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Showing posts with label Jon Stewart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jon Stewart. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Mitt The Ripper
If you haven't been following Colbert and Stewart's recent attempts to point out how stupid our campaign finance rules are, it's time to catch up. Warming Glow:
A small refresher: Last week, Stephen Colbert announced his intention to create an exploratory committee in order to run for the President of South Carolina. By law, if someone become a candidate for office, he or she must relinquish any control he has of a Super Pac, one of those independent organizations that raises money on behalf of a candidate but can’t actually coordinate with the candidate. It’s a not so subtle way of getting around campaign finance laws. As a result, Colbert had to relinquish control of his Super Pac, Americans For A Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow. He gave it to Jon Stewart, who renamed it, The Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC.Like with many very cool things, I don't know how this ends, but it's actually not that important. Excited to watch this play out, especially anything else they do is as good as this first ad:
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Reality On Sanity
Disclaimer: I absolutely love Jon Stewart and I think he's done more to engage young people in politics than every politician of the last 20 years combined.
With that said, Bill Maher could not be more right:
Keith Olbermann is also dead on about this:
With that said, Bill Maher could not be more right:
Keith Olbermann is also dead on about this:
"Sticking up for the powerless is not the moral equivalent of sticking up for the powerful."And Olbermann may come across as a jackass sometimes, but there's a difference between objecting to his style and comparing him to people who have made careers out of defending bigotry, demonizing the poor and advocating endless war.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Daily Show on Obama vs. Republicans Baltimore Brawl
I'm pretty sure his bit about the FOX News emergency cutoff is more factual than not:
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
One Day Jon Stewart "Will Answer" for All His Truth Telling
Somehow, Jim Cramer finds the courage to speak publicly:
"No one wants to suffer a beat-down. No one wants to be humiliated or embarrassed. I was shocked at [host Jon Stewart's] behavior. I wish he knew about my background, and I wish he knew about a lot of things that I had done, because I think he would've thanked me instead of attacked me...I think the attack on CNBC and the attacks on me were gravely misplaced. It was rather remarkable in that it was so clear that his goal was to just destroy me. One day he'll answer for it."If I remember the show correctly, Cramer actually gave that speech about all the good stuff he does and how he should be thanked for all his work exposing fraud in the financial markets on the Daily Show. Then Jon Stewart proceeded to play clips of him advocating stock manipulation and other ways of illegally gaming the system. Cramer sat there at a loss for words, looking as humiliated and embarrassed as you'd expect an exposed liar on national television to be.
And then Jim Cramer went back to his daily show and TV appearences, as we resume our existance in an alternate reality where Jim Cramer is a market guru and Jon Stewart is a egotistical asshole who needs to be taken to task. We live in a media climate where simple fact based realities like "being right" vs "being wrong" have no importance whatsoever.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Cramer's Day of the Stewarts
For our second humorous note of the morning, photo editing blog BAGnewsNotes adds the following commentary to the above picture of Jim Cramer and Martha Stewart:
I wonder what the chances are that Jim Cramer will actually clean up his act given that he spent the morning of his Jon Stewart interview making dough with perhaps America's most famous and unrepentant insider-trading convicts. And then, the symbolism is classic, isn't it, the two of them actually making dough together? (Or, making dough making dough, I guess.) (And that's not even bringing up how Martha told Jim just to pretend he was pounding on the other Stewart.)
And indeed, to say the least, whosoever chose to put Cramer on stage with two Stewarts in the same day – one who is quite famous for her insider trading, the other who was openly planning to eviscerate him on national television – was probably not thinking with the imaging/branding part of the corporate brain.
Or, just maybe, they were. What comes next for Mr. Cramer, after all?
Friday, March 13, 2009
Jon Stewart Eviscerates Jim Cramer and Shames the Media in the Process
Once again Jon Stewart, the host of a comedy show that airs on Comedy Central, has done a harder hitting interview than anything I've ever seen on an actual news outlet. While some of Stewart's interviews with political opponents are kept light with a few extra jokes, tonight was not one of those nights. Not only did he refuse to let up, Stewart anger was palpable and he actually seemed to go harder at him in the interview than any of the previously taped segments. Cramer was at a loss for words multiple times throughout the interview, and his stock responses were interrupted several times by Stewart playing recently released clips of Cramer himself calmly encouraging borderline illegal trading activity.
If you haven't seen the interview yet, anything I'm saying won't do it justice. I can honestly say it was one of the best moments I've ever seen on television, one of those few moments where the right questions are asked, no one let their foot off the pedal, and the person in question is so completely guilty as charged that they can hardly muster a response.
And all of this aired on Comedy Central. If there is a better example of the sad state of our news media than what happened last night, I'd like to see it.
Here are the clips:
Oh yeah, and this also happens to be our 600th post on the Train of Thought. So Congrats to us, we couldn't have asked for a better present!
If you haven't seen the interview yet, anything I'm saying won't do it justice. I can honestly say it was one of the best moments I've ever seen on television, one of those few moments where the right questions are asked, no one let their foot off the pedal, and the person in question is so completely guilty as charged that they can hardly muster a response.
And all of this aired on Comedy Central. If there is a better example of the sad state of our news media than what happened last night, I'd like to see it.
Here are the clips:
Oh yeah, and this also happens to be our 600th post on the Train of Thought. So Congrats to us, we couldn't have asked for a better present!
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