Jon Stewart: "Your campaign was premised on reigning in presidential power. WHAT HAPPENED??"

Matt Welch | 6.16.2010 10:18 AM

A useful collection of video clips showing President Obama's rank hypocrisy when (not) implementing Candidate Obama's high-sounding moral prescriptions for waging the War on Terror within the limits of the Constitution:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Respect My Authoritah
www.thedailyshow.com

Daily Show Full Episodes	Political Humor	Tea Party

"Oh, I see. You used to have a little, now you have a lot."

Link via Julian Sanchez's Twitter feed. Reason has been all over this story since inauguration; see for instance Eli Lake's examination of "The 9/14 Presidency" and Jacob Sullum's column last week on Obama's "License to Kill."

Start your day with Reason. Get a daily brief of the most important stories and trends every weekday morning when you subscribe to Reason Roundup.

NEXT: Spill Speech Latest Glaring Example of Obama's Vision Deficit

Hide Comments (181)

Editor's Note: As of February 29, 2024, commenting privileges on reason.com posts are limited to Reason Plus subscribers. Past commenters are grandfathered in for a temporary period. Subscribe here to preserve your ability to comment. Your Reason Plus subscription also gives you an ad-free version of reason.com, along with full access to the digital edition and archives of Reason magazine. We request that comments be civil and on-topic. We do not moderate or assume any responsibility for comments, which are owned by the readers who post them. Comments do not represent the views of reason.com or Reason Foundation. We reserve the right to delete any comment and ban commenters for any reason at any time. Comments may only be edited within 5 minutes of posting. Report abuses.

Kolohe 15 years ago

First to say 'reining'?
1. Zeb 15 years ago
  
  You're just towing the lion.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

As goes Stewart, so goes urban progressive lemmings and independent- and-critical-thinking-impaired college students. Watch out, Mr. President.
1. R C Dean 15 years ago
  
  That would be his core constituency.
2. David Axelrod 15 years ago
  
  NOOOooooOOOOooooOO0000ooo000ooo000oooOOO0000!!!
3. Chris 15 years ago
  
  I was thinking that while watching it. If he's lost Stewart, the jig's up.
  1. Gregory Hines 15 years ago
    
    "If he's lost Stewart, the jig's up."
    
    And he's gone too...
BHO 15 years ago

When we've lost Stewart, we've lost the war.
1. Suki 15 years ago
  
  He lost Olbermann AND Matthews last night. Obama is a magician.
  1. JW 15 years ago
    
    But he found all of their clips. WTF was up with all Madcow and Hyperolberman archive footage?
2. Tulpa 15 years ago
  
  Yeah, I'm sure Stewart will support the GOP in the fall elections.
  
  Obama can't "lose" most of his lefty supporters. They've got nowhere to get lost to.
  1. Invisible Finger 15 years ago
    
    He could lose them to the smart side - apathy.
    1. +HoM&M 15 years ago
      
      Obligatory.
    2. +HoM&M 15 years ago
      
      Obligatory.
      
      (The Sciuridae deride my one word link as spam. I appease them with more words.)
  2. prolefeed 15 years ago
    
    Stewart had the epiphany that to be funny, he had to go after Democratic politicians that fuck up, not just Rs, since Team Blue is (currently) running the show.
    
    As a result, his show went from being frequently hard to take to LOL funny. He's on a roll lately.
SugarFree 15 years ago

Yay! And only 15 months late!
1. Episiarch 15 years ago
  
  Cultists can be a little slow on the uptake.
  1. Ragin Cajun 15 years ago
    
    To be fair, Obama did sing the "Batman" theme song. Cultish devotion was sure to follow.
    1. Episiarch 15 years ago
      
      Adam West is destined to be President, by your reasoning, then. As mayor of Quahog, he's already on track for higher office.
      1. Ragin Cajun 15 years ago
        
        You mean that isn't Adam West running the country? Huh.
        
        JW 15 years ago
        
        Adam West is my president.
    2. JW 15 years ago
      
      Buyers remorse John-John?
      
      Watch me not fucking care.
      1. Episiarch 15 years ago
        
        Have you been doing wake and bake again, JW?
        
        JW 15 years ago
        
        If only. It would make the next 40 months a bit easier to take.
        
        I picked the wrong president to stop sniffing glue.
        
        Episiarch 15 years ago
        
        Well, you've still got your amphetamines and cigarettes, so there's that.
        
        JW 15 years ago
        
        "There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?"
        
        Clich? Bandit 15 years ago
        
        Excuse me, I speak jive.
        
        no fidibo bedo Jack!
Big Chief 15 years ago

It seems like the BP spill woke Stewart up. It's nice he's pointing out the hypocrisy of this administration a year after many of these incidents occurred. It would've been nice if he'd been timely with it (like Reason). Sounds like the honeymoon is over between Stewart and Obama.
1. ? 15 years ago
  
  Stewart and other disillusioned lefties probably don't fully comprehend the federal government/BP symbiosis at work here, and its role in the disaster, but they seem to be groping toward the ugly truth. It's a start, anyway.
2. kinnath 15 years ago
  
  Doonesbury had a strip last week noting the silence from the white house regarding the Gulf spill.
  
  The foundation in the house of obama is starting to show some cracks.
  1. JW 15 years ago
    
    People still read Doonesbury?
    1. Warren 15 years ago
      
      Huh, people still remember Doonesbury well enough to ask if people still read it. Who knew?
    2. kinnath 15 years ago
      
      Only old geezers like myself
    3. Dangerman 15 years ago
      
      It's still printed in my local daily.
      
      Right under Dear Abby.
      1. Bill 15 years ago
        
        they still print newspapers?
        
        Bryan 15 years ago
        
        They print them - the question is: people still read them?
        
        I kid, I read one every Sunday.
3. Chris 15 years ago
  
  I think most lefties have suspected Barry isn't so great, but were waiting for a major event that they could claim 'changed their mind' about him.
  1. Ryan M 15 years ago
    
    this
    1. ?? 15 years ago
      
      is
      1. Leonidas 15 years ago
        
        SPARTAAAAAAA!
      2. Ted S. 15 years ago
        
        Jeopardy!
      3. BeesInTheBrain 15 years ago
        
        Spinal
        
        jasno 15 years ago
        
        Meningitis?
Tim 15 years ago

There's nothing here: Stewart will go right back to sucking ass when it counts in 2012.
1. John 15 years ago
  
  Yup. The day Stewart endorses a primary challenger or a third party candidate is the day I will believe him when he goes after the Zero. Otherwise, he is just laying the groundwork to claim to be credible when he sucks ass when it counts in 2012.
  1. Episiarch 15 years ago
    
    Unimportant. By going after Obama, they are shattering his perfect (to his true believers) image, and once that's happened, they'll start to see all the other lies and ugly truths that they were ignoring before.
    
    Believe me, this is not good for Obama and the way he operates. Not good at all. It doesn't mean Stewart and others won't still climb on the BLUE TRAIN at election time; but it does mean that the cult worship is going to take a body blow.
    1. John 15 years ago
      
      Maybe. I think some of what is going on will be the education of a lot of liberals. Liberals under the age of 50 were in their teens the last time this country had real liberal policies. They have spent their entire life in the wilderness. When you are not in power, you get to live in a fantasy world where all of your ideas and policies work. Now, for the first time in their lives they are seeing their policies be enacted and fail spectacularly.
      
      A lot of them will just avoid reality by blaming everything and everyone else for the failure. But a few will be smart enough to reconsider their views. The Democrats need a soul killing defeat in November and again in 2012. Only that will cause enough of them to wake up and take the party back from the hard left. We need a healthier Democratic Party. Without it, we end up with no way to punish Republicans.
      1. JW 15 years ago
        
        This is just disappointment in Stewart as a proxy for the rest of the brain-dead TEAMBLUE crowd. He's still their bastard.
        
        Stewart and gang just can't help their fucking selves. Mocking Bush with the cackle and redneck imitation? Palin as the Gollum? Obama as just an innocent victime of the power, like Frodo? Mind you, I don't have a prob lem with mocking Bush as an idiot, but it was the oonly trick in their bag for 8 years and 1.5 years later? It still is!
        
        "Wait! I can mock Obama too! I can do it! But it will be all respectful and statesmenly. Take THAT."
        
        **barf**
        
        Shorter Stewart: "He's tricksy! Yes, precious, he is tricksy."
      2. Tim 15 years ago
        
        "Without it, we end up with no way to punish Republicans."
        
        Yes, the twilight zone ending to this could be a 2012 Republican dominance that doubles down on the war and keeps right on spending.
      3. RyanXXX 15 years ago
        
        How exactly is the current Democratic party dominated by the "hard left"? They seem much more in line with authoritarian centrism.
        
        Cyto 15 years ago
        
        "How exactly is the current Democratic party dominated by the "hard left"? They seem much more in line with authoritarian centrism."
        
        You say that as if authoritarian and hard left were somehow not compatible. The only quibble would be "centrism". I would hardly call most of their policies centrist - muddled compromises, yes, but between the hard left and the more moderate members of their own caucus.
        
        Mo 15 years ago
        
        Because if the hard left had their way, we'd be out of Afghanistan, out of Iraq and Gitmo would be closed. Maybe we'd be in Darfur or some other place, but the hard left hasn't exactly been a fan of Obama's foreign policy.
        
        RyanXXX 15 years ago
        
        I guess it depends on what you consider the "hard left" in America. I think of people like Kucinich, Gravel, and Nader, who certainly don't seem to have that much sway within the Democratic party
      4. Chinny Chin Chin 15 years ago
        
        John,
        
        Similar education for liberals occurred with Clinton. Like the Big O, Willie came to power bearing the hopes of the far left. They ended up hating him.
        
        What is amazing to me is the degree to which they cut and pasted the same liberal policy expectations onto Obama. Nary a thought to the lesson they should have learned from Bill.
        
        juris imprudent 15 years ago
        
        Or the lesson conservatives et al got with Bush.
    2. jasno 15 years ago
      
      Yeah, I think Obama could go from non-threatening black man to scary black man faster than you can say "one-term president".
  2. Mo 15 years ago
    
    Agreed. This is like the lukewarm complaints about Bush from the National Review. Enough to maintain street cred and have something to point to years later when accused of hypocrisy. However, when the rubber hits the road, they'll go back to their cuddle boy.
    1. JR 15 years ago
      
      An apt comparision.
    2. PapayaSF 15 years ago
      
      To be fair, some of those complaints were more than lukewarm.
  3. Fluffy 15 years ago
    
    Says the guy who supports the GOP no matter what.
    
    What 2012 groundwork are you laying, John?
    1. John 15 years ago
      
      I am not laying any groundwork. And I will only support the GOP until the Democrats become less vile or a third party has a chance to do something but help the Democrats win.
      
      And of course I didn't say Stewart had to quit being a Democrat. He could support a primary challenger to Obama. I never said he had to vote Republican.
      
      And maybe you missed this, but the Republicans are not in power. I therefore have no reason to explain away their failures because they don't have any as a minority party. When they do get back into power and fuck up, you can call me on it if I don't go after them. But since they are not in power, you are just being a shit.
2. Rich 15 years ago
  
  Perhaps. But by then the "fever of funniness" may have been broken.
3. hmm 15 years ago
  
  It's his job. He is as far left as his old room mate congressman Tony Weiner. He will swallow the koolaid when he has to.
LibertyBill 15 years ago

Uhmmm.....huzzah?

On a serious note who honestly takes Stewart seriously? I think he's funny but I dont watch him for political insight.
1. Millions of Stupid Voters 15 years ago
  
  We do.
2. Jon Stewart 15 years ago
  
  Why, I do.
3. Dick Fitzwell 15 years ago
  
  I've heard it said that, as far as news and current events go, Jon Stewart provides the dessert after your main course of real political insight and information. In other words, if you don't already know the stories he's talking about, you don't get the news and you don't get the insight. You have to get the real info before hand.
  
  He is funny, though. Sometimes.
4. wingnutx 15 years ago
  
  Many, many people.
? 15 years ago

It seems like the BP spill woke Stewart up.

My black ass.

TEAM BLUE! til-deathers like Stewart and Sanchez have to get the "We totally criticized him too, see?" part of the act out of the way now, so the 2012 "But we regret that we have no alternative..." bootlicking will seem reasonable (to idiots).
1. kinnath 15 years ago
  
  It doesn't matter if Stewart, Olbermann, and Matthews tow the party lion in 2012, because a significant part of Obama's voting block in 2008 was first-time voters (primarily young, white college students). If those people return to form and just don't vote in 2012, Obama will have a big problem.
  1. Sudden 15 years ago
    
    Or they'll graduate with worthwhile liberal arts degrees only to find no jobs, and if they do find employment, they'll find substantial taxation burdens resulting from the start of the Cry-Baby Boomer retirements. Unfortunately, they'll be too busy slaving away for Uncle Scam taxes and student loans they were duped into thinking wise or too apathetic from their Obama disillusionment to vote and the high-schoolers at the time of Obama's election who texted to their friends during Algebra class how totally cool it was to have a black president will be the college students yet to be raped by reality and therefore a reliable voting constituency for Big O. College is about churning a steady TEAM BLUE voting bloc.
Atanarjuat 15 years ago

Would've been funnier if they'd showed Hillary Clinton instead of Sarah Palin at the end.
1. Big Chief 15 years ago
  
  I was hoping for Biden or McCain.
  1. Chris 15 years ago
    
    Pelosi.
2. Tim 15 years ago
  
  People forget that Sauron was a very successful leader who built Mordor from nothing to a middle world power. He made the trolls run on time, AND he was fiscally conservative but socially liberal.
  1. - 15 years ago
    
    He made the trolls run on time
    
    Win.
  2. Sudden 15 years ago
    
    Too bad he got entangled with that sticky foreign allegience with Saramon. Twas his downfall.
    1. BeesInTheBrain 15 years ago
      
      Hmmmm I thought it was loose borders and illegal aliens. After all if the border guards had done their jobs instead of fighting over how to split up the valuables they took off those who entered the country illegally, then the whole situation would have been avoided.
P Brooks 15 years ago

By going after Obama, they are shattering his perfect (to his true believers) image, and once that's happened, they'll start to see all the other lies and ugly truths that they were ignoring before.

Unfortunately, there are people out there who are still completely devoted to our Clean and Articulate African American in Chief. I was just talking to one last night; he told me how PROUD he is that we have somebody so intelligent in the White House.

I didn't know whether to laugh, or puke.
1. Rich 15 years ago
  
  The ability to puke at will would be a nice talent.
  1. BeesInTheBrain 15 years ago
    
    Only really comes in handy when the wife wants you to go to dinner with her family.
2. JW 15 years ago
  
  Puke on him, then point and laugh.
  
  "It's the vomit of truth! Yeah, it burns a little, doesn't it?"
  1. SugarFree 15 years ago
    
    "Dare you contradict The Vomit of Truth?!?"
    
    Worst superhero ever. With the possible exception of Guy Gardner.
    1. Cyto 15 years ago
      
      I always thought Chauncey Gardner was pretty great. Until we elected him President...
    2. James Anderson Merritt 15 years ago
      
      "Good Time" Charlie Vickers is my Green Lantern.
      
      By the way, anyone notice that Walternate in the season-finale of Fringe had classic "Red Lantern" comic books hung on his wall? My family didn't catch the joke and wondered why I was laughing and pointing at the screen.
  2. Sudden 15 years ago
    
    You could become a Phillies fan.
3. JR 15 years ago
  
  He's only a Halfrican American
4. Sudden 15 years ago
  
  They really like the CAAAC. Figures.
5. jasno 15 years ago
  
  Carter could be described as "smart" too, in certain contexts. That whole presidency thing didn't work out too well for him though.
Frayed Knot 15 years ago

Comparing Obama to Frodo is an insult to Frodo. Frodo never wanted the ring in the first place; Obama's whole adult life has been devoted to attaining greater amounts of power.
1. John 15 years ago
  
  No kidding. Obama would have bitch slapped Bilbo and taken the ring, put it on and said "I got game". His entire life has been one big craven pursuit of power.
  1. LibertyBill 15 years ago
    
    Wouldnt that be 95% of Washington anyway?
    1. John 15 years ago
      
      Well yeah. I didn't say he was different just craven.
    2. Frayed Knot 15 years ago
      
      95% didn't claim to be Hopey McChangey, though.
  2. Astrid 15 years ago
    
    So Obama is Gollum? It makes more sense anyway.
    1. John 15 years ago
      
      Yeah. Listen to one of his speeches sometime. They make about as much sense are as annoying as any of Gollum's dialog in the movies.
      1. Astrid 15 years ago
        
        I don't know about that. Gollum's song about fish made more sense than what Obama said about the oil spill and "clean" energy.
    2. Frayed Knot 15 years ago
      
      Not even. Gollum wanted the ring but didn't use its power for anything other than hunting food.
      
      I'd say he's more like Saruman, had Saruman gotten his hands on the ring. Ushering in a new age etc.
      1. Astrid 15 years ago
        
        I was going off of the ring-bearers, rather than those who wanted.
        
        Astrid 15 years ago
        
        I was going off of the ring-bearers, rather than those who wanted the ring.
        
        Typing is hard.
        
        Tim 15 years ago
        
        I suppose you were voting for those tree hugging elves?
        
        Astrid 15 years ago
        
        Personally I liked the Hobbits.
        
        Sudden 15 years ago
        
        Seemed like perfect libertarians to me.
      2. Tim 15 years ago
        
        Mordor had environmental challenges but, much like modern China they managed to build a first world economy out of the ruins in a very short time.
        
        Pro Libertate 15 years ago
        
        Brilliant!
        
        Thomas Friedman 15 years ago
        
        If we could be Mordor for just one day, we could effect some positive changes. Sigh.
        
        skr 15 years ago
        
        lol
2. Pro Libertate 15 years ago
  
  That's actually a great litmus test for political office: "You get the One Ring. What do you do with it?"
  
  Of course, we'd need reliable polygraphs to make that work.
  1. Tulpa 15 years ago
    
    If they answer, "take it into Mordor through Shelob's lair and hope for all the orcs to kill eachother while you sneak over to Mt Doom," I don't think they should be allowed anywhere near power.
    
    Give it to the Eagles, throw it in the Dead Marshes, whatever. Work smarter, not harder.
    1. Pro Libertate 15 years ago
      
      I was thinking more generally: "Use it and take my place as the new Dark Lord" versus "Destroy or hide the evil thing."
    2. JW 15 years ago
      
      Now, how will you get an epic saga out of working smarter?
      
      "Lord Of the Rings: Double Entry Bookkeeping Edition."
    3. Tim 15 years ago
      
      Sell it to a scrap gold buyer staying at the Bree Super 8.
    4. Cyto 15 years ago
      
      The eagles at the end always bothered me too. If you could have gotten your eagle buddies to give you a ride at any time, why didn't you just do that in the first place?
      
      I guess it is like Roger Rabbit's abilities with handcuffs - "only when it was funny."
      1. Pro Libertate 15 years ago
        
        Sauron employed a sophisticated ground-to-air-eagle-elimination system. Plus he had the Flying Nazg?l (on loan from Ringling).
      2. MJ 15 years ago
        
        You didn't notice the Eagle rescuing Gandalf from Saruman in the 1st movie?
        
        You don't get Tolkien's Catholic sensibilities. Someone had to suffer for salvation to be acheived.
  2. Ted S. 15 years ago
    
    Use it as a cock ring and have mind-blowing sex.
  3. James Anderson Merritt 15 years ago
    
    Ask 'em the question during an MRI scan. That's proving to be fairly reliable, if creepy in a science-fiction dystopian sense.
JW 15 years ago

Hope! Change!

What we got left?
1. R C Dean 15 years ago
  
  Healing the planet?
2. qwerty 15 years ago
  
  Lots and lots of government. I can't tell if Stewart is really enough of an idiot to think Obama was going to reduce government powers, or if he is just lying when he says so. Neither would surprize me.
3. John 15 years ago
  
  The threads on here where MNG claims that future students will be reading Obama's speeches like Lincoln are hysterical. There is going to be a lot of re-writing of personal history in the next couple of years. By 2012, no one will admit to ever supporting the guy much less being a part of the cult. You wait. By 2012, the story will be, "we just supported Obama because the only other choice was McCain. Hillary is who we really wanted anyway and idiot Democratic caucus system let him steal the nomination. No one ever said he would be a great President."
  1. ? 15 years ago
    
    Hillary would have been so much worse. She's smarter than Obama and ten times more evil. How soon we forget.
    1. Suki 15 years ago
      
      I don't know if she is worse. More like different bad. Like paddle vs. single tail.
  2. WDIK 15 years ago
    
    Yeah but in 2062 I bet children will be learning about what a great and wonderful president Obama was and how everybody loved him and his policies and how he saved this country of ours from the Great Recession. FDR anyone?
    1. ? 15 years ago
      
      No. In 2062 children will be toiling for their Chinese overlords in Appalachian coal mines.
      1. Pro Libertate 15 years ago
        
        Don't be ridiculous. Appalachian coal will be tapped out by then.
        
        Nipplemancer 15 years ago
        
        yea, it'll be New Jersey Trash Mining in 2062
        
        prolefeed 15 years ago
        
        There's hundreds of years of Appalachian coal left. That part of the U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
dbcooper 15 years ago

And Switzerland go 1-0 up over Spain. Could we see an upset?
1. JW 15 years ago
  
  Can I hire a mercenary team to go in and shove that fucking vuvuzela up the ass of each and every person using it?
  
  Can I has extreme prejudice?
  1. dbcooper 15 years ago
    
    How about a devuvuzelator VST plugin for your media player?
    
    http://isophonics.net/content/whats-all-about-vuvuzela
    1. JW 15 years ago
      
      Sweet. Unfortunately, it doesn't help my tee-vee.
      1. dbcooper 15 years ago
        
        Do you have an EQ in the settings? You could filter out the B-flat note and its harmonics. There are guides on the web for that shit.
        
        dbcooper 15 years ago
        
        http://www.fastcompany.com/166.....zela-drone
        
        ? 15 years ago
        
        Woe to the dipshit who shows up at Yankee Stadium or Wrigley Field with one of those abominations. Vuvuzela colonoscopy, anyone?
        
        Suki 15 years ago
        
        An older friend said they had them here in the 1970's at baseball games. Before technology took over and compressed air horns became the annoying rage.
        
        ? 15 years ago
        
        There will be blood. I have spoken.
        
        Tim 15 years ago
        
        At least poets now have a word that rhymes with Methuselah.
        
        Russ 2000 15 years ago
        
        An older friend said they had them here in the 1970's at baseball games.
        
        Yep. Used to sell them at the concession stands. I love 'em. Still see 'em at minor league hockey games, sometimes you get Dueling Plastic Horns which is great in a 18,000 seat arena with 3500 people in it.
    2. Bill 15 years ago
      
      they could have at least made a John Madden filter if they made a vuvuzela filter...
  2. BakedPenguin 15 years ago
    
    Fuckin' A. And the asshole supporters who whine about people who don't like them going against "local tradition". Fine then, guess what multinational sporting event you get next, South Africa. Here's a hint: rugby or cricket. Take your pick. For the next 50 years, rugby or cricket, and that's it. Assholes.
    1. dbcooper 15 years ago
      
      Thing is, it's only been a "tradition" for about 7 years.
      1. Timon19 15 years ago
        
        Not just that, but fucking MLS in the old U.S. of A. has had the cheaply made analog of that since its inception. Primarily used by kids for annoying everyone and by adults for drinking massive amounts of beer in a short period of time.
      2. ? 15 years ago
        
        FIFA made them give up cannibalism.
      3. BakedPenguin 15 years ago
        
        Thing is, it's only been a "tradition" for about 7 years.
        
        Yeah, that ups the annoyance factor.
        
        Switzerland just upset Spain, though. Wow.
        
        Timon19 15 years ago
        
        I was one of the many who thought Spain would walk over everyone, pretty much, even though I should know better. On the other hand, NO ONE thought they'd start choking immediately. Usually they wait a bit.
    2. Tim 15 years ago
      
      You lose the Penguin, you've lost the anti-podes.
      1. BakedPenguin 15 years ago
        
        We can hear that shit from South Africa.
2. Episiarch 15 years ago
  
  Spain will commit collective hara-kiri if they get knocked out this early. I have a Spanish restaurant a few blocks from me that is owned and operated by some Spaniards who live in my building, and they've been putting up signs about how they're going to be showing every game on big screen TVs, and of course saying "come see La Furia Roja!". I'm worried that they might go postal in the halls if they lose.
  1. Timon19 15 years ago
    
    They still have Chile to deal with.
    
    And it's interesting to note that this is basically the Espanaphone group. Except that the Italo-Franco-Germano-Romansh team is winning.
3. Timon19 15 years ago
  
  Wow. Go away for a 35 minute meeting and the world falls apart.
  1. dbcooper 15 years ago
    
    Well I'm a kiwi, my drinking buddy/labmate is Swiss, and the barmaids at our local are Slovakian, Spanish, and French. Could be a good night. 🙂
  2. Timon19 15 years ago
    
    And it's all over!
    
    Ze Sviss! Ze Sviss haf von! Holy fuck.
    1. Pro Libertate 15 years ago
      
      I'm going to celebrate by adding swiss cheese to my lunch.
      1. dbcooper 15 years ago
        
        Add an alpine lager to that menu. 😉
        
        JW 15 years ago
        
        I'm going to celebrate by adding a comely Swiss maiden to my lunch.
        
        Marshall Gill 15 years ago
        
        JW, your wife has finally sent you over the edge. You are supposed to make sweet love to comely Swiss maidens, not eat them for lunch!
        
        prolefeed 15 years ago
        
        Eating them is called foreplay, dude. And it makes them want to do it with you again.
        
        The good kind of eating out, not the cannibal kind.
    2. BakedPenguin 15 years ago
      
      "Ze Sviss! Ze Sviss haf von! Holy fuck."
      
      My thoughts, too. I think they're wondering in Spain if it's too early to panic.
4. jackrungh 15 years ago
  
  Sports? To each *yawn* his own.
  1. Timon19 15 years ago
    
    Posting about how bored you are with a group's topic of discussion? To each *yawn* his own.
Warren 15 years ago

FEH! So now the ones that sucked his big blue dick two years ago, are complaining about taking it up the ass. Will we be any better off when we go back to getting ass raped by redcocks?
1. JR 15 years ago
  
  Quite a bit of phallic imagery packed into two sentences. Kudos.
2. LibertyBill 15 years ago
  
  Will we be any better off when we go back to getting ass raped by redcocks?
  _______________________________________
  
  If we get more Ron Paul people in Congress then yes, if we get more Neocons and Paleos then no
Hacha Cha 15 years ago

I was shocked to watch The Daily Show finally hold the Obama administration accountable for once. They go to easy on Obama, its not nearly as funny, and not nearly as critical of the Bush administration.
1. Hacha Cha 15 years ago
  
  That last sentence should read:
  They go too easy on Obama, its not nearly as funny, and not nearly as critical now as they were of the Bush administration.
2. Paul 15 years ago
  
  You mean the Daily Show isn't spending all its time concentrating on the remaining three republican Senators?
P Brooks 15 years ago

You could filter out the B-flat note and its harmonics.

Or you could, as I do, just filter out anything remotely connected with futbol.
1. Timon19 15 years ago
  
  I'm sorry, did you say something?
  
  Spain may be choking earlier than usual.
2. Maverick 15 years ago
  
  +BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
m 15 years ago

what do you expect from a con man?
P Brooks 15 years ago

That's actually a great litmus test for political office: "You get the One Ring. What do you do with it?"

Only if it kills him if he does anything but lock it in a drawer.
Sean Dougherty 15 years ago

Should there really be a "g" in reigning?
1. Pro Libertate 15 years ago
  
  Oh, good catch. That is an error.
BeesInTheBrain 15 years ago

The real question is does this segment make Stewart a racist or not.
29InNet 15 years ago

In America's sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the Desert knows:
"I am great OBAMAMANDIAS," saith the stone,
"The King of Kings; this mighty City shows
"The wonders of my hand." The City's gone,
Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose
The site of this forgotten Babylon.
We wonder, and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragments huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.
1. capitlol l 15 years ago
  
  You know what people do when they see poetry, or song lyrics, in a comment thread?
  
  They fucking skip over them, right quick like, too.
  
  Get a job, and quit fucking mucking about.
  
  Whatever, you are probably a computer anyways, some unfeeling bot.
  Only things with no emotion or empathy would be clueless enough to post some fucking shit ass song for nobody to read.
  
  I hope you die.
  1. capitlol l 15 years ago
    
    Also, what the fuck is up with Reason(drink!)?
    
    Why does your website consisitently (sp?, fuck yourself with a claw-hammer if you care)rape my cute little firefox?
    
    That woodland creature takes it hard from you fuckers, and I waste my prescious (sp? once again the spell check is useless anyways so eat a dick)drinking time waiting for this shit to load. Why not just woodburn "Reason" onto the head of my penis? Some kind of kochtopus(okay, that is a made up word but...fuck spell check)mommy issue, can't post on demand, fuck your romantic view of love, KOCHTOPUS!!!
    
    Dammit, I wish someone else would feel the pain when I punch myself in the taint.
    
    Also, in conclusion, etc...etc, no one reads these fucking ass-filing, ball-numbing, roadflaredownmypeeholefuckingpoems/songs...bitches.
  2. A Nony Mouse 15 years ago
    
    I caught the Shelly reference, read it through and found it amusing. So obviously you don't speak for everyone.
2. capitlol l 15 years ago
  
  You know what people do when they see poetry, or song lyrics, in a comment thread?
  
  They fucking skip over them, right quick like, too.
  
  Get a job, and quit fucking mucking about.
  
  Whatever, you are probably a computer anyways, some unfeeling bot.
  Only things with no emotion or empathy would be clueless enough to post some fucking shit ass song for nobody to read.
  
  I hope you die.
db 15 years ago

Stewart's pacing is terrible. If his audience were half as smart as they like to think, he would have time for 3x the jokes, or his show could, mercifully, be 1/3 the duration.

Please log in to post comments

Jon Stewart: "Your campaign was premised on reigning in presidential power. WHAT HAPPENED??"

Latest

ICE Denies Reason Access to Immigration Court In Miami Detention Center

Deported for Innocent Tattoos?

Oh, Canada

Federal Court 'Vacates in Its Entirety' the FDA's Costly and Onerous Lab Test Rule

A Trade War Will Reduce American Exports Too

Recommended

Login Form