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Jon Stewart Demands ‘Campaign Based Economy’ In Response To Obama Jobs Speech

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Jon Stewart was electrified by President Obama’s jobs speech last week to a joint session of Congress. Giving his review tonight of the President’s attempt to get Congress on board for the American Jobs Act, Stewart wondered why President Obama had kept the rhetorical fire inside until now, concluding that perhaps the solution to our financial woes was switching to a “campaign-based economy,” making speeches and campaign props the center of the economy.

Stewart admitted he was somewhat dismayed that the speech’s passion was not particularly echoed by the title “American Jobs Act”– “what ‘Employment Ideas TBD’ already taken?” he joked. For suggestions, he looked toward something with “some spin, a little humor,” like the “Clear Skies Act,” which was passed under the Bush administration and took down several environmental regulations. Among the fake Stewart suggestions he threw out there? The “Make It Rain Act” and the “Remember Me? I F*cking Killed Bin Laden Employment Act Of 2011.”

Among the highlights of the speech for Stewart was also the “awesome cutaways to uncomfortable Republicans” watching, noting that the various members of Congress formed a “veritable spectrum of poorly concealed discomfort.” He looked at Rep. Eric Cantor and Sens. Rand Paul and John McCain, the latter’s expression which he described as being akin to one watching a play in which “he was shocked at the amount of full-frontal male nudity.”

Stewart then offered President Obama an idea to stimulate the economy on top of his new bill: if it takes campaign season to make President Obama passionate and engaged again, perhaps it would be expedient to make campaign season never end! Stewart offered several ways in which this would, somehow, create jobs– besides being a general nightmare scenario for the media.

The segment via Comedy Central below:

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  • Anil Hanagud

    The first thing I look for when I come to Mediaite is the Jon Stewart video. This man talks great sense and gets the message across in a very humorous way.

  • Anonymous

    lol

  • Sgore

    I still say we go with the pandas. That might just be me though…

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    wait for the nimrod blind and crazy conservative tea bag response………wait now……..

  • Anonymous

    Obama’s speech was an epic fail. Even Stewart just alluded to it.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    cut out the middle man and go the daily show website.

  • Anonymous

    Freaking brilliant!  LOL  Loved it.

    /tea partier

    PS: Stop trying to act like you know what tea partiers think, you’re going to be wrong and all you’ll get out of it is a headache.

  • Anonymous

    Jon Stewart is not funny. He does not tell jokes…he talks of liberal psychosis.

    That being said, maybe he can parrot Obummer the Cancer:

    PASS THE SHRILL!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PRFNURP4H43DGLWZ3YWKKZJU5U Papa Lazarou

    FYI he’s reading a script written by a team of Democrat party member sycophants.  Stewart isn’t nearly as much of a glib smarty-pants when his teleprompter is unavailable.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PRFNURP4H43DGLWZ3YWKKZJU5U Papa Lazarou

    No waiting necessary for the leftists to stoop to ad hominem attacks.  That’s how they roll.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PRFNURP4H43DGLWZ3YWKKZJU5U Papa Lazarou

    IT is amazing that a late middle-aged, schticky, former stand up comic that talks in funny voices can trade the Dennis Leary wannabe leather jacket for a cheap suit and shill for the establishment and be seen as “hip” by anyone under 45.  

  • ceeza

    He’s owned BillO pretty convincingly multiple times on Oreillys on show..

  • Anonymous

    Speaking of pathetic, left wing partisan hack losers…..

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Arciga/100001039883418 Joseph Arciga

    I can tell you are an expert in humor with zingers like Obummer.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Arciga/100001039883418 Joseph Arciga

    I can tell you are an expert in humor with zingers like Obummer. 

  • Darladoon

    that wasn’t very funny

  • Anonymous

    We waited 3 years for THIS? Obungles is gonna have to do better than this if he expects people to believe that jobs are a priority to him.

  • Anonymous

    BREAKING: Liberal Democrat Easily Impressed by Other Liberal Democrat

  • Anonymous

    What Broke Insane Obummer should run on in 2012:

    http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/3148/obamawhatmeworry.jpg

  • Anonymous

    I can tell that your IQ registers in single digits.

    And that’s for your whole family.

    Three generations, perhaps four.

  • Anonymous

    Welcome back to ” real ” America and the reality that comes with it douchebag. 

    You designed and constructed your very own Obama regime man/child cave and now you’re stuck, like a trapped rat,in it.

    It’s not like momma didn’t tell you not to put all your rotten, smelly, bigotted eggs in one basket, but you thought you knew better……..MORON!

  • cdnhawk

    I think his humor goes over your head. Only intelligent people find Jon Stewart funny. 

  • Anonymous

    Buzz buzz buzz words. That’s all you got.

  • Anonymous

    Only the bill title.
    It was epic win. Just look at those Republicans trying to figure out how to say no to this one! They can’t do it.

  • DietCokeHead

    No he hasn’t.

  • Bobrick37

    LOL!

    More Socialism & Crony Capitalism that’s the answer!

    Didn’t we fix the infrastructure with the last Trillion? 
    They’ll LIE about anything!

    The only jobs bill this is for is Obama.

    Let’s just use another $500 Billion of new debt to keep the public union sectors funded until after the election; and to establish the Inrastructure Slush Fund so Obama can buy more support with our money.
    That’s what Democrats do, they use our money to buy their votes!

  • DietCokeHead

    do you honestly think that proposing new taxes on people not currently employing anyone is going to improve the economy?

  • DietCokeHead

    Lol, love your work, Jim.

  • DietCokeHead

    Why include the middle men? If he’s so fucking brilliant, why don’t you idiots get him to run for president? You voted for Obama, so i’m guessing your bar is rather low.

  • Anonymous

    How would that happen?

  • Hugo Daun

    Yes…she’s one of the bigger dummies around here.

  • Anonymous

    Every comedian who has to do new material every time he does a show has writers.

  • Hugo Daun

    It’s funny that you would use the disgusting hack Leary in your attack on Stewart.

    Clearly, you’re a fucking dummy.

  • Guest

    What company did BO run before he became a US Senator?  After he became a Senator what was his key piece of legislation?

  • Rex the Wonder God

    DCH is right: it’s actually Colbert who owns BillO – which is why we continue to see BillO and Stewart do their annual Home And Home exchange, but will never see another Home And Home between BillO and Colbert.

    But Stewart still eats the rest of Fox News, and … does it live.

  • Anonymous

    For obvious reasons, the Leftist media decided NOT to recall Opie Taylor’s declaration several weeks ago that a president ‘cannot create jobs.’ I despise the little weasel–Bobbie Gibbs with a bit more hair–but I agree with that take: The president CANNOT ‘create’ jobs. The only thing ‘Guv-mint’ can do is create the CONDITIONS under which jobs WILL be created. And we’ve just heard from the private sector: This ‘Bill’ (which OBAMO says, with wagging finger, we must ‘pass’) will NOT encourage them to hire more.

    Of course, the private sector despises OBAMO just like I do. They don’t want to ‘help’ him win a 2nd term; they want him destroyed and eliminated.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is fooling no one at all :

    “President Obama demanded on Monday that Congress pay for his $447 billion jobs bill with higher taxes onthe rich and businesses.
    The tax proposals, which have all previously been advocated by Obama, underline the White House’s political agenda for the fall, which increasingly is focused on setting up congressional Republicans as foils on the economy during the 2012 presidential race.
    Few, if any, of the proposed tax hikes have any chance of being approved by the Republican-held House, but they all could help the White House frame the GOP as protecting Wall Street money mangers and corporate interests at the expense of the middle class.

    At the same time, the attacks on the rich open Obama up to new charges of class warfare, not only from Congress, but from the Republicans campaigning to replace him.”

      
    http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/181081-obama-tax-the-rich-to-pay-for-the-jobs-bill

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    But, she’s no Michelle-in-Utah!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance
    of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who
    have too little.”

    -FDR, the Second Inaugural Address

  • Anonymous

    We do not propose to say that there shall be no rich men. We do not ask to divide the wealth. We only propose that, when one man gets more than he and his children and children’s children can spend or use in their lifetimes, that then we shall say that such person has his share. That means that a few million dollars is the limit to what any one man can own.”

    — Huey Long, Share Our Wealth radio address, February 23, 1934

  • Anonymous

    Or, fast forward to Jan 2013 to Mitt’s inauguration

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    You have no idea what we are talking about don’t you?

  • Hugo Daun

    True.

    Michelle has plumbed depths of stupidity heretofore unknown to mankind.

    She’s a real pioneer!

  • Guest

    Has Mediaite reported on the Solyndra scandal?…that’s what Politico is calling it.

  • Anonymous

    Bloomberg has it . And Obama is not talking about green jobs these days .

    “Solyndra LLC’s workers making solar-power panels in a California factory subsidized by U.S. taxpayers showed “the promise of clean energy isn’t just an article of faith,” President Barack Obama said on a visit to the company in May 2010.
    Two months before Obama’s visit, accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP warned that Solyndra,the recipient of $535 million in federal loan guarantees, had financial troubles deep enough to “raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.”
    The Obama administration stood by Solyndra through the auditor’s warning, the abandonment of a planned initial public offering and a last-ditch refinancing where taxpayers took a back seat to new investors. That unwavering commitment has come under increasing scrutiny since the company’s travails culminated in its filing for bankruptcy protection on Sept. 6 and a raid on its headquarters by the Federal Bureau of Investigation two days later.
    “People including our government put blinders on and did not want to believe in the obvious,” Jonathan Dorsheimer, an analyst in Boston for Canaccord Genuity Inc. of Vancouver, said in an interview with Bloomberg Government. “The fact that the government chose Solyndra as their white horse is mind-boggling.”
    http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/09/12/obama-team-backed-solyndra-aid-as-auditors-were-wary/

     

  • Anonymous

    Is it really productive to clutter up the news discussions with Jon Stewart’s comedy? I don’t think so.

  • Anonymous

    “Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.”
    — Daniel Webster

  • Anonymous

    Just because OBAMO might have displayed a talent for growing Pot, it doesn’t mean he can grow an economy.

    You OBAMO boyfriends and girlfriends sure are a gullible bunch, but we enjoy laughing at and mocking you.

  • Anonymous

    Jon is always spot on!

  • Anonymous

    Low Bar? Bachman,Perry,Palin. You couldn’t get much lower.

  • Anonymous

    Jon does interviews all the time. Quick wit and intelligence without a teleprompter.

  • Anonymous

    Wanna bet?

  • Anonymous

    Yes

  • Anonymous

    Speaking of pathetic, RIGHT wing partisan hack losers…..  chimes in.   

  • Anonymous

    Real America is a fantastic notion in your head.

  • Anonymous

    “the Leftist media”……I love your buzz words. Make me laugh. Your funny :)

  • Anonymous

    Long created the Share Our Wealth program in 1934 with the motto “Every Man a King”, proposing new wealth redistribution measures in the form of a net asset tax on corporations and individuals to curb the poverty and homelessness endemic nationwide during the Great Depression. To stimulate the economy, Long advocated federal spending on public works, schools and colleges, and old age pensions. He was an ardent critic of the Federal Reserve System’s policies. Charismatic and immensely popular for his programs and willingness to take forceful action, Long was accused by his opponents of dictatorial tendencies for his near-total control of the state government.

  • Anonymous

    Get real.

  • Anonymous

    At least the FBI showed up with warrants, real corruption would have been if the investigation was spiked from above. Money bought them access but no protection. Blame the crooked CEO not Obama’s green energy plans.

    I guess that is why Bush and Rummy gave blanket immunity to mercanaries, oh sorry security contractors, iin Iraq. They paid enough to get protection as well.

  • Anonymous

    Partisan rhedtoric! Is there a speech by any Democrat that you like?

  • Anonymous

    Well at least this way, some Repulicans can see it.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is fooling no one but the fools.

  • TruDat

    Sadly, there are plenty of them.

  • TruDat

    Liberals think Stewart is an actual journalist, you know, like Colbert and Maher.  Hell, they think Michael Moore is an anti-capitalist documentarian for crying out loud.  Liberals are a boorish bunch.

  • Anonymous

    Indeed there are.

  • Anonymous

    Holy Smokes, that was simultaneously one of the funniest and most deeply cynical things I’ve ever heard. 

  • Mr. Derp

    Long created the Share Our Wealth program in 1934 with the motto “Every Man a King”, proposing new wealth redistribution measures in the form of a net asset tax on corporations and individuals to curb the poverty and homelessness endemic nationwide during the Great Depression. To stimulate the economy, Long advocated federal spending on public works, schools and colleges, and old age pensions. He was an ardent critic of the Federal Reserve System’s policies. Charismatic and immensely popular for his programs and willingness to take forceful action, Long was accused by his opponents of dictatorial tendencies for his near-total control of the state government.

    Text stolen from Wikipedia , Huey Long entry ,second paragraph . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_LongSeriously if you’re going to steal work , and try to pass it off as your own ,  look deeper than Wikipedia .LOL 

  • Gayla

    Instead of Warren Buffet giving money to the gov’t. give it to businesses to help them grow bigger and able to hire people…Obviously the gov’t. doesn’t know how to handle money so big mistake giving them more to blow!!!!

  • Anonymous

    “if you’re going to steal work , and try to pass it off as your own, and try to pass it off as your own ” …. Never did . I never said I was a historian. I just passed along the facts.

  • Mr. Derp

    12voltman1 pla·gia·rism   /ˈpleɪdʒəˌrɪzəm, -dʒiəˌrɪz-/ Show Spelled[pley-juh-riz-uhm, -jee-uh-riz-] Show IPA
    noun 1. the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work, as by not crediting the author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau’s plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.  LOL

  • Anonymous

    May be Anthony wiener’s

  • Anonymous

    You left out Santorum

  • Anonymous

    Goggle: Santorum

  • Anonymous

    Goggle: Santorum

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PRFNURP4H43DGLWZ3YWKKZJU5U Papa Lazarou

    As usual, you know so much that isn’t so.  I didn’t vouch for that awful Bill Hicks ripoff, I said Stewart used to try to BE him.  And when that didn’t work, he got a job worthy of Soviet Pravda.  Now THAT is pathetic.

  • Hugo Daun

    But, you’re wrong about Stewart…so you’re still a fucking dummy.

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

    What you probably saw, Jon, was not “campaign Obama” versus “governing Obama,” because Obama has never stopped campaigning (just giving speeches) and his Last Responder governing has been inept. 

    What you might have seen that at least looked and sounded different was “teleprompter Obama” versus “teleprompter-less Obama.” I mean, after all, we are talking here about a man who needed his teleprompter to address a 5th grade class. 

  • FreeMike

    Jon Stewart was the first to point out the teleprompter / 5th grade class incident.  However, I will take teleprompting against “Fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me…you can’t get fooled again” ramblings.

  • http://educatorssite.com/ romacox

    Since 1914 the U.S. has been under Keynesian Economics (Bush and Obama included). It has failed every Country including the U.S..

    Video: The History Of Money

  • Mack

    Wow… you rebut arguments almost as well as my 4 year old… maybe better, since it seems like you can type. Of course, you won’t even watch any of these, let alone watch them objectively, but for any THINKING people who might want to consider the thought: http://goo.gl/O3pcz

  • Mack

    It’s amazing that the same old kind of hacks can come on here and repeatedly allude to the insignificance of Stewart… showing up to repeat that mantra, over and over and over again… and yet never see the irony of repeating that comment. If he doesn’t matter, why do you continue to care?

  • Mack

    “That’s what Democrats do, they use our money to buy their votes!”

    Fair enough… and those trillions Bush spent were to buy you and me… what?

    http://goo.gl/ba6O

    If you feel compelled to answer “our freedom” don’t bother. 

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