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Jon Stewart Ridicules Santorum’s Snob Remark: You Are Against College Because It Is ‘Fancy’?

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Today, Jon Stewart tried to inaugurate a new segment of the Daily Show based on how silly Rick Santorum‘s comments over the weekend seem to him, entitled: “How Is It That Mitt Romney Hasn’t Crushed This Guy Yet?” That segment began with Santorum insulting John F. Kennedy but quickly slipped into Romney and his wife’s many Cadillacs, which quickly morphed into a second new segment, “How Is It That Rick Santorum Hasn’t Crushed This Guy Yet?”

RELATED: Rick Santorum: Obama Is ‘A Snob’ For Wanting Everyone To Go To College

Stewart had two juicy Santorum quotes waiting for him this weekend, and the first he went for was that Kennedy’s separation of church and state comments made him want to throw up because it sounded like he wanted all faiths excluded from the government. “How do you hear ‘all faiths are welcome’ as ‘no faiths are welcome’?” he asked, shocked, jokingly interpreting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s famous line as “no black or white children can play together, only children of no color are allowed to play.” He concluded it was fine that Santorum felt the way he did about Kennedy because “if John F. Kennedy were alive today, knowing you were running for President would make him shit his pants.”

Not that Romney was doing much better, calling NASCAR “sport” (“Sport is something that requires a horse or a boat or an ascot,” Stewart corrected) and talking about all his NASCAR team owning friends. But Stewart could not leave the segment without playing the clip of Santorum saying “what a snob!” after noting that President Obama likes the idea of people going to college. “Ooh, look who’s educating his children,” Stewart faux taunted, before getting serious again: “You’re against people educating their kids because it’s fancy?”

The segment via Comedy Central below:

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tim-Malone/100002475802402 Tim Malone

    Is Stewart aware of the fact that the college debt bubble is about to burst? 

  • Anonymous

    “were you reading it in a car?” that was pretty good stuff–until the correspondent came in, she just isn’t particularly funny

  • Anonymous

    I love the opening headline segment of the Daily Show, but I almost always mute once the correspondents come in.  They are rarely funny.  It was hilarious back in the Stephen Colbert, Steve Carrel days, but none of the guys they have had since then are all that great.

  • Just Another Blowhard

     you mean the one you are currently in?  Boy that is gonna suck for you.

  • Anonymous

    shocker!!!!!!!  Stewart goes after a conservative!!!  Wake me up when he makes fun of the incompetent one

  • Tucsonense

    Would that be John Boehner or Mitch McConnell?

  • Anonymous

     She was really funny!!

  • Just Another Blowhard

     Thats funny.  Like there is one that isn’t incompetent running for President.

  • Anonymous

     Santorum’s comments are so stupid that mocking them isn’t that funny.

  • Anonymous

     and let me guess, this is your excuse why college is bad?

  • Anonymous

    We’re rooting for you Ricky!!! We think you’re the man who should hold the honor of losing to President Obama in 2012!!! 

  • Anonymous

    John Oliver is pretty freaking funny:)

  • Keane

    I agree. You mock things and use satire to expose how dumb those things really are. Satire works best on the kind of arguments which seem somewhat reasonable and coherent at first but require some deconstruction and repositioning to expose the idiocy beneath them.

    With Santorum, there’s no exposure or deconstruction needed. The insanity is impossible to miss. It’s like mocking or satirizing someone who just humiliated themselves on a national stage: you don’t need to mock it because we’re already laughing, and mocking it seems more like piling on anyways. Kind of like Miss South Carolina back in 07.

  • Just Another Blowhard

     Knowing Tim (or whoever he is this week) he will blame it on minorities. 

  • Anonymous

    Sweet dreams Tina.

  • Anonymous

    The sad thing (at least for him) is that he could probably be 10 points ahead of Romney right now, easily.  All he had to do is shut up about sex and Jesus and talk about nothing but the economy.

    But no.  It’s like he can’t help himself.  Everything just comes back to sex and Jesus with him.

  • Anonymous

    Wake up! It’s 11 Pm Eastern (10 Central).

    Ok, now turn to Comedy Central.

  • Anonymous

    Santorum and his spokes-hole both blatantly lie (she was out lying about this just today and saying that Obama was only now clarifying his position on education). I’m so glad Stewart included this clip of the 2009 congressional address. If I can remember what Obama said then, certainly Santorum and his “team” can. So, that shows blatant lying. Hey Rick… isn’t lying against one of the 10 commandments?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Didn’t watch the clip, huh?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    The Jessica Williams bit is funnier the second time after a beer.

  • Hout Bosques

    Couldn’t read where he was supposed to click. Scholarship atholyte, that’s “Tim”.

  • Gregory Williams

    Santorum is just so special……ED !

    He has not even gotten to the standard Republican {every election cycle} lie of saying how important education is to people having a future and a way to earn your way out of the lower classes.

    Of course as soon as the elected Republicans get in to office at the local state and federal levels they gut education funding and gut teacher pay and rig the numbers to show how this was good for education, like the wonderful “test but do not teach” programs they enact, and the continual transfer of taxpayer funding to privatized scam programs, and the mandating of forced Christainzation of children while gutting math and science programs to pay for elective bible studies and failed abstinence only sex ed classes.

    Oh I could go on and on about this, so let us just all agree that right wing and social conservative educational initiatives are ruining what once was a damn fine public educational system in this country.

  • Hout Bosques

    I like her. It’s tough coming on that show & scoring big right away, but she’s already shown she’s prepared to do any bit they give her to do, & that’s promising. What young comedians do is develop signature bits; if she hasn’t done that by, say, mid-way through next season, that would be time to re-evaluate. Neither Carrel nor Colbert was nearly as poised as we see them now when he started on TDS. 

  • Hout Bosques

    It’s impossible to choose just one among all those incompetent conservatives.

  • Anonymous

    Romney’s goofy answers by no means overshadows Santorum’s vile campaigning.  BTW, those people in the crowd applauding are you basic tea bagging racists (who don’t like being called what they are).

  • http://twitter.com/KeithFan28 Bobby

    Jon Stewart, and other liberals, have trouble finding things to ridicule in liberals because they agree with them.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, there is some truth to that but you must agree it is much easier to make fun of conservatives these days because of the ridiculous things they say.

  • Love of Country

    Fleebaggers have been racist for a quarter of a millennium now but have only been projecting said immense racism for the last decade or so …  To infinity and beyond!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-D

    Racism …. the Left teaches it, they look for it, they preach it, they live it, they worship it, they succomb to it, they respect it, they project it, they protect it, they need it, they rely on it, they feed on it, they breed it, they trust it, they advance it, they play it, they subscribe to it, they justify it, they fellate it, they deny it.

  • Anonymous

    I think Jessica Williams is funny now and will only get better (God knows she is already a hundredfold better then Olivia Munn ever was. Have never cared for Samantha Bee, but I do miss Beth Littleford). But what I really miss from years ago is the “Even Stevphen” routine with Carell and Colbert, those were hysterical bits.

  • Anonymous

    I think Jessica Williams is funny now and will only get better (God knows she is already a hundredfold better then Olivia Munn ever was. Have never cared for Samantha Bee, but I do miss Beth Littleford). But what I really miss from years ago is the “Even Stevphen” routine with Carell and Colbert, those were hysterical bits.

  • Anonymous

    Boy you sound like you are 80 years old.   Are you 80 years old?

  • Anonymous

    Stewart ought to have a few laughs at Obama’s launch- African Americans for Obama 2012- that’s hilarious!  The Daily Show crew obviously isn’t doing their job well because Obama certainly isn’t crushing these guys who Stewart mocks for not crushing each other.  He’s in a dead heat with Romney and Santorum in the most recent national poll.

  • Anonymous

    Nice job using vile terms to accuse somebody of being vile.  Are you OK with that?  Your lingo is much more vile than anything Mr. Santorum says.

  • Anonymous

    Rick Santorum is really out there with the angry pitchfork carrying mob. He’s getting them all riled up against all the ‘elitist’ education…

    …On the other hand, that Jessica Williams is a very welcome and attractive addition to show.

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

    Santorum must be politically the dumbest animal to walk the earth. Assuming he is not pulling our collective legs.

  • Anonymous

    Are you off your meds again grandpa?

  • Anonymous

    He is not aware of anything but his role as obama’s blow boy.

  • Anonymous

    College is no more ‘necessary’ to get ahead than carrots are ‘necessary’ for good eyesight. Everyone KNOWS that ‘Big Education’ is a Lib Cabal with even more ‘selfishness’ and ‘unfairness’ than ‘Big Oil’…which Libs love railing against. Why is it that Lib Media Hacks never discuss the high cost of education in the same way they snobbishly whine about the high cost of health care? Libs LOVE ‘Big Education’ because it’s one big Lib cesspool of haughty elites like themselves.

  • Anonymous

    Blowboy, you are a racist douchebag!

  • bugspotter24

    Tuition goes up because colleges and universities know the govt subsidizes a part of the students’ cost. This works out for the colleges and universities because they got more money for the same, if not degrading, service and it works out for the government that has to TAX Americans to get that money in the first place to implement the programs, minus their own “operating costs” of course…
    Doesn’t work out much for the kids, saddled with massive debt for the rest of their lives.
    Maybe if Jon Stewart PAID for all these loans and grants to students instead, he’d see the inherent fraud in government involvement in education even disguised in demagogic and populist teleprompter-reading puppet rhetoric.

  • expatpatriot

    I saw quite a lot of dismay on people’s faces in that video. I have no doubt there were plenty of decent people there.

    I’m also willing to bet that many of them left knowing they’d never vote for Santorum in a million years.

  • expatpatriot

    Santorum is riding the wave of his brief fame unashamedly. Which is unfortunate, given how much he has to be ashamed of.
     
    Santorum comes into this stage of the contest with a quiverful of really twisted ideas and an urge to strut. He never expected to get this far and he’s going for broke. At this point he looks to be able to at least hold onto second place for awhile and continue stealing all Romney’s oxygen.
     
    And then comes the convention.
     
    And while no one really expects the thing to blow up, it might — at which point just about anything could happen.
     
    Whatever happens, whichever Republican Obama faces in November will be either damaged, underfunded, or disorganized, and will be appealing to a roiling base. Or some combination thereof.
     
    It’s going to be interesting.

  • expatpatriot

    The likelihood that Jon Stewart (or any sensible person) is going to “see the inherent fraud in government involvement in education” is extremely remote.

  • expatpatriot

    You seem really pissed off. Have you considered massage or chemotherapy?

  • expatpatriot

    Well, when you put it that way, I’d agree — Santorum is incompent.

  • Anonymous

    Infantacide is not funny, Azwipe.

  • Anonymous

    Nope – you just hear about what the republicans say because the limosine liberal mediaiters talk about republicans and ignore and spike stories/gaffes/etc when it involves democrats.

    Imagine if Romney started “whites for Romney” what would happen….but “AAs for Obama” gets a pass.  Honestly; the bias is absurd at this point, journalists have made complete fools of themselves.

  • Anonymous

    You just love infantacide.

  • Anonymous

    Jon didn’t go after anyone. He just played clips of what they said over the weekend. By that “logic”, Fox went after conservatives as well.

  • Anonymous

    I think Santorum is just saying these things for attention from the late night tv audience. He knows that the LSM and Fox are in the tank for other candidates so he’s getting his exposure from the likes of Letterman, Leno, Kimmel, Stewert, & O’Brien.

  • Anonymous

    That’s not what Santorum said. He said that wanting more people to go to college was being a snob. Snobs don’t care about debt. Snobs could pay for everything in cash. No loans. Life is good being a snob.

  • Anonymous

    All Democrats need to go to the primaries & caucuses to vote for Santorum. The clown show must go on!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

     So, if I understand what you are saying, Tina in Tampa, it’s a conspiracy against conservatives which is media-wide, spanning all forms and all genres?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

     So, if I understand what you’re saying, all Stewart and others are doing is replaying what so-called conservatives have said and then the mocking and ridicule by the audience naturally follow? I suspect Tina-in-Tampa will not find that particularly compelling. It robs her of her victimhood.

  • Anonymous

    I am sure that Rick’s misinterpreting the JFK quote with the exact opposite meaning JFK intended (or that historical context emphatically suggests) is somehow Obama’s fault.  This is Rick’s “I can see Russia from my house…” moment and he cannot even claim it was the ‘gottcha’ media – he brought it up himself…

  • Anonymous

    Liebowitz knows that all of his viewers are college students and once they become adults and enter the real world they are no longer interested in listening to him.

  • Centrist79

    You mean how Republican Governors Byrant, McDonnell, and Christie who all called out Santorum.

  • shonangreg

     The difference in the level of discourse among the far right and everyone else here is amazing.

  • Centrist79

    Santorum has three degrees, all from his higher education

  • Anonymous

    I listened to a show on NPR about him. After years on the hill, as soon as he lost the election his family moved to DC so he could work with the lobbyists as a consultant. {much different than a historian}  

  • Anonymous

     I’m not sure how or if that helps him. Name recognition maybe, but it seems like your name is just associated with stupid shit you say.

  • Anonymous

    That makes no sense Cosmos, you sound like a space case.

  • Anonymous

    Unfortunately for Tina, she doesn’t actually read the articles or watch the accompanying video before she cries about right wingers being discriminated against.

  • Anonymous

    What are you talking about? You right wing moron.

  • Just Another Blowhard

    Me? Please go through Tim’s comments and tell me I am wrong.

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    Santorum comes into this stage of the contest with a quiverful of really twisted ideas and an urge to strut

    Rick Santorum is a very moral man, deeply concerned about the decline of morality in America and the only folks who thinks his ideas are “twisted” are those evil ones involved in that decline.
    Just like your decline from a Patriot to an expatriot.
    Got mirrors?

    BTW….”quiverful”????
    :-)

  • bugspotter24

    Ah, the criminal propagandist use of slander as a viable retort technique, yes, we know that one well.
    But actually ADDRESSING the substance of my argument? Oh no, shills CAN’T do, can they?
    (shakes head in contempt) 

  • Ryan Pyfferoen

    If you don’t like a comedian’s take on politics then crawl back into your hole and watch O’reilly.

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

    That college (and high school) kids watch the show(s) with some religious feeling is the sign of powerful innovation. Markets as they are managed by media corporations make appeal to the lowest denominator as wide net when fishing for the eyes of adolescents (peering toward the Jersey Shore to explain explosively the impulses just now coming on line) or housewives (watching a regional housewife cabal who can fight and drink and curse and travel and argue and spend with a childish level of repercussion) or Cable News ignoring policy almost completely in a rush to wrap the day in the much easier to build Political Narrative Meme War. 
    But look what happened. Just as the market neared perfecting the co-option of that emerging bramble of youth impulse, a couple of 40 year old guys, uncle figures really… perfect the role of the cool uncle. They don’t ignore the topics your parents dance around, can by funny with adolescent humor and more challenging stuff and they talk about politics in a way that makes it interesting and even yet informative. That last part is key. Interesting and informative. The market treats them only as base consumer in every other case… but give them a mix of humor, lots of information in an interesting narrative and they will line up to learn things. 
    Stewart and Colbert prove that the market can innovate in saving ways for the Republic. 

  • P Diddie

    Ohh man, I can’t stand Samantha Bee or Jason Jones.  Jason Jones is only funny when he isn’t central to the skit, sort of in the background lobbing inane and ridiculous comments.  Samantha just makes me want to claw my ears out all the time.  The lady on this segment had a funny script, she just overplayed it and messed up the timing.

    Olivia Munn was just awful, too.  Wyatt Cenak and Madrigal are hit or miss.  Aasiv and Oliver are the only consistently good performers, but sometimes the writing for them sucks (Oliver ALWAYS seems to overcome weak writing when it happens to him).  I miss Riggle.

    Hodgmann, Lewis Black, Larry Wilmore, just don’t appear often enough.

    Man, I just can’t believe how lucky the Daily Show was when they had Colbert, Carrell, and Corddry in the rotation.

  • Anonymous

    Apparently, you weren’t aware that Obama’s initial quote was about making college affordable to everyone.  And neither was Santorum.

  • Anonymous

    It seems to me more of a case of not sure how to use her.  The segment where it was guys talking about women’s health, she was pretty funny.  But all her other segments seem to just involve her quitting the show or getting fired or something related to her age and newness.  Hopefully, she will come into her own.

  • P Diddie

    No.  Infanticide is not funny.  While it’s pure speculation, infanticide was not made into a joke precisely because it is NOT funny. 

    What’s funny is conservatives literally screaming “Baby killer!” at the president during this time of great crisis.  Like they’re a bunch of delusional hippies or something.  Delusional accusations by spineless shills aren’t funny either, just sad.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, that, and um, one other thing.

  • P Diddie

    So true, but they make it so easy for comedy writers.  Remember when conservatives said that without Dubya, Jon Stewart would have a hard time coming up with new material?

    It’s funny to hear conservatives try and say they were being laughed at because of Dubya.  It’s actually the other way around.  Dubya didn’t make them into laughing stocks, they were given Dubya by their masters BECAUSE they were clueless jokes.  And ohhhh did they worship their fool…heck, some of them still do.

  • Anonymous

    So, Rick Santorum hates sex, higher education, and JFK.  Well, he’s not invited to my Kevin Costner film festival.

  • P Diddie

    True.  But I’m pretty sure every challenger to Mitt Romney has been completely scripted to rise and fall, to give the APPEARANCE of a real “race” to the nomination.  That way, when the base bows down and endorses the establishment candidate they were always going to be given by the billionaires, they can tell themselves that they had alternatives.

  • Anonymous

    I was watching this last night with my oldest son and I actually turned to him and said “Tonight, I think he could just play the clips, stare at the camera and after a few seconds, say ‘OK, onto the next one….”

  • P Diddie

    I’d never accuse a Teabagger of being a racist.  Seriously, I’ve never made that accusation.  I don’t know if it’s because I don’t believe they are all racists….or if it’s because I would run out of breath before I could finish about how obedient and gullible they are.  They are the Koch brothers’ pocket yap-dogs, so very brave to accept that billionaire cash, don’tcha know?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/4L2QENFTRKVSXCAGNASMUU4XHI are you kidding me

    Santorum , how do these stupid remarks keep falling out of your mouth ? You are a very scary man. God help this country if we can’t get rid of people like you.

  • Anonymous

    SNOBAMA FORCE EDUCATION ON STUDENTS!  FROTH HATE EDUCATION.  STUDENTS SHOULD GO TO CHURCH INSTEAD LIKE FROTH.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     Why is it that Lib Media Hacks never discuss the high cost of education
    in the same way they snobbishly whine about the high cost of health
    care?

    Obama decries rising cost of college educationBy JIM KUHNHENN and KIMBERLY HEFLING | Associated Press – Fri, Jan 27, 2012

  • P Diddie

    Uh, supply and demand?  Less people can afford to go to college with the redistribution of wealth upwards to the very few.  So, prices rise?

    It’s not like there is one or two companies who dominate “the college” across vast regions of the country.  It’s not like health care at all, or the few colleges would have to get special anti-trust exemptions to operate year after year. 

    You DO realize that health insurance companies have quadrupled the cost of health care over the past 40 years…even doctors’ profits have been getting squeezed…for over a decade now?  Health care providers and hospitals don’t even get to set their own rates thanks to the middle men in health insurance.  And it’s the middle men in health insurance that the teabaggers ultimately locked arms to protect…not the free market, not actual health care providers, not patients…but their masters in the insurance industry and Big Pharma. The ones who have no meaningful competition.

    Oh wait, no…doctors went to college, so they must be part of a conspiracy with Satan himself.  We’re not the victim of cartel pricing that forces health care providers AND health care buyers to go through a middle man or be unable to purchase services.  No, that would be too demeaning to all those brave, spineless teabaggers and secessionists who threatened to kill off dissatisfied consumers.  It’s Satan.  So much simpler and less embarrassing.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Stewart ought to have a few laughs at Republicans for Obama 2012- that’s hilarious

    The Daily Show crew obviously isn’t doing their job well because Obama
    certainly isn’t crushing these guys who Stewart mocks for not crushing
    each other.  He’s in a dead heat with Romney and Santorum in the most
    recent national poll.

    Which poll would that be?

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/president_obama_vs_republican_candidates.html

  • Anonymous

    The problem is to be a moral man, you can’t just pick and choose which morals you’ll enforce and which ones you’ll ignore.  A moral man does not want to start wars.  A moral man doesn’t denigrate other religions or those who choose not to follow any religion.  A moral man doesn’t forgive tax evaders or insider traders.  A moral man doesn’t propose policies that affect the poor (freezing spending levels for five years for social programs
    such as Medicaid, housing, education, job training and food stamps).

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    You mean limousine liberals like Brit Hume & Bill O’Reilley,
    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/brit-hume-santorums-unnecessary-controversies-on-social-issues-are-political-malpractice/
     
    Imagine if a Republican started Republicans for Obama.
    Oh wait..

    http://www.republicansforobama.org/

  • http://twitter.com/localboson David Holmgren

    Don’t know what you think that means.  Let’s see, when the housing bubble burst, house prices dropped from their artificially high values.  So when the college debt bubble bursts, the principal owed on student loans will decrease precipitously?  It will cost much less to go to college?  The cost of a college education is way too high because demand outstrips supply?

  • Anonymous

    Your boy is gone come November, Jonny!

  • Anonymous

    Your mom goes to college.

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

     With the exception of your last sentence….you have described Barack Hussein Obama and if you change a few words in that last sentence to “freezing COLA increases”….”unaffordable health care”…a “skyrocketing economy” and “high gasoline and food prices”…you will be batting 1.000 on that description.

  • Clovis4

    Shocker!!!!  Tina blaming the media for the idiot rantings of the GOP.

  • Anonymous

    Obama’s got this election in the bag. Deal with it.

  • Anonymous

    If Santorum is “a very moral man”, why was he named one of the three most corrupt Senators in 2006?

  • Anonymous

    Why is it that conservatives are always opposed to education? It’s simple: educated voters are less likely to support conservative candidates.

  • Anonymous

    No, Obama is not in a dead heat with Romney and Santorum. Every credible poll shows him comfortably ahead. But instead you look at the deliberately biased and inaccurate Rasmussen polls.

    And seriously, what is it about “African Americans for Obama 2012″ that you think would make for good comedy?

  • Anonymous

    Racism is an innately conservative concept.

  • Mike Campbell

    To each his own, but John Oliver has been spot on and top
    notch since 2008. He has truly reached the pinnacle along with the likes of
    Stephen and Steve. Aasif Mandvi has come on very strong as well.  I hope they never leave.  Wyatt has shown sparks. Smantha, Jason, Lewis
    (and even Larry) are fixtures on TDS. Each one of them (like the originals)
    needed a break-in period to find their own niche.
    Some just don’t have it and never really fit.  I have never cared for John Hodgman, Josh
    Gad, Kristen Schaal or Olivia Munn and that is when I tap the mute button. The new ones (2011 on)  get a pass for now.

  • Anonymous

    Santorum is the incompetent one, Tina_Tampon.

  • Anonymous

    No, it’s just that liberals are a lot less likely to say ridiculous things than conservatives.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/PQM4E3YP3ZCHU2ID4QLTPPJTKE TJ

    Yeah, Corddry in “Cheney shooting Whittington” was crazy fun.  Remember that bit?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/PQM4E3YP3ZCHU2ID4QLTPPJTKE TJ

    Might take a little more than that to wake you up. 

  • Anonymous

    I just think her schtick is kind of clownish while Stewart is using comedy to make incisive points.  Both styles of comedy are fun on their own, I just think hers doesn’t play well against his

  • Anonymous

     Any rational person would admit that there are MANY jobs for which a college education is a waste of time, money and effort. Examples include:
    1. a ruling-class establishment politician
    2. a member of the OBOZO regime, in particular, and/or any federal, state or local government bureaucrat, in general.
    3. a lamestream socialist media “news” anchor (i.e., a ted baxter word-mispronouncing newsreader that spews forth nothing but leftist propaganda – see #4)
    4. every other member of the socialist media including leftist blogs (just repeat what the OBOZO regime, george soros and the JournoList vast left-wing media conspiracy tell you to say)
    5. a (self-serving, corrupt, clueless) member of the Federal Reserve
    6. a d-cRAT socialist activist excuse for a “judge” (there’s no need for complicated things like the law or the US Constitution when all you do is repeat the lunatic-left extremist ideology) – this is especially true for an OBOZO appointment to SCOTUS.
    7. a union goon, thug or willing dues-paying member.
    8. anybody who votes for BIG GOVERNMENT socialism
    9. a socialist indoctrinator (formerly called “teachers”)
    10. a late-night or an HBO leftist imitation of a “comedian”
    11. a member of the #occupy bowel movement (even pre-scholls understand “Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie”)
    12. a “community organizer” (they can read The Communist Manifesto without college)
    13. a member of any professional sports team
    14. the head of government motors – just follow orders from your leftist eco-nut masters
    15. a crony capitalist pal of OBOZO – you get the taxpayer money regardless of your education

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     still spinning and avoiding

  • Jennifer Messner

    And yet Santorum went to college and two of his children are in college. Yeah, it is so unnecessary. It is okay for him and his children but the rest of us “dumb” poorer folks just can’t hack going to college.

  • Anonymous

    2/26 Rasmussen poll.  USA Today/Gallup swing states poll February 14-21.  Pointing out how “European Americans for Gingrich 2012″ probably wouldn’t be embraced, or a skit like the recent one on SNL that comically concluded that African Americans are going to vote for Obama even if he marries and has a baby with Ke$ha…you know- non partisan comedy.  Not the partisan sophomoric humor of Stewart.

  • Anonymous

    USA Today/Gallup swing states poll 2/14-2/21.  Rasmussen tracking poll from February 26th.   They are the most recent ones cited in your link which I assume reflects the current opinion.  Most the polls on the index that add up to a slight lead for Obama were carried out in the first half of February, but the most recent polls show a toss up and that Obama is on the wrong side of the current trend.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, the farcical Rasmussen poll, from the same company that provided the least accurate polls of the 2010 elections.

  • Anonymous

    Except that Rasmussen polls are notoriously inaccurate and overtly Republican-biased. Thus, not remotely reflective of current opinion. Rasmussen’s polls aren’t designed to reflect public opinion, they’re designed to alter public opinion.

    The trend among credible polls is strongly in Obama’s favor.

  • Anonymous

    What would those “vile terms” be? Referring to the Teabaggers (a term they invented for themselves) as racist is not “vile”. It’s just the truth.

  • Anonymous

    That’s no remotely true, though. There has been no “freezing” of COLA increases. Health care is only “unaffordable” because greedy insurance companies have yet to be reigned in. Obama’s health care law doesn’t go into effect until 2014, after all.

    BTW, how the hell is “a skyrocketing economy” supposed to be a bad thing? Oh, that’s right. You’re a Rethuglican. You want the economy to get worse, because you think that’ll hurt Obama’s reelection chances.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, I missed the post stating that Obama was running a campaign on morality.  I only saw yours about Santorum being “a very moral man” and ”deeply concerned about the decline of morality in America”.  Imagine my embarassment.

  • Anonymous

    Speaking of wasted time and effort….

  • ScarredReality

    Religious doesn’t equal moral. Religious persons have perpatrated the worst sorts of crimes in the name of their God and religion. Do you even know what morals are? They are not exclusive to religion, in fact, many of the least religious people I know are also the most moral. They understand that having morals means:

    1. Do unto others what you would have done to yourself (or your family)
    2. Kindness and tolerance are some of our greatest gifts
    3. Every human being deserves help sometimes, everyone deserves a second chance.
    4. Every human being deserves life, liberty, and happiness – they are ‘entitled’ to food when they are starving, medical care when they are sick – see number 1. (Also see Jesus’ Good Samariten story)
    4a. The caveat to this is that everyone also should do their fair share of the work, if they can, and to repay that kindness or help by helping someone else. Those that have more, give more, and those that have less, give what they are able. That is how civilization and society works.

    I am not saying that true moochers shouldn’t be penalized, but Republicans seem to think that everyone not them is a moocher. That’s not only wrong but a terribly arrogant and pessimistic worldview. There will always be bad apples, but contrary to the GOP’s ‘nobody deserves anything but me!’ attitude, most Americans actually do want a job, most Americans do want to contribute to society, and most Americans understand that we take care of our own. It is by how we treat those weaker than ourselves that we will be judged, by God or history.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Aditya-Anchuri/423839 Aditya Anchuri

    Yes, it’s about to burst. But the fact is that, Obama never said that everyone should go to college. He said at that everyone should have at least one year of post-secondary education, including vocational training/community college, etc. Santorum just misrepresented Obama’s position.

  • Anonymous

    Anything above an SUV-driving hillbilly is”fancy” today.

  • Smack80

    Nope, even my 80 year old mother used to like to watch him and she was a republican. It’s not just the college students who have active brain cells and aren’t afraid to use them.

  • Smack80

    “Rick Santorum is a very moral man, deeply concerned about the decline of morality in America and the only folks who thinks his ideas are “twisted” are those evil ones involved in that decline.” 
    Insert Afghanistan where it says America and you’ve described the Taliban.

  • Smack80

    Is there chemo for cancer of the soul?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/IZJ5434L4MAGZXPU3ZWMBUCVOQ Jakester

    Santorum is using the usual inverted conservative logic. A real snob wouldn’t want anyone but the people in his select crowd to go to college. But when one is fishing for votes in the pool of mindless palindronic base knuckledraggers, you don’t have to worry about logic or coherence

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/IZJ5434L4MAGZXPU3ZWMBUCVOQ Jakester

    You project ignorance, dishonesty and the same racism you rant about

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/IZJ5434L4MAGZXPU3ZWMBUCVOQ Jakester

    Beyond reason

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/IZJ5434L4MAGZXPU3ZWMBUCVOQ Jakester

    “Discourse”, you are being generous to Jai

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/IZJ5434L4MAGZXPU3ZWMBUCVOQ Jakester

    or tina

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

     Tim.
     It’s time that you looked at your State’s budgets over the last dozen years or so. In those States that have been run by the GOP/TP you will find that money’s given to education has been slashed. Why?
    Because the GOP in those States have refused to increase taxes. Since evidently you need more explained to you…Taxes are where the money a state gets it’s funding from…Be it personal or corporate taxes, and to a lesser extent sales tax (which the poor pay a greater percentage of their income on vs the rich aka a regressive tax) .  The funding for all sorts or programs has had to be cut because of there being no income tax increase.

    Among those cuts has been the funding for the States Colleges and University’s. The only way to make up for the cuts has been to increase the tuition for students going to school. If you pay attention you’ll notice that the States funding for them will decrease year after year when the state is run by the GOP.

  • Anonymous

    Hey Santorum, look what a college education did for all the kids sitting in the Daily Show audience!

    I’m sure they’re all flying really high right now *COUGH COUGH*

  • Anonymous

    My condolences on the loss of your mother!!

  • Anonymous

    Ah, I get it.  The mind of the Stewart audience– call people immature and vile names, like you did with Tina Tampa, and ignore facts that aren’t aligned with your warped world view.  The last time there was a presidential election, the Rasmussen poll was found to be the most accurate (tied with Pew) according to a Fordham University study (
    http://www.fordham.edu/images/academics/graduate_schools/gsas/elections_and_campaign_/poll%20accuracy%20in%20the%202008%20presidential%20election.pdf).  Way to represent!  Without you and people like you, Stewart wouldn’t have been able to earn his $80 million fortune.

  • Love of Country

    Lies and projection ….. a tard’s best friend.

    Why don’t you just write “stupid” on your forehead so people won’t have to listen to you first just to figure you out.

    Now go burn the flag, scooter …. you can play the victim card and beg for wealth redistribution and lower sentences for felons any ol time!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HE75CPGOXSKULXCXW7QLZZ63G4 Inspector

    With a wave of his pen, no doubt! If this is the case, why hasn’t he done so? Ah, because even the emperor of the united states is subject to market forces and economic law.

  • P Diddie

    And reason has what to do with conservative positions?  Just read the comments.

  • P Diddie

    Uh, what?

  • expatpatriot

    Some people actually quiver when the guy’s in the room. It’s scary.

  • expatpatriot

    I think all three channels of your gibberish generator are clogged.

  • expatpatriot

    I think that provision was first seen in the Affordable Care Act.

  • Anonymous

    Left in the dust is what Obama ACTUALLY said. He called for post-high school training: a four-year college, a two-year college, a business school, or a vocational school. Snob, indeed. Mr. Santorum (with, I believe, a BA, MBA, and JD, maybe more degrees) may be the snob here. He’s certainly the boob!

    Bigger boob — anyone who believes a word he says!

  • http://twitter.com/etfp etfp


    Imagine if Romney started “whites for Romney” what would happen….but “AAs for Obama” gets a pass.  Honestly; the bias is absurd at this point, journalists have made complete fools of themselves.”

    people who make these “replace black for white is it racist?” statements reek of white privilege when you don’t consider the fact that the “Whites for Romney” foundation is called “the republican/conservative party”.

  • corri anderson

    You have no sense of the history of this country.  What if it were a hispanic GOP President, and Latinos created a similar context where they celebrated the acheivement of one of their own.  Would that be so wrong?  I don’t know any Libs that wouldn’t understand that position.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1757274018 Dave Wile

    Hmmm, apparently your paid poster memo had 15 points you had to cover? Yes?

  • http://www.facebook.com/lilo623 Linda Marie Lovison

     Why is Jon Stewart ashamed to use his real name, his birth name? Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz is a perfectly lovely name. Why in the world is he ashamed of being Jewish? I find it hard to believe him when he assumes a Scottish surname. Perhaps it is time he becomes genuine. Would be nice.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/3RRIFUDVNU35NUNRES5BIBQVEQ Hod

    Now using “all” in an argument really is not a good idea. Try using most.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/3RRIFUDVNU35NUNRES5BIBQVEQ Hod

    You should google his name.

     www.spreadingsantorum.com

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/3RRIFUDVNU35NUNRES5BIBQVEQ Hod

    Are that many conservatives that angry at Stewart? You know his show follows puppets making crank calls. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1062753259 Laura Shelton

    I love being a snob.  It kept my kids in clothes…a house over their heads…and food in their bellies.  Long live snobbery!

  • Anonymous

    You are the anti snob but apparently you don’t realize it.

  • Anonymous

    Obviously you don’t watch his show. He continually refers to himself as being Jewish. Your ignorance about Stewart had made you the fool.

  • Anonymous

    Not a bad comment from an aspiring comedy writer but still needs a little work. Try out your act at some open mic night at a local comedy club and see if you are any good.

  • Anonymous

    You need to have your caps lock key repaired. Even without reading you little boy comment it makse you come off as a idiot

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