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According To Jon Stewart ‘Economists Are The Rapiest Profession Going’

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In the days that followed the arrest and inevitable incarceration of (now former) IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on charges of sexual assault, a handful of media personalities of a certain age came to his defense. French philosopher Bernard Henri Lévy openly wondered why the alleged rape victim entered the room alone (instead of entering as part of a “brigade”), while former Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein asked how many economists “have been convicted of violent sex crimes?” This brought ridicule from Jon Stewart.

Watch the segment below, in which The Daily Show host makes a deserved mockery out of Henri Lévy and Stein’s odd defense, which came complete with the old “blame the victim” routine. Good times!

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  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    socialist sex crimes…

    Hey Colby,
    How about a post on Colbert’s Super PAC…
    does his satire admit Citizens United was a proper decision?

  • tatboy

    skoorbekim said:
    socialist sex crimes… Hey Colby,How about a post on Colbert’s Super PAC…does his satire admit Citizens United was a proper decision?

    No, no, no… there will be no stories about how the folks at Comedy Central were dead wrong and have been speaking $hit out their @ss for a year. BTW… Is Jon saying he KNOWS this guy is guilty? No woman has EVER cried rape. *cough* Duke Lacross *cough* Koby Bryant *cough*. I’m saying hte guy didn’t do it but the Media might want to keep it’s powder dry from now on after those cases.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    tatboy said:
    No, no, no… there will be no stories about how the folks at Comedy Central were dead wrong and have been speaking $hit out their @ss for a year. BTW… Is Jon saying he KNOWS this guy is guilty? No woman has EVER cried rape. *cough* Duke Lacross *cough* Koby Bryant *cough*. I’m saying hte guy didn’t do it but the Media might want to keep it’s powder dry from now on after those cases.

    Stewart is following Bloomberg’s lead on this one:
    “If you don’t like the perp walk don’t do the crime…”

  • writer

    Besides, everyone knows that accountants are the real bad boys.

  • Barack Must Go

    According To Jon Stewart ‘ Late Night Left Wing Bomb Throwers, Masqurading As Faux Political Satirists , Are The Rapiest Profession Going’ yet he continues to bend his unsuspecting audience over and f**k what little bit of brains they had to begin with, out.

    Barack Obama’s amerika hard at work, while the white middle class ” real ” American cannot get a job in over 2 years.

  • newzmaker

    Stewart and Colbert, comics, have more influence in far left politics, than those porkers on MSNBC. Too funny.

  • fishchef

    Barack Must Go said:
    According To Jon Stewart ‘ Late Night Left Wing Bomb Throwers, Masqurading As Faux Political Satirists , Are The Rapiest Profession Going’ yet he continues to bend his unsuspecting audience over and f**k what little bit of brains they had to begin with, out. Barack Obama’s amerika hard at work, while the white middle class ” real ” American cannot get a job in over 2 years.

    So you believe that only white middle class people are real Americans?

  • fishchef

    newzmaker said:
    Stewart and Colbert, comics, have more influence in far left politics, than those porkers on MSNBC. Too funny.

    Can you name a non-humorous political pundit from the Will Rogers era? How about the Mark Twain era? Even the George Carlin era? Humorists prove a point, influence people and are memorable. They always have been and hopefully always will be.

  • DaTruth

    Hey Colby, when are you going to report on what REALLY happened with the O’Reilly/Stewart poll?

    http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-oreilly-jon-stewart-reddit-poll-2011-5

    Just as I suspected…

    We’re waiting on your update to the story, since you claimed the online poll reflected “his viewers” when referring to O’Reilly.

  • http://www.facebook.com/SinghNitish nitish

    incidentally, why did Stewart base the Ben Stein-DSK defense segment around a replay of an Ed Schultz segment, then commenting on it Beavis and Butthead style instead of reading directly from Stein’s piece himself ? a dramatic reading of Stein’s ridiculous argument would have been comedy gold…

    btw, on FNC’s late night Red Eye, FBN’s Lori Rothman chimed in during the May18th ombudsman Halftime Report segment: “Economists are the horniest of the lot…”
    ~5m40s mark @ http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/red-eye/index.html#/v/4700169/wednesdays-halftime-report/ vid

  • Barack Must Go

    fishchef said:
    So you believe that only white middle class people are real Americans?

    It’s ” real ” and no there are others.

  • fishchef

    DaTruth said:
    Hey Colby, when are you going to report on what REALLY happened with the O’Reilly/Stewart poll? http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-oreilly-jon-stewart-reddit-poll-2011-5 Just as I suspected… We’re waiting on your update to the story, since you claimed the online poll reflected “his viewers” when referring to O’Reilly.

    Last line in that story:
    “So score one for the Reddit community, although the Republican party probably has better things to worry about…”
    But, I guess not.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    strauss-kahn…strauss-kahn…strauss-kahn

  • fishchef

    Barack Must Go said:
    It’s ” real ” and no there are others.

    Off-white? Tanned white?

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    fishchef said:
    Even the George Carlin era?

    http://perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/2011/04/youtube-video-player.html

    one of the best…

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    to the vast amount of cultural simpletons…please don’t comment on above post unless you know what the heck you’re talking about.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    to the vast amount of cultural simpletons…please don’t comment on above post unless you know what the heck you’re talking about.

    how will we learn if you do not enlighten us?

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    tatboy said:
    No, no, no… there will be no stories about how the folks at Comedy Central were dead wrong and have been speaking $hit out their @ss for a year. BTW… Is Jon saying he KNOWS this guy is guilty? No woman has EVER cried rape. *cough* Duke Lacross *cough* Koby Bryant *cough*. I’m saying hte guy didn’t do it but the Media might want to keep it’s powder dry from now on after those cases.

    or they could take the oreilly road and say those french maid outfits are very, very sexy.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    skoorbekim said:
    how will we learn if you do not enlighten us?

    only when you can take my post before i hit enter, grasshopper.

  • ChrisNH

    It DSK was hell-bent on sexual assault while in New York City, he ought to have picked on someone who would have enjoyed it. I’m thinking of Paul Krugman. The only thing separating these two is the language they speak.

  • tatboy

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    or they could take the oreilly road and say those french maid outfits are very, very sexy.

    I thought it was a loffa? Or the Olbermann road and hook up with you friends college daughter…. :)

  • fishchef
  • ChiliPeppersFan

    nitish said:
    btw, on FNC’s late night Red Eye, FBN’s Lori Rothman chimed in during the May18th ombudsman Halftime Report segment: “Economists are the horniest of the lot…”
    ~5m40s mark @ http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/red-eye/index.html#/v/4700169/wednesdays-halftime-report/ vid

    gutfeld is hilarious. i wonder why the don’t put him on at a different hour. could it be that not only is fox’s audience comprised of ‘real’ americans by this clown’s definition….

    Barack Must Go said:
    Barack Obama’s amerika hard at work, while the white middle class ” real ” American cannot get a job in over 2 years.

    plus they might old, white people and they just won’t get the jokes.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    tatboy said:
    I thought it was a loffa? Or the Olbermann road and hook up with you friends college daughter…. :)

    a shoe? only oreilly could make that work.

  • Barack Must Go

    fishchef said:
    Off-white? Tanned white?

    I was gonna say ‘ upper middle ‘ all the way up to those ‘ filthy rich ‘ white bastard the racist Obama insist upon vilifying ( sitting back just counting their money ), but I guess.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    tatboy said:
    I thought it was a loffa? Or the Olbermann road and hook up with you friends college daughter…. :)

    no…it was in reference to this.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkrMVwWAn3M

  • fishchef

    Barack Must Go said:
    I was gonna say ‘ upper middle ‘ all the way up to those ‘ filthy rich ‘ white bastard the racist Obama insist upon vilifying ( sitting back just counting their money ), but I guess.

    As long as you don’t include the swarthy bottom feeders of color.

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    First NUGENT, now BEN STEIN?!?!?!111 When will the LAMEstream media stop SMEARING the TOTALLY QUALIFIED and RESPECTED pundits and journalists of FOX NEWS (The Most Powerful Name in News)?!?!?!?!11111

  • tatboy

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    no…it was in reference to this.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkrMVwWAn3M

    OK? In the youtube clip you posted Bill says it’s a bad itea to dress in a slutty outfit. Get drunk. Get alone. Walk alone down the I-95. Get in a car with someone you don’t know. Is he wrong? He didn’t say she “deserved it”, which seems to be what you’re implying. He’s saying it’s a bad idea. And it is. I would tell my duahgter the same thing. If you are trying to twist it to mean she “deserved it”, you are being disingenous… I assume you are not implying that.

  • tatboy

    Karl Spensen said:
    First NUGENT, now BEN STEIN?!?!?!111 When will the LAMEstream media stop SMEARING the TOTALLY QUALIFIED and RESPECTED pundits and journalists of FOX NEWS (The Most Powerful Name in News)?!?!?!?!11111

    HAHA YES!!! Why can’t FOX “NEWZ” be more like MSNBC. The HONEST 111!!! and UNBIASED News channel for “REAL AMERICANZ!!!111. You can ONLY get REAL NEWS form MSNBC the NEWS for those with HIGH IQ and our $HIT smells like fresh baked cinnamon BUNZ!!! USAUSAUSA!!!111…

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    tatboy said:
    OK? In the youtube clip you posted Bill says it’s a bad itea to dress in a slutty outfit. Get drunk. Get alone. Walk alone down the I-95. Get in a car with someone you don’t know. Is he wrong? He didn’t say she “deserved it”, which seems to be what you’re implying. He’s saying it’s a bad idea. And it is. I would tell my duahgter the same thing. If you are trying to twist it to mean she “deserved it”, you are being disingenous… I assume you are not implying that.

    no…that would be you inferring that. what i am saying is that orielly introduces what the girl looked like and how she was dressed when he says…
    “Now Moore, Jennifer Moore, 18, on her way to college. She was 5-foot-2, 105 pounds, wearing a miniskirt and a halter top with a bare midriff. Now, again, there you go. So every predator in the world is gonna pick that up at two in the morning.”
    what does it matter how she looked or how she was dressed?
    and what does he mean by the remark after he describes her says “now, again, there you go.”

    no where did i say that oreilly say she deserved it.
    i am saying that it doesn’t matter what someone looks like and what someone is wearing…i rapist is a sick bastard, period.
    assumptions are terrible things, right?

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    tatboy said:
    HAHA YES!!! Why can’t FOX “NEWZ” be more like MSNBC. The HONEST 111!!! and UNBIASED News channel for “REAL AMERICANZ!!!111. You can ONLY get REAL NEWS form MSNBC the NEWS for those with HIGH IQ and our $HIT smells like fresh baked cinnamon BUNZ!!! USAUSAUSA!!!111…

    is that the first time you get karl? one might assume you are an idiot.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    tatboy said:
    HAHA YES!!! Why can’t FOX “NEWZ” be more like MSNBC. The HONEST 111!!! and UNBIASED News channel for “REAL AMERICANZ!!!111. You can ONLY get REAL NEWS form MSNBC the NEWS for those with HIGH IQ and our $HIT smells like fresh baked cinnamon BUNZ!!! USAUSAUSA!!!111…

    is that the first time you got karl? one might assume you are an idiot.

  • George C

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    is that the first time you get karl? one might assume you are an idiot.

    Is this the first time you’ve posted a comment ? One might assume you’re an idiot .

  • George C

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    is that the first time you got karl? one might assume you are an idiot.

    Is this the first time that you’ve posted a comment ? One might assume you’re an idiot .

  • tatboy

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    is that the first time you get karl? one might assume you are an idiot.

    No… I “get” Karl. I just don’t respond all that often to trolls. You are an exception.

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    DaTruth said:
    Hey Colby, when are you going to report on what REALLY happened with the O’Reilly/Stewart poll?

    http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-oreilly-jon-stewart-reddit-poll-2011-5

    Just as I suspected…

    We’re waiting on your update to the story, since you claimed the online poll reflected “his viewers” when referring to O’Reilly.

    Well then they better throw in that once the polling opened clicking the vote button with Stewart ticked would throw an error page while the O’Reilly votes were counted off the bat. Reddit flooded the poll in response to that once FAUX fixed the error.

    But of course no mention of that from you….

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    Lunatic-left socialist men certainly don’t want to look at – mush less touch – the uggo women of the lunatic-left anymore than normal, sane men do. Nothing crushes a man’s libido faster than a glimpse of uggos like michelle “marie antoinette” obozo, rosie odonnell, sonia sotomayor, whoopi goldberg, janet napolitano, joy behar, corrine brown, claire mccaskill, janeane garofalo, maxine waters, elena kagan, oprah, rachel maddow, regina benjamin, etc. So it’s no surprise that the socialists try to get it from any woman that doesn’t make them hurl their lunch.

    NB: I’m NOT defending socialist perv DSK, I’m just explaining the socialist derangement vis-a-vis women.

  • hgarner2000

    Whenever you hear a politician say, “…would kill jobs…” try substituting this: “…would cut into profits…”. The statement might ring a little truer.

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