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Jon Stewart Slams Dems For Allowing Bush Admin To Steal Credit For bin Laden

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Jon Stewart was impressed with the elaborate heist former Bush administration officials were trying to pull off: stealing credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden away from the man who actually ordered the kill, President Obama. Stewart stated, “of course to steal this much glory, you’d have to reassemble the whole team,” before a video spoof of the movie Ocean’s Eleven played, humorously titled “Nine’s Eleven.”

Stewart showed various clips of Bush’s supporters continuing to practice their “shock and awe” campaign, as all of them bombarded various political talk shows. Obama’s response of sending out the mild-mannered and eager to share the credit National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, was met with Stewart’s comic disapproval. Stewart was forced to be left wondering, “why are we listening to the Bush administration people anyway, they didn’t get Bin Laden” and compared them to the Winklevoss twins who didn’t create Facebook but keep claiming they did.

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  • Alz

    Duh. Because Bush set the stage for it to happen, no matter who is President now.

    Obama did what was expected of him. He’s not a hero. Bush took the flack and made it easy for Obama.

    The only thing Obama could have done is to call it off. In other words, in reality, we can’t say Obama is a genius/hero, etc, but if he cancelled it, he would get ALL of the blame.

    Obama had an easy decision. It was easy because the military/CIA told him it was the right decision.

    Now, could the operation have gone wrong? Sure, but then Obama would have blamed Bush instead of ignoring Bush as he is doing now.

    And Obama likes being a cowboy. “Bin Laden death now part of Obama’s re-elect message” http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-bin-laden-obama-reelect–20110510,0,52902.story

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Criminal Thug Rapper Common would have pulled his nine on
    Ozzie and everything would be everything .

    Yo .

  • writer

    No matter how many wives he had, Ozzie liked Harriet the best.

  • grafxmail7

    Alz said:
    Duh. Because Bush set the stage for it to happen, no matter who is President now.

    EXACTLY!!!! IT’S GOOD YOU CAN EXPLAIN THE ECONOMY SO SUCCINCTLY

  • Edith Massey

    Thank you Jon Stewart for pointing out the obvious, once again. The Bush admin. were bumbling idiots who couldn’t prosecute a war or find bin Laden. Now they want to pick up the football and spike it even thought some other guy scored the touchdown. Absolutely pathetic.

  • damien

    Alz said:
    Duh. Because Bush set the stage for it to happen, no matter who is President now. Obama did what was expected of him. He’s not a hero. Bush took the flack and made it easy for Obama. The only thing Obama could have done is to call it off. In other words, in reality, we can’t say Obama is a genius/hero, etc, but if he cancelled it, he would get ALL of the blame. Obama had an easy decision. It was easy because the military/CIA told him it was the right decision. Now, could the operation have gone wrong? Sure, but then Obama would have blamed Bush instead of ignoring Bush as he is doing now. And Obama likes being a cowboy. “Bin Laden death now part of Obama’s re-elect message” http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-bin-laden-obama-reelect–20110510,0,52902.story

    It’s funny. Whenever anyone mentions that Obama inherited a deficit, tanking economy and a spiraling jobless rate from the previous administration, you guys always bemoan the “Blame Bush” rethoric (and rightly so, in my opinion). However, now with this you’re trying to say it was all Bush all along. You don’t get to have it both ways.

    Also, what exactly are you basing your argument that Obama would have blamed Bush if the operation didn’t work on. Surely, according to your previous claim, it would have been Bush’s fault. Did you not watch the clip? The Obama guys is actually conceding credit to Bush as it is.

    The fact that Obama pulled this off is just eating you guys up, isn’t it?

  • damien

    Also, what exactly is wrong with Obama making this part of his re-election message? I that any worse than Bush making 9/11 part of his message in 2004?

  • dougx

    Jon may not know this but Bush ordered Bin laden killed years ago, and I think Clinton and Tenet did as well. We just now found them. Why is that so hard to understand? It’s sort of like the moon program started under Kennedy and we got there under Nixon.

    Now if you could point to a specific new program started by Obama, with new funding which created some kind of OBL task force, and it really was an additional force, and that force found OBL, then Obama would get more credit. But I don’t see that here. It appears to be just a continuing investigation where the pieces slowly came together.

  • damien

    dougx said:
    Now if you could point to a specific new program started by Obama, with new funding which created some kind of OBL task force, and it really was an additional force, and that force found OBL, then Obama would get more credit.

    Ending “enhanced interigation techniques” seems to have worked out pretty well.

  • OxyCon

    Reminder: Group that Killed Bin Laden was Smeared as Dick Cheney’s ‘Assasination Ring’

    Mark Hemingway

    May 2, 2011 1:19 PM

    It’s been reported that bin Laden was killed by SEAL Team Six, officially known as Naval Special Warfare Development Group or DevGru. Marc Ambinder has a good report that fills in some of the particulars:

    DevGru belongs to the Joint Special Operations Command, an extraordinary and unusual collection of classified standing task forces and special-missions units. They report to the president and operate worldwide based on the legal (or extra-legal) premises of classified presidential directives. Though the general public knows about the special SEALs and their brothers in Delta Force, most JSOC missions never leak. We only hear about JSOC when something goes bad (a British aid worker is accidentally killed) or when something really big happens (a merchant marine captain is rescued at sea), and even then, the military remains especially sensitive about their existence. Several dozen JSOC operatives have died in Pakistan over the past several years. Their names are released by the Defense Department in the usual manner, but with a cover story — generally, they were killed in training accidents in eastern Afghanistan. That’s the code.

    Under Bush, JSOC was routinely smeared by the left and placed at the center of many Bush/Cheney conspiracy theories. Specifically, New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh alleged it was Dick Cheney’s personal assassination squad:

    “After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet.”

    Hersh then went on to describe a second area of extra-legal operations: the Joint Special Operations Command. “It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently,” he explained. “They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. … Congress has no oversight of it.”

    “It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on,” Hersh stated. “Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us.”

    Now that a Democratic President has employed JSOC to take out Osama bin Laden, will the fever swamps of the left continue to assert that it’s just a Bush/Cheney plot to run around unjustifiably killing people?

  • grafxmail7

    OxyCon said:
    BLAH BLAH BLAH!

    Hey OxyCon….You were a Democrat when all this stuff above was going on?

    Are you having an identity crisis?

    We know why you don’t like Obama or General Colin Powell…….

  • darladoon

    stewart always has a better critique than almost anyone working in the major news media today

  • darladoon

    dougx said:
    It’s sort of like the moon program started under Kennedy and we got there under Nixon.

    uh, it’s sort of not.

  • darladoon

    in fact, bush dismantled the bin laden search, i think, in 2006 or 2008

  • darladoon

    whatever obama does, is wrong.

    if obama didn’t take any credit at all for the assassination, then right wingers would say:

    “he hates the navy seals!”

  • brownsound

    Matt, did Eric Bohlert send you this story idea? Or write it for you?

  • darladoon

    brownsound said:
    Matt, did Eric Bohlert send you this story idea? Or write it for you?

    why would bohlert send the idea for a story to mediaite?

    in any case, i think stewart’s critique speaks for itself

    i don’t see what bohlert has to do with it…..

  • darladoon

    btw, it’s boehlert

  • WCinWI

    damien said:
    It’s funny. Whenever anyone mentions that Obama inherited a deficit, tanking economy and a spiraling jobless rate from the previous administration, you guys always bemoan the “Blame Bush” rethoric (and rightly so, in my opinion). However, now with this you’re trying to say it was all Bush all along. You don’t get to have it both ways.

    Also, what exactly are you basing your argument that Obama would have blamed Bush if the operation didn’t work on. Surely, according to your previous claim, it would have been Bush’s fault. Did you not watch the clip? The Obama guys is actually conceding credit to Bush as it is.

    The fact that Obama pulled this off is just eating you guys up, isn’t it?

    These would be credible points if Obama hadn’t made the situation worse. How many jobs did he safeguard with the Stimulus package? Why did we need a lot of those projects? Still waiting for what research of X animal could do for X economy. Do explain that. :)

  • WCinWI

    darladoon said:
    why would bohlert send the idea for a story to mediaite?

    in any case, i think stewart’s critique speaks for itself

    i don’t see what bohlert has to do with it…..

    Their media hits are going down (MM) and so they’re gonna need new outlets to get their stories out. Simple as that.

  • darladoon

    WCinWI said:
    These would be credible points if Obama hadn’t made the situation worse. How many jobs did he safeguard with the Stimulus package? Why did we need a lot of those projects? Still waiting for what research of X animal could do for X economy. Do explain that. :)

    what?!

    dude, think

  • darladoon

    WCinWI said:
    Their media hits are going down (MM) and so they’re gonna need new outlets to get their stories out. Simple as that.

    it was a rhetorical question. boehlert doesn’t need to link to john stewart

    stewart has like 20 million viewers

  • CAINtheBULL

    Bush pulled the team, that was looking from Bin Laden in Afghanistan/Pakistan, to Iraq so they could look for Hussein and his sons. He really underfunded the team because Iraq went to hell. All resources were pulled and sent over there. They really have a lot of nerve pretending they didn’t do all that.

  • WCinWI

    darladoon said:
    it was a rhetorical question. boehlert doesn’t need to link to john stewart

    stewart has like 20 million viewers

    You didn’t understand his point. Revisit his point. :)

  • WCinWI

    CAINtheBULL said:
    Bush pulled the team, that was looking from Bin Laden in Afghanistan/Pakistan, to Iraq so they could look for Hussein and his sons. He really underfunded the team because Iraq went to hell. All resources were pulled and sent over there. They really have a lot of nerve pretending they didn’t do all that.

    Drop it.

    Bush and Obama are neocons. We get it. Now about that whole economy thing. How’s Obama gonna fix the debt?

  • Edith Massey

    darladoon said:
    in fact, bush dismantled the bin laden search, i think, in 2006 or 2008

    it was in 2005 actually and you are right this is absolutely nothing like the moon landing. It would be like the moon landing if JFK had announced that we were “going to the moon” and then discontinued NASA, so yeah if that is what these teabaggers meant then I guess they would be right.

    Just a reminder the Taliban offered OBL to the Bush admin. 2 times and both times he refused.

  • damien

    WCinWI said:
    These would be credible points if Obama hadn’t made the situation worse. How many jobs did he safeguard with the Stimulus package? Why did we need a lot of those projects? Still waiting for what research of X animal could do for X economy. Do explain that. :)

    No, because I believe criticisms of Obama’s handling of the economy are legitimate (I believe I made that clear in my first post). My point is that conservatives want to jump on every Obama failure while assuming every Obama success was actually thanks to Bush.

  • grafxmail7

    WCinWI said:
    Drop it.

    Bush and Obama are neocons. We get it. Now about that whole economy thing. How’s Obama gonna fix the debt?

    You’re slurring you drunken Freeloader!!!

    Go to bed already……

  • darladoon

    WCinWI said:
    You didn’t understand his point. Revisit his point. :)

    tell me his point

  • Yoda002

    The Republicans have to go into full emergency mode to save Bush’s legacy. If they work this hard maybe they would’ve captured Bin Laden, but oh, thats right, Bush wasn’t really that concerned about Osama.

  • WCinWI

    damien said:
    No, because I believe criticisms of Obama’s handling of the economy are legitimate (I believe I made that clear in my first post). My point is that conservatives want to jump on every Obama failure while assuming every Obama success was actually thanks to Bush.

    That’s called politics. If we all weren’t complaining about the other side, this wouldn’t be a Republic.

  • Nacho

    So giving credit to Bush for our current economy is back on the table. I get it.

    Thank you Bushers for putting our fiscal crisis back into perspective.

  • darladoon

    our “liberal media” in action: wall-to-wall interviews with former bush officials, recycling discredited talking points, playing the victim, and forcing us all to vomit again.

  • WCinWI

    darladoon said:
    tell me his point

    That Eric emailed Mediaite a storyline about this Stewart clip so that Mediaite could run with it.

    I don’t agree with it, but at least you could attack his basic premise. MM’s web hit numbers are going down. That’s already been evidenced with data. So his premise would be that they are looking at outside media (Huff Po, DKos, DUnderground, Mediaite, etc.) for more story hits. As I said, I don’t think that’s happening but that’s his point.

  • WCinWI

    darladoon said:
    our “liberal media” in action: wall-to-wall interviews with former bush officials, recycling discredited talking points, playing the victim, and forcing us all to vomit again.

    There’s this thing called a remote or an on-off button. You choose to watch what you watch.

  • WCinWI

    darladoon said:
    tell me his point

    Think of it like when Mika from MJ gets DC talking points. He’s just saying the equivalent with Eric to Mediaite.

    That’s more summed up.

  • damien

    WCinWI said:
    That’s called politics. If we all weren’t complaining about the other side, this wouldn’t be a Republic.

    Actually, it’s called hypocrisy, and blaming it on the Republic is no defence.

  • darladoon

    WCinWI said:
    That Eric emailed Mediaite a storyline about this Stewart clip so that Mediaite could run with it.

    I don’t agree with it, but at least you could attack his basic premise. MM’s web hit numbers are going down. That’s already been evidenced with data. So his premise would be that they are looking at outside media (Huff Po, DKos, DUnderground, Mediaite, etc.) for more story hits. As I said, I don’t think that’s happening but that’s his point.

    i just don’t understand how that would help MM, that’s all

    for eric, sending a story to mediaite takes 4 seconds, and is not controversial if MM’s numbers are down

    so……whether eric sent the story or not seems like a waste of brain effort

  • darladoon

    like i said, stewart’s critique speaks for itself, whether or not MM’s hits are down

  • darladoon

    WCinWI said:
    There’s this thing called a remote or an on-off button. You choose to watch what you watch.

    there’s also this thing called ‘the internets’, and whether you have a remote or on-off button makes little difference
    in this place called ‘the internets’

    because things just appear on your screen, these things called ‘headlines’

    and obviously, with so many headlines, public opinion is shaped

    people start to ask “gee, maybe cheney was right. he’s on television right now saying so”

  • insideguy

    Yoda2002 lol yea and what legacy does Bush really have to defend? I mean im trying to think of one thing he did right in his administration. I do have a theory on one thing but its really long and convoluted plus history is gonna have to be the judge on my bizarre theory lol. The righties like to say HE KEPT US SAFE after 9-11 ahhhh but not before 9-11.

  • ndanielson

    How else should liberals react? 0bama taught Osama what a Paper Tiger is all about.

  • ndanielson

    insideguy said:
    Yoda2002 lol yea and what legacy does Bush really have to defend? I mean im trying to think of one thing he did right in his administration. I do have a theory on one thing but its really long and convoluted plus history is gonna have to be the judge on my bizarre theory lol. The righties like to say HE KEPT US SAFE after 9-11 ahhhh but not before 9-11.

    Guantanamo, his tax cuts, and the Patriot Act all seem to be paying big dividends for your boy, don’t they? No one will ever be hurt, or saved in America by mean ol’ waterboarding ever again though.

  • insideguy

    Man ndanielson your like Karl Rove I cant get away from you and your stupid ignorant comments.

  • grafxmail7

    ndanielson said:
    How else should liberals react? 0bama taught Osama what a Paper Tiger is all about.

    This CLOWN has 2 daughters in the Military yet he’s on here ranting about their Boss all the time.

    He’s obviously the father who is the drunken embarrassment!!!

    Go to sleep you old disgrace of a man!!!

  • dougx

    I can’t think of any president that would not have ordered the hit, upon being given the information by the CIA and military, that OBL was under surveillance. That’s the bottom line. So please, let’s cut the bull that it was a gutsy decision, in fact it was the only decision that could be made.

  • ndanielson

    insideguy said:
    Man ndanielson your like Karl Rove I cant get away from you and your stupid ignorant comments.

    Ever heard the theme from MASH?

  • ndanielson

    dougx said:
    I can’t think of any president that would not have ordered the hit, upon being given the information by the CIA and military, that OBL was under surveillance. That’s the bottom line. So please, let’s cut the bull that it was a gutsy decision, in fact it was the only decision that could be made.

    I can name two for absolute certainty, BJ Clinton, and Jimmy Carter.

  • insideguy

    Yes and I agree please kill yourself. If you guys want to see what ndanielson is all about go to the hannity against the rapper common thread. He reveals his full intellectual capacity over there.

  • grafxmail7

    dougx said:
    I can’t think of any president that would not have ordered the hit, upon being given the information by the CIA and military, that OBL was under surveillance. That’s the bottom line. So please, let’s cut the bull that it was a gutsy decision, in fact it was the only decision that could be made.

    Bush didn’t do it in Tora Bora…..and they had information that OBL was there.

    Why does is burn you Righties up so bad that Obama got OBL. It doesn’t really work with your ‘Righties are more Patriotic than Lefties’ crap you always seem to be rolling out.

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  • Yoda002

    grafxmail7 said:
    Bush didn’t do it in Tora Bora…..and they had information that OBL was there.

    Why does is burn you Righties up so bad that Obama got OBL. It doesn’t really work with your ‘Righties are more Patriotic than Lefties’ crap you always seem to be rolling out.

    General Franks couldn’t be concerned with Tora Bora because had to change course and draw-up plans to go to war with Iraq.

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    Work that 0bama economy!

    While you still can.

    Hey, remember when they blamed Bush for McJobs??? After Barry’s healthcare waivers to McDonald’s, McD’s created 50 thousand McJobs! Way to go Barry! Thanks for letting McDonalds continue to offer McJobs! McVotes are sure to follow everywhere you allow jobs by your sheer graciousness.

  • ndanielson

    Yoda002 said:
    General Franks couldn’t be concerned with Tora Bora because had to change course and draw-up plans to go to war with Iraq.

    Them pansys fought like hell, didn’t they? They called us the paper tiger.

  • grafxmail7

    ndanielson said:
    Them pansys fought like hell, didn’t they? They called us the paper tiger.

    How much have you had to drink tonight you racist fool?

    Do your daughters hate you much?

  • ndanielson

    0bammy’s got to be gettin’ pretty low in the polls if Mr. J. Stewart is gettin’ snippy on him. Hate to think he be talkin’ smack about our military’s boss. To work under such a fine American loving president must inspire all of our youth.

  • grafxmail7

    ndanielson said:
    0bammy’s got to be gettin’ pretty low in the polls if Mr. J. Stewart is gettin’ snippy on him. Hate to think he be talkin’ smack about our military’s boss. To work under such a fine American loving president must inspire all of our youth.

    What do you think your family would think about you talk about the Commander in Chief of the United States of America?

    ndanielson said:
    I have two daughters who are officers in the Military now. One is a Marine, one in the Navy. One nephew in Iraq. God bless them all. Congratulations to you, your friends and family. They are heroes in my eyes, too. My dad was a medic in Vietnam and is suffering greatly from agent orange exposure after all these years.

  • ndanielson

    I hope our best officers don’t continue to exit the Military after all that time and effort America has put into them. I hope the thought of prosecution by the justice department, doesn’t keep our best minds from joining the CIA. Isn’t hope just wonderful???

  • ndanielson

    grafxmail7 said:
    What do you think your family would think about you talk about the Commander in Chief of the United States of America?

    The same thing I do, dummy. Do you love boss you’ve ever had??? LOL. They won’t re-up. People like you aren’t worth it to them.

  • ndanielson

    grafxmail7 said:
    What do you think your family would think about you talk about the Commander in Chief of the United States of America?

    You and your rainbow coalition should take over the military, sweetpea. Daisy cutters can become cut daisies. Make peace, not war. Kumbayah. You clowns aren’t worth fighting for. After December, I have only a nephew in your military.

  • Alice67

    ndanielson said:
    You and your rainbow coalition should take over the military, sweetpea. Daisy cutters can become cut daisies. Make peace, not war. Kumbayah. You clowns aren’t worth fighting for. After December, I have only a nephew in your military.

    Yep …. here’s the TP!

    Tea Party Willing to Trade Debt Limit for Closeting Gays http://youtu.be/nz-yBAM24PE

  • grafxmail7

    ndanielson said:
    The same thing I do, dummy. Do you love boss you’ve ever had??? LOL. They won’t re-up. People like you aren’t worth it to them.

    I served in the US ARMY so I think it’s more like people like you that aren’t worth it them!

    You’re a perfect example the cowards that never served that we have to carry on our backs. The ingrates that shout from behind there imaginary shield of patriotism. Look at you! You obviously have no honor! You say the most vile things about the Commander in Chief during wartime while you have family members serving.

    I guarantee you’re an embarrassment to your family members that are serving.

    You’re probably such a low life that you never gave your daughters an opportunity in life so they had to join the military to get away from your disgusting self.

    Keep on blathering on you fool. Hide behind your Gadsden flag and scream your veiled racist taunts. You’ll always be a coward!

  • sponge bob

    Let’s see . MSNBC runs edited clips of Bush not wanting to catch Bin Laden and Stewart is upset about air time for Republicans. Maddow tried to claim the same thing. Here is what a fellow lib thought about that ….

    ” A liberal viewer might be very angry after watching Maddow’s report. That viewer had been led to believe that the Obama administration got the shaft on Sunday morning’s programs. Almost surely, that viewer would have thought that Republican viewpoints got three times as much attention as those of the White House.

    Three Democrats did appear on the Sunday programs—as “outliers,” Maddow scornfully said. That notion is utterly foolish, of course. But that angry liberal viewer would surely think it was true. Indeed, that was the entire point of this hapless report.
    How dumb can Our Own Rhodes Scholar be? From watching this pathetic report, a liberal viewer would surely have thought that “one current White House official, Tom Donilon, the national security adviser” appeared on Sunday’s shows as a bit of an afterthought—as “an outlier.” That notion is utterly false. As we noted yesterday, Donilon was the featured guest on four of the five Sunday programs! (The featured guest on the fifth program was Kerry, another Democrat.)

    On all four of those programs, Donilon’s segment opened the show. On all four shows, his segment was longer, sometimes much longer, than the segment which featured Republican or Bush Admin guests. Meanwhile, was the White House angry about this treatment? Obviously, Donilon was on these programs because the administration had made him available as its official spokesperson.

    Was Donilon as outlier? Was he swamped by all those Republican guests? Consider one example:

    By today, the full transcripts for ABC’s This Week are available. Here are the official word counts for that program’s various segments. Note the time devoted to Donilon as opposed to the time given Rice:

    First segment: Interview with Obama adviser Donilon (2315 words)
    Second segment: Interview with Pakistani ambassador (1531 words)
    Third segment: Interview with three ABC correspondents (2141 words)
    Fourth segment: Interview with Condoleezza Rice (519 words)
    Fifth segment: Four-member pundit panel (2720 words)

    Donilon’s “outlier” interview led the program—and it was more than four times as long as the session with Rice! But then, as we noted yesterday, Donilon got about twice as much time on CNN’s State of the Union as Lugar, the program’s Republican guest. On Meet the Press, Donilon got about twenty percent more time than a three-Republican panel.

    On Face the Nation, Kerry led the program. He got about fifty percent more time than Rumsfeld, the program’s Bush Admin guest. ”
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/

  • Barack Must Go

    grafxmail7 said:
    I served in the US ARMY so I think it’s more like people like you that aren’t worth it them!

    You’re a perfect example the cowards that never served that we have to carry on our backs. The ingrates that shout from behind there imaginary shield of patriotism. Look at you! You obviously have no honor! You say the most vile things about the Commander in Chief during wartime while you have family members serving.

    I guarantee you’re an embarrassment to your family members that are serving.

    You’re probably such a low life that you never gave your daughters an opportunity in life so they had to join the military to get away from your disgusting self.

    Keep on blathering on you fool. Hide behind your Gadsden flag and scream your veiled racist taunts. You’ll always be a coward!

    Wow. I can now see by this open letter to YOUR dad you’ve written telling him how YOU really feel, unfortunately you’ve projected it onto someone else again.

    You really need to confront your own deamons, real or most likely imagined in your case head on, if you ever hope to fit into normal society.

    This was a good start though, so keep practicing and I’m certain you;ll be able to do it some day real soon.

  • Barack Must Go

    I see Stewart is doing his ” Saturday Night Live ” impression again. Apparently this guy just never learns.

  • grafxmail7

    Barack Must Go said:
    Wow. I can now see by this open letter to YOUR dad you’ve written telling him how YOU really feel, unfortunately you’ve projected it onto someone else again.

    You really need to confront your own deamons, real or most likely imagined in your case head on, if you ever hope to fit into normal society.

    This was a good start though, so keep practicing and I’m certain you;ll be able to do it some day real soon.

    Man! I really get under your skin!

    You TEABAGGERS really are just a bunch of PU$$IES.

    AHAHAHAHA! CLOWN TEABAGGERS!!!

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

    Obama deserves as much credit for capturing Osama, as Bill Clinton did for the 90′s economy – they happened to be president at the time, and didn’t get in the way!

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  • Barack Must Go

    grafxmail7 said:
    Man! I really get under your skin!

    You TEABAGGERS really are just a bunch of PU$$IES.

    AHAHAHAHA! CLOWN TEABAGGERS!!!

    I guessing you are really short just by the amount of stuff that goes right over your head. What are you 4 foot 9 or so?

  • ChrisNH

    Despite the pleas of Obama breast-feeders like Stewart (et al), I’m very pleased to see that the general consensus is that Obamo IS indeed spiking the football and using his **cough** ‘gutsy heroism’ **cough** to some sort of political gain. But thankfully and happily, inflation and the overall failing condition of Obamo’s economy will trump this ‘event.’ It’s why Libs everywhere are crying in their cereal over the minimalistic ‘bump’ Obamo got.

    In 2012, unemployment will STILL be at or near 9%. In 2012, prices will STILL be high and the housing market will STILL be submerged. These are the things that will sink the big-eared cigarette smoker. Thank God.

  • grafxmail7

    Barack Must Go said:
    I guessing you are really short just by the amount of stuff that goes right over your head. What are you 4 foot 9 or so?

    Oh is that what you thought you did!

    You actually sound smarter when you stick to your RACIST TEABAGGER Schpeel!

    HAHAHA!!!

    You guys are so easily spun!

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    Try as they might, the Right is only hurting themselves with their obvious bitterness toward Obama’s success.
    American’s are fair-minded and expect credit to be given where due.

    “President Barack Obama’s approval rating has hit its highest point in two years — 60 percent — and more than half of Americans now say he deserves to be re-elected, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll taken after U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
    Nearly two-thirds of Americans who call themselves political independents now approve of him; only about half did in March.”

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Likely on advice of his closest advisors such as Thug Rapper Goon Criminal Common and Bill Ayers , King Obama rushed to tell the world about Osama , when waiting for the intelligence gathered to be inspected and used would have been intelligent . But , Obama has his reelection to consider first .

    “…the shelf life of actionable intelligence would be extended if we hadn’t told the whole world, and al-Qaeda in particular, that we had it.

    It’s a bit like racing to the microphones to announce you’ve stolen the other team’s playbook even before you’ve had a chance to use the information in the big game.

    But that’s exactly what President Obama did. He raced to spill the beans. The man couldn’t even wait until morning. At just after 9:45 p.m., the White House communications director, Dan Pfeiffer, informed the media: “POTUS to address the nation tonight at 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time.”

    http://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2011/05/11/why_the_hurry_to_gloat_about_bin_laden/page/full/

  • TfT

    Of course Jon is a lefty loon who misrepresents.

    Why didn’t Jon go after Obama for chest thumping and being a war criminal? If W had ordered that mission that iw what Jon would be doing.

    Shug my shoulders, Jon is a bore.

  • trica

    Who cares what stewart thinks, what has he done that was courageous ever?

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

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    Try as they might, the Right is only hurting themselves with their obvious bitterness toward Obama’s success.American’s are fair-minded and expect credit to be given where due. “President Barack Obama’s approval rating has hit its highest point in two years — 60 percent — and more than half of Americans now say he deserves to be re-elected, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll taken after U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.Nearly two-thirds of Americans who call themselves political independents now approve of him; only about half did in March.”

    Success! You call 100′s of billions given to Goldman Sachs & Friends on Wall Street – with none of that cash flowing to the economy – .SUCCESS?
    Btw, Goldman Execs donated 3-1 to Obama and the Dems! A good investment when you get 100′s of billions of taxpayer dollars at 0% interest, then invest that money overseas and give out billions in bonuses from the profits.

    Is this what Obama means when he LIES that he’s doing what he can for the Middle Class?

    OBAMA IS MEDIA CREATED & PROTECTED!

    OBAMA IS MEDIA CREATED & PROTECTED!

    OBAMA IS MEDIA CREATED & PROTECTED!

  • Rio

    Yoda002 said:
    General Franks couldn’t be concerned with Tora Bora because had to change course and draw-up plans to go to war with Iraq.

    What a surprise, the body counters are still complaining about General Franks call.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    The insecure Left…

    Who could Team Obama send out on the Sunday talk shows? Clapper? Face it Libs… when it comes to national security you have a thin bullpen…

  • Alz

    damien said:
    It’s funny. Whenever anyone mentions that Obama inherited a deficit, tanking economy and a spiraling jobless rate from the previous administration, you guys always bemoan the “Blame Bush” rethoric (and rightly so, in my opinion). However, now with this you’re trying to say it was all Bush all along. You don’t get to have it both ways.

    Also, what exactly are you basing your argument that Obama would have blamed Bush if the operation didn’t work on. Surely, according to your previous claim, it would have been Bush’s fault. Did you not watch the clip? The Obama guys is actually conceding credit to Bush as it is.

    The fact that Obama pulled this off is just eating you guys up, isn’t it?

    Come on, think. Obama has had years to work to drive growth and to work out the problems in the economy. Instead, he’s making things worse. he doesn’t even TALK about making this better.

    By this time in the recession when Reagan was President, millions of jobs were created and we were on our way out. With Obama, he’s moving things backwards – deficits that make Reagan’s look tiny, attacks on business, more taxes, more control over people, etc.

    Obama is the opposite of what we need. Everything is getting worse. Most of the companies that are doing well were the multinationals.

    As for Bin Laden, Obama get’s credit for not screwing it up. That’s it. Any normal person would have agreed to the operation too. Obama did nothing out of the ordinary.

  • Rio

    Edith Massey said:
    it was in 2005 actually and you are right this is absolutely nothing like the moon landing. It would be like the moon landing if JFK had announced that we were “going to the moon” and then discontinued NASA,

    You are absolutely wrong. It would be like JFK simply removing the title of the agency. In this case it wasn’t GWB that disbanded the unit, it was the CIA,

    This is the unit that was disbanded that is giving you the vapors:

    In his book “Ghost Wars,” which chronicles the agency’s efforts to hunt Mr. bin Laden in the years before the Sept. 11 attacks, Steve Coll wrote that some inside the agency likened Alec Station to a cult that became obsessed with Al Qaeda.

    “The bin Laden unit’s analysts were so intense about their work that they made some of their C.I.A. colleagues uncomfortable,” Mr. Coll wrote. Members of Alec Station “called themselves ‘the Manson Family’ because they had acquired a reputation for crazed alarmism about the rising Al Qaeda threat.”

    Intelligence officials said Alec Station was disbanded after Robert Grenier, who until February was in charge of the Counterterrorist Center, decided the agency needed to reorganize to better address constant changes in terrorist organizations.

    So, no Alec Station, the search was spread out across the agency, “the decision to disband the unit was not a sign that the effort had slackened.”

    The realignment reflects a view that Al Qaeda is no longer as hierarchical as it once was, intelligence officials said, and a growing concern about Qaeda-inspired groups that have begun carrying out attacks independent of Mr. bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

    Agency officials said that tracking Mr. bin Laden and his deputies remained a high priority, and that the decision to disband the unit was not a sign that the effort had slackened. Instead, the officials said, it reflects a belief that the agency can better deal with high-level threats by focusing on regional trends rather than on specific organizations or individuals.

    “The efforts to find Osama bin Laden are as strong as ever,” said Jennifer Millerwise Dyck, a C.I.A. spokeswoman. “This is an agile agency, and the decision was made to ensure greater reach and focus.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/washington/04intel.html

    Edith Massey said:
    Just a reminder the Taliban offered OBL to the Bush admin. 2 times and both times he refused.

    Pretty pathetic that one has to trust the word of a Taliban war criminal. First time OBL was offered there were unacceptable conditions, also the one-eyed mullah said turning OBL over wasn’t going to happen.

    The second offer came eight days after bombing started at that point in time the Taliban war criminal still did not have the authority to turn OBL over.

    Didn’t matter if GWB accepted or refused, it wasn’t going to happen, the Taliban war criminal was making noise to save his own neck, the Karzai government still got him for war crimes. But you knew that, we went through all this before, it’s just more of your junk talking points.

  • Rixar13

    George W. Bush was on Vacation and not concerned about Osama bin Laden, now Bush Bin Lying about President Obama Success… smile :-)

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  • TfT

    The chest thumper is now out there campaigning about what a great decider he is; LOL. Candiadte Obama would have do what President Obama did.

    hey, where is the article revealing all the outrageous lies Obama spewed yesterday?

    Come on mediaite – call on AP to fact check hehimself as much, or more even since he is the sittingpresident, as they fact check Sarah.

  • Rio

    Rixar13 said:
    George W. Bush was on Vacation and not concerned about Osama bin Laden, now Bush Bin Lying about President Obama Success… smile :-)

    This is what happens to your brain from drinking the koolaide:

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  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    skoorbekim said:
    The insecure Left…

    Who could Team Obama send out on the Sunday talk shows? Clapper? Face it Libs… when it comes to national security you have a thin bullpen…

    Nososmart

  • Pablo

    darladoon said:
    in fact, bush dismantled the bin laden search, i think, in 2006 or 2008

    No, you don’t think. You repeat moronic soundbites. If you think Bush just gave up on Osama and called off the search you are demonstrably fact and thought deficient.

  • Pablo

    insideguy said:
    Yoda2002 lol yea and what legacy does Bush really have to defend? I mean im trying to think of one thing he did right in his administration.

    You miss Saddam Hussein, don’t you, bunky?

  • writer

    Didn’t you know, Pablo? With every new administration, the CIA disbands and gives up everything they were doing, and the whole thing has to start from scratch.

  • tatboy

    So once again Bush is 100% responsable for the economy to this day. But his policies are 0% percent responsable for this? Logic FAIL.

  • writer

    It also took decades to catch the Green River Killer. The detectives who finally caught him deserve all the credit. Those guys that came before did nothing.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/7559241.html

    “Bin Laden is dead, but terrorism fight goes on
    The U.S. will prevail if resolve remains strong”
    By JAMES A. BAKER III
    FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE
    May 10, 2011, 9:37PMShare
    snip

    “There is another lesson we can learn from the Cold War as we move forward — how it concluded. In its aftermath, President George H.W. Bush would not condone triumphant celebration. Figuratively speaking, he refused to dance on the ruins of the Berlin Wall. The critics were appalled. After 40 years of intense competition, the West had won. Some demanded metaphorical “high fives.”

    “But the president’s vision was larger. Under his leadership, we built strong diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and negotiated the “mother of all soft landings” — freedom throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the reunification of Germany inside NATO, and the peaceful breakup of the Soviet Union.”

    “Today, the world is again watching to see how the United States will respond — this time to the death of Osama bin Laden. I strongly believe that we should savor this moment for what it is — a victorious step, but only one in a long journey. We should be particularly proud of the brave men and women of our military and intelligence communities who located bin Laden and then killed him. They are our best Americans, and we can all learn from their dedication and courage. We should also acknowledge the efforts of both Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush. Partisan claims of credit are more than just unseemly. They are a corrosive on the national consensus that will be necessary for us to prevail in our struggle against terrorism.”

    “This is no time to get caught up in gratuitous chest-thumping. We need to continue our efforts to build bridges to the Islamic world. Our greatest weapon against terrorism is the majority of Muslims who repudiate terrorism. The ongoing Arab Spring grants the United States a unique opportunity to support the just aspirations of citizens around North Africa and the Middle East. The people there must view the United States as a supporter of badly needed reform. That support will, of necessity, vary in type, amount and intensity from country to country depending upon the circumstances in each country and the extent of our national interest in each.”

    “Above all, however, Americans should recognize the very real possibility that we may get hit again in a devastating way. We must keep our nerve when — and not if — terrorists strike us again.”

    “A wicked man is dead. However, his wicked ideas live on. Will we defeat them? Yes. We will never be overcome by apostles of death who have nothing to offer but hate and destruction. But we will prevail only if our resolve remains strong and our focus sharp, like they were during the long decades of the Cold War.”

    “Baker is a former U.S. secretary of state. This article is excerpted from the Random House original e-book “Beyond Bin Laden,” edited by Jon Meacham.”

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  • jim bronson 990cc

    NORBIT Jr. said:
    Success! You call 100’s of billions given to Goldman Sachs & Friends on Wall Street – with none of that cash flowing to the economy – .SUCCESS?Btw, Goldman Execs donated 3-1 to Obama and the Dems! A good investment when you get 100’s of billions of taxpayer dollars at 0% interest, then invest that money overseas and give out billions in bonuses from the profits. Is this what Obama means when he LIES that he’s doing what he can for the Middle Class? OBAMA IS MEDIA CREATED & PROTECTED! OBAMA IS MEDIA CREATED & PROTECTED! OBAMA IS MEDIA CREATED & PROTECTED!

    Mentally distrubed people tend to repeat things over and over.

  • jim bronson 990cc

    Alz said:
    Duh. Because Bush set the stage for it to happen, no matter who is President now. Obama did what was expected of him. He’s not a hero. Bush took the flack and made it easy for Obama. The only thing Obama could have done is to call it off. In other words, in reality, we can’t say Obama is a genius/hero, etc, but if he cancelled it, he would get ALL of the blame. Obama had an easy decision. It was easy because the military/CIA told him it was the right decision. Now, could the operation have gone wrong? Sure, but then Obama would have blamed Bush instead of ignoring Bush as he is doing now. And Obama likes being a cowboy. “Bin Laden death now part of Obama’s re-elect message” http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-bin-laden-obama-reelect–20110510,0,52902.story

    He praises the military and you call it being a “cowboy”? Maybe you should read what you link to?!?

  • jim bronson 990cc

    WCinWI said:
    These would be credible points if Obama hadn’t made the situation worse. How many jobs did he safeguard with the Stimulus package? Why did we need a lot of those projects? Still waiting for what research of X animal could do for X economy. Do explain that. :)

    Let’s see, the majority of the US auto industry. Thus suppliers, thus restaurants, thus corner stores, etc.
    International shipping.
    Oh hell:
    http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/articles/2010/0817_stimulus_success_burtless/0817_stimulus_success_burtless.pdf

  • tiredoftherunaround

    I can see that Jon Stewart still thinks his opinion is worth something.

  • tiredoftherunaround

    grafxmail7 said:
    Man! I really get under your skin!

    You TEABAGGERS really are just a bunch of PU$$IES.

    AHAHAHAHA! CLOWN TEABAGGERS!!!

    So, you admit that you’re trolling here? Makes sense.

    Your crazy-faced avatar fits you nicely.

  • tiredoftherunaround

    TillieGlockenspiel said:
    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/7559241.html

    “Bin Laden is dead, but terrorism fight goes on
    The U.S. will prevail if resolve remains strong”
    By JAMES A. BAKER III
    FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE
    May 10, 2011, 9:37PMShare
    snip

    “There is another lesson we can learn from the Cold War as we move forward — how it concluded. In its aftermath, President George H.W. Bush would not condone triumphant celebration. Figuratively speaking, he refused to dance on the ruins of the Berlin Wall. The critics were appalled. After 40 years of intense competition, the West had won. Some demanded metaphorical “high fives.”

    “But the president’s vision was larger. Under his leadership, we built strong diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and negotiated the “mother of all soft landings” — freedom throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the reunification of Germany inside NATO, and the peaceful breakup of the Soviet Union.”

    “Today, the world is again watching to see how the United States will respond — this time to the death of Osama bin Laden. I strongly believe that we should savor this moment for what it is — a victorious step, but only one in a long journey. We should be particularly proud of the brave men and women of our military and intelligence communities who located bin Laden and then killed him. They are our best Americans, and we can all learn from their dedication and courage. We should also acknowledge the efforts of both Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush. Partisan claims of credit are more than just unseemly. They are a corrosive on the national consensus that will be necessary for us to prevail in our struggle against terrorism.”

    “This is no time to get caught up in gratuitous chest-thumping. We need to continue our efforts to build bridges to the Islamic world. Our greatest weapon against terrorism is the majority of Muslims who repudiate terrorism. The ongoing Arab Spring grants the United States a unique opportunity to support the just aspirations of citizens around North Africa and the Middle East. The people there must view the United States as a supporter of badly needed reform. That support will, of necessity, vary in type, amount and intensity from country to country depending upon the circumstances in each country and the extent of our national interest in each.”

    “Above all, however, Americans should recognize the very real possibility that we may get hit again in a devastating way. We must keep our nerve when — and not if — terrorists strike us again.”

    “A wicked man is dead. However, his wicked ideas live on. Will we defeat them? Yes. We will never be overcome by apostles of death who have nothing to offer but hate and destruction. But we will prevail only if our resolve remains strong and our focus sharp, like they were during the long decades of the Cold War.”

    “Baker is a former U.S. secretary of state. This article is excerpted from the Random House original e-book “Beyond Bin Laden,” edited by Jon Meacham.”

    Agreed!

  • Alz

    jim bronson 990cc said:
    He praises the military and you call it being a “cowboy”? Maybe you should read what you link to?!?

    Liberals generally hate the military. He’s USING the military for his own gain.

  • MrTPar_taY

    Mao-Oba would’nt have killed Osama if he’d followed his campaign bullsh@t. Fraud. Total Fraud.

  • fishchef

    OxyCon said:

    Seymour Hersh. Seriously. Seymour Hersh.

  • fishchef

    WCinWI said:
    Still waiting for what research of X animal could do for X economy. Do explain that. :)

    1/3 of the stimulus went to rebuild the infrastructure of the U.S.

  • http://Mediaite.com uggugg

    Why are oil companies charging so much for their oil? Main reason is, because they can. Why can they? Because all the oil companies formed a CARTEL, a Cartel is a group of companies joined together and cooperates to STOP COMPETETION, a sort of clever method of PRICE FIXING. There is abundance of Crude Oil and they continue to raise the price until a large number of buyers stop buying, they then lower the price again until they start buying again. “They call this what the market will bear”. The people using these barrels of oil are (captive customers) which makes the business men suppliers look like greedy hard core profiteers. This does maximize their profits but they are killing the bees that make the Honey. Do they also think; “there are plenty more bees where they came from”?
    The Gasoline prices are pretty much the same. They raise the price of a gallon of gasoline until a large number of people quit buying, then they lower the price until everyone starts buying again. This is a sensible way of arriving at a price for products not related to the necessities of life. Price gouging on products produced for the necessities of life and economic stability and progress should be classed as a heinous act and unethical in all business. On the necessities of Life, people will buy till they go broke or die. That is no civilized way of setting prices.
    The only thing greedy business men understand is legislation. Legislation is like a contract. Every business man will tell you, when doing business never work without a contract. New Legislation should be implemented and adjusted frequently to keep business fair and running smoother.

  • Tedderman

    OK, uggugg, I’ll explain this one more time. In Nov. 2000 as Bill Clinton prepared to sign his budget which finally balanced our budget and put us on a path to pay off the national debt. a sneaky group of Republicans slipped a 211 page bill into the budget at the 11Th hour. The Grahm-Leach-Bliley bill ended the functions within the Glass-Stegall act of 1934 which restricted access to commodity trading to those with an interest in commodities including oil. As you may have noticed, since 2000 we’ve had the largest swings ind increases in the oil markets that we’ve ever had. The speculators on Wall Street have found that oil futures is an easily manipulated commodity which gives them plenty of profit. All they have to do is come up with some flimsy excuse to raise the price of oil and bingo, price of oil goes up. They’ve used “reasons” as flimsy as the manager of an oil refinery getting sick in Nigeria and an Israeli general claiming they were going to bomb Iran. And in every case the price goes up. Until the Dodd-Frank bill is allowed by republicans in congress to be enacted there is little hope of reining in oil prices. The CTFC, Commodity Futures Trading Commission may be able to restore some sanity but they too have been rendered useless with the republicans in charge of financial matters. The truth is republicans want these high prices as it’s the only hope they have of defeating Obama in 2012.

  • phae

    you are out of your mind,President Obama get this Credit Stupid,He.s the sitting President,Grow up that’s why the latino,Mexicans,they are the real majority,while the Causains race bittering about Obama,;They are slipping up the ladder.their no 100%percent causians in America,You have to go Back 17 Generation,and their no 100% african american,american are mix ,with several ethnic groups,one group is beating ,the President down,do your history,30 years ago there were 100% causians,they are only in europe,and several other area of the world.not in America.check your geneology.

  • phae

    The president has to get approval,before any bills are pass,Remember,Bush mail   out the stimulus check first,Oh I forgot you spend your money.

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