Jon Stewart Slams the Swiss for Minaret Ban
By Heather Friday Dec 04, 2009 5:00pmLooks like our own Nicole isn't the only one slamming the Swiss for this. Jon Stewart takes a whack at them as well.
Looks like our own Nicole isn't the only one slamming the Swiss for this. Jon Stewart takes a whack at them as well.
From The Daily Show:
Tea partiers give some advice to G20 Summit protesters: stay on message and get promoted by a major news outlet.
From The Daily Show:
Sam Bee fights for private death panels, John Oliver believes in universal death panels, and Aasif Mandvi wants whatever scares the public most.
From The Daily Show:
Sam Bee and John Oliver argue over whose country has the worst universal health care system, while Wyatt Cenac is thankful to be an uninsured American.
Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart got the official word in the origins of the swine-flu outbreak from John Oliver, reporting from the Centers For Disease Control, and Jason Jones, reporting from the Centers For Stuff I Heard From Some Guy:
Stewart: What have you been hearing at your center?
Jones: All kinds of things. OK, A: This disease was engineered by the government as an excuse to declare martial law, so that B: They can liquidate private health-insurance coverage.
Stewart: Yeah, that sounds a little farfetched there, Jason.
Jones: Well, then why is the government hoarding all the Tamiflu for themselves, their families, and disgraced Wall Street tycoons?
Stewart: Where did you hear that?
Jones: [pause] ... Some guy.
Stewart: Do you have a second source?
Jones: What, you mean another guy?
Oliver: Jon, Jon, Jon! You know this is preposterous. This is a naturally occurring mutation that has so far traveled a pathogenic route --
Jones: Can it, Science Boy! While you babble, Americans are being infected by the millions!
Oliver: Not true --
Jones: The entire state of Arizona is dead!
The problem that Daily Show writers must face each day is that their routines often mimic the real behavior of the wingnuts on the right.
It wasn't just Fox News that was there to cover the tea bag protests. The Daily Show was there as well. John Oliver takes the tea bag protesters to task for their comparison of the Obama administration to just how bad the Brits were during the American Revolution. Sadly as with Glenn Beck, most of the protesters don't seem to be up on their American history.
From The Daily Show April 2, 2009. John Oliver explains the real reason you cannot touch the queen.
The Daily Show's John Oliver went to a Barack Obama and a Sarah Palin rally and found that Americans are more unified than we're led to believe: We're all scared sh%#less.