Jon Stewart on the Crazed Town Hall protesters
By John Amato Wednesday Aug 12, 2009 5:00amJon Stewart ripped into the insane, Ron Paul, teabaggers disrupting the health care town halls.
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1s the funn1est man 1n the news.
I am getting fed up with these "medicare mobs" full of old farts who are ON socialized medicine screaming and yelling that I shouldn't get any.
... they do not call the libertarian/GOP the "f*ck you I got mine" sector of the population for nothin'
particular age group for this behavior. The majority of those I see causing trouble at these meetings appear to be in the age range of 35 to 60. We should be focusing on what we are going to do to counteract their crap.
I know plenty of 55-year-olds and older who are for health-care reform, the single-payer plan, or the public option. It's conservative vs. progressive / liberal, not age, that determines whether people are for or against this reform.
Conservatives of all ages are afraid of change, afraid of other races, and tightly bound into their fears. They want to submit to right-wing authority figures rather than thinking for themselves. (Yet they also perpetuate the myth that they are independent.)
Progressives and liberals of any age are willing to question the way things are (the myth of "the way things have always been") and to adjust to a changing reality and to work for improvement.
yes, he's so funny that I have to reach for my inhaler every time he makes me laugh. Seriously, he makes me laugh so hard I lose my breath.
The key here is the clips of BillO. These need to be played 24/7!
when you told your story about the meeting and why you left, I kept wondering... why the police would promise to arrest you and not the disrupters. the false equivalence that is placing blame on a defender of democracy, while allowing the brownshirts to continue with harassment and intimidation, leaves me fuming.
Kudos to you.
and
Have you been to any good Town Halls lately? :<[)
I was scheduled to go to the McCaskill meeting in Hillsboro MO yesterday, but I have had enough. Hillsboro is the county seat of Jefferson County. "Jeffco" is an enclave for what we in Missouri call "Hosiers*", or racist, drunken, redneck douchebags with American flag dew rags and beer bellies. The famous picture of a guy holding a sign saying "get a brain morans" is from Jefferson County.
Jeffco's growth industries are meth labs, bail bondsmen, payday loans, used car lots and evangelical churches. So you would think this economically depressed area would be ripe for some progressive legislation. Nope.
That meeting was only more sensible because Claire McCaskill kept control of it whereas Russ Carnahan sat there and said nothing. I work for Carnahan btw.
I have bigger fish to fry now. I am now a full time student so I can hit all the activist meetings and recruit more progressives to get things done. I have seen the teabaggers in action, sequels almost always suck.
* not referring to people from Indiana. Not sure where the term came from. But it is universal in this neck of the woods. "Did I see your hosier cousin on Cops last night?"
I was working the night of Carnahan's meeting and couldn't get out of it. I work about a mile and a half from that venue, and knew that the uninformed of South County would be there.
Claire did keep things civil, and I'm glad to have her as our Senator. The other one would only make things worse. So glad he's retiring.
The reason I had to work last Thursday....My boss is a "Jeffco elite" type.(meaning he doesn't sell, make or use meth. Law and order all the way...and yehaw for White America.) He knows my politics and when I asked, he said, "No...I know you wanna go to that Carnahan thing...and you don't have coverage."
Hoping we cross paths someday jhunter.
mkcabs@live.com
People from Indiana are Hoosiers, not hosiers.
Maybe the term "hosiers" came from the two "Canadian" guys on SNL who called people "hosers" ... but in Missouri they're even worse, so they're "hosier"?
I finally found out...from wiki
"In St. Louis, Missouri, the word is used in a derogatory fashion in similar context to "hick" or "white trash".[1]
Thomas E. Murray carefully analyzed the use of "hoosier" in St. Louis, Missouri, where it is the favorite epithet of abuse. "When asked what a Hoosier is," Murray writes, "St. Louisans readily list a number of defining characteristics, among which are 'lazy,' 'slow-moving,' 'derelict,' and 'irresponsible.'" He continues, "Few epithets in St. Louis carry the pejorative connotations or the potential for eliciting negative responses that hoosier does." He conducted tests and interviews across lines of age and race and tabulated the results. He found the term ecumenically applied. He also noted the word was often used with a modifier, almost redundantly, as in "some damn Hoosier."
In a separate section Murray speaks of the history of the word and cites Baker and Carmony (1975) and speculates on why Hoosier (in Indiana a "neutral or, more often, positive" term) should remain "alive and well in St. Louis, occupying as it does the honored position of being the city's number one term of derogation." A radio broadcast took up where Murray left off. During the program, "Fresh Air," Jeffrey Lunberg, a language commentator, answered questions about regional nicknames. He cited Elaine Viets, a Post-Dispatch columnist (also quoted by Paul Dickson), as saying that in St. Louis a "Hoosier is a low-life redneck, somebody you can recognize because they have a car on concrete blocks in their front yard and are likely to have just shot their wife who may also be their sister."[1]
"Old timers" from southwest St. Louis County have their own history for use of the term. In the mid-1950s, Fenton, Missouri was at the then-rural southwest rim of the county. It was during this time that Chrysler Corporation built a large automobile assembly plant in the city of Fenton and closed a plant it had been operating in Indiana. Many former employees of the closed Indiana plant moved to Fenton for employment; so many, in fact, that entire subdivisions of new homes (with streets named after Chrysler models such as "Fury" and "Belvidere") sprang up south of the plant, near what was then US Route 66.
It became something of a local joke to refer to the new arrivals from Indiana as "hoosiers", and before long, anyone from the rural edges of St. Louis County was considered such."
That a comedian is still in the top three trusted news sources.
Loved the Faux Nooz bit. And Sarah Balin needs to stay home and raise her family. Any bets that there will be more trouble in that family?
Balin was a Sun God along with Balan and Balat.
The first two were euhemerized into brothers who were on King Arthur's Round Table.
It appears to be derived from the God Baal, Phoenician for Lord.
However Balor was King of the Fomorians, deformed enemies of the sea who fought the God(esses) of the Tuatha De Danaan.
They go back to some root word, that's also has the derivative name in the holiday Beltane.
Nothing like a swift kick in then Baals!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV1LWhNpTJU&fe...
The "-at" suffix was used for a female.
"Baalat is queen of the gods. She is associated with books, libraries, and writers. She was worshipped primarily in the city of Byblos (which is the original source of papyrus), and Byblos is what the Greeks called papyrus and, eventually, books. Also an epithet of the goddess Ashtart."
-- Dr. Anthony E. Smart
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/baalat.html
The Paliban is most of the problem at the Town Hall gatherings.
Stewart is so absolutely great at showing the complete stupidity and insanity of the Right Wing Nutcases and liars for their leadership.
. . . How about a giant Rubberized Stadium where all these kooks can be housed and watch Glen Beck drool and spit on a MumbojumboTron screen, while they eat as much MickeyDs and drink tankards of soda until they burst? The trade off is that this is the only place Beck airs . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyloQkxD9Sg
lol
I blame Red Bull.
Almost every morning I accuse my dog of having a stash of Red Bull hidden in his bed because he wakes up so fired up and ready to rock and roll. How can any creature wake up that excited first thing in the morning?
I would imagine with the protesters it's even harder stuff they drink.
Is your perfume Eau de Heat?
Nope, my little dog is Eau de energy.
on this blog helps m wake up.
I don't get Comedy Central, so I have to watch Jon Stewart and Colbert online. I make a cup of strong coffee, add half-and-half and low-sugar chocolate syrup, and then go to the Daily Show website. I just love Tuesday through Friday mornings, having their humor and intelligence (plus the mocha) wake me up. Saturday through Monday mornings are not so easy...
Stewart and Colbert don't need writers right now as this stuff is just so easy. Keith had a great story about Palin last night and how many elderly had died due to her refusal in Alaska to give more money for elderly care. Guess Palin knows more about death panels than we thought.
Yeah, remember when people wondered what Stewart and Colbert would have to talk about after the Repubs were defeated?
Why does Jon Stewart want to talk about sarah palin's box?
it's a (n)ice box. :)
It's paneled with worm wood.
And horse hair.
Most likely moose hair.
lined with the skin of wolf cubs.
I think I have just experienced self inflicted gross out.
Bulimic?
Scab sandwich
Skin on top
Monkey vomit
Camet snot
Two eyeballs dipped in glue
Scab sandwich, you want one too?
(First poem I learned at 6).
... Self-Inflicted Gross-Out Syndrome is not covered by Medicare. Sorry.
We do have 'death panels' - only they're called health insurance auditors now.
Insurance companies deny life saving treatments every day. The opposition's worst case scenario already exists, but they seem to be uninterested in that fact.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csEhvFdfM9A
Farcical hypocrites of the highest order. I'm surprised the GOP doesn't charge Stewart for these scripts.
After this clip John had on a "panel" to discuss Obama's plan and death panels. John Oliver, Sam Bee & Asif Manvi, each with a more insane take on the issue, and Asif Manvi put it to bed with: "I want Obama to cast a spell on white people."
Hand the script of that segment to SNL - I'd love to see it broadcast to a wider audience. It was the funniest put-down of the wingnuts that I've ever seeen. And in 5 minutes time.
...buuut, whats with the slam on Ron Paul? Im sure there are some Ron Paul supporters at these things acting like boobs, but Ron Paul doesn't have anything to do with this, does he? I find it hard to belive thaat someone like Mr. Paul would support something as dishonest as these actions. He may be extremely anti-Obama, but he doesn't seem like the type who would get behind something as non-constructive and idiotic as these mobs we see turning out at these things are. I could be wrong, but I cant find anything where Ron Paul shows any support for people shouting down or intimidating people who don't agree with their views. Whether you like his politics or not, Ron Paul is a good man, and he doesn't get into smearing people. Im just curious as to why Ron Paul has been drug into this.
Also, Asif Mandvi is the funniest man alive :)
If he's involved with pushing the disruptors, it's the first I've heard. I did turn on CNN in the wee hours of the morning when I was having trouble sleeping, and Mr. Paul was one of a panel of four people being talked to about health care, but since I had the sound down low, I didn't hear what he actually had to say on the topic.
The guy who was carrying a gun at Obama's New Hampshire town-hall meeting the other day told Chris Matthews on Hardball that he voted for Ron Paul in the last election. C&L has that interview on the site today.
Why Aren't Progressives Disrupting ObamaCare Town Halls?
By Dave Lindorff: http://counterpunch.com/lindorff08112009.html
here: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090810_...
Oh the insanity.
The way the media introduces these people as "average Americans" (stated or implied) is pathetic. They are from a relatively small number of organizations, mainly from the Tea Bag network. In other words,
it would be far more accurate to call them "right-wing American groups", or something like that.
Of course, seeing these people doesn't make most Americans likely to say, "that's me!". But it does feed the myth that the "average American" is speaking on their behalf.
Thanks, MSM.
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