Republican columnist: Jon Stewart cost us the election (ROFL, Crybaby alert)

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=jon_stewart_democratic_majority_kingmaker&ns=RustyShackleford&dt=11/10/2006&page=1

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Forget left of center bloggers, Jon Stewart is this year’s kingmaker. Without him and The Daily Show, the Democrats would not have made such large inroads in the midterm elections. Let me explain why.

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An important fact to note here is the emerging gap between Dems and Reps in the youth vote. Democrats captured it 50-35, and the GOP columnist blames it on Jon Stewart. In Pennsylvania, a lopsided 68% of youth voters crushed Rick Santorum at the polls by casting their ballots for Bob Casey.

It couldn't POSSIBLY be something they did. It's just not possible!

:eyes: Flip-floppers, those wingnuts.

the Senate or hmmmmmmmm, who knows maybe even the election?

thought they were voting for his dead father!

Just how stupid does Bill Krystol think Pennsylvanians are?

I heard him say it when I was flipping around on election night. Couldn't believe he said it myself.

sound very intelligent.

A lot of people voted for his father. Hell, even I thought it was Bush Sr. running. Then again, I was like 12 and knew nothing about politics.

Actually, some probably did. But Kristol's statement is an insult to voters in general. Most people do know who they're voting for -- or against!

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...Tweety, Rush, Hannity, and the Coultergeist all at the same time??!

That guy's a monster!!!!

ROFLMAO!!

Fake newsman Stephen Colbert managed not to ruin the careers of the 28 politicians who sat down for one of his mock-confrontational "Better Know a District" interviews this year. "Every congressman I've interviewed was reelected," Colbert crowed on Election Night.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/08/AR2006110802705.html

Jon Stewart, the Democratic majority kingmaker. Expect Nancy Pelosi to name him an honorary member of the 110th Congress. He certainly deserves it.



Love it - let's start a movement for exacltly that.

....everyone who was interviewed on Colbert's Better Know a District series was re-elected.

dying to do it.

morans...

Jon Stewart - the most powerful man in America.

gibson, beck, etc.

And we have Stewart, Colbert and Olberman. So, I guess out three are far more persuasive, honest and real to the American people than their Army of Idiots.

The others are making that circular trip around the bowl and down the drain. :toast:

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They don't mean to be, of course.

what a maroon. This piece is just one long "woe is me!"

The Repigs are being destroyed by comedians!

Thank you, Viacom!

First of all, this paragraph is seriously messed up:

"On the college campus where I teach, Jon Stewart's is the first and last word on all things political. His is the only name that all recognize. It’s more than that: his views are the only views considered socially acceptable. When Jon Stewart believes something, students believe it. He who Jon Stewart hates, students hate."

Um, hate? I think Stewart does a damn fine job of being classy at all times to ALL guests and with all topics. He skewers stupidity. AND I've seen him skewer Democrats and Democrats' actions on his show. Problem is, there's so much to skewer with Republicans. SO much.

And what of the fact that MOST of his skewering is aimed directly at the mainstream news? He eviscerates them time after time after time, pointing out how ineffectual, blatantly biased, and downright stupid they are.

I think people respect Stewart because he's RESPECTABLE. I don't even mind when he skewers Democrats, he's telling the truth--which brings me to my last point, another thing this guy missed: it might be "fake" news, it's definitely comedy, Stewart is definitely humble when talking about it, but if there were no TRUTH to it, it wouldn't be funny. It's the TRUTH of what he's saying that makes me laugh so hard every weeknight.

bit, but not in a mean or hateful way. I think Baker enjoyed it, and he is as Republican as you can get.

Stewart is PURE class. If the audience gets going he even says "settle!" in a funny way to them.

I know how he feels politically. Everyone does. But I like that he doesn't act like an asshole to the people he disagrees with. He just allows them to expose their own stupidity.

For instance, in his opening monologue on election eve coverage Stewart opened up with, "Can Karl Rove's tactical genius overcome, let's say, reality?"

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...all of Isvestia and Pravda, er, I mean, FOX, O'Reilly, Coulter, and Limbaugh.

It's bad news for the regime when the proletariat starts seeing through their propaganda -- and humor is often the vehicle.

Btw, I've noticed that Keith Olberman :loveya: has started using one of Jon Stewart's techniques for holding Our Great Leader to account for past statements -- the fast flicking file of video'd bits identified by dates. "Stay the courshe" -- "Stay the courshe" -- "Stay the courshe" -- "Stay the courshe".

Has anyone from the MSM started doing likewise? KO comes on at 5pm here and ABC, CBS, and NBC all come on at 5:30, after the local news. Guess which ones I've virtually abandoned?

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Rape, murder, torture, lying, looting,sexual perversion, Constitution shredding, and all around evil, criminal behavior had nothing to do with it.

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First of all, I can't have nobody talkin shit about my boyfriend (hee hee). All joking aside, this complete freeptard has constructed one of the most transparent arguments I've ever read. You could drive a semi through the holes in his logic, and while there may some truth in the "young people helped the Democrats win" component of his argument, they weren't the only ones who voted in this election. Furthermore, criticizing Stewart viewers for listening to (gasp) a comedian, while likening racist, liar, pieces of crap like O'Lielly and Limbaugh to real journalists is asinine.

I also take issue with the term "faux news" regarding TDS. Fox has that label all to itself IMO. TDS and Colbert Report are shows designed to entertain and unlike the bullshit facade of Fox, they don't wrap themselves in a shroud of legitimate journalism. We watch them because the MSM is too chickenshit to engage in the scathing criticism that the Bush regime deserves.

I imagine the effect will only accelerate.

It's Dale Gribble......


If Jon Stewart is the New Rush Limbaugh, I hope Jon keeps going to the gym.....

GOP means never having to say "I messed up."

That said, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are great liberal assets. Thank you Jon and Stephen.

Liberals have a great sense of humor - conservatives are just mean.

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Wingnuts have no idea of their impending irrelevance!

thing...and they were serious...except the age was 40. People under that age could only vote in local elections.

Jon Stewart raises an eyebrow, and this whole lying, hypocritical, Jesus-spouting, puffed up, strutting around, pedophilic, mass murdering, torturing, stealing with both hands, fake cowboy, gay-hating, immigrant-hating, woman-hating, axis of evil, election thieving house of cards comes tumbling down.

I've seen him do it.

And I saw Colbert do it with Bush sitting right there.

It's not that this is the only political information that young people get. It's that this is the only political COMMENTARY worth watching, when everybody else on TV, and in the newspapers and on radio are pretending that this fake president and his Darth Vader puppetmasters are not only due respect but are worthy of slavering worship.

What can you say to this? All intelligent people can do is ridicule it, or sit back in open-mouthed disbelief.

Stewart and Colbert tweak EVERYBODY. That is true. Any little pompous balloon rises up and they pop it. But the Bush Junta is a POMPOUS BLIMP the size of the solar system. It is PARTICULARLY vulnerable to ridicule. Stewart and Colbert's falling down funny ridicule was the VERY THING that was needed to let the noxious gas out of this gigantic bag. Right time. Right place. Fat target.

I have contact with young people, and I can tell you that the Daily Show and the Colbert Report were their bulwark against DESPAIR. They are not dummies. They are not uninformed. Far from it. But they literally couldn't stomach the Bush regime, nor its dittohead propagandists everywhere you look in the corporate news media. Nor could they take toady Democrats who wouldn't fight these bastards, and whose milktoast ideas and lame and faked opposition causes these young people to throw up their hands. WHO is representing us? WHO? Bunch of corporate shills who raise their own salaries for the hard work of kissing Bush's ass, and give themselves the best medical benefits in the country. They don't consider Bush their president. They know his elections were stolen. And they have had nowhere to turn.

Stewart and Colbert perfectly express their opinion of our government. It is worthy of the most biting sort of ridicule.

These are not cynical young people. And they ARE voters. They have just had NOTHING to believe in, of national policy or national ideals. They loathe the Bushites, and the only Democrat they ever got excited about was Howard Dean, because he was REAL.

Anyway, I've seen it first hand. And the Bushite complainer is correct except that it's not so much that Stewart and Colbert INFLUENCE young peoples' views, it's that they perfectly EXPRESS young peoples' views, and also their METHOD of dealing with the mind-boggling absurdity of the Bush regime in particular.

I think they also identify with Stewart's note of gentlemanliness and humanity. He doesn't bludgeon people with his humor. He tries his best to get them to laugh at themselves. Colbert doesn't have that, exactly, but he is so opaque--kind of like Stan Laurel (he even looks like him)--that his knifings of rightwing blowhards kill before you realize he's doing anything.

Pure genius. Amazing that TWO of them would show up at the same time, and save a country. Just by being funny.

Of course there is much more to it. And we are not saved yet, not by an means. But their humor has been a saving grace, for sure. And I think it has literally been salvation for many young people. It has saved lots of young hearts and minds for the great burdens of citizenship that they will bear, in straightening out this rightwing disaster for the next 50 years. It has also helped them deal with FEAR--fear of endless war, fear of endless lies and inaction, fear of nuclear holocaust, fear of global warming, fear of the planet dying, fear of their own government and curtailment of their rights, fear of fascism, fear of a Great Depression, and all the fears we've all suffered under the Bush Junta, magnified for them, because they're young and will have to live out the consequences. Stewart's and Colbert's humor has been a refreshing breeze to the young, a relief, a blessing. If we can laugh at it, maybe we won't all be incinerated by this asshole.

And I'll tell you something else. You will notice by the BIG VIEWERSHIP of these shows, which includes many young people, that these young people ARE interested--VERY interested--in politics and in what happens to their country. They just don't swallow the corporate media swill. And they're not watching NON-POLITICAL shows instead. They're choosing a POLITICAL show--with high, immediate relevance to current events. I was also amazed to find out how popular "West Wing" was to this young crowd, and that they understood all the esoteric, fast-talking legal and political details that were used in that show. I thought it was just for old geezers like me--'60s rebels and so on. --not that the show was all that leftist--it wasn't--but the avid interest in government I thought was a characteristic of MY generation, and I thought that current young people were turned off to all that. Not so!

"The grand irony of ironies in Stewart's election night coverage was the appearance of Dan Rather as a guest. When Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly appeared on The Daily Show the audience booed. Stewart grilled O'Reilly with hard ball questions. With Dan Rather he joked around."

It's not a news program, it's a comedy show, Mr. Shacklebrain, you dittohead.

You know what's funny about this? Scarborough had the same interpretation of Stewart and Colbert's effect on the elections. They simply cannot understand that these comedians are a *reflection* of voter sentiment- not the *cause* of it.

It's the same problem they have as politicians- they don't want to be REPRESENTATIVES, they want to be LEADERS, telling their constituents what to do rather than simply acting as public servants.

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A lot of GOP Townhall heads probably exploded when they read the posts from liberals busting on them.

I love how they try to figure out what "gimmick" they might have used to counter the truth rather than accept that their President is a major lemon.

I'm nearly 50 and have been watching Stewart for at least 6 years. I sure with that Townhall dude would have been around back then to tell me Jon is only for the kids. :)

the TDS phenomenon.

There IS the one commonality of giving like minded people a focus of discussion and energizing them. But he seems to imply that this was all good when it was happening with Limbaugh, but it's somehow dishonest and partisan with Stewart, without explaining why it is bad in one case, but he has only his warm fuzzy memories of being a young college dittohead, without exploring Limbaugh's lack of impartiality.

I feel that TDS probably changes very few minds, but HAS probably motivated a lot more young people to vote who otherwise would sit out election day playing XBOX or watching South Park. How can you not watch video montage after video montage of Bush/Cheney/Rummy lies without feeling shame for not at least going to the polling place to vote?

I will be 50 in March and have been watching Jon for years; his show is one of only three I tape regularly

Colbert is ideologically ambiguous? :rofl: I don't think the Boy King thinks so any more.



Would a bushie do this?



And wasn't Colbert past of this cast?



Oh, bushies, you are so incredibly naive. And crazy. :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

in showing and reviewing clips of the bushit regime that point out how tragically incompetent they are.

Thanks Jon and the Crew! :patriot: :loveya: :patriot:

play well with others. They are bully-brats who bang their rattles on their highchairs when they don't get their way 100% of the time.

meaning, privacy for hateful bigots

1st sentence 3rd graf presupposes a claim which has itself not been established, and which is, in fact, false.

All did their share...If it wasn't for Olbermann's devastating courageous commentaries, Colbert's White House Correspondence Dinner killer monologue and Bill Maher - who finally came around and started kicking ass, hard, on the republicans bullshit...And of course, along with the excellent Jon Stewart's nightly reports, all worked to show the fascism taking place, helplessly, right before our eyes...

How will the republicans destroy this new progressive power...Small, comparatively, as it is...

Number one way... Destroy the Internet as we now know it. Along with the liberal blogs and the Dem campaign contributions via the Internet...Also YouTube, Crooks & Liars, liberal Talk Radio and the many extraordinary DVD's that circulated...You can bet the republican "think tanks" will find a way to stifle & destroy it all, as they have in the past 30 thirty years with controlling and owning of the corporate media!

We have to get legislation passed in the next two years to protect.