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Showing posts with label Daily Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daily Show. Show all posts
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
Call for Civility
The Daily Show interviews the president of the National Conference for Editorial Writers whose organization is calling for civility in political debate called the Tea Party a group of "Terrorists", John Oliver of the Daily Show tries to point out the irony to her.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Tales of Manufactured Conflict
From Jon Stewart Tales of Manufactured Consent.
President Obama scheduled a speech to talk about jobs. Republicans asked him to move it because there is a Republican debate on that same day. The president made a reasonable accommodation and everyone should be happy our politicians acted like adults. Somehow the 24 hour news media managed to try and turn it into "schedule gate" or "speech gate". Reporters spent more time on the scheduling non-issue than on the substance of president Obama's jobs plan.
President Obama scheduled a speech to talk about jobs. Republicans asked him to move it because there is a Republican debate on that same day. The president made a reasonable accommodation and everyone should be happy our politicians acted like adults. Somehow the 24 hour news media managed to try and turn it into "schedule gate" or "speech gate". Reporters spent more time on the scheduling non-issue than on the substance of president Obama's jobs plan.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Don Lemon on CNN
Jon Stewart explores the idea that CNN anchor Don Lemon appears that he doesn't care for many of the silly antics employed by CNN.
Friday, July 1, 2011
And then they came for me: Maziar Bahari
Mahaziar Bahari has a new book out Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
about his imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Iranian government. A short excerpt can be found here from Newsweek and he has a nice chat with the Daily Show's Jon Stewart about the experience.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Out door smoking ban
The Daily Show points out the ridiculous smoking ban in outdoor parks in New York city, by highlighting that they are filled with drug addicts and homeless, and you aren't even allowed to sit on the grass. It is a funny three minute clip pointing out big city liberal absurdity.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
New Republican Primary Poll: Waste of Time
According to a new poll Giuliani leads in the Republican primary. Polls this early are a waste of time, money and well really just a waste of everything.
The voice of reason of the matter is the daily show pointing out how useless it is to prognosticate so far in advance. As they point out, the early 2008 front runners were Clinton vs. Giuliani. And in 2004 Joe Lieberman was all set to take on Pres. Bush 15 months before the election too.
The voice of reason of the matter is the daily show pointing out how useless it is to prognosticate so far in advance. As they point out, the early 2008 front runners were Clinton vs. Giuliani. And in 2004 Joe Lieberman was all set to take on Pres. Bush 15 months before the election too.
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