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Jon Stewart Reviews The State Of The Union: ‘You Opened With I Killed Bin Laden?!’

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The State of the Union address is a once-in-a-year opportunity for mockery for Jon Stewart. With the President going over his past successes and future plans, there was plenty to go over: The Osama Bin Laden opening, the large amounts of tax credits, and the bad joke that made the First Lady force an awkward smile.

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Stewart began at the beginning: the opening of the speech that celebrated the death of Bin Laden. “You open with ‘I killed Bin Laden’?” Stewart asked, incredulous. “Does Rick Springfield open with ‘Jessie’s Girl’?”

After a few words about how wonderful Rick Springfield concerts are, he noted that the President promised quite a number tax credits to various people. “He’s like tax credit Oprah!” Stewart joked. “You get a tax credit! And you get a tax credit!” And then there was the spilt milk joke. “As someone who does comedy for a living: been there,” Stewart told Obama. “And the worst part isn’t the crowd’s reaction: it’s the wife’s.”

There was plenty more to go over: how chatting about Israel attracted the camera to Sen. Chuck Schumer, the crowd’s excitement at a potential new war, and Mitch Daniels as “Señor Crankypants.”

The segment via Comedy Central below:

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  • http://www.myspace.com/susanstephenson Susan Stephenson

    Don’t worry Jon , a lot of people thought it sucked .

  • Anonymous

    Since the President was already busy having Somali pirate, kidnap victims rescued and their captors killed, I guess he didn’t think to lead with the old kill.  If I was a terrorist somewhere in the world, I’d go hide somewhere when this President is giving a speech.  This man is quite capable of multi tasking.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Rambler/1513697597 Bill Rambler

    at least he spoke at an 8th grade level so the libs could understand

  • Anonymous

    Do you mean the speech that had a 91% approval rating by those viewing it, those lot of people?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Rambler/1513697597 Bill Rambler

    yes the CIA, FBI, NAVY and ARMY had nothing to do with it. It was Superbama

  • Anonymous

     Yea i know thats being underplayed. No story about it at all on mediate. I guess obama killing bad guys is so normal its like the traffic report anymore.

  • Anonymous

     Same military Bush, had seems he couldn’t get this stuff done when he was president.

  • Anonymous

    You mean Republican hacks such as you?

  • Anonymous

    But Reagan gets all the credit for bringing down the Soviet Union?  Love Republican hypocrisy.  

  • Anonymous

    That’s why libs are more likely to go to college and graduate from high school than conservatives.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Rambler/1513697597 Bill Rambler

    no Thatcher and pope John Paul 2 also had a big role

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Rambler/1513697597 Bill Rambler

    pretty sure Bush expanded and better trained special forces, not to mention the whole drone program development

  • Anonymous

    Yup and thats it. THe 40 previous years of bleeding them dry and a bankrupt communist system had nothing to do with it. okkkkkkkkk

  • Anonymous

     He expanded the military because he got us involved in two wars. Wow so what? FDR expanded the military to. So did Wilson, So did Truman, So did Johnson, So did Lincoln. When you get involved in wars you expand the military. Drone attacks have increased 10 fold since Obama has been in office.

  • Anonymous

    Woe woe woe, easy with all those links providing proof evidence statistics N such Newt, our slow brains need time to read all the proof evidence statistics… N such.

  • http://www.myspace.com/susanstephenson Susan Stephenson

    Knowledge Networks “Instant” Polling Plays Major Role in CBS News Coverage of 2011 State of the Union Address The research – conducted before and after the address among approximately 500 members of KN’s KnowledgePanel® who watched the speech live – showed that -91% approved of the proposals the President made during his speech Americans who watched the speech were generally more Democratic than the nation as a whole. Forty-four percent of viewers polled were Democrats and 25 percent were Republicans. In general, it is not unusual for a President’s supporters to be more likely than his opponents to watch State of the Union addresses.

    So nearly two times the “sample voters ” in the CBS poll identify democrat . Shocker !

  • Anonymous

    lol explains a lot actually. Republicans never listen. You will pull any statistic out of your ass to make Obama look bad. But in your heart you know what the final important statistic will be. 4 more years.

  • Anonymous

    It’s the quiet ones you have to watch…..this man don’t play…..

  • Anonymous

    You have to be a leader…..

  • Anonymous

    Yup. He had a cap put in Bin Laden’s arse. It’s kinda of a big deal, John.  

  • Anonymous

    OBAMO is one big, boring, insufferable ‘I, Me, My’ machine; the more of this chest-beating he does the more people hate him.

    So, OBAMO…please carry on.

  • Anonymous

    This coming from someone who supposedly is a Republican. The party of Palin, Perry and Bush, the three amigos of  English mangling.

  • Anonymous

    yup yup

  • Anonymous

     He is the most boring killer of bad guys I have ever seen.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless

    She’s probably talking about the 8th grade level speech most of America tuned out.

    President Obama’s State of the Union Address was the lowest rated of his presidency, down 12 percent from last year’s speech.

  • Tommy Marcano

    He may as well have come out and said ;

    Phase 1                    Phase 2       Phase 3

    Collect Underpants      ?     Profit

  • Hout Bosques

    “4 more years” 
    Exactly. For months the internal discussions among members of the GOP base was, How come the group we’re supposed to select from just … SUCKS! But now that they’ve realized it’s because the smart guys (sic) decided to sit out this bloodbath (or in the case of Huntsmen, get out with some semblance of credibility & dignity intact), it’s all, Since we’re screwed on electability anyway, it’s ON!! 

    TO MASADA!!!

    (uh … the presidential debates)

  • Anonymous

    It had to be dumbed down for you nincompoops. 

  • Anonymous

    Of course it was. Didn’t Bush have the same resources? Thought so. 

  • Anonymous

    Walk softly and carry a big STICK. 

  • Anonymous

    Obama already gets HIGH approval from the educated…grad and post grad. You should see the poll breakdown by education. Obama gets the least support from the high school grads and/or dropouts. Those people skew Republican and were his intended audience. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KV4RFCL74WV652VV43U3GDPAEY Stephen W

    it is amazing how Obama can now call for tax cuts to spur business, numerous times, one tax cut better than the next, over and over again, and none of you liberal loonies pick up on that.  Uh, that is exactly the kind of thing conservatives have said all their lives.     But conservatives are demonized for it, and the campaigner and chief can call for tax cuts on business and he is some sort of deep thinker…Out of one side of his mouth he calls for more taxes on the rich and the other side he wants tax cuts for those same business owners.   .Also, Mitch Daniels is telling the American people the truth, Obama and his team have added 4.6 trillion to the national debt in 3 years and will add another 1.2 trillion this week.  We cannot survive this.    We are more than 100% of GDP for the first time since WW-II.  National debt = $16,400,000,000,000

  • Anonymous

    The Republicans will continue to play the fear card thats about the only card they have left they can play.   

  • Anonymous

    Of course he did, so why is Obama prosecuting the CIA interrogators who got the information from KSM that led to the killing of OBL?

  • Anonymous

    and the left the race card as that is all they have left…..

  • Jonathan Cantor

    You need to link things. I’d like to know whose making these methodological conclusions. Then we can proceed to discuss them. For all I know you came up with this yourself.

  • Anonymous

    Exactly.  How do you NOT lead with that?

  • Anonymous

    well aren’t there two times as many democrats as republicans in this country, so that is about right.

  • Pablo

    Bush didn’t have to do that.

  • Pablo

    Obama 2012! This mother fu*cker kills bitches!

  • Pablo

    That fizzled out. :)

  • Pablo

    Yeah, but it was the same speech as the last two, so they already know it by heart.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    I was just having a discussion with a libertarian and a Republican. The Republican said, “the election should be a slam dunk for us, it should be easy to beat Obama, but it’s not turning out that way”

    The honest Libertarian is being minimized and ridiculed by his own party. The reasonable moderate guy wasn’t red meat conservative enough. Instead the base wanted the ones who gave lip service to the slogans they liked and were willing to ignore how shallow and dishonest they were.

  • Anonymous

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA  stop stop my sides hurt.

  • Adam Rodriguez

    And both will continue to vote idioticly for each of their prefered suicide party both of which is sending America off a debt cliff.

  • Adam Rodriguez

    And both will continue to vote idioticly for each of their prefered suicide party both of which is sending America off a debt cliff.

  • Anonymous

    Obama even had time to change into his Avenger costume, fly to Somalia, save two hostages, kill 9 pirates, and still get back in time to deliver his SOTU “speech”. Amazing!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bobby-Cordero/100001668488885 Bobby Cordero

    It’s like we’re two countries.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Liz-McKenzie/100001703816375 Liz McKenzie

    Yep and that is exactly why he will be re-elected … what I man!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Liz-McKenzie/100001703816375 Liz McKenzie

    You forgot the “gay/equal rights card” too … we like to throw that one in every now and again … and don’t forget the “assault on women’s health care card” … that one is really fun to toss into the mix …

  • Anonymous

    How many times do you listen to someone yell wolf before you no longer listen? This was as we expected, nothing more than a campaign speech, and not a very good one. 

  • Anonymous

    Stop the endless bragging about killing Osama bin Laden.

    By the time it happened, Osama was nothing more than a worthless figure head, whose strategic, moral and even religious value for the Islamist was reduced to practically nothing.

    If killing a pathetic old man who is hiding and watches internet porn all day is a glorious event, it can be repeated a thousand times right here, without helicopters and the Navy Seals.

  • http://www.myspace.com/susanstephenson Susan Stephenson

    Really?  Google is still a mystery to people , who knew ?

    It came from the press release issued by Knowledge Networks the company that did this poll.

    http://www.knowledgenetworks.com/news/releases/2011/012611_cbs-sotu-instapoll.html

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Your reaction proves Obama has an easy road to reelection.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    They still have the:

    hypocrite card
    liar card
    crony capitalism card
    vulture capitalism card
    say anything with no evidence or prove card otherwise known as the Fox News card
    racist card
    sexual misconduct card
    I don’t know who George Bush is card
    SuperPac Attack card
    class-warfare card
    Tea Bagger card
    corrupt speaker of the house card
    exploitive Bain card

    did I mention the fight for the top 1% card?

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    We’ve got the:

    I killed Osama card
    Longform/Shortform Birth Certificate, I told you so card
    22 months of job growth card
    you lost 750,000 jobs card
    the OWS card
    the Tea Party downgrade card
    the Bush’s two unpaid for wars card
    the we proposed deficit reduction and you rejected it card
    the Republican gridlock card
    the Republican’s are obstructionist card
    Newt loves to cheat card
    Romney pays less taxes then a homeless man card
    the Mitt Romney is the 47th worse governer card
    The Newt is an outsed Speaker card
    The Republicans caused the recession card

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    How do you plan on cutting roughly 1.3 trillion a year in spending to bridge the deficit and balance the budget? When we could only agree on cutting 200 billion a year.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    If Republicans want to reduce the debt, how come they have only agreed to 200 billion annually in deficit reduction when the deficit is 1.3 trillion annually?

    You cannot agree with them on that.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)
  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    You just quoted Rasmussen Reports did you not? But they are a Republican leaning poll. Realclearpolitics takes both left leaning and right leaning polls into consideration.  I think you need both to get a clear 360 degree view, instead of just the Fox News one-sided version.

    Rasmussen Polls Were Biased and Inaccurate; Quinnipiac, SurveyUSA Performed Strongly

    http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/rasmussen-polls-were-biased-and-inaccurate-quinnipiac-surveyusa-performed-strongly/

  • Anonymous

    Colbert has been on fire all week.  His interview with Maurice Sendak was very funny and elicited one of the most accurate descriptions of potential president Newt Gingrich I have ever heard.  What is the matter with Mediaite – writers all in bed by 11?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    91% approval by a group that included 25% republicans

    SHOCKER.

    even if that 9% was 100% republican, that means that  64% of republicans approve

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    91% approval by a group that included 25% republicans

    even if that 9% was 100% republican, that means that  64% of republicans approve

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    91% approval by a group that included 25% republicans

    even if that 9% was 100% republican, that means that  64% of republicans approve

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    91% approval by a group that included 25% republicans

    even if that 9% was 100% republican, that means that  64% of republicans approve

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    91% approval by a group that included 25% republicans

    even if that 9% was 100% republican, that means that  64% of republicans approve

  • Anonymous

    Would that not be a better question to ask Obama, who has not been able to get a Budget [past the DEMOCRAT controlled Senate since April 2009?

  • Anonymous

    Would that not be a better question to ask Obama, who has not been able to get a Budget past the DEMOCRAT controlled Senate since April 2009?

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    If you are a Republican that is responsible for doubling the deficit and crumbling the economy, do you really have a leg to stand on when it comes to finances??

    I doubt it.

  • Jonathan Cantor

    Thanks thats all I needed, I don’t need the attitude. Though I sense your angry at a lot of people for a lot of reasons.

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

    john stewart is one step down from Chris Matthews on his tingleyness towards Obama

    Idolatry

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

    i agree with the poster obama gave an order ,  real men did the job as a vet i find his victory lap to be disgusting he is a pathetic CINC and his disdain for our men in uniform since they are not his demographic is evident by his actions ….

  • Anonymous

    Too bad he didn’t have a father. A decent father would have taught his that nobody likes a braggart.

  • Anonymous

    Exactly !

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    What are the facts? The military has been accomplishing several goals.

    Out of that, you get that Obama has disdain for the troops?
    What kind of informed citizen are you if you choose to re-interpret the facts at your choosing? The facts are supposed to lead you to a conclusion. But you take a fact, then change it and the interpretation of it, and then draw your biased conclusion.

    That doesn’t even make sense.

    “Great job tonight, great job” to the general. And you translate that in your skewed opinion into “terrible job, i hate you?”

    You are really a piece of work.

  • Anonymous

    Bush didn’t write his own speeches either.

  • Anonymous

    Pretty precise info about the CIA process. I’d say you can’t believe anything you read about the CIA or any other intelligence agency.

  • Anonymous

    Do you have a job? You’re on this site like every day just tro//ing to your hearts content. Just making stuff up as you go. You’d actually make a pretty good writer for cheap sitcoms.

  • Anonymous

    A lot of people thought it sucked who didn’t watch it?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/JeffnDarla-Allen/573962789 JeffnDarla Allen

    Liberal rubes got duped by CBS 91% approval poll, it was from LAST years SOTU, not this years and was based on 659 respondents who were not even required to have actually watched the address.  OhOh, nobody bothered to vet the poll, useful idiots!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    It’s a great accomplishment and the Republicans need to be reminded that it took a Democrat to accomplish the goal!!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/64ZKQAMBISIQJGN3PEEDTA5LBI Mr. Sardonicus

    Funny man J Stewart is just that, funny. He is also a BIG ASSHOLE LIBERAL (in name only that is) . It is very easy for people like him to pay lip service to the liberal cause, but to actually live that life is another thing. Look at the gafaw moments in the White House all year long and just passed over by Stewart. This guy is a LAUGH OUOT LOUD RIOT, but you spend all your time ripping on Conservatives. Chuckie jokes are ok, but there are so many more wasted moments. You are better than that Jimmy, so much funnier and so much better. Doing the vid over during the actual REAL State of this Union was just stupid.

  • Anonymous

    What Republican currently in office did I name?
    What Republican currently in office are you talking about?

  • Anonymous

    Obama Speech = Same BS, Different Day!  Many things sound good, just as they did in 2008, but talking the talk and walking the walk are two different things.  Obama talks, and talks, and talks, and talks, but he will never get our of the chair.  As a lifetime Democrat, I refused to support Obama, in 2008, because he had nothing to show, no records, no accomplishments, no past, only hearsay, but otherwise, just talk.  His only accomplishment, I could see, was a smooth was of reading a Dummy Board.  Not very impressing, for sure!  I did hope he would make me feel like a fool for not supporting him, by becoming a great leader.  But, that was not to happen and will never happen.  Obama is for Himself only, his power and riches.  All speeches is filled with Me, me, me, I, me, I, instead of a real leaders “We, us, together, America, We, the People”!  I consider anyone supporting Obama now to be either real American haters or very Mentally Challenged.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XOP23ESHLWLNTUEFTFDMYCTLOU Connie

    same old hunkie bs.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10513432 Rick McShane

    91% of 500 people polled.  500 people?  You’re seriously calling that a victory?

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)
  • Anonymous

    Wow, that works if you take away all their spending and put nothing in its place, but we all know the Government would have spent something in these periods you idiot.

    Your sources? Seriously? Wikipedia? Got a credible Economist that says that hiding in your pocket?

  • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.kennedy3 Bruce Kennedy

    I just watched the clip of Jon Stewart. It was followed by a five minute ad featuring a delusional Oriental woman preaching doom and gloom from the almighty creator. Obviously the strain of working the Capital One phone assistance lines was clearly to much. I used to think it was the American caller who experienced the most stress when talking to a foreigner when trying to cancel the credit card insurance. Obviously I was mistaken.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    A “lifelong Democrat”? Yeah, sure you are. That’s why you spew far-right talking points.

  • LJB57

    A real live Clown sitting in the W.H., and shmucks like Stewart, and that other numbnuts Colbert, still can’t find anything funny about the worst President of all time, and the absolute blithering idiots that voted for the mealy-mouthed phony.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.kennedy3 Bruce Kennedy

    I realize Stewart and Colbert are not as funny as the clowns on Fox. Fox should merge with Comedy Central they’re practically the same. Although I think Fox is a bigger Joke. And if that isn’t funny enough for you, turn on a Republican debate. Now there are some real clowns. That entire party is a Joke. I’ll stick with Stewart and Colbert because while they are not as funny as Fox and the Republican Presidential hopefuls at least you can get the truth from them.

  • LJB57

    Wow another ObamaZombie, you twits are just going to “loose it big-time” when that piss-ant marxist, Barack Hussein Obamba, gets shown to the DOOR!

  • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.kennedy3 Bruce Kennedy

    Dream on. Obviously another intellectually devoid home schooled Conservative, living in a fanatasy world.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Why aren’t you canvasing the streets for Romney. Your commander in chief calls! lol it’s going to be hilarious, as it already is, that you are going to have to actually hold a sign with Romney’s name on it – the antithesis of the Tea Party, a beacon of Economic Injustice, and the poster boy for Vulture Capitalism at it’s worst. ha ha ha – when you’re left holding those signs after Obama wins re-election. We’re still going to be laughing at your videos on Youtube of how in ruins the Republican party is. ha ha ha

  • LJB57

    Another socialist Grammar teacher, fresh out of books, how typical.
    You libs got NOTHING, so you go looking for typos, how pathetic, grow up Bruce, this isn’t grade school!

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