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Jon Stewart Stages An Anti-Newt Intervention For The GOP: ‘Don’t Do It’

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Thursday, Daily Show host Jon Stewart had a bit of advice for Republican primary voters: “Don’t do this.” As in, please do not elect Newt Gingrich as the GOP nominee.

“Seriously,” he continued. “I know you’re mad. I know you’re mad… der than usual. Country’s being run by a foreign-born Hawaiian radical Christian Muslim socialist who’s in the pocket of Wall Street. And sometimes Newt Gingrich can sound like the answer… But here’s the thing, here’s the thing. He’s not Reagan. He’s more of a Norman Rockwell painting of Ayn Rand kicking Jimmy Carter in the balls.”

Gingrich is what you happen, he added, if Reagan had been abandoned as a child and subsequently raised by a family of cacti.

In the spirit, Stewart spearheaded an intervention for Republicans by conservatives. Oklahoma’s Sen. Tom Coburn, for instance, finds him lacking in leadership, and former New Hampshire governor John Sununu (his name is the best of all the names) thinks Gingrich puts himself above anyone else, Republicans included. Kentucky’s Sen. Rand Paul agrees, as do a number of other Republican politicians and pundits who find him unfocused, erratic.

And there’s MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who finds Gingrich to be an all-around “bad person.”

RELATED: Bill O’Reilly And Glenn Beck Clash Over Whether Newt Gingrich Is ‘Progressive’

…Oh and there’s Glenn Beck, of course.

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  • Anonymous

    Neat.

  • us995

    where was he when Obama  was running ?

  • Anonymous

    Stewart is brilliant.

  • http://twitter.com/Hendrew Drew

    remember when nba reporters kept writting articles about where Carmelo Anthony was going to be traded to, well they did it even though everyone knew he would go to the knicks, same thing here, we all know it will be Romney but they pretend it won’t be just for stuff to write and talk about

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_C7RM2CCQUO4VVC56BAXMWCYYKQ Samsohn

    newt gingrich is CRAZY and OLD – and that is PERFECT for the Tea tards

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

    Did Paul agree to support the eventual nominee? My memory says no. Bad news for Gingrich. His verbal bombs lack the ability to unite.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Deon-Robinson/1372682939 Deon Robinson

    there is a difference between obama may be not being experience and newt just being a dick human being

  • us995

    what is the difference Obama’s thriving economy?

  • Anonymous

    Newt was fabulous in tonight’s debate. Stew you John.

  • http://www.facebook.com/RevKrazy Alexander Karandreas

    Great debate tonight. Who do you feel won?

    Poll: Who won the 12/15 Fox News Debate in Sioux City, Iowa?

    Vote: http://www.wepolls.com/p/6488640/

    Also, Wepolls.com is holding a live GOP presidential debate RIGHT NOW with Fred Karger, Gov. Gary Johnson and Gov. Buddy Roemer. To view the canidates responses visit http://www.wepolls.com 

  • us995

    still better than Obama’s epic failure

  • Anonymous

    “Please don’t run this guy who can pulverize Obama verbally. Run the mild-mannered Mormon who won’t say a nasty word about Obama even after we run all the “LOOK AT THE CRAZY CULT STUFF MORMONS BELIEVE” ads. 

    Please guys”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Economy collapsed under ‘true conservative’ and guy Republicans said was ‘chosen by God,” George W. Bush.
     Hard to take rightwing criticism on the economy seriously, as it only amounts to ‘you’re not cleaning up our mess fast enough! Let us wreck things again!”

  • Anonymous

    Jon is spot on. Even Beck came out of hiding to say he doesn’t like Newt.

  • Anonymous

    As much as you teabaggers hate Jon Stewert he’s trying to do you a favor here, wake up and listen to your own people tell you Newt is not only, not the right man, but is, in fact, a horrible human being.  When your candidate is too whacked out for even Glen ‘Freaking’ Beck to support him you have got to look arond and realize you are in a gutter.   

  • Anonymous

    Since when has ‘niceness’ become a litmus test for presidency. Last time I recall it was, GW Bush ended up in the WH on account of fantasized great beer companionship, relevant not a whit to required skillset for president of the united states

    Sometimes ‘bad’ ‘terrible’ human beings go on to accomplish and achieve
    notable milestones where the ‘nice’ ones just can’t. I give you the example of Steve Jobs, Henry Ford and perhaps Jeff Bezos for the former and current president of the united states for the later

  • Hout Bosques

    Don’t listen to this guy, baggers. Don’t listen to Stewart either. 

    You TPers know what you’re doing, you’re the only people in the country, the only people on this planet who have a fundamental understanding of what’s going on & what history & decency DEMAND that you do, which is that you MUST do is nominate Newt Gingrich. 

    Please trust me on this: the guy’s perfect for you, TPers.How can I be so crystal clear, so embued with supreme confidence in this? Easy: I got it right from the Good Book, right from the Book of Davids.(Uh, no, not actually “that” Good Book; I’m talking about the Obama Re-election 2012 play book, which is a pretty good read, as such things do; & the “Davids” to whom I refer are actually named Axelrod & Plouffe. Anyway, those 2 Davids send their regards, TPers, & their fervent best wishes that you, as they put it to me, Please … please, I’m begging you: Nominate Newt; you’d be making our children & our wives & our families & us even so … so darned happy.)  

  • Anonymous

    If your choice was a competent a-hole over an incompetent nice guy…which way would you go?

  • Anonymous

    Man..you really blew the BS alarm on that comment.  You might be able to find some one somewhere that said Bush was a “true conservative” but holistically speaking, he is considered a big-spending, big government, entitlement guy, and the “chosen by God” comment is laughable..

  • Anonymous

    Hey Look…a Fleabagger telling conservatives who they should and should not listen to…..lets all pay careful attention..

  • Anonymous

    Hillary and Obama’s bomb throwing in 2008 didn’t seem to matter, why would it now?

  • Anonymous

    Wait a second…now all of a sudden what Beck says is relevant since you agree with him this time?

  • Anonymous

    Great comment dude…reminds me of the old saying that sorta goes like:

    “Good men are rarely great, and great men are rarely good”

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

    Because Hillary’s loss did not lead to a split in the Democratic electorate. Paul supporters are likely, in large numbers, to vote for him on principal.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    After three years of throwing a hissy fit Gingrich is the best that you bonehead conservatives got?? LOL. Good luck with ALL THAT. 

  • Anonymous

    lolololololol @ you gawd dammmed wackjob gingwich supporting conservatives….if glen beck says youre idiots guess what????…..YOURE FREAKING IDIOTS….i cant wait….the media thats been kissing your dumb asses to this point is gonna paint you wingnuts as the problem and give them selves a free pass…. We’re not with them is what they will claim….they will label Iowa cacus voters as crazy, racist and nuts……..hows the view from under the bus teabaggers?????….hahahahahahahaha….the higher a monkey climbs up on a pole the better you can see its ass…..and teabagger ass aint pretty ……

  • Anonymous

    Robotic Leftist media hacks, in unison: “You…voters…Need…to…support…a…candidate…that…Obama…can…easily…beat.”

    Repeat & rinse.

  • shonangreg

    Especially when the Republicans in the Senate have been filibustering nearly everything Obama has tried to do. it is absurd to say the President can’t get the job done when you are the one obstructing him.

  • Anonymous

    Yes that’s exactly what all those republicans were doing. Uh huh makes perfect sense.

    BTW; Tom Coburn is my idea of a thinking conservative public servant. Someone worth listening to.

  • Anonymous

    You make a valid point. I’m not sure Jon was talking just about niceness.

  • Anonymous

    Good point. I could care less what GB has to say. IMO his appearence was a punchline, not a point, but the point was made.

  • Anonymous

    I see. So the campaign and Gingrich verbal skills are more important than what he might bring as president.
    Don’t you wonder why other conservatives, like Tom Coburn are objecting?

  • Anonymous

    Yes, the economy that was tanking before he took office didn’t improve quickly enough. That is epic indeed.

  • Anonymous

    too bad you didn’t listen to your own advice when voting for the fool that’s in the white house now.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, he is after the fact. After he was elected by the GOP twice and they ignored all the warning signs and and cooperated with him.

    The chosen by God is laughable but several candidates believe it as did Bush, or at least give lip service to it to manipulate religious zealots.

  • Anonymous

    That was great Jon.  That one joke was pretty low, but I forgave you when you added “we’ve all done it”

  • Anonymous

    BTW; I like Tom Coburn, but did anybody get Jon’s point about obscenity and nudity?

  • Anonymous

    the more the libs tell me not to vote for newt, the more likely i am to vote for him.

  • Anonymous

    And the other option was….??

  • http://www.facebook.com/aio.seven Aio Seven

    I’ll shout it then…..DO NOT VOTE FOR NEWT !!!

  • Anonymous

    Reading the posts you Owebumbles following sheeple put up is just plain funny, wait till you see the shellacking your gonna get next November, wave goodbye to the senate as well as the white house. I hear you can order cyanide pills on the Internet.

  • Anonymous

    An Obama supporter saying “u need moar dan verbil skilz 2 be tuh pwizzidint”

    wow.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!! I’m sure Republicans are really going to listen to Jon, even though he’s right about Newt!!

  • Anonymous

    Not what I said, but way to avoid the question.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=717384568 Anonymous

    What’s absurd is that while having a majority of his party in congress for the first half of his term joblessness rose as did the national debt and all he got done was a healthcare bill he knew would cause division and distraction.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=717384568 Anonymous

    I’d go with a competent Ron Paul.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=717384568 Anonymous

    As a “tea bagger” I’m a huge fan of Jon Stewart and I heartily agree – while Gingrich and Bachmann used the Tea Party to advance their political careers and coffers and Fox News transformed it into Jesus Frankenstein – Ron Paul, who started the Tea Party movement with his Tea Party Rally in 2007, has been consistently right and consistently constitutional.

    There is no other choice for a true Tea Partier – and anyone who calls for more unconstitutional wars while our debt looms large and there’s no evidence to support the wars is NOT a true Tea Partier.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=717384568 Anonymous

    Ron paul … oh wait he wasn’t on the glorious partisan ballot and we all know all the great things the political parties have done for us like..

    *Crickets*

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=717384568 Anonymous

    If you can look at Gingrich being called out and shown for what he is – a flip-flopping, greedy, government Whore who one second posits his work in Freddie Mac was ‘Private Enterprise’ and the next defends it as a Government Sponsored Enterprise – then you deserve 4 more years of the Status Quo and national debt (which Gingrich was all too responsible for raising by $800 Billion in his first two years)

  • Anonymous

    Sorry to say man, that if foreign policy wasn’t an issue he would be viable and exciting with his domestic idea’s.  But he basically has an isolationist perspective and I don’t think he has the right foreign policy viewpoint in today’s world.

  • Anonymous

    It amazes me how liberals, in their legendary selective and short termed memory, forget that for the first two years of this administration, their was a fillibuster proof majority in the senate and a huge majority in the house, with Reid and Pelosi at the helm of each. 

    If Obama had a plan to fix this damn economy that wouldn’t have gained GOP support, he had a grand total of 720 days to do it without any hesitation whatsoever.

    Did he?  Nope, nadda, no way, no how…..

    Do you know why he didn’t?  Because he doesn’t know how.

    Fortunately for him, a republican House is now in control, so he can sell a bill of goods to people like you as to who is to blame for our comatose economy…

  • Eagle Eye

    GINGRICH: “I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt — pretty conservative.”
    THE FACTS: In the 1996 and 1997 budget years, the first two years he served as speaker of the House of Representatives,
    the government actually ran deficits. In 1998 and 1999, the government
    ran surpluses. Two more years of surpluses followed, but Gingrich was
    gone from politics by then and had nothing to do with them.
    Moreover, the national debt went up during the four years Gingrich was speaker. In January 1995, when he became speaker, the gross national debt was $4.8 trillion. When he left four years later, it was $5.6 trillion, an increase of $800 billion.

    Those who ask, “This is the best you come up with?” Umm definitely not… NO, listen, the best thing we have is RON PAUL, I don’t care what side you are on, democrat, republican… he tells it like it is, wants to get back to the constitution where this nation started. People try so hard to fact check him to prove him wrong and they can’t. Ron Paul is the encyclopedia of American politics, he knows foreign affairs and while people think he’s “radical” he’s not, he’s simply telling the truth.

    Example
    MICHELE BACHMANN: “We have an IAEA report that just recently came out that said literally Iran is within just months of being able to obtain that (a nuclear) weapon.”
    RON PAUL: “There is no U.N. report that said that. It’s totally wrong, what you just said.”
    Bachmann: “It’s the IAEA report.”
    THE
    FACTS: As Paul said, the report of the International Atomic Energy
    Agency does not state that Iran is within months of having nuclear arms.
    The U.N. agency report does suggest that Iran conducted secret
    experiments whose sole purpose is the development of nuclear weapons but
    did not put a time frame on when Iran might succeed in building a bomb,
    and it made no final conclusion on Tehran’s intent.

    HOW WOULD HE KNOW?! Because he actually read it.

    Seriously people wake up from this land of hell, I want America how it used to be, that doesn’t mean by way of hate against any race, creed, sexual orientation, ect. We have the right to be who we want to be, deserve to be treated equal and right now we are nothing but puppets to government and the banks. Stop being a statistic and start being a voice.

  • Eagle Eye

    If you would like our national debt to increase you are more then welcome to vote for him. That means you will be be deeper in your debt hole and 4x more pissed off. Good Luck.

  • Anonymous

    To be honest the tea party has been around long before Ron Paul.  The original tea party goes back to at least the early 80′s and consisted of about twenty people who dressed in colonial garb and reinacted the Boston tea party every year to protest high taxes.  This original group was truly non-partisan and protested every year regardless of the party in power.  That original group of tea partiers has nothing to do with the rightwing nutjob teabaggers of today. 

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    By all means: DO IT THEN

  • Anonymous

    Google “Tom Coburn Schindler’s list” and all will be revealed

  • Anonymous

    Delusions are a sign of madness

  • Anonymous

    Oh I believed him. I just wonder if people got the point Jon was making about what constitutes profanity. Some people are turned off by vulgar language but fail to see the obscenity that often exists in polite society.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for this post. Actual relevant information. What a nice change for these threads.

    I like RP. I don’t agree with him on everything but we desperately need more honest people who examine the facts and aren’t afraid to say what they think. Professional politicians get so into the game of politics they place facts and public service as a lower priority that winning the game, protecting their jobs and those who finance them.

  • Anonymous

    well that sure saves on thinking doesn’t it?

  • Just Ed

    Stewart has gone from being a comedian to pundit and now just a cheap-shot punk.  He might as well use hand puppets, oh wait he IS a leftist hand puppet. 

    Yes, Gingrich is a AH, but it would be worthwhile nominating him just to watch a few debates with Obama.  Gingrich certainly wouldn’t pull any punches about his opinions of the current President.  Could Obama handle such a debate???

  • Anonymous

    I know moose, I feel bad for them.

  • Anonymous

    It would be fun to watch the media freakout over Gingrich winning the nomination.  But in a few weeks, Romney will win Iowa and New Hampshire and Newt will be scrambling for cover.  Sorry, liberals.

  • Anonymous

    While complaining about all the welfare queens sucking off the Gov teet in the 90′s. Merietta GA , the district that Newt represented received more government money that any other district outside of the DC area. A liar and hypocrite the perfect GOP candidate.

  • LJB57

    Someone should tell the dweb, Jon Lieborewitless, that Republicans don’t take advice from their Enemies.

    …the reason they never show Jon’s audience, is because they are all under 16 and eating their free bowl of Icecream.

  • Anonymous

    You’re not very smart, are you?

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul 2012!

  • Eagle Eye

    The issue would be there would be NO DEBATE. Gingrich IS the “republican” version of Obama and the furthest thing from conservative as anyone has seen. Please… please for the love of your country look at facts not garbage on talk shows or as I like to call them ramble shows, ramble on for days talking about nothing. Look up his positions from the moment he became to politician to now, including debates, conferences, what he’s voted for then tell me he would have anything to debate Obama on. The only reason Gingrich has no “recent dirt” is because he was out of the game and anything anyone has to go off of now is what he yammers on about in current debates trying tease the polls.

    The only reason anyone over 40 would vote for him is because they remember he “balanced the budget” as speaker which as I stated before your post in my own that he in fact did the opposite.

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