Um, I wouldn’t taste the Santorum if I were you.

I’m guessing someone will jump into the race after the Iowa caucuses.

Probably a better policy than jumping at the first chocolate you see.

How’s that country doing three years on with the guy y’all chose?  Let me get back to you after I check on that voting intimidation case in Philly and the dead border guard.

Oh look, more Jon Stewart being a ‘moderate’

I can’t believe he has the nerve to say romney ‘reeks of john kerry out of touchness’ when during that presidential race he was trying desperately to convince people to vote for Kerry though his ‘humor’

We get it Jon, really. Every single show for the past 3 months you have been pounding into the heads of your viewers the exact same message, all the republican candidates are garbage. Even when you don’t have any real reasons to trash them, you just make up stuff like your juvenile sanatorium joke that you have used on like 7 episodes.

Why even bother? You are just preaching to the choir. Most of your audience already agrees with every word you say and just watch you to get their own opinions reenforced, so whos vote do you really think you are going to sway? Do you truly believe any moderate is not going to see through your ‘comedy’? and see what an obvious political hack you are? The only ones who think you are still just a comedian are the liberals whos are convinced they are just ‘right’ and that you are simply ‘making jokes about the truth’ (aka 90% of the readers here)

Ahh well, it will be funny to see you grasp at straws when looking for people to attack after obama wins reelection, because lord knows that you have to be pulled kicking and screaming by your writers to make light of anything he does. You will be back to attacking obscure, random republicans in congress like the partisan clown you are.

In Stewart’s case, Obama was the giant chocolate d*ldo he saw and immediately jammed up his #ss.

Stewart is back in top form after a much needed break.   

Did Jon notice Obama signing on to indefinite detention of US citizens while he was on vacation?  Keep showing your liberal agenda. 

I Laugh At People Who Get Their News From A Comedy Channel !!!

Brilliant Jon!
Santorum in chocolate is disgusting. Yuck

you spell good

I Laugh At People Who Get Their Comedy From A News Channel !!!

Considerably better than when your guys crashed the economy, got us bogged down in multiple unwinnable wars, disgraced us on an international scale…etc etc etc.

I concede that our guy has not cleaned up your mess quickly enough.

It’d be a huge stretch, so many filing deadlines have passed.  

But okay, go with that.  

First: the truth remains, as it has been all through 2011 – a.k.a. “last year” – that 75% cannot stand Romney. This is like a particle collider proven truth now – to approaching ~5 sigma. 

Second: so WHO? Apparently none of other clowns in the GOP Contest today – none of THEM are up to beating Krusty. So — who’s it gonna be?

That’s where your notion, so sensible in this universe, where actual physics works as supported in actual quantum mechanics, falls down in winger Bizarro World.  

This doesn’t mean they ain’t no one else out there – it means the smart cons are sitting this one out.

Actually, his signing statement said his administration will not do that, and there’s lots of reports that he tried to get that part out, even threating veto – but the fact is the House controls the money in our system, and the House refused to pass the bill itself without that – and the bill was about military & security money.  

But I take your point: Obama has made it possible for any future president, including himself, because HE’s going to be future president (as in … now … and, now … and, now), to do this.  

On the other hand, if Pelosi takes over as speaker, it’s gone in the first month of the 113th Congress, so there.

I don’t get it: you go Google it, you get the lube, and the spunk, and the “fecal matter” – but there’s nothing about cherries, or anything else that makes stuff red …. oh wait.

Obama required that the offending words were in the bill. Just ask Carl Levin.

Of course…. that evil congress made him do it again against his will.. poor hopeless helpless hapless president Obama

Here Henry you ignorant fool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCN5-ovvFL0&noredirect=1

Why didn’t he just veto it then in the first place? Get real. You actually think Pelosi possibly the most corrupt person in congress would repeal that? Wake up

You took the words right out of my mouth!

They throw the chocolate-covered cherries in there to make you appreciate the other less crappy chocolates.. & to fill up the box

not unlike when the music industry made us pay for albums of the song you wanted plus 8 crappy filler songs you didn’t. Until Steve Jobs rode in and set things straight anyway

That’s what we need in politics, ala carte unbundled candidates

Actually we get our comedy from a comedy channel.

Topical comedy, but comedy nonetheless. That’s because, unlike many posters around here *we* have a sense of humor.

It’s clear you don’t like comedy and don’t understand those who do. For your own mental health, why don’t you stop watching?

He didn’t veto because the majority of the bill was necessary and reasonable. Unlike the zealots of the right, he understands that compromise is an essential element of our government.

Check those case all you want. Keeps you out of the way of serious people.

Once they get to the convention, all bets are off. Someone who hasn’t campaigned at all could waltz in and take it all.

And lose spectacularly in the general, of course.

I think you know who I’m talking about, and she isn’t the governor of New Jersey or the former governor of Florida.

Santorum flavored chocolate?

No thank you!

…No thank you very much!

Hey tards … it’s called “vetting” … perhaps if you had done the same thing last time around you wouldn’t have squandered a generation of political good will in just two or three years.

Oh you white wingers, whippin up that ol fiction about blacks again.  Tryin to make it look like you’re racist.  We’re not falling for that you know. 

Jon – waste of time and space; he could be funny if he understood diversity, but making fun of just one party day in and day out is old and boring.  Oh well Jon – hire some new writers, think out of the box, expand your horizons…have fun with life; open your eyes, and all that good stuff.

Jeb Bush will save them all. He wants to enter late so the press won’t have time to dig up crazy shit from his past. He’ll have lots of backing because….he’s a Bush and now millions and millions can come from anywhere and be used to influence our elections.  By the time eveyone is totally disgusted with all the other, “anyone but Romney” choices they’ll be willing to look back and say “Ya know, GW wasn’t really that bad”

Of course I’m totally guessing.

Think about that a lot huh?

and yet Tina he wins Emmy’s year after year…..how many Emmy’s does Fox News win for excellence none…Shoot Spongebob is more informative than The Fox Comedy Channel.

Yeah, he hjasn’t cleaned up the GOP mess fast enough so let’s put them back in charge.

Obama planning to jump on the national bandwagon and promise to do all he can to overturn Obamacare.

I take it from your post that you don’t watch The Daily Show and just repeat whatever meme you read or are told.

I feel bad for people who don’t understand what satire is, and for anyone who thinks the 24/7 news channels are a good source of information.

in what way is Pelosi the “most corrupt person in Congress”?

I laugh at people who get their news from Fox

Spoken like a true conservative parrot who doesn’t watch the show or understand satire.

Comedy is subjective. It’s perfectly normal that a lot of people don’t find Jon funny. Fortunatly enough do that his ratings are awfully good.

Remind me, how did his NLRB decision help the economy?  Or delaying the Keystone XL Pipeline decision?  Or Solyndra help?  Or Fisker Automotive?  Or putting a guy who exports jobs to China as his jobs czar?

Yeah, that’s what I thought.

You’re right.  What serious people would look into the death of an American who was protecting the border, killed with guns sold to strawmen because of the DOJ, by men who were stalking him, then his death records sealed?  Shows what matters there.

So if Bush coming up with millions and millions……what about the billion that Obama is supposedly gathering?  Is THAT money going to influence the election?

I’m not racist, not in the least.  It’s clear the democrats are racist, though.  Legitimate criticism comes up and the first defense: racism!  Obama’s only getting a pass because he’s a liberal and nothing else can be expected.  And then the defense?  He’s just the victim because he’s black, same with Holder.

I know right? If McCain had been elected all problems would have been solved by now because the solutions are so obvious and easy they fit into pithy campaign slogans.

Yawn.  Jon is boring – “white man”….Jon and his liberal buddies conducted a high tech lynching of Herman Cain – worked overtime to destroy the conservative black man, just like they did with Clarance Thomas – dems can’t abide blacks moving off of the plantation.

Whyever no– oh, wait.

http://spreadingsantorum.com/

Double Yawn; lefties giving other lefies awards is nothing to brag about.

Of course. IMO, changing campaign funding laws should be one of our top priorities. Our so called democratic elctions of , for , and by the people, are bought and paid for by big money.

Am I missing something?  Were those not easy decisions?
Let Boeing build there plant and let the workers work?
Let the Pipeline be extended, get cheaper gasoline that would otherwise be sold to Canada and reduce gas prices?
Let Solyndra compete on its merits rather than compete for how much it can get from the government?
Apply the previous standard to Fisker also?
Don’t take advice from a guy who’s exporting jobs to China?

Am I really missing something here?

What a liberal cop-out, CosmosDan.  brdad thought he had you pinned, then you came back with a valid point.  What is your problem?  Filthy lib!

Hyuck hyuck, sir.  Hyuck hyuck.

For a group of people who whine about Bill Maher and Jon Stewart’s humor sensibilities, I sure do see a lot of malformed comedic abortions coming from the right.

BAAAM!  Youtube link from CNS, the icon of dependable news.  Independent thought!  (right guys?)  Take that, nasty lib!

psst…. david… don’t say this too loud, but… well, we’re not in a recession anymore.

Cool! You sem to be very well versed in alllllll the conservative talking points. How wonderful for you. It sure saves time doesn’t it?

It’s not like Cain’s long term affair had anything to do with it, or his gross hypocrisy and dishonesty. it was those dam liberals.

His maverick ways would have seen us through.  Don’t mock!

Your tears are delicious.

I picture her and others like her in a self-induced Clockwork Orange movie theater scenario.  Only because it’s the only thing that comes close to logically explaining their faux outrage over Stewart.

Yeah, that’s the ticket.
LOL
Maybe the Donald?

It’s the American way. Politicians bought with corporation money.

Nope, you’re right. It’s all that simple. Nothing else to consider.

I Laugh At People Who Have OCD To The Point Of Capitalizing Every Letter And Using Excessive Punctuation As Well As Unnecessary Spaces At The End Of Their Sentences !!!

John Stewart is always right on target.
Funny Too!

really, the poor right always the victim so glad you have the Fox Comedy Channel to give you that “fair and balanced” garbage.

And the worst candy in the box is the one filled with that orange creme shit: That one’s Obama.

I love it when you libs whine like babies when the tables are turned on you.

Stewart’s audience members are nothing but trained seals who cheer him on at the appropriate cue.

The reason it’s called “The Daily Show” is because it’s the same old sh*t day after day.

1. When has this ever happened?
2. For a party so hellbent on saving “democracy”; this is a Extremly undemocratic way of picking a candidate.

Ughhh…hate those ones. There should be a warning sticker attached to them. They’re always the best looking ones in the box…like Obama…but they totally suck, like Obama.

Liberal agenda? The only agenda Jon Stewart has is to be funny and the Republicans are a treasure trove of material.

Clearly you don’t watch the show.

You should not comment on something you know nothing about.

Apparently you never watch the show.

Try commenting on something you know about for a change.

What tables?  I’m just pointing out your lack of comedic talent and the right’s uncanny ability to cry and moan about comedians who are not republicans.

I’m starting to get the impression that Stewart is a hack for the Liberals. Maybe, it’s his Daily attacks on Conservatives….just a guess.

Actually., I believe it to be news with comedic twist. You would be amazed how many people (especially college students) actually know about what is going on in politics and the news because of Jon Stewart. 

Clearly youve never seen the show, including last night’s.

You should probably stop guessing about things you know nothing about; you come across as foolish and uninformed.

I no longer watch it. It has become as irrelevent and predictable as your remarks.

Henry and Rushy and cosmos dan.  
Y’all make me proud to be an American ( or as the teatards would put it) “merkan”. 
Of course, I am a Muslim I think that makes me a terrorist, right?  So my opinion shouldn’t count.
Oh and who is the whiner complaining about the Philly voting intimidation?  Really?  That’s all you got?  Two new black panthers, gathering peacefully at a predominantly African American polling station in west philly???  Oh yeah- I am sure they forced a lot of people to vote for Obama…cause so many African Americans were rteady to vote for the old man and the bimbo???  Oh yeah. Its so much the equivalent of all of the voter suppression and intimidation expressed upon people of color for the past 100 years.  

The cheaper Gasoline prices argument is truly ridiculous. All oil is owned by foreign companies no matter where it is drilled and processed.  BP…BRITTISH PETROLEUM.  They were drilling in our gulf…were the prices cheaper? 
Didn’t think so.  As long as speculators are allowed to dictate pricing…we will pay through the nose to move our autos.  We need better regulation of wall street as it affects our political and financial systems.  Yes, regulation.

thanks Rushy…just spit out my coffee at the image.

oh let me fix….”Rush’s/Becks/Hannitys/ O reillys audience members are nothing but trained seal who cheer him on at the appropriate cue”….there, all better.

oh like you get yours from Fox?  Lets see…out of the top clowns you idolize we have four college drop outs, three failed comedians and two drug addicts……hmmm.  Yeah- I can see where you would think your “news” source was somehow so much better…..

Ah Tina… your ignorance is hanging out…just there over the arm of your hoveround…..
Its too bad you righties don’t take the time to watch Stewart and actually see his wit and insight on both sides of the aisle.  You might actually crack a smile.

Sure.  You no linger watch it…so when did you stop watching it?  Perhaps before it was even on the air?  Because if you ever actually watched it- you would see your talking points have no merit.
Watch sometime- its pretty funny.  

I sense a little bit of Passive Aggressiveness from Stewart…..why is he so angry at Santorum

Not all people like Stewart, but he is so very funny.  He is usually right on the mark about current events.

I think time will tell, but I think Santorum may have seen his 15 min. of fame.  He will need money and organization to continue after NH.  Of course, I didn’t think he would do as well as he did last night.  (he earned it after all his hard work)

Jon Stewart is sometimes witty but for the most part an overrated act. What really worries me is that many young skulls get their news from this comedy show which accounts for the election of the worst president in our nations history; Barack Hussein Obama

Actually I do watch the show, and added (unless hes not being liberal enough for you) for that EXACT, predictable, response.

Try again

He’s trying to do Rebublicans a favor.  Santorum couldn’t win a national election if it was held at his family reunion. 

If it’s not relevant, why are you commenting on it?

That’s two comments for an “irrelevant” show by you (and I’m sure there’s plenty more where that came from.)  You wear your wishful thinking on your sleeve, apparently. 

This might be the most irrelevant, off-topic comment of the young year.  While you’re at it, maybe we could hear your take on Pokemon? 

Yeah Tina, open your eyes.  Then maybe you could see the humor he has at the expense of many Democrats (yes, even Obama!)  Better yet, try to find a better alternative.  Watch Stephen Colbert. 

This flies in the face of her raging persecution complex. 

Your absolutely right, more to fallow.

To tell people like you who think it’s relevant, the obvious, since you seem to be missing it.

Isn’t that SWEET.
You 2 “liked” each others stupid comment.

Sometimes it is funny, especially when he knows he can’t justify Liberal nonsense by hiding it in comedy designed to misdirect the issue. Then it’s hilarious. Problem is, he’ll spin the issue in so many directions his audience forgets the initial issue and hangs on the punch line, which is invariably pro-Liberal. His show has become as predictable as watching Obimbo cater to any entitlement eating group he can find that will vote for him. Yes, that predictable!

While you are partially right. The first vote they must vote the way they were selected by the Primary’s and Caucus’. After that first election doesn’t bring forth a winner, all bets are off and they can vote any way they want.

It’s frustrating for liberals because they still can’t focus all their anger and hatred on one candidate yet. They need to know who to start lying about ASAP.

Gladly.

So you consider Jon a political hack and making juvinile jokes and yet you still watch the show. Why would you?  I’m dubious, but I’ll take you at your word, I am doubtful that Jon was trying desperately to get people to vote for Kerry, and would love to see some examples, but perhaps that’s too far back

How about examples of Jon making shit up about the republican candidates?  Hyperbole for the sake of the joke doesn’t count. What did he make up? I don’t watch every show but I don’t remember Jon mocking Ron Paul. In fact several times on Paul’s honesty and consistency of views being the exception to the poltical rule even though he doesn’t agree with Paul on some things. Even in this bit he is mocking the other candidates rather than Paul.
I consider myself a left leaning moderate because I try to judge the issues based on the details of the issue itself rather than as the preferred partisan stereotype. I know conservatives and libertarians who think Jon is pretty funny. I don’t see Jon as any kind of political hack because his goal is simply humor, sometimes with insightful and to the core satire and sometimes with juvinile humor. Clearly the show reflects Jon’s personal views and opinions on certain issues. It’s his show. what would you expect? There is zero requirement for him to be even handed and nuetral. He never pretends otherwise. The only thing he has said is that he judges the issues seperately and may be liberal on one while moderate or conservative on another. I don’t see any indication that he’s at all interested in swaying people’s votes. It’s more that he’d like to see those people , like the so called news media and our elected officials we sometimes refer to as leaders, who’s job discription it is to inform, illuminate, weigh the facts, and solve real world problems in service to the public, do thier dam jobs. So, per his job description and the medium of satire, he mocks thier flaws and failures and tries to make salient points through comedy.

Although you weren’t explicit I wonder why you thought Jon’s criticism of Obama because of a certain aspect of this recent bill was Obama not being liberal enough? Should conservatives embrace that section that seems to contradict due process? I doubt Ron Paul or his conservative supporters do. That seemed to be a case of him disagreeing with a specific issue that a conservative , moderate , or liberal might have the same views on. I would think any American, conservative or otherwise might have some concerns about a provision that allows the government they find so intrusive , to detain American citizens without due process. Dam that liberal hack Jon for mentioning it.

What did you add? Your post does not make sense.

Wow.  Quite a string of invective.  I’m just glad Jon is back from vacation.  I needed to laugh.  signed, A Moderate Conservative Retired Navy Captain  

Thank You !!!

Hey Dumbass !! I Don’t Even Have Cable And I’m Registered Unaffiliated !!

Strike 2 !!!

You’re the real racist, racist!

Actually, I hadn’t yet, but I will now. And, hey, what was stupid about my comment? Surely you don’t like those orange cream monstrosities.

Lol – of course, the Ubermensch does not see color. Long rule the Ubermensch . . . I mean, the Republicans.  I mean, the all you need to be, to join our superclub, which is not in power, unfortunately at the moment, is great . . . and non Liberal.  

It is ridiculous to say you are not racist in one breath and then broadly label  all democrats so in the next.  How do you expect to be taken seriously, calling your own criticism ‘legitimate’, when you make such flakey statements.

You don’t understand the outrage over stewart because you refuse to try to see things outside of your own liberal views. The only way I can explain it to you that you might understand is to compare it to the outrage I am sure you have when you hear Ann Coulter speak about something. She uses humor to demonize those on the left and make their every thought or ideal seem absurd.

Jon Stewart does the same thing, he paints conservatives and republicans as exaggerated versions of themselves, and then mocks that version into oblivion. He switches it up when cherry picking a clip or video of an extremely ignorant conservative, and then paints the entire right as that with his ‘humor’

Go watch a few video clips of Ann Coulter, and then you will understand how conservatives and right leaning moderates do when watching the daily shows biased mockery.

Or I guess you can just go on patting yourself on the back and assuming that anyone who doesn’t enjoy the daily show is just a ‘faux news robot’ as people like you so often do.

You’re welcome?

Just doing my part.

I actually love comedy, my favorite shows of all time include Arrested development, parks and recreations, the office, etc. The reason I don’t like the daily show is because I feel it unfairly targets the same people over and over and over and always has some kind of message.

Like tonight where Jon Stewart in the same clip, implied that a) only white people vote in the republican caucuses b) all republican candidates are bad (like the box of chocolate) c) Their voter base will still blindly vote for Romney, despite not liking him

If it was a once in a while thing it wouldn’t be a big deal but he does it every single night, always picking on anyone who dares to not vote democrat.

I could and should stop watching, I catch the show because, despite what you say, I often am watching comedy central because I do, indeed, enjoy most comedy. I also like to hear the political views of people who don’t gel with mine.

I suppose I could just make my news sources, and comedy sources, all things that just mirror my opinion back to me (like being a liberal and frequenting mediaite, huffington post, MSNBC, etc) but that isn’t a good way to keep an open mind. I only wish Jon Stewart had the same values

Not exactly. What it shows is a sense of proportion and reasonableness. The “voting intimidation” case in Philly was pure bullshit and the border guard death is part of an ongoing investigation.

Most people do their jobs in a systematic way in a reality-driven decisionmaking environment. I realize this is unsatisfactory to those who wallow in resentment and agonize over imagined conspiracies, but society has a name for people like that: crackpots.

There is one major difference: Coulter pretends to be a serious commentator, and her use of humor (as heavy-handed and unfunny as it may be) is supposed to be incidental to her serious message.

Stewart is a straight-out political humorist, and doesn’t pretend to be anything else.

Oh, there *is* one other difference: Stewart is actually funny.

Yes, but that “twist” somehow gets transferred to a lot of rightwing panties.

I think it’s great, of course, but the wingnutariat doesn’t seem to agree with me.

As you find it so boring, can I suggest that you spend your time more profitably watching or doing something else?

That way, you have one less thing to complain about and we don’t have to waste our time reading your incessent complaints (at least on the topic of Jon Stewart).

A clear win-win as far as I can see.

Emmies are “lefty” awards?

Well, yes, since they represent excellence, I can see how wingnuts would feel excluded. Damn those elites!

My point was that your post suggests you dislike Stewart intensely, and yet continue to watch.

And you accuse a comedian of having “nerve,” which is much like accusing a cow of having udders. Hence my assessment that you must not like comedy.

You post, I interpret.

Don’t Mention It !!

You laugh at the drop of a hat.

No, I get it just fine.  What you saw above was a device called a joke. People tend to use these to make humorous statements. Say it with me, “joke.” One more time: “joke.”

I personally don’t watch Stewart very often, but when I do, I tend to laugh because he is a pretty funny guy.  When I don’t, I’m usually listening to conservative talk radio or flipping through news (not comedy channels.)  I see and hear your pundits on a daily basis, and they don’t make me angry.  I take them for what they are, and none of them are comedians on a fake news show.  So, again, your outrage is silly and unwarranted.  Get over it, and maybe someday a conservative comedian will get the appeal and exposure that Stewart has.  In the meantime, stop whining.  Right-wingers are supposed to be rugged individualists and not fall for the “victim” mentality, right? Right?

http://ronpaulflix.com/2012/01/ben-swanns-reality-check-the-story-behind-the-ron-paul-newsletters-jan-4-2012/

“You don’t understand the outrage over stewart because you refuse to try to see things outside of your own liberal views.”

Perhaps it’s worth considering that your points might be better understood if you stayed away from the overly broad generlizations that are so typical in partisan posts.

I think you’ve made a valid point. I used to despise Coulter and Beck but my view has softened somewhat because I realize they are just people getting rich by stirring the shit pot and saying outrageous things for money. Nothing really laudable about that but also nothing worthy of hatred or severe condemnation. Just humans doing what humans sometimes do. The difference IMO is that Jon is upfront about what he does, which is what defines him as comic rather than political hack. He acknowledges that his job decription is being an asshole by mocking people. He reminds us that he’s a fake news show repeatedly and not serious, while those two pretend their cariciature is real. Still, they can’t really be held responsible for the foolishness of people who take them far to seriously and neither can Jon.

I also object to you claiming that Jon nightly mocks the entire right. Jon reveals a bit of his actual self during the interviews where he regularly has conversations with conservatives and treats them and thier views with consideration, even when he doesn’t agree. He has demonstrated the ability to respect someone ones honesty and sincereity and true service even when he disagrees.
Jon does mock certain views he finds ridiculous. The anti-gay sentiment on the right is one. Not particularly because it’s conservative, but because he finds it personally offensive and worthy of mockery, as do many people, including many people who are fiscally conservative and socially moderate or liberal. He’ll also mock the over the top and sometimes hypocritical stressing of God in our society, for similar reasons. Ot the idea that actually pointing out our nations flaws and trying to look at it realisitically is somehow unAmerican.

If you watched Wednesday night you noticed Jon offers congratulations to Santorum and vowing not to use any more ass juice jokes and to only mock him for his ridiculous and sometimes vile social and poltical views. 

I don’t agree that Jon picks on anyone that dares not to vote Democrat.
I didn’t see Jon implying only white people vote in republican caucases. Are you talking about Tuesday’s show or Wednesday?

I think you missed the point of the box of chocolates joke. It wasn’t that they’re all bad. What he’s poking fun at is the obvious superficial nature of what could and should be a meaningful process. Spelled out even more by his comments about Iowa on Wednesday’s show.

The Republican primaries have pointed out what a superficial reality show our poltical process has become. Each candidate becoming the new favorite for a week or so and conservative’s overall reluctance to support Romney. Is that not what’s been happeneing? The conservative base isn’t all that crazy about Romney’s more moderate views, and rather than explain them Romney does the thing politicians do and tries to be someone else and potray a false image and adopt whatever views he thinks will win over the base. In the meantime the conservative base, encouraged by an all but useless media, has tried to find a “true conservative” to support, without success.

Ha !!

I feel he vastly overstated the impact of the bill. It was clearly a bill in response to Anwar Al-Awlaki, who, while living here, recruited and encouraged the killing of other Americans. I feel that his use of humor to exaggerate the effects of the bill, with ‘innocent cab drivers’ being locked up does qualify as hyperbole. The same kind of hyperbole that was used back when the patriot act was passed. Which thus far, has proved to be harmless to the average American.

I don’t think that Jon Stewart necessarily ‘makes things up’ but I think he vastly exaggerates certain points (sometimes for humor, sometimes to make a point) a few examples that come to mind include when he called truman a war criminal for dropping the atom bomb (which he did admit was stupid later), he heavily mocked the republican base for the cheering about the executions during one of the republican debates, hammering home the point that they were blood thirsty rather than simply in support of the death penalty

About the immigration debate he has often done skits and commentary where he paints those who don’t want amnesty for illegal immigrants as exploiters and racists.

And the fact is, I even AGREE with his positions on a lot of things, and like you said, he has NO requirement to be even handed. I would have no issue with him or his show IF it were not for the fact that he has claimed to be comedy first, politics second, but in my opinion, after bush won reelection that ceased to be true. He has since started using his ‘humor’ to drill home political points rather than let others make the political points and simply mock them for it.

He spent almost all of bushes 8 years in office, mocking him ruthlessly and doing everything short of calling for his head, highlighting the anti bush protests, etc, and then after a democrat is finally elected, he holds a rally to tell people to ‘tone down the angry rhetoric’ you don’t see a double standard in any of this?

Lets not forget how he led into his call out of Obama on Wednesday, waving his fingers and calling him a evil, socialist, Muslim, terrorist, christian, mocking all those who might dislike him, and I know, some on the right do use that idiotic hyperbole, but you never heard any of that when people on the left were calling bush a 9/11 mastermind, new world order, warlord, etc right?

If Jon Stewart would just own up to what he does, comedic liberal commentary, I wouldn’t bother to complain about it, but he still sees himself as what he used to be.

If you still don’t see it, look no further than Stephen Colbert. He mocks the right just as much as Stewart, but he REALLY IS comedy first, commentary second. His every joke isn’t used to attack an opponent or make a point, and when he has a guest who believes something different politically than him, you don’t see him get a serious face and try to go after them like a lawyer goes after a hostile witness the way Jon does with any conservative on his show.

The daily show has simply changed and Jon needs to accept who he is. I am not the only one that sees this, even liberal commentators have pointed out how much Jon Stewart hides from his identity http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/149549-michael-moore-vs.-jon-stewart-the-self-destruction-of-the-american-l

Also did you catch the skit last night (jan 5th) generalizing about republicans “big business, small minded” surely you can’t see this kind of thing daily and think Jon Stewart is a moderate or equal opportunity offender

” Which thus far, has proved to be harmless to the average American.”
Are you sure? Google Patriot Act abuse and see what comes up.   And don’t we already have laws on the books to deal with such crimes that do include due process? I don’t expect some US version of the SS to braiding homes anytime soon, but I am concerned about the gradual whittling away of foundational liberties and protections.

Acually cheering the number of executions in TX seems like more than just supporting the death penalty. I’d add that mocking real people at a real event for thier own actions is not the same as applying it to all republicans everywhere.
” He has since started using his ‘humor’ to drill home political points
rather than let others make the political points and simply mock them
for it.”
That’s the nature of satire and what Colbert does as well by mocking conservatives while pretending to be one. If you mock someone’s anti gay marriage stance, aren’t you making a point that oppostion to SSM as absurd, and thereby making a political and social point. As I said, his personal views on the issues are no secret.
As a fan I’ve watched and read intereviews with Jon and what I get is this. His job decription is quite different than that of the people he mocks. The so called news media has some obligation to actually be informative and even handed in presenting the facts. They are failing big time and Jon points it out. He’s doing his job as a comic and satirsit. It’s they who aren’t doing thiers and don’t like him pointing it out.
Same with polticians he mocks.
Chris Wallace pointed out that Jon critisizes Democrats for being ineffective, but he criticizes conservatives for being conservative. I think that’s an interesting and valid point, but it comes back to Jon’s own views influeincing his comedy. He doesn’t by default support every Democratic cause and oppose all GOP platforms. What he has advocated consistently is honest fact based communication and an efforts to actually inform and serve the public by elected officials. He and John McCain were buddies until John , for the sake of political ambitions, abandoned his positions and principles. Jon called him on it, as he did his childhood friend Weiner for his gross stupidity.

“then after a democrat is finally elected, he holds a rally to tell
people to ‘tone down the angry rhetoric’ you don’t see a double standard
in any of this? ”

I can accept that perhaps the degree to which he mocks  people , especially republicans, may encourage the division he speaks agasint but again, it comes down to job decription. When Jon did an hour with Maddow he made the point that the media and polticians are promoting the us vs them mentaility of red vs blue, rather than corrution vs non corruption. While Jon points out human failings and hypocrisy as a satirist does, polticians and the media tends to paint the oppositoin not just as people with different opinions but as “the other” “the enemy” The people whose job decription means they should be factually informing and realisitic consideration, are exaggerating and exploiting the red ve blue difference.

Work calls , more later.

btw; I didn’t say Jon was a moderate or an equal opportunity offender.

“Also did you catch the skit last night (jan 5th) generalizing about republicans “big business, small minded”
I did, I guess that’s where we disagree. I didn’t see that as a genmerlization about all republicans. They were doing a piece about a particluar situation. The man who didn’t want the Muslim republican in the comittee was being called smalled minded. Not every republican everywhere.

Did you notice on that same night when they did the bit about congress being useless, when Jon called the Republicans bastards for what they did Oliver pointed out the Democrats did the exact same thing.