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Jon Stewart Tackles The Palin “Family Media Circus”

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Various members of the Palin family have been in the news for many reasons lately, including Bristol (for Dancing With The Stars controversies and PSAs with The Situation), Willow (for Facebook fighting), and, of course, Sarah (for SPAlaska). Jon Stewart couldn’t let any of that go without comment, and used a segment on last night’s Daily Show to take a look at the craziness.

First, he looked at Bristol’s Dancing With The Stars advancement, particularly the television-shooter (he responded with the look you see above). And he didn’t seem to think the Willow/Facebook controversy was much to get worked up about – except for the fact that it made him “feel sympathy for the Palins.” As for Bristol and The Sitch promoting abstinence…well, if you don’t think it involved a “Situation Room” pun, you will be proven very, very wrong.

But the show saved the biggest production for their look at Sarah Palin’s Alaska. They lampooned the show itself a bit, but mainly gave correspondent Jason Jones a chance to show off his version of the show, “for [Stewart's] own financial gain.” Enter Jason Jones’ Bayonne [N.J.], though the location is a strange choice considering Jones is from Canada. Video of the segment below.

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  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Stewart has run out of comedy subjects. He keeps using the Palin’s to boost his ratings.

  • stoogedudes

    I agree with Stewart. All this talk about Palin’s daughters…who gives a shit? Leave them be. They are not hurting anyone (although Willow’s choices of words were indeed unfortunate, although I would have probably had unsavory language myself against anyone who spoke ill of my family).

    Let’s disagree with Mama Palin and leave the cubs alone, so to speak.

  • sarainitaly

    is anyone having trouble with the site, and the videos?

  • BlackWidow

    sarainitaly said:
    is anyone having trouble with the site, and the videos?

    No sara maybe you have worn out your welcome.

  • Moderate

    Mr. Jones, first, if you are jealous, or envious, of other people’s things it shows that you are less than grateful for the things you do have. This is not a good attitude to have. If you feel like you deserve it, then get it – but only if you are doing so based on what you want, and not out of any sense of trying to one up the Palins.

  • sarainitaly

    The site is acting funky and the vid isn’t working yet, but does Stewart blame the Palins or, rightly, the media for the media circus?

    This is hardly the first time a reality show elimination has led to an uproar or accusations of unfair play. Last year on the dancing show, Kelly Osbourne, daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, also advanced to the finals despite her often clumsy dance floor moves. And in 2009, ” American Idol’s” Kris Allen, whose strong Christian fan base was suspected of wrongfully flooded the phone banks in his favor, won the show’s top prize over critical darling Adam Lambert, who, unlike Allen, went on to pop culture success after the “Idol” stage lights faded.

    Didn’t that happen when that Reuban dude beat Clay Aiken, too?

    For their part, “Dancing with the Stars” executives dismissed the criticism of the show’s voting system. The hit dancing series relies not only on judges’ scores, but also public votes, which are averaged together to determine winners. This week’s results drew the largest number of votes ever in a semi-final for the show, now in its 11th season.

    “Who knows if the process is ideal? But what you can say is it’s fair for everyone,” said Conrad Green, the show’s executive producer, during a phone interview. “It’s very clear what you need to do to vote. You’ll find many people who are outraged didn’t vote at all. They’re casual viewers.”

    “I wish they could take a deep breath and get some perspective,” he added. “We’ve had shocking eliminations before on this season and other seasons. The voting system is exactly the same.”

    But critics charge Palin supporters found a way to exploit the network’s e-mail voting system, primarily through creating a flood of false e-mail addresses that allowed them to grossly over-vote. The show, which won’t reveal details about its voting results, permits only five votes per phone line and five per e-mail address.

    ABC officials stood by its results Wednesday. Though the network doesn’t require users to authenticate e-mail addresses, there are safeguards in place to prevent such fraud. (The Times agreed not to divulge the nature of that system for security reasons.)

    “We are confident that the checks and balances system, which has been in place since the show’s inception, accurately and fairly reflects the sentiment of the show’s viewers,” the network said in a statement.

    One of the “Dancing with the Stars” judges, Carrie Ann Inaba, offered some advice for those upset at the list of finalists, which includes Disney Channel star Kyle Massey and Jennifer Grey, who became a movie star after her hit “Dirty Dancing.” Winners are not sworn into elected office after all; they only receive a mirror ball trophy. “That’s it!” she added. “And it usually breaks.”
    http://www.latimes.com/news/la-et-1118-bristol-palin-20101118,0,222899.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+latimes/news+(L.A.+Times+-+Top+News)

  • sarainitaly

    ok, that was pretty funny. he is right that the kids should be off limits!

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Well, let’s see… Everyone knows that Bristol Palin is on the dancing show, but unless you’re a girly man with emotional issues, a shotgun, and a Playboy foldout with Obama’s face pasted over it hanging on your bathroom door, you couldn’t give a shit because you don’t watch.

    Willow’s Facebook controversy? News to me. Personally, I don’t obsess over what little girls do with their laptops.

    Which leaves Palin herself. All the other stuff is reasons to dump on her by liberal she-males and ugly liberal chicks. So what’s new? Glenn Davis and Jon Stewart might think about obtaining a life.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    The moonbat dipsquat left has seen the Palin phenomenon get out of control, when it started out simply as an exercise in Alinsky’s Rule #5. “Isolate the enemy, then ridicule it and demonize it.” Somewhere along the road to marginalization, the moonbats tried to outdo each other and ended up creating a media phenomenon, a political version of Susan Boyle, realizing that every analogy limps a bit.

    Now that Palin served as one of the icons of a movement that managed to throw the worthless hacks of Pelosi’s vile spawn out of office, the media would have second thoughts—–if it had a mind to begin with. As we can see here at Mediaite, the media exists in its own parallel universe, rarely doing anything except talking about itself—endlessly. I only visit when I’m bored or p.o.’d, but it’s always fun to bitchslap a Demonrat or two when they get too far off the planet.

  • fallenchicken

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Stewart has run out of comedy subjects. He keeps using the Palin’s to boost his ratings.

    Did you even watch the video?

    Spoiler alert:

    “No”

  • Alz

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Stewart has run out of comedy subjects. He keeps using the Palin’s to boost his ratings.

    It’s easy for the left to use Palin. They hate her because she is happy in her own skin and that she is successful. They hate that she also didn’t go through the liberal victimhood system.

    Liberals hate this because not everyone can be happy, successful or comfortable in their skin. So like with EVERYTHING else with the liberals, when someone is doing better, etc, they have to tear them down. This is why liberals find the hopelessness and despair to be ACCEPTABLE in the inner cities. As long as everyone is equally miserable, the libs are satisfied – but they continue to attack the people who are successful so they become poor and miserable too.

    Liberalism is a severe mental disorder because their actions end up hurting people over time.

  • alamo2

    Mr.Papshmer said:
    Well, let’s see… Everyone knows that Bristol Palin is on the dancing show, but unless you’re a girly man with emotional issues, a shotgun, and a Playboy foldout with Obama’s face pasted over it hanging on your bathroom door, you couldn’t give a shit because you don’t watch. Willow’s Facebook controversy? News to me. Personally, I don’t obsess over what little girls do with their laptops. Which leaves Palin herself. All the other stuff is reasons to dump on her by liberal she-males and ugly liberal chicks. So what’s new? Glenn Davis and Jon Stewart might think about obtaining a life.

    This was an assinine comment. As a typical conservative with worries about his own sexuality, you had to throw in the juvenile she-male comment, as well as the now standard right wing mantra about ugly liberals. You are a very facile, shallow child.

  • The Real Royal King

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Stewart has run out of comedy subjects. He keeps using the Palin’s to boost his ratings.

    I don’t know Marceaux, I mean Blower. He’s skewered Representative Rangel, President Obama and the Beckerhead recently. I think you must not watch the show and are emitting ignorance vapeurs.

  • The Real Royal King

    sarainitaly said:
    ok, that was pretty funny. he is right that the kids should be off limits!

    Brisket is fair game. She has thrown herself at their with television interviews, magazine articles, this DWTS trash. And she had made money off of all of this. She doesn’t fall under the momma’s protective apron any longer.

    The Drop Out Governor tried to trot Trick and Maple out on stage and hurl them into our living rooms. They largely resisted. I would say they ought not be subjected to scorn and ridicule because of their Mother’s shameless exploitation of them. A poor mother like the Drop Out Governor does not justify criticism of the child. Instead, it ought to elicit some understanding and sympathy. And, it largely has. Of course, until Maple’s homophobic and hateful Facebook screed. She has invited criticism now on her own accord.

    Cessna is a special case. She is very young. She has some real behavioral issues. Appallingly bad behavior. Yet, “but-for” the Drop Out Governor’s shameless exploitation, we wouldn’t really know about this, would we? Due to her age and the circumstances of her “outing”, I think we have to extend a level of protection to her that her mother does not do. She needs it, and she is of such an age that she can, possibly, rise above the circumstances of her mother.

    Trig does not warrant scrutiny nor criticism. I will slap down anyone who offers the same.

  • stoogedudes

    Alz said:
    It’s easy for the left to use Palin. They hate her because she is happy in her own skin and that she is successful. They hate that she also didn’t go through the liberal victimhood system. Liberals hate this because not everyone can be happy, successful or comfortable in their skin. So like with EVERYTHING else with the liberals, when someone is doing better, etc, they have to tear them down. This is why liberals find the hopelessness and despair to be ACCEPTABLE in the inner cities. As long as everyone is equally miserable, the libs are satisfied – but they continue to attack the people who are successful so they become poor and miserable too. Liberalism is a severe mental disorder because their actions end up hurting people over time.

    Oh, what utter nonsense.

    I can’t speak for all liberals, because we’re not all alike, as much as you’d like to think. Speaking for myself, however, I don’t hate Sarah Palin, just her politics. I’m not really sure I hate even her politics, just really disagree with it.

    All of your comments are so high-and-mightly, like you have some sort of profound insight on all liberals. This is the kind of thing you’d expect from Limbaugh. The fact you take yourself so seriously with nonsense like what you wrote above is simply astonishing.

    Sarah Palin is far-right and that is why liberals go after her, the same way a lot of conservatives go after Obama because they deem him far-left. If Sarah’s happy, GOOD for her!

  • Alz

    stoogedudes said:
    Oh, what utter nonsense.

    I can’t speak for all liberals, because we’re not all alike, as much as you’d like to think. Speaking for myself, however, I don’t hate Sarah Palin, just her politics. I’m not really sure I hate even her politics, just really disagree with it.

    All of your comments are so high-and-mightly, like you have some sort of profound insight on all liberals. This is the kind of thing you’d expect from Limbaugh. The fact you take yourself so seriously with nonsense like what you wrote above is simply astonishing.

    Sarah Palin is far-right and that is why liberals go after her, the same way a lot of conservatives go after Obama because they deem him far-left. If Sarah’s happy, GOOD for her!

    Sorry, I need to be clear. I’m NOT singling out every liberal, just the Modern Liberals/Progressives – the deep down ones. I’m not talking about the liberal who just votes for Democrats because of one or two issues.

    Other than that, I stand by what i said.

    You may want to watch the video called “How Modern Liberals Think” at
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c . It’s VERY good and its explains most of the mindset that I often refer to.

  • Sunnyr

    Jon Stewart needs to start paying royalties to the Republicans and Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin. His stupid show would die without these people.

  • idesign

    300 post thread……

    Sarah Palin 24/7!

    The libs can’ help themselves, She’s in their heads!

    Look at the posts here…..LOL

  • kdluhy

    watch “jesse ventura censored” before Obama’s croonies remove it from the web. They pulled it from TV because Ventura showed what Obama has in store for America. FEMA reprograming centers for political disidents & hundreds of thousands of coffins. Watch it while you still can. Vote Obuma out 2012!

  • alex020588

    2011 new style !

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