takewithfood - 2011-08-19
For Canadians:
http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewa rt/#clip515938
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Hooker - 2011-08-19 This is a YouTube clip, so we can see it. Apparently, RTR.org re-posting the same content with some extra stuff around the screen makes the region-restriction go away.
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BorrowedSolution - 2011-08-19
Breaking News! The American news media is broken! More on this...never!!
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Wonko the Sane - 2011-08-19
ROSS PEROT HATES GARY BUSEY
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Sephirock - 2011-08-19
This is why I like Jon Stewart. He rips on conservatives all the time but he isn't afraid to stand up to the media when it's biased against libertarians.
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EvilHomer - 2011-08-19 I still remember a time when John Stewart loved John McCain and frequently invited him over to the Daily Show for cups of tea. Of course, that was mostly because McCain was Dubya's biggest in-house competition at the time, and it made total sense to cast McCain as the Daily Show audience's "one Republican friend".
Not sure why he sticks up for Ron Paul, but maybe he's hoping Ron Paul will be the GOP's Nader in 2012?
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EvilHomer - 2011-08-19 Yeah, I'm sorry, I forgot. John Stewart is fair and balanced and totally has no opinions, bias, or editorial agenda whatsoever.
But seriously, though, what's the deal? Is he just using this as an excuse to rip on the "real" newscasters whose antics have kept the Daily Show writing staff afloat for over a decade?
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Sephirock - 2011-08-19 He isn't without bias, that's for sure, but he's a lot better then Fox and MSNBC.
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Anaxagoras - 2011-08-19 Hey Einstein: I never claimed that Jon Stewart has no opinions. But keep chasing after that straw man! Maybe somebody will be dumb enough to fall for it.
Seriously though, the deal is that the media were unfair in their treatment of Ron Paul. It's almost like the answer to your question had already been provided.
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EvilHomer - 2011-08-19 So it's an excuse to rip on the "real" newscasters whose antics have kept the Daily Show writing staff afloat for over a decade. Gotcha!
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fatatty - 2011-08-19 The "real" newscasters have kept his show afloat for years because they're so laughably bad at their jobs. This is just one in a long series of laughably bad jobs they've done informing the public.
Much like the way you do a laughably bad job of either understanding what's going on or being a troll.
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Sephirock - 2011-08-20 McCain became fake but Stewart became fake too once he started using his agenda to pressure him not to try to get votes of people just because he disagreed with them. He's supposed to be neutral. I like Stewart but he should keep being funny instead of political.
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dorje - 2011-08-20 Stewart is not supposed to be neutral. Stewart is a comedian. His comedy deals with political material and quite correctly and openly advances an agenda he considers to be legitimate and carefully reasoned. He neither hides this nor compromises his position. Before discussing the man further, you should examine the basis of his position, and its legitimacy.
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jangbones - 2011-08-19
Ron Paul's performance in the straw poll was not news and was not unexpected.
Paul has a devoted following that can impact small elections, and has absolutely zero chance of appealing to the broad swaths of voters needed to win actual elections.
So I actually side with mainstream media on this one. Perversely, Ron Paul should too. His ideas and ideological rigor would crumble under serious scrutiny.
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Void 71 - 2011-08-19 If I could clone Ron Paul, I'd delete the area of his brain that clings to the notion that the government shouldn't provide any social services for its citizens and that deregulation is good for small business. I'd also make him a plumber rather than a doctor to rid of any lingering classism. His Constitution fetish would have to go, too. Then he'd be the sort of working class isolationist I could get behind.
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fatatty - 2011-08-19 I am pretty curious what he would even accomplish as President. The president doesn't really have that much power without congress behind him.
There's no way he would be able to destroy all the government institutions he wants to, or somehow return us to the gold standard. Honestly all he could really do is bring the troops home and watch as all his far right ideas get destroyed in congress, and probably discredited to the larger public in the process.
Sounds good to me.
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spikestoyiu - 2011-08-19
MAYBE THE MEDIA SHOULD GOOGLE RON PAUL
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deadpan - 2011-08-19 GOGLE PRON HAUL
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Caminante Nocturno - 2011-08-19
It's really funny how suddenly and desperately the news media is trying to sell Perry as an acceptable candidate.
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