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Jon Stewart Discovers Equal Opportunity Birther Nagging On MSNBC And Fox News

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Yesterday may have been the wackiest media day of the year, what with the wrath of President Obama’s birth certificate being unleashed on the world. To Jon Stewart, it was a day in which the media got to say “I told you so” over and over, whether they had told you so or not. Cowering at various lectures from all across the political spectrum, Stewart and Senior Black Correspondent Larry Wilmore handily captured the madness of the day.

Stewart found plenty of shouting matches on both sides, and while for MSNBC it was mostly a “victory lap,” he noted that Fox did a fair amount of disparaging birthers, too. Surprisingly, Stewart didn’t touch on the most ridiculous item of the day, Lawrence O’Donnell and Orly Taitz yelling at no one in particular, though he did whimper in response to a Last Word segment where O’Donnell appeared particularly outraged. Instead, Stewart found Ed Schultz shouting down one guest with the same question over and over along with O’Donnell’s lecturing, and on Fox,  Bill O’Reilly and Greta Van Susteren asserting they knew it existed this whole time, and Shepard Smith just mercilessly tsk-tsking the camera. Of the latter he quipped: “Fox News: We report; you’re grounded, mister.”

But not everyone thoroughly dismissed the birthers once and for all, as Stewart found on Fox Business, “where the crazy for Fox is first test-marketed.” There he found Eric Bolling trying to find signs of Photoshop on the new certificate, mostly attributing his finding to Bolling being high, apparently.

As with the final chapter of the birther saga in real life, Stewart ended with an assessment of possible racism, which Wilmore was happy to provide. To Wilmore, the release was disappointing because it took away the President’s “air of mystery,” basically reducing him to Steve Urkel.

The segment via Comedy Central below:

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  • Who is Salacious Crumb

    That “Longformers” graphic is awesome. So is the commentary showing how Obama both soothes and scares old people (the biggest voting demo). Very fairly done critique.

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    I gotta admit, this site is a lot better w/o a bunch of losers constantly screaming “OBAMA, SHOW YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!”

    It’s like someone finally took out the rotten trash. :)

    _______________________________________________________________
    CAUTION: BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE EX-BIRTHERS, THEY ARE ARMED AND IGNORANT…

    Dem4Ever, The Lantern of Truth, juan, Arkansas Steve, murf, Jaurez
    WCinWI, Barack Must Go, NOBAMA, Colorado_Conservative, gordonbloyershow
    TeaPartyPatriot, notsofast, Severian, Dronetek, TfT, mitchflorida, skoorbekim
    mdanielson, Harry Flashman, OxyCon and NORBIT

  • tatboy

    Point, set, match. The Libs waive the bloody shirt of racism once again. Of course it was OK to question EVERYTHING about Bush. But NOW it’s racism. The old story prove to be soooooo… the boy who cried wolf. Or the Lib who cried racism. Keep flogging that horse Libs.

  • tatboy

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    I gotta admit, this site is a lot better w/o a bunch of losers constantly screaming “OBAMA, SHOW YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!”

    It’s like someone finally took out the rotten trash. :)

    _______________________________________________________________
    CAUTION: BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE EX-BIRTHERS, THEY ARE ARMED AND IGNORANT…

    Dem4Ever, The Lantern of Truth, juan, Arkansas Steve, murf, Jaurez
    WCinWI, Barack Must Go, NOBAMA, Colorado_Conservative, gordonbloyershow
    TeaPartyPatriot, notsofast, Severian, Dronetek, TfT, mitchflorida, skoorbekim
    mdanielson, Harry Flashman, OxyCon and NORBIT

    But your still here?

  • Jaurez

    BeckFinallyDemoted says:

    Yea, like screaming “look out for after-birthers” isn’t the stupidest thing you’ve ever heard…Gawd.

  • Nacho

    Nailed it.

    Haters gonna hate and old people gonna be scared.

    There needs to be a third party and TEAtotalers aint gonna cut it.

  • nice_thought

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    I gotta admit, this site is a lot better w/o a bunch of losers constantly screaming “OBAMA, SHOW YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!”

    It’s like someone finally took out the rotten trash. :)

    _______________________________________________________________
    CAUTION: BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE EX-BIRTHERS, THEY ARE ARMED AND IGNORANT…

    Dem4Ever, The Lantern of Truth, juan, Arkansas Steve, murf, Jaurez
    WCinWI, Barack Must Go, NOBAMA, Colorado_Conservative, gordonbloyershow
    TeaPartyPatriot, notsofast, Severian, Dronetek, TfT, mitchflorida, skoorbekim
    mdanielson, Harry Flashman, OxyCon and NORBIT

    Your crush on liberal tormentor is obvious here.

  • Barack Must Go

    This was the first time that I can recall, since Barack Obama has been president, when ” The Daily Show ” with Jon Stewart was actually political satire, not left wing partisan punditry.

    It still wasn’t that funny, but it wasn’t un – American either.

  • grafxmail7

    Barack Must Go said:
    This was the first time that I can recall, since Barack Obama has been president, when ” The Daily Show ” with Jon Stewart was actually political satire, not left wing partisan punditry.

    It still wasn’t that funny, but it wasn’t un – American either.

    What America do you live in anyway?

    If you’d just take off that white hood you wear you’d see the REAL AMERICA!!!

  • Barack Must Go

    grafxmail7 said:
    What America do you live in anyway?

    If you’d just take off that white hood you wear you’d see the REAL AMERICA!!!

    ” real ” America you misguided little racist un – American dolt.

  • BarneyFranken

    Note to Frances Martel: You didnt catch how Stewart debunked the racism angle played up by the left. How did you miss that?

    Did you even watch the clip past the Urkle impression? (Which was quite good: ’10% unemployment…did I do that?’ HAHA Classic.)

    Wilmore brings up an excellent point about how the right tried to similarly tie conspiracies to Bill Clinton(vince foster anyone?) and points out that political opportunism is not racism.

    To paraphrase the clip, both sides are just trying to scare old people, either by trying to paint Obama as African or Obama painting the republican budget as cutting Granny’s health care.

    Overall Stewart comes off very fair and reasonable here, especially compared to Sergeant Schultz at MSNBC.

  • BarneyFranken

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    I gotta admit, this site is a lot better w/o a bunch of losers constantly screaming “OBAMA, SHOW YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!” It’s like someone finally took out the rotten trash. :)

    OH this sounds like FUN.! Can we start the “Liberals constantly screaming racist” list too?

    grafxmail7 said:
    What America do you live in anyway? If you’d just take off that white hood you wear you’d see the REAL AMERICA!!!

    First on the list has to be Grafxmail7. After all, the white hood reference is a classic- no racebaiter would be complete without having that in their repertoire.

  • grafxmail7

    Barack Must Go said:
    ” real ” America you misguided little racist un – American dolt.

    I’m the American Dream! My parents are both immigrants! My father served in the military. My brother served in the military. I served in the military. All of us proudly served in the United States Army.

    My family and I defended your right to be a piece of shit. Please feel free.

    I started with nothing and now I live by the beach and travel the world whenever i want.

    You? You’re some pathetic comment troll and I hope that you get paid for this because by our estimates, you’re here about 12 to 18 hours a day. The only reason I engage you is because one of the businesses I own is internet based and each time you small minded racists responds to me I benefit from it.

    I actually relish the fact that I did what I did to protect your rights.

    There is absolutely nothing you could ever do to change that fact that I gave part of my life to allow you to be the human scum that you are.

    I win.

    You’re welcome.

  • Barack Must Go

    Sorry. A guy like YOU joined the United States Army, if you’re even telling the truth, because you had nothing else going on in your miserable life, not because you wanted to protect ME.

    You want me dead and have stated so on several occasions, so cut the crap….OK?

    I guess from the rest of your rant, you are officially my 2nd MEDIAite stalker…congratulations loser.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Why did he hold it back for 3 years?

    If this were done by Bush, would the “ProtectObama” Media be going after Bush’s opponents, or would they be demanding that Bush release his certificate? (hint: recall how the media demanded his National Guard & college records.)
    ————————
    Racist? –

    The biggest RACISTS today are those on the Democratic Left, who use the Racist Allegation as a political tool to defend and promote their dysfunctional and disproven Progressive agenda.

    The liberal ilk of the “mainstream” media are little more than self-loathing racial sycophants, currying to the stereotypes and anti-white, anti-American rhetoric of black separatists and agitators like Tawana Sharpton, Rev. Wright, and their president!

  • Penguin60

    grafxmail7 said:
    You? You’re some pathetic comment troll

    Classic projection.
    When a turd has to give his family history “I served in the military”, then you know they’re full of shit.
    And the same could be said about people defending his ability to be to be a piece of shit. Certainly more of us than him.

  • espo222

    I’m not a Stewart fan but he makes Bolling look like a schmuck just like he made Beck look like a schmuck, just by playing clips of their show. He’s a buffoon and should be blasted by Levin and Coulter just like Trump and David Frum are. I especially like his corruption matrix segment, where he puts on a fake Christian Bale Batman voice and weeds out corruption all while he has convicted wall street felons, who are his friends, on his panel as guests. That being said, just because people are questioning or were questioning the President on anything, doesn’t mean they are racist. We are going to have to replace the old fairy tale about the boy who cried wolf with The Liberal Who Cried Racism.

  • BR

    Yes, like when the vile left had a special on about Bush’s National Guard…………..with forged paperwork! Go back under your rocks now…………

  • espo222

    When Obama criticized Bush, should he be called a racist??? STOP with the racism crap. Obama is a bad president and even the left knows it, however the birther idiots and people like Bolling are making the left rally around Obama because they want to protect him from all this “racism.” Stick to the issues and you can beat Obama, no need to analyze a birth certificate with some loony woman.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    ttp://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/the_obama_lie_that_drove_the_b.html

    “Newly released documents from Barack Obama Sr.’s immigration file, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, justify “birther” doubts about the nativity story on which Barack Obama based his presidential campaign.”

    “The documents were posted Thursday in an article by Heather Smathers on the Arizona Independent web site. When I checked with Brian Wedemeyer, the Independent’smanaging editor, he confirmed, “They are legitimate documents.”

    “A memo dated Aug. 31, 1961, from William Wood of the Immigration and NaturalizationServices, does verify that Barack Obama, Sr. fathered a son, Barack Obama II, who was born in Honolulu on Aug, 4, 1961. For the record, most birthers of my acquaintance believe that Obama was born in the United States. That is not their issue.”

    “Wood adds, however, that the child is “living with mother (she lives with her parents & subject resides at 1482 Alencastre St.).” He adds that Obama’s citizen spouse plans “to go to Washington State University next semester.”

    “This document thoroughly undermines the Obama nativity story, a story that has been told almost as often as Jesus’s but with nowhere near the accuracy. Obama led with it in his 2004 convention speech and repeated it in the first sentence of his 2008 speech.”

    “The facts get more problematic still. After the birth of baby Barry in August 1961, Ann left for Seattle as soon as the doctors cleared her to travel. Once there, she enrolled at the University of Washington, not Washington Sate. Barack Sr. stayed behind in Hawaii.”

    “The apolitical Washington state historical blog, HistoryLink, now confirms Ann’s presence in the fall of 1961, identifies her Capitol Hill apartment in Seattle, names the courses she took, anddocuments an extended stay by Ann and little Barry into the summer of 1962.”

    “If that is not proof enough, the 1961-1962 Polk Directory confirms an “Obama Anna Mrs studt” at the Capitol Hill address.”

    “Somehow, this information escaped Obama’s official campaign biography, Dreams, and four book-length biographies I consulted when researching my book Deconstructing Obama. Remnick’s 2010 biography, The Bridge, concedes Ann’s escape to Seattle but fudges the dates.”

    “By the time mom and son returned to Hawaii in the summer of 1962, Barack Sr. had long since left for Harvard. There was no Obama family, never was, no “abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation” save on the teleprompters at the 2004 convention.”

    “For the last two years or more, many in the birther community knew that Obama’s “multicultural ideal” was based on a lie. Knowing that Obama was capable of lying about the first two years of his life, they had no reason to believe he was telling the truth about his birth, especially given the lengths he had gone to in order to protect his birth certificate.”

    “For their part, the major media — almost to a person — were doing everything in their power to protect the lie. This was unprecedented on the sunny side of the Iron Curtain. The birthers had absolutely no reason to believe the media.”

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    Sadly, no one in the media wants to factcheck the “stories” of Obama’s life and career and most of the Obamabots on this site will not read anything that debunks the mythology that Obama created for himself.

  • http://endisfar.com theendisfar

    TillieGlockenspiel said:
    Sadly, no one in the media wants to factcheck the “stories” of Obama’s life and career and most of the Obamabots on this site will not read anything that debunks the mythology that Obama created for himself.

    This is more true than I had expected. These Obamabots (haven’t used that one in a while, but wow how accurate) avert their eyes from what might be evidence that their demigod has flaws. Ask any of theme about fields 20 and 22. No response, best I’ve gotten yet “There a much better professionals than you and me”, “you think you’re an overnight expert”. Not once has the issues I and others have brought up been addressed.

    They are worshipers who have lost the ability to think for themselves and dare not question their superiors.

    Folks, why we have allowed these domesticated and dependent beings to have such an influence over our lives is less important than correcting the influence. We can figure out why later.

  • VoiceofReason

    On the BC it lists dad from Kenya, East Africa but how was his dad from Kenya when British East Africa didn’t become Kenya until Dec 1963? Over 3 full years later.

    I took African history in college from a Kenyan and remember his insight into Jomo Kenyatta and post WWII strife, the battles, the Kikuyu (sp?) and the Mau Mau and I remember distincively that Kenya didn’t become Kenya until almost 1964.

    Could it be that Obama Sr. hated the Brit rule so much he refused to refer to it as their protectorate? The KAU which if IIRC gave way to Kenyatta’s KANU was formed in the mid fourties so that pre-dates the actual 1963 independence date……..so was it known to local people as Kenya (at least those fed up with Brit rule) and the person gathering info for the BC didn’t know any better?

    I know I am not the only one with a glimmer of African history knowledge and this has to come up. With the noise already beginning on the PDF “layers” I read above…..and there is bound to be more questions as the doc is scrutinized…..I wonder what will be made of this.

    I frankly don’t care where he was born……..what he is doing to this country fiscally would preclude me from supporting him if he was born in the next bed to me.

    One thing for certain…..this doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon.

  • Colorado_Conservative

    I’m so happy BamBam finally produced another fabricated certification of liver birth. I only wished whoever fabricated it knew how to use Adobe Photoshop a little better so it wasn’t so obvious!!

  • VoiceofReason

    Colorado_Conservative said:
    I’m so happy BamBam finally produced another fabricated certification of liver birth. I only wished whoever fabricated it knew how to use Adobe Photoshop a little better so it wasn’t so obvious!!

    I have to admit ignorance to photoshop……never been very good at it or spotting anything other than OBVIOUS stuff.

    Wouldn’t begin to know how you folks are finding what you’re finding.

  • tatboy

    Glackin said:
    Oh! Is your little feelings HURT because you didn’t make the list?
    Face it, you’re insignificant.

    I’m crushed.

  • Colorado_Conservative

    VoiceofReason said:
    I have to admit ignorance to photoshop……never been very good at it or spotting anything other than OBVIOUS stuff.

    Wouldn’t begin to know how you folks are finding what you’re finding.

    Here you go….this should explain it for you!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eOfYwYyS_c&feature=player_embedded

  • Tedderman

    Tillieglockensomething
    For the record, most birthers of my acquaintance believe that Obama was born in the United States. That is not their issue.”
    *Teddermansays: You, my dear are full of shit!

  • jakester

    It is wrong to assume that most birthers are racist, many are congenital liars, mentally disabled or just plain morons, But they are all full of crap and deserve to be mocked, humiliated and then ignored as the lowlifes they are.

  • jakester

    tatboy said:
    Point, set, match. The Libs waive the bloody shirt of racism once again. Of course it was OK to question EVERYTHING about Bush. But NOW it’s racism. The old story prove to be soooooo… the boy who cried wolf. Or the Lib who cried racism. Keep flogging that horse Libs.

    Hey tatboy, because issues with Bush had nothing to do with racism, there is a simple answer to your simple question. But the new approach by racists is to call everyone else one. Also, if you want to defend those lowlife birthers, then don’t cry when you get covered with the stench of their garbage.

    BTW, this has nothing to do with lib or con, by I hate tattoos, they are ugly, expensive, wasteful, narcissistic and trashy, just like your posts.

  • jakester

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    Why did he hold it back for 3 years?

    If this were done by Bush, would the “ProtectObama” Media be going after Bush’s opponents, or would they be demanding that Bush release his certificate? (hint: recall how the media demanded his National Guard & college records.)
    ————————
    Racist? –

    The biggest RACISTS today are those on the Democratic Left, who use the Racist Allegation as a political tool to defend and promote their dysfunctional and disproven Progressive agenda.

    The liberal ilk of the “mainstream” media are little more than self-loathing racial sycophants, currying to the stereotypes and anti-white, anti-American rhetoric of black separatists and agitators like Tawana Sharpton, Rev. Wright, and their president!

    The biggest racists are right wing pathetic crackpots like you and the birther scum. You look as stupid and confused as you write. BTW, is it liberals who usually fly Confederate battle flags, like the one over the GOP controlled SC Capitol?

  • jakester

    Right wing anti racism agenda and MO.

    Call blacks and liberals racists all the time!

    Focus on a few out and out black racists like Farrakhan and the NBPP and pretend they are in bed with Obama.

    Talk about how MLK, a man more to the left of Obama, was one of them, just like Beck, since technically he was registered as a Republican.

    Defend birthers & rednecks who fly the Confederate flag as good Americans defending the Republic since they are victims of liberal slander.

    Forget about how all the old Dixiecrats joined the GOP or Teaparties, but keep bringing the late Robert Byrd up. Yeah we all know how hard the Klan canvassed for Obama.

    Forget about how knuckleheads like themselves drove the old decent civil rights GOPers out of the party as RINOs.

    Then explain the fact that less than 8% of blacks support their side as some evil liberal media scheme to control and enslave the poor black minds. Never-mind that is the mirror image of the classic black conspiracy theory.

  • Barack Must Go

    jakester said:
    Hey tatboy, because issues with Bush had nothing to do with racism, there is a simple answer to your simple question. But the new approach by racists is to call everyone else one. Also, if you want to defend those lowlife birthers, then don’t cry when you get covered with the stench of their garbage.

    BTW, this has nothing to do with lib or con, by I hate tattoos, they are ugly, expensive, wasteful, narcissistic and trashy, just like your posts.

    It’s not our fault Obama is black.

  • Zona

    Burfers are funny. I am looking forward to Donald finding more “surprising” stuff about his academic background.

    I call this the Graders movement. Graders or Skoolers? Not sure which one insults them more.

    Obama is guaranteed a win in 2012 and the Donald rules! Thanks Trump.

  • Tedderman

    Thanks tea-party Jesus, didn’t know you were here too.
    MDIrmn

  • BarneyFranken

    Im wondering why a Jon Stewart post has only has 35 comments so far.

    Could it be the liberals didnt like him obliterating their false racism charges?

    Conservates, watch this clip- because none other than Jon Stewart (through Larry Wilmore) is defending you against the scurrilous charge of racism.

  • Tedderman

    It’s never liberals who drive these blogs, we really have no need. They’re usually driven by right wingers hate of Obama where and whenever the opportunity exists.

  • eingriff

    What makes people think Barry released his birth certificate, a contemporaneous record of birth showing birth parents?

    When a child is adopted at birth, an original birth certificate is created showing birth parents.

    An amended birth certificate is created showing the adoptive parents.

    I suspect the latest proffered “birth certificate” from the Great Pretender is the latter, an amended birth certificate showing adoptive parents. Sophisticated forensic document analysis aside, it looks to me like the latest “birth certificate” is folded back at the top to obscure the printed or, more likely, typed word “AMENDED”.

    A key test of the document’s validity is not the document itself, but an analysis of Obama’s DNA. If, as I suspect, an analysis of his DNA shows it’s biologically impossible for him to be the child of a Negro father and a Caucasian mother, the latest proffered “birth certificate” can not be accepted as valid. Either it is somebody else’s birth certificate, or, much more likely, it is Barry’s amended birth certificate reflecting his adoption by Stanley Ann Dunham and Obama the alien black Luo tribesman.

    Congress and the state legislatures should investigate the Obama matter, starting with subpoenae of Obama’s DNA and Hawai’i's vital records of him. In view of Obama’s clandestine M.O., all officials with jurisdiction or on whom jurisdiction can be conferred by law are duty bound to investigate.

    It is utterly unacceptable for America to be unable to identify the pretender to the Office of President. The failure to ascertain Mr. Obama’s biological identity lends great weight to the proposition that he claims his adoptive parents as his birth parents in order to maintain the hoax that he is half Negro, so that he can make a fraudulent racial appeal for votes and denigrate opponents as racists.

    Every state’s Secretary of State should require verified DNA samples from Obama to determine whether his past and future applications for ballot positions were and will be honest and in good faith, or fraudulent in light of his latest claimed “birth certificate”.

    If genetic analysis disproves the latest proffered “birth certificate”, Barry’s applications for ballot placement should be rejected until he finally produces for all the world to see, at long last, his true, original, birth certificate, a contemporaneous record of birth showing actual birth parents consistent with his DNA. I would bet Obama’s birth mother was Polynesian, from whom he inherits his warm mahogany complexion, and his birth father was Caucasian, not an alien black Luo tribesman who made it with a white chick.

  • WHarropson

    People need to be reminded that Obama preferred to have a military man in prison than to release his long form certificate (with nothing at all embarrassing on it I may add)
    A real man would have saved this man of conscious from that result.

    Now Imagine for a moment Obama, stepping into the shoes of Abraham Lincoln at that moment. Here is an example of the spirit of Lincoln Inspiring Obama to lead magnanimouly.

    Our Commander in Chief hears that one of his officers believes that his orders are from someone who hasn’t proven he is Constitutionally qualified to act in the role of commander in Cheif. The CIF immediately sends out an order to not only release his birth certificate for public view, but to deliver a copy to the soldier, with a letter that states: Dear LTC Lakin as your commander in Chief I speak for the American people to thank you for your service to this Country. I want you to know that I have respect for those who disagree with my policies, but the BC issue should not become a stumbling block to the service of any American soldier.
    Respectfully yours,
    President Barack Obama, Commander in Chief.

    THAT IS MAGNANIMITY. Look up the word and it’s origins. And please spare me the explanations of how his BC had been released. The reality that States are digitizing official documents is but a painfully bureaucratic slap in the face in this case. It was so insulting to hear. Magnanimity requires compassion, and it was not compassionate to use this NEW quirk of our modern age to punish those who fear laws are being broken, and that the President is unlawfully in office.

    The failure is Obama’s and that of his evil advisors that this thing dragged on and tortured many good honest (non racist) Americans. Shame on this administration.

  • WHarropson

    That Gary Wilmore is one of the best comics on Stewart’s show.

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