LIEberman and the lot of them.
It is what we deserve though, we sat around and did NOTHING while he stole not one, but two elections. Sat on our asses while he shred the constitution and the bill of rights and still sit on our asses while he gets away with war crimes, crimes against humanity, treason and god only knows what else.
The handful of true patriots who have been outraged don't amount to a hill of beans when most of the people in this country can't turn off their stupid reality shows long enough to know what is going on. Of course the media should have been ringing the alarm bell to wake people up but they were too busy reporting propaganda as news and getting paid for it. They have done more then their share to enable this criminal administration.
I fear it may be too late even if we do manage to get Obama into office.
Grand Bushonian Malfeasance
NorCalMatt @ 4:
Talk about the chickens coming home to roost. Oh, what we have wrought......
EJG @ 9:
How terribly sad but true. The mess Obama will inherit is apparent by the lack-lustre candidate they put up.
EJG @ 9:
I would say the MSM is the major reason that people haven't risen up. Google "Orwell Rolls in his Grave." A faux producer said that if no one hears it or sees it, is it news.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8XI2Chc6uQ&eur
Refugees say Georgia was bombing Osetia.
NorCalMatt @ 4:
Bill Moyers started off his show the week with that exact comment.
i don't agree with mcGruff sounding off before the president......of course bush might have made that call.
saying that were all georgians is alittle over the top and premature.....mcGruff jumped on this to push that he's ready and obama isn't.
constituent @ 16:
Especially when your senior foreign adviser is a lobbyist for Georgia.
McGramps should not have been needling this from the side for monthes..and his aide's connections to this stink..and Oh great now he is sending Droopy Dog and Howdy Doody....( that really does describe them to a tea)...And yeah, McGramps comes to his big event ( 2000 people crammed in air hanger) and pulls his bus in with "Rocky"blaring and saying" we are all georgians NOW"...ahhh, no ...wrong McPuppet....( is it even legal for him to send the two thugs there when the State Dept is negogiating ???)
We've all seen how the 21st century began, starting with the infamous Supreme Court decision, in 2000. It wasn't long before the bombs started dropping.
I hate mcshame more and more every day. He is so damned ignorant and makes my skin crawl. What an evil man.
Is he sending lieberman and graham to Georgia as human sacrifices so the bad guys will leave us alone. Sounds good to me. Where does he get off sending ANYONE??? Is Bush completely drunk or stoned??? And Cheney is holed up somewhere plotting his next move.
This "debate" tomorrow has me worried. So help me if mcshame keeps repeating "my friends" and grins that evil, yellow-toothed grin (sneer) I will probably throw something at the TV. We know he will just lie about anything they throw at him and then the next day he will have a different story. But no one ever calls him on it. Where in hell is the msm? They should be ashamed of themselves for letting mcshame get away with these stupid human tricks.
Sorry for ranting. But I am so pissed, and scared.
EJG @ 9:
Whoops, I meant to say:
Bush removed our status as Primus over the Orbis by taking a crap all over the rest of the world, and effectively removing US status as hyperpower. Regardless, we still retain Primus inter Pares over the rest of the world, and I fail to see how our neighbors in North America, Canada and Mexico are somehow going to overtake us.
The hyperpower is dead, people. We can’t unring that bell. Better to just accept Primus Inter Pares without wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Sorry about the bad formatting.
Edwin Hussein, arugula lover @ 19:
21st Century begins in 2001. You fail at timekeeping.
enigma4ever @ 18:
He is sending Lieberman and Graham with their escort on the government's dime. How does a Senator from Arizona legally get funding from GSA for this "mission"? When the "mission" is to make him look better for the November election.
NorCalMatt @ 4:
Meh, plenty more states than just the Russian Federation could have a merry ol' time and we couldn't say boo about it.
I think this Georgia incident was from both sides, not Sola Russia or Sola Georgia.
harley @ 24:
That's a great question.
anybody remember that little talk daddy bush(former head of the CIA) had with Putin(former head of the KGB) on that boat off the coast on ME... awhile back?
hmmmm.....
That snake Rove was in a meeting with the Georgian president just two months ago. On Tom Hartmann's show, there was speculation that this was a manufactured effort to assist McCain as looking tough. Which may be the reason the Georgian leader lashed-out a McBush a couple of days ago. He was expecting more. But, McKissass is not the president, and neither is thee "president.'
Apologies to Randy Newman but:
Short people got short memories
...
They got little hands
And little eyes
And they walk around
Tellin' great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear platform shoes
On their nasty little feet
...
Well, I don't want no Short People
Don't want no Short People
Don't want no Short People
Round here
...
They got little wars
That go beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin' peep, peep, peep
They got grubby little fingers
And dirty little minds
They're gonna get you every time
Well, I don't want no Short People
Don't want no Short People
Don't want no Short People
'Round here
☻Bangkok Bob ☺ @ 26:
He is sending Lieberman and Graham with their escort on the government's dime. How does a Senator from Arizona legally get funding from GSA for this "mission"? When the "mission" is to make him look better for the November election.
That's a great question.
Thank you. I got another one.
If Condi Rice is captured by Russian troops and waterboarded would be considered torture?
harley @ 30:
That's a great question.
Thank you. I got another one.
If Condi Rice is captured by Russian troops and waterboarded would be considered torture?
If she is arrested as a war criminal or a terrorist, it might be okay.
Ron @ 31:
If Condi Rice is captured by Russian troops and waterboarded would be considered torture?
If she is arrested as a war criminal or a terrorist, it might be okay.
They don't knew who she was. Just picked up in a conflict zone.
Watch this for the truth! On FOX of all places! I don't thinks this clip will be around long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFcaNM2J3VE
odanny @ 6:
Apart from the disgusting hypocrisy that is the US now; who's peoples army at the same time rape, murder and torture innocents, and then laugh at it on shows like this .....
Oh yes, most hilarious.
Well done america, well done ....... mission accomplished.
what is hypocritical about the bushs statement "in the 21st century nations do not invade democratic nations"
what democratic nations has the USA invaded in the 21st century?
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A top Russian general on Friday said Poland's deal with the United States to set up parts of a missile defence shield on Polish territory lays it open to a possible military strike, a Russian news agency reported.
Col-General Anatoliy Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of the general staff, told Interfax that Russian military doctrine would allow for a possible nuclear strike.
Poland agreed on Thursday to host elements of a U.S. global anti-missile system after Washington agreed to boost Poland's own military air defences.
"The USA is engaged in an anti-missile defence for its own government, and not for Poland. And Poland, in deploying (elements of the system) opens itself to a military strike. That is 100 percent," Interfax quoted Nogovitsyn as saying.
Nogovitsyn said Russia allows nuclear weapons to be used in circumstances defined by its current security doctrine.
The Russian government revamped its national security doctrine in 2000, broadening the range of conflicts in which nuclear weapons could be used.
"It is written clearly: We will use it in instances against governments that have nuclear weapons; against allies of countries with nuclear weapons, if they somehow enable them," he said.
In agreeing to deploy elements of the U.S. missile shield, Poland "becomes an actionable object. Those targets are destroyed in the first order," Nogovitsyn said.
L.A. Confidential @ 2:
These guys are saying the same thing and they have a solution: http://www.acmeprivatedefense.com/wiki/index.php5?title=Acme_Private_Def...
It's not just them, it's the media too.
How many times has the media spurted out the refugee and civilian death toll numbers in the past few days? Every hour, a new number.
How many times did they do that for Iraq? Zero, that's right. Zero.
Also, Georgia attacked Russia, not the other way around.
What's the beeg deel?
They aren't condemning anyone for doing the same thing they've done.
No hypocrisy here, nope, no way, nosiree.
Listen closely:
Herr Bush: "blah, blah, blah ... democratic ... blah ... NEIGHBORING ..."
Hoz Rice: "blah ... NEIGHBORING ... blah"
See. *Totally* different than what they did.
Ira{q,n} aren't neighbors and so are fair game.
Is Russia close enough to Alaska to count as a neighbor?
E Pleb Neesta
GODISNOWHERE
Blessed are the cheese makers.
Droopy Dog and Howdy Doody LOL!
Yes, the criminals who lead us provide a limitless supply of comedic material.
Another good segment here by Jon. Additional examples of the sound-bite bull shit the Republican party wishes we would all just swallow and not question or think about.
And finally, is it just me or is John McGaffe as stupid as W? They just throw one moron after another into the White House like it's just a joke. It's a joke that the behind the scenes marionettes can just prop up any old dip shit puppet and laugh at our stupid asses.
Shag @ 28:
There it is. Clear as day.
BuschCo. is manufacturing another war.
They just got a whole bunch of people killed. It's time to charge them with war crimes.
jake3988 @ 38:
russia is not a victim, they have been in control for the entire ordeal. russian borders were not breached. russia is not on the defensive. they are on the offensive, despite the ceasefire and the crippling of georgian cities.
dispatching twiddle-dee and twiddle-dum is really the height of presumptuousness.
i suppose mccain needs flotsam and jetsam to whisper facts into his ears.
there have been reports on attacks by the georgia military on civilian south ossetians. but of course the msm is just interested in demonizing russia.
nobody really knows who shot first. granting, but not conceding, tha the russian peacekeepers shot first, but if georgia stood down, russia would not have had the excuse come in. they were just waiting for that not only to put georgia in its place but also to sock it into the us for enabling its former republics.
saakashvili should have had more self-control and take it up with the un instead of fighting back. he knows he cant take russia on. he threw caution to the wind because he was given the impression that the us had his back.
what this adventure exposes is weakness of the us; that it can only come up with strong words that cannot be backed by military might; that the european union acts more quickly diplomatically. america is not the power that it once was.
Listen the guy is 72 years old do you really think he even has a chance to be President (NO)
Remember Regan ? during his second term he just took naps and left every thing to BUSH 1
And they only rolled him out when they needed his face for something public and then back to nap time.
There is no way the nation is going to vote for him not even if Hillary and Bill were to endorse him
And all this worrying about the poll's showing it neck and neck are just bull used by the MSM to
try and keep viewers on edge, Just look back at when it was Obama Vs Hillary it was over after Indiana
but did they tell you that no why,
Because who would watch even though Hillary had a great run from then to the end it did not matter.
Did it look like Obama was worried no why,
There was no way for her to catch him none and at the same time she continued to hang herself by stepping over the line
with her ready on day one attacks look back at those and you will see why she wont be VP.
As for the Republicans they know it is over but they cant just concede besides they get to try
some new attacks and see how far they can go with it there going to try but they know it's over
Just look at there convention at this point it looks like the only ones attending are McCain, Graham, Lieberman,
and a bunch of lobbyist.
He may be cute and funny for an old guy but every time he talks or is on TV he just puts another nail in his coffin,
Sure the MSM gives him a lot of latitude and play his web ads over and over.
Heard any hard questions that he "himself" answers not Graham or Lieberman besides (Senator McCain what day is it?)
Get a grip and stop worrying about grandpa.
The press should point this out for what it is.
It's a staged international crisis created by McCain and his lobbyist/advisors who were/are lobbyists for Georgia and advised the President of Georgia to attack Russia so that he could play President. While his camp has extensive ties to their leadership, Obama can only stand by and watch...because he's only a nominee.
Also....someone mentioned Chechnya and the Russian treatment of them. Get it straight. Russian aggression and crimes against the people of Chechnya is okay because they are Muslim. It's when the Ruskies beat up on the Christians of Georgia are they looked upon as evil.
McCAIN AND OBAMA ARE BOTH OF THE CORPORATOCRACY....IT WILL MAKE NO DIFFERENCE WHICH ONE BECOMES PRESIDENT....IT JUST A BIG POPULARITY CONTEST.
NEITHER ONE OF THESE GUYS IS GOING TO DO ANYTHING OF ANY CONSEQUENCE TO ENRICH THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE ON PLANET EARTH.
Jay Severin Has A Small Pen1s @ 47:
Georgians are orthodox Christians and the Russians were protecting the Muslim's Why else do you think Bush is going nut's
and had to postpone his vacation till today I am starting to think that he has a problem with Muslim's but not all of them
just the ones that have never attacked the USA we must never forget that 15 of the 19 911 hijackers were Wahhabism Saudi's
NorCalMatt @ 4:
wanna be totally paranoid?
what if pnac and everything that followed has been just a ruse by the neocons to bring back the cold war
and return us to a time when our economy was based and controlled by the military industrial complex
i cant believe that the russian people would stand for it...they are doing better now than anytime in their history...but their country still has many who yearn for the good old days
same too with us
HUBERTG @ 48:
ok...you have convinced me
so im gonna vote for....MEEEEEEE
keep thinking their is no diff
then look back at the clinton years and compare them with the bush years
you may now go back to redstate or free republic and tell them "mission accomplished"
NorCalMatt @ 4:
Since you aren't really getting the truth there in USA land here's the facts of how the situation in the Caucasus played out:
1) Georgia builds up it's military might with the help of the US.
2) Georgia, now feeling it's oats and supplied with US weaponry decides on a tactic:
a) Negotiate a ceasefire with S. Ossetia.
b) Abrogate that ceasefire.
3) As soon as the ceasefire is implemented Georgia attacks, invading S Ossetia.
4) S Ossetia asks for help from Russia, citing the murders of Russian peace keepers in S Ossetia.
5) Russia agrees to help and drives Georgia out of S Ossetia.
6) Russian troops ARE greeted with flowers and great happiness by the pro Russia S Ossetians.
7) Russia decides to make sure the new Georgian army is incapacitated for it's agression and continues far enough into Georgia to make it plain to Saakashvili that he should NOT have invaded S Ossetia.
8) The US and Georgian governments immediately start trying to rewrite the events in their favor and attempt to gain sympathy from an unsympathetic Europe.
9) You peeps in the US get propaganda and misinformation, and from what I am reading you believe it.
You really need to stop swallowing the Kool Aid your media feeds you.
masha @ 45:
Not true. We in Europe know exactly who shot first.
It is in the US the confusion arises.
Iraqs successful invasion of the US in 2003 only served to embolden the evil Russian Empire.
Count Typo @ 54:
Nice cold war rhetoric, watch Faux Noise much?
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There may be, indeed, individual differences between particular candidates at the margins.
However those differences disappear into irrelevancy when considering the almost absolute synonymy of their agendas and or "principles.'
Both parties favor increased corporate authoritarianism, conformity, and social regulation. Both favor increased secret surveillance, visually and virtually. Both support reductions in personal, constitutionally guaranteed liberties in the name of National Security. Both favor a larger, more aggressive military, paid for from cuts to social expenditures. Both advocte for MORE military adventurism abroad (St. Barry, the Changer, doesn't want to end the occupation of Iraq, he just wants to move it to Afghanistan).
The differences are cosmetological, on wedge issues whic exist to preserve the illusion/myth that there REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY IS a difference.
Look at the records. To the extent that they do differ, it is only slightly, and on the means to enact their version of the mutual agenda. They don't differ in intention, goals, or the agenda itself...
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harley @ 14:
Thanks for that clip.
I dont know what Faux News was thinking doing a live interview with refugees from South Osetia. Kinda obvious they were gonna lay the blame for starting the war on Georgia and Smith had to shut them up once they started bashing Saaksashvili and saying nice things about Russians.
Seriously Faux. Thats like interviewing Palestinians from Gaza. Who do you think they gonna blame for the bombs? Idiots!
Charlemagne @ 58:
You guys are getting pretty desperate to derail any truthful discussion of this topic aren't you?
masha @ 45:
Charlemagne @ 58:
Charlemagne @ 56:
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McCain said "We are all Georgians now". He's sending Lieberman to Atlanta to prove this.
Charlemagne @ 62:
Your desperation to derail discussion is pretty obvious little goon.
Not going to work.
THIS JUST IN
Butfuk MS (Heuters)
McCain Declares War On Russia
Presumed Repubican Party nominee John McCain today got quite worked up discussing the situation in Georgia that he declared a state of war now existed between the United States and Russia.
Minutes later aids led him to the Straight Jacket Express.
perhaps I am just cynical at this point in time, perhaps I am just restless, but with all due consideration, I am so tired of all the jokes and NO REAL ACTION taken against such obvious misleadership. Sure, you can joke about the funky haircut of the guy who openly steals your car, but as long as he is still free to steal... the jokes just fall short.
Well fiddle-dee-dee t' ye too.
EJG @ 9:
And even still, your people are doing nothing to stop the parade of distorted facts, and outright lies coming from your whitehouse regarding this latest problem.
Every night though, it seems, we are treated to yet more air time for that wingnut from Georgia, blathering on and on with his lies. It seems that the state run media here in the west does not really care for facts, or how the situation in Georgia got to this point. It's funny in a sad sort of way how the story is being twisted to show the agressor as the victim.
I say KUDOS to Russia for doing what any western country would do in a similar situation. I say KUDOS to Russia for having the balls to stand up to americas group of war criminal thugs and their rogue state puppets in Georgia.
Kudos to Russia.
To america I say, shut your hypocritical mouths for once.
Try to wash the blood of a million innocent Iraqis off your hands before pointing fingers.
The world is growing tired of your constant threats and admonishments for every other country on this planet. Keep your money, your bigmacs and your suvs...we can do without you and your terror.
Thanks for destroying every last trace of this Nation's moral authority, Bushco Crimes , Incorporated.
May the whole lot of you choke on pretzels and subsequent to the happy event, burn in hell.
A twelve year old girl has more authority than McSame:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8XI2Chc6uQ
Bush didn't respond quickly enough to crisis after
a) He was told the country was under attack on 9/11
b) Katrina devastated New Orleans
c) Russia invaded Georgia
d) Joseph Wilson threatened to unravel his web of lies
Answer: a, b, c
Howard "Not ATLANTA Georgia, George" Beale @ 71:
yes ABC, those eager beavers of gov issued communicates.
Slavic Thunder?
Sounds like Bela Lugosi's had too much goulash.
Best analysis of the Georgia situation so far:http://buchanan.org/blog/2008/08/pjb-blowback-from-bear-baiting/
Unable to download ANY videos from movies.crooksandliars.com all day today.
fixed
http://buchanan.org/blog/2008/08/pjb-blowback-from-bear-baiting/
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