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Jon Stewart And David Letterman Agree On Romney: He’s Nothing But ‘Pixels’

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The Comedy Central guys just haven’t been content with staying on their own network this week. Following Stephen Colbert’s appearance on Jimmy Fallon (unfortunately, the last we’re gonna see of him for a few days apparently), Jon Stewart popped on over to CBS for a talk with David Letterman. After discussing topics like sports (Stewart joked that the awful New York Post “Amasian!” headline was “Linsensitive”) and parenting, the conversation turned to politics and the biggest problems facing President Obama (he doesn’t seem to like us) and Mitt Romney (we don’t seem to like him).

First up was Obama, with Stewart worrying that the President might not reelect us this year. Echoing an observation he’s made on his own show, the Daily Show host pointed out to Lettermen that Obama was the only president who started every press conference with a “heavy sigh.” He contrasted Obama’s approach to George W. Bush’s, saying that the former President was like a kid confidently giving a book report on a book he hadn’t read while our current Commander in Chief is like the kid who read the book last year and thinks we’re idiots for just getting around to it. Stewart argued that it, at times, felt like we had “over-corrected” a tad.

However, he explained that the guy he felt “the worst for” is Romney because of how hard he tries to be like “a regular guy” without it having much impact on the voters. Stewart guessed that, even when he’s wearing jeans, Romney probably still has his suit pants on underneath. He then compared the candidate to a motion-capped animated character like those in the Tintin movie; Romney looks like a real person but, inside, “he’s like pixels.”

Letterman had a much simpler view on Romney:

“I know nothing about politics but, as the president, you want someone who makes good decisions. Putting your dog on the roof of your car and driving to Toronto is not a good idea. That’s it. End of story. I don’t care about anything else.”

Of course, if Romney’s dog was all animated like Snowy in Tintin, then we have no problem.

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  • Anonymous

    I feel sorry for Romney as deep down, we all know his candidacy will end with him being ‘retired’ by a Blade Runner.

  • Gloves T. Donahue

    The lefty boobs’ smears of Romney will continue through the election and long past his inauguration.

    What Stewart doesn’t realize is that Obama is not really all that smart. He’s a lazy guy, brought up by and surrounded by the worst lefty elements in society. He’s coasted through life, brought to success by handlers.

    Romney is a super-achiever, successful at everything he touches. A generous, decent guy, thrifty in his own life. Respectful of his wife and family and devoted to his faith. 

    The opposite of Obama, and the biggest threat to take his job.

  • Anonymous

    Did everyone see the angry, militant ‘black power’ pose struck by OBAMO yesterday?

    We’re getting his little chameleon suit off, little by little.

    Drudge has it as a banner all day…widely seen.

  • Anonymous

    Get out the shovel..its getting pretty deep around here

  • Gloves T. Donahue

    Make him angry, and the mask falls off.

  • Anonymous

    “… is not really all that smart. He’s a lazy guy, brought up by and
    surrounded by the worst … elements in society. He’s coasted through
    life, brought to success by handlers.”

    For a moment there I thought you were talking about the last commander-in-chief, George W. Bush. I’ll bet you were absolutely outraged when he ‘won’ the first presidential election.

    Oh. Right. I forgot. When it’s YOUR GUY – you hold your nose and look the other way. That’s the Gloves we all know and… well, just know.

  • Anonymous

    While Mitt Romney fought long and hard against all the odds to get to where he is. He’s the personification of the meritocratic system the right idealises,
    where people can overcome a background of privilege and wealth to reach a point where they have privilege and wealth. Not like that Obama, who came from the advantageous background of a broken home with a parent so poor they were on food stamps.

    I mean, coming from a wealthy background with ties to a political party and a major religion is a huge handicap, he had to fight to get in all the best schools and had to work to pay his way through them, did his duty, performing military service when his country came calling, and at no point did his family’s wealth and influence ever help him.  :)

    God bless you Mitt Romney, your struggles are an inspiration to us all.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Emma-Thomas/100003357377085 Emma Thomas

    You are such racists. The problem for you is Obama doesn’t fit the
    stereotype of the angry black man. He is cool and calm. Tough for you.
    Have you no shame?

  • Anonymous

    If I wanted to point to a single post that showed the disconnect today between conservative perceptions and the way things really are, it would be yours above. I don’t think I’ve ever read a more delusional piece of crap. The idea that the constitutional law professor Obama is “lazy” or grew up influenced by leftist “elements” — while the silver-spoon fed Romney of vulture capitalist fame is some paragon of virtue — is a complete fabrication that wouldn’t even pass muster in a high school fiction class.

    I’m sure that you’ll get 50 guest “likes” for it though.

  • Anonymous

    Well, don’t expect Mr. Donahue to be honest with either himself OR the facts.

    As I’m sure you’ve already noticed many times before, he’s a “don’t confuse me with the facts” kind of guy.

    And damn PROUD of it!

  • Anonymous

    Go ahead and bow down to the idol Drudge…maybe you can kiss his feet too..

  • Hugo Daun

     Put down that reefer stick and cheese it, ya dumb mug!

  • Anonymous

    “Have you no shame?”

    I think it’s obvious they don’t. Par for the course.

  • Anonymous

    Make you angry and your BOZO hair falls out

  • Gloves T. Donahue

    You don’t read much, huh?

    Who gives a damn who’s an ex anything, blowhard?

  • http://twitter.com/12barbluz Lightnin’ James

    Wooooooooooo…SCAREY!!………..LOL

  • Anonymous

    Yes, because Drudge is taking a photo out-of-context to try and sell the idea that the president is an angry Black man. Photogs take dozens and dozens of photos during a political stop and their outlets only runs the best ones. But Drudge purposely takes the photo that makes Obama look the worst because he wants you to fill-in Obama’s thoughts. And because you’re an idiot, you think, “wow, look at Obama with that militant pose. Obama must be thinking, ‘I’m Black and I hate Whitey and the Constitution.” And, of course, you must be right because you’re really smart. Actually, Drudge is really smart because he knows you’re an idiot who doesn’t understand how you’re being manipulated.

    Tabloids do this constantly. Paparazzi cameras take multiple photos per second. Naturally, 90% of them show the celebrity with their eyes half-closed or about to sneeze or some other unflattering pose that legit outlets don’t want. But the tabloids run the photo where the celebrity is, for instance, about to sneeze, takes it totally out of context with a screaming headline, “DESPONDENT JEN ANISTON LOOKS ON THE VERGE OF SUICIDE!”  And because people are idiots, they believe it.

     

  • Anonymous

    How ironic. It would seem that every once in awhile, Gloves’ mask drops away to reveal what he really is… and it definitely is not pretty.

  • Gloves T. Donahue

    Obama is a corrupt, incompetent failure. Just keep ignoring that.

    Andrew Cuomo could replace him on the ticket and the Dems might have a sensible, non rabblerousing guy who’s not a union thug running for a change.

  • Gloves T. Donahue

    Take that corndog and hide it somewhere.

  • Anonymous

    “You don’t read much, huh?”

    Translation: you don’t get all your news from the right wing media circle jerk.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    “Definitely not pretty” is far too kind.

    http://bigjournalism.com/author/sgrammatico/

  • chalket

    Good one! I lol’d.

  • Anonymous

    There’s no need with Gloves Teabagger Donahue. She doesn’t even need to get angry, she shows her white hood with pride, damnit!

  • 12voltman1

    It would be best to be wearing your boots as well.

  • Anonymous

    Haha do you run out of tin foil often?

    Obama hasn’t failed, is that why most people have already conceded it’s going to be a given for another 4 years?  If you truly, honestly believe that everything Obama has done has been a failure you’re plain delusional and should seek medical help because of all the mental gymnastics you’ve put your brain through trying to convince yourself to ignore the facts.

    Saying “Romney” and “inauguration” in the same sentence is hilarious.

    Republicans have nothing to run on, once Obama starts debating whatever loser gets picked it will be a landslide once talking points get destroyed by cold hard facts.

    Romney couldn’t create jobs in his own state and Obama has 23 straight months of private section job creation, supposedly Romney’s forte.

    http://www.barackobama.com/news/entry/sc-23-straight-months-of-job-creation1/ 

    It must suck knowing that you have 4 years ahead of sitting on mediaite trying to bash President Obama.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    An ad hominem response. What a disappointment. Methinks you would have been better off with no response at all.

  • Anonymous

    Another one of hot button right wing name calling..union thug..well I am glad I have a union or I would be making less and get less benefits. But thats what you fools want.

    .watch out buddy we thugs are coming to get you

  • Anonymous

    The meeting of two A-hole minds. That’s real news worthy.   

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    You’re wasting your time responding to him…  

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    Is that him?

  • chalket

    I personally didn’t find anything dishonest in the post you replied to. A healthy dose of sarcasm maybe, but nothing misleading or inaccurate. Mutt Romney did work hard to get where he is, but he had a tremendous head-start over the majority of Americans, including President Obama.

    I wish you would start debating and discussing with facts and logic instead of just spewing baseless vitriol and name-calling.

  • chalket

    I wish you would start debating and discussing with facts and logic
    instead of just spewing baseless vitriol and name-calling.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Yep…
    Used to be “Apostrophe Jones” on Mediaite.
    http://www.apostrophejones.com/
    Then he became Big Eddie…
    Now Gloves…

    All of them Big Drew writer “Grammatico”.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Go ahead give yourself 100 likes now….

  • Anonymous

    Don’t you think you should ask for gloves to share the reefer.  Then we could all look through rose colored glasses at the republicans.

  • Anonymous

    WOW!!

  • Hugo Daun

     He gets ripped on schwag…no thanks!

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    He’s a Breitbart spammer sent to distract and disrupt. Part of the war on the “institutional left” as they see it.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, but when a Black man raises his fist, it’s totally different!
    That’s because Blacks hate Whitey and spit on the Constitution.
    America-loving White politicians only raise their fist in solidarity with God, America and mistrust of Black people.

    At least, that’s what my favorite Conservative media outlets want me to think.

  • Anonymous

    I know right?!  I mean, any idiot could graduate magna cum laude from Harvard, especially when the voices in my head tell me that it was all part of the grand left conspiracy!

    -Gloves

  • Anonymous

    “He’s coasted through life, brought to success by handlers.”

    This statment far better describes Romney than Obama. Obama may not have grown up poor, but it still took a lot more effort to become a sucess than a man who’s father was both a millionaire and a governer.

    Remember Obama was the youngest ever editor of the Havard Law Review, and while there is a question mark over whether Gloves even knows what the Havard Law Review is, for the rest of us it’s worth noting the kind of talent and dedication that must have taken.

  • Hout Bosques

    Quite so – except not one that gets after-revealed to also be animatronic. 

    But people should pause for moment & re-consider: we may be missing a golden opportunity to have our ancestors & eventually ourselves ex post facto Mormon-baptized OFFICIALLY. This could really bring the country together. Okay, not for atheists, or agnostics, or deists, or Catholics, or Dutch Reformists, or Lutherans, or Unitarians, or Muslims, or Hindus, or Buddhists, or Sikhs, or even Baptists (who normally are very big in that sort of thing), but for everyone who’s been harboring a secret desire to visit that weird Mormon heaven but doesn’t find wearing the magic undies all that appealing a way to conduct one’s temporal life, it kind of sounds ideal.

  • Anonymous

    No, but I did see the pic of Rush Limberger with his finger up his nose.  I guess that shows his true inner self.

  • Grace

    lol
    Trolls really can’t contain themselves . Can they guest ?

  • Ch Ob

    I’m worried about Romney’s patrician demeanor. Obama and Romney are BOTH really scripted individuals. Always worried about making a mistake or gaffe on camera. And you know its true.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Master of irony aren’t you.

  • Anonymous

    Unlike Santorum and his abominable creatures, Jon and Dave remind you of what’s really great in America.

    Thanks Jon for sharing this with us.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    What’s I object to is a professional partisan spreading spite and misinformation while attacking private citizens.  More times than not I ignore you.  When I do address you it is always as myself… despite your use of alternative personalities to wage your brands of attack.  

  • Stefon

    Success.
    It’s that thing of when you let them believe whatever they want.

  • Anonymous

    too much trolling on this one, take it down a notch 

  • sid_id

    Anyway…I got a good chuckle out of watching that clip.

  • Anonymous

    Two Liberals agree that they don’t like a GOP candidate……thanks for the insight Mediaite! I would have never guessed that Jon Stewart and Dave Letterman felt that way without your article to prove it!

  • Anonymous

    “… a corrupt, incompetent failure. Just keep ignoring that.”

    Again, I keep thinking you’re talking about George W. You sure ignored everything bad about him.

  • Anonymous

    Personally, I found his entire description of Obama dishonest. And his take on Romney. Well, that was more disingenuous.

    It would also seem that your definition of satire is quite different from mine.

    And when you say “start debating and discussing with facts and logic” – you might first suggest that to good old Mr. D.

    Of course, facts can be twisted this way and that, so what’s the point if you just want to hate and not really debate.

  • Hugo Daun

    Dry your eyes, dummy…the saline will play hell on your already deeply creased and pitted complexion.

  • Anonymous

    Ah, yes, but they’re nowhere near the level of a-holery on your side. Even two of them together.

    Hannity – now that’s the gold standard of a-holes.

  • Anonymous

    Just like I’m surprised Limbaugh hates everything left – and even almost everything that’s right (politically speaking that is).

    It is always such a shock to realize he’s conservative cheerleader.

  • Anonymous

    Wow two liberal celebs agreeing with each other now thats something you don’t see everyday.

  • Anonymous

    Wow two liberal celebs agreeing with each other now thats something you don’t see everyday.

  • Anonymous

    You didn’t actually answer the post. So… you must have really loved Bush, but like many conservatives now, are too ashamed to admit it.

    And BS on your Cuomo. You hate Democrats, Progressives and Lefties. Don’t pretend otherwise. Don’t pretend that there is someone you would actually like enough to vote for.

    But you got another reply, and I’m guessing that’s all you’re really trolling for.

  • Anonymous

    100% Right Gloves…But the left will never see this and understand what achievement is.

    Obama was professor and a community Organizer for Acorn. He has no clue about economics or business . He somehow believes our system is broken and the European system is better.

    He does not believe in free will. He thinks government knows better for the people then ourselves. This should scare everyone one of us…but for some reason half Americans want the nanny state. They want the government to tell them what car to drive and what food to eat. I guess its security to them instead of freedom that is more important.

  • Anonymous

    Exactly.  Besides, these two are at the top of the White House talking points list.  I used to think they were both funny, now I look at them like I look at 98% of the media because that’s all they are….

  • Anonymous

    your union is the problem in America!

    Your union is why so many jobs have to be exported out of this country! Your union is the almost collapse of auto manufactures ! Your union is why layoffs in many cities of Police and firemen right now. Your Union leaders have bamboozled you into believing you need them and too give union dues!

    Now days… Unions are obsolete. Wake up! you are killing this country not helping it!

  • http://ja-js.blogtownhall.com Chuck Fowler

    Great. Two very liberal, pseudo-intellectual COMEDIANS actually agree on things about a Republican candidate running for the presidency. I’m impressed. No, wait — wha-a-a-a-t?! Too bad you can’t see my surprised face.

  • Anonymous

    Great, 3 conservative pseudo intellectual CLOWNS running in the Republican primaries all agree that they would make a better president than Obama even though none of them have even been in the government since 2007. I’m impressed. No, wait — w-h-a-a-at?! Too bad you can’t see my surprised face.

  • Anonymous

    Much like conservative pundits on Fox?

  • Anonymous

    Are you talking about Santorum & Gingrich?

  • Anonymous

    When will conservatives learn they’re not going to beat O by playing the race card?

  • Anonymous

    You thought so, apparently. 

  • Anonymous

    Why would anyone bash Romney after Obama inauguration?

  • Anonymous

    “We’re getting his little chameleon suit off, little by little.”

    Those must be some good mushrooms…

  • Anonymous

    Right, because presidents with business backgrounds tend to be so successful. Herbert Hoover & George W Bush anyone?

  • Anonymous

    Ha, awesome!

  • Anonymous

    Don’t be shy, keep on talking … let’s see that chameleon suit of yours wearing off

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/52FSJYNQ2WQGLYXQF3U5CIPTSM Tom

    “Give me one of those malted hops drinks…”   ROFL

  • chalket

    My apologies, I was under the impression you were referring to StripedSquirrel’s post and replied accordingly. I now see you were replying to SS but referring to G(OP)loves. Carry on. :)

  • Anonymous

    I think they also agreed that Republicans don’t like a GOP candidate.

  • Anonymous

    I know, I felt the same when I converted to Fox.  Now I just wonder at my former life.

  • Anonymous

    I’d rather have Romney with pixels than Obama with pure shit.

  • Anonymous

    . . .  and, don’t forget, he is a man who doesn’t know what dog abuse is, even with dog dooty running down his car.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, I really do think you have a problem grasping reality.

  • Anonymous

    Calm down tea bagger.

  • Anonymous

    You came here to read this not news worthy story so I guess you’re a moron….

  • http://www.facebook.com/tonykoch1 Tony Koch

     thanks you!   what a waste of webspace this one is

  • http://ja-js.blogtownhall.com Chuck Fowler

    Perhaps that’s because your head, like that of many liberals, is buried in the sand. 

    Obama wasn’t “in the government” much before voting present as a state senator, then starting to run for president almost as soon as he was a US senator, and the time he has been “in the government” (trying, unsuccessfully, to learn on the job) has been disastrous for this country.

    Any Republican candidate, with or without recent “in the government” experience, would be better than Obama.

  • Anonymous

    Right, being a pundit for Fox makes you more qualified to be president than actually being the president.

  • Evan Roche

    Stefon – is that really you?

  • david r

    Tough choice.  The guy who tied the dog to the top of the car or the guy who stabbed Hillary in the back with false charges of racism and who continues to play the race card like the Cincinnati Kid.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    BREAKING: DAVID LETTERMAN AND JON STEWART DON’T LIKE REPUBLICANS

  • Anonymous

    Jon Stewart and David Letterman?  

    Think about this for a moment, there are at this very moment, young men and women who are in harms way, who volunteered to put themselves in harms way, to protect our Nation and culture while, coincidentally providing a blanket of security for the likes of Stewart and Letterman! Men whose socio-political viewpoints have been, um, er, disdainful of the military?

    Ironic, isn’t it?  Then again, perhaps “ironic” isn’t quite the appropriate word?

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Right, calling Romney a pixilated robot that showed poor judgment for putting his dog on the roof of his car for a road trip is “disdainful of the military”.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, that was quite the leap purveyor made.

  • Anonymous

    This has to be, by far, the stupidest of your many posts. Obama is lazy while Romney worked for everything he got? Really? Lazy and not so smart people are just the type of people who go to Harvard. Respectful of his wife and family. But what about his poor dog? Silver spoons with no connection to the real world.

  • Anonymous

    I would say so.

  • Anonymous

    WHATEVER KIND OF HAMSTER YOU ARE,

    I was commenting on the juxtaposition of Stewart and Letterman which I found more interesting than the proposed topics of Mediaite,  Ergo, I was puzzled that so many Americans will accept, even admire two wealthy people with Socialist inclinations. Who despite America’s political future, both will remain insulated from the variety of misery which will befall most Americans?Simply put, if Obama prevails in the next election, most of us will get Socialism and the attendant poverty and paucity, while a peculiar minority will, no matter what, have a “Dacha on the Black Sea,” so to speak.

    WHATEVER, apparently, you lack the capacity to think for yourself?  You, must make a wonderful “useful idiot.”

  • Anonymous

    So basically you’re backtracking on your original claim & now throwing out another idiotic claim in its plae.

  • Anonymous

    “Your union is why so many jobs have to be exported out of this country

    Right, all those jobs in Japan, South Korea and Germany with much bigger union membership than US doesn’t exist because Koch brothers told me so!

    On the other hand, companies like Foxconn who run slave labor camps have no unions, just what the Republicans would love to imitate in the US.

  • Anonymous

    “Basically?” Hmm, a word that is now commonly associated with someone whose cortical processing is either slow, or, lacking in substance. For instance, the word “um” was/is popular in that capacity along with professing to find real humor or laughter, when in fact is “nervous” laughter. Such is common when the subject matter of the discussion has gone beyond an individual. YOU, for instance. (still laughing?)

    I mentioned TWICE in my original post, the curious combination of Stewart and Letterman. The military was merely an example of the politics they share. In writing and composition, such is called making analogy or supporting an assertion.

    You have had English Composition 1 and 2, haven’t you? (still laughing)

    Moreover, in the second post I made a nice transition and further expounded on MY thoughts, as opposed to Mediates, which as I mentioned, I preferred my topic to their offerings.

    (Note: I am not laughing, as you are the tragic result of contemporary American schools. And that isn’t funny!)

    Purveyor of Rhetoric

  • Anonymous

    They say 3rd time is the charm. Obviously, you need a few more shots at it. Keep going, you’ll eventually get it right. If a monkey could eventually play Motzart, you should be about to eventually make sense.

  • Anonymous

    ARE YOU STILL LAUGHING?

  • Anonymous

    Yes

  • Anonymous

    Tell it like it is knife, I’m on your side. I like having a prez who hates whites and eric holder who also hates whites too. He is doing a great job. I mean 18% unemployment thats not high, these others are high me and you knife we know who is cool. Posting websites like bo.com who cares if it isn’t as good of source as cia fact book or other sites you know your stuff. Keep partying and smoke it up!

  • Anonymous

    Delusional.
    I’m glad your prescription pills are working though, keep poppin’ them.

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