Very well done, Jon. This vigorous skewering is likely to garner far more attention from the White House than all of the vacuous whining the Douchey, the Gretch, Glen(n), Sean and Greta have mustered. Very odd that our best news coverage comes from a comedian these days, but well done nonetheless.

HA HA HA..the honeymoon’s over. She’s shittin while you’re shavin..it’s all downhill from here, chumps.

I don’t need John Stewart to tell me what most in America already know… we have a world class bullshit artist that is in over his head and not a clue how to lead or manage a crises much less a country.

Or, it’s all up hill. When the message gets through, things often start improving. However, don’t let me destroy the joy you take in being happy about things going wrong in America.

All of the upbeat, positive people are waking up to spread their joy and to share their confidence in America and Americans.

Much like you and your ilk did throughout the “Bush Years”. Remember your boy harry reid telling us the war was lost, on the floor of the fuckin senate? Bet you were feeling the joy then..

I thought you spelled it Amerika, king.

Nice to hear you admit things are going wrong for America, thanks to you guys for voting that into reality for the rest of us..

This was pretty funny, although I don’t view The Daily Show as a news source like King. It’s a comedy shows that makes light of political situations – situations that are…well…complicated. Oh…damn…that’s catchy.

It’s very sad what is happening to the Gulf. I live very close to it in texas, I grew up on one of the bays. This is going to be a problem for years. The intermingling of government and corporations, i.e. corporatism has caused this and exasperated the problem.

Well Rahm, opps I mean RRK, has turned against Obama. Obama is about to bring down the democrat party. Palin is leading the republicans back. Stick it to Snowe and Collins with real republican women.

It’s “Amerika” when I refer to the police state that so many “Amerikans”, of both political persuasions, seem to want to create to further their narrow political ideology. So, to Righter, to you Me1Ranger and to some others, I use “Amerika”. When I speak of people, including people with view very different than mine, but who wish to remain faithful to our Constitution and our other abiding principles and who have the firm conviction that their is something noble and graceful in our unfolding experience, people like LNR and sometimes INB and others, I use “America”. I find it a handy shorthand.

{The Real Royal King says:
June 9, 2010 at 8:17 am
Very well done, Jon. This vigorous skewering is likely to garner far more attention from the White House than all of the vacuous whining the Douchey, the Gretch, Glen(n), Sean and Greta have mustered. Very odd that our best news coverage comes from a comedian these days, but well done nonetheless.}

I think you’re right in that the white house will pay more attention to John Stewart than anyone else. Anybody else find it rather frightening that the white house pays more attention to comedy central than the frickin’ problem at hand?

I wonder what time tee-off is today?

It’s very sad what is happening to the Gulf. I live very close to it in texas, I grew up on one of the bays. This is going to be a problem for years. The intermingling of government and corporations, i.e. corporatism has caused this and exasperated the problem.

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The extent of the problem is certainly a new phenomenon. I know there was a mini-panic yesterday when we got the false reports that oil-soaked birds were coming ashore at Bolivar. But, we have been dealing with this problem for years, haven’t we? I well remember going to the Coast in the 70′s and 80′s, coming out of the water and having to remove tar balls from my feet. Some of the upscale beaches even had tar remover dispensers installed. Then, the blame was usually tankers getting off-shore and flushing their holds. I never did determine if that was true. But, it is a most worrisome problem.

King, there is a glint of sanity in your words. If what you say is true, then we live in ‘Amerika” today..more than anytime in our recent history. Thanks to high-minded pee-holes like you.

God I Love Jon, He is a fresh voice in all this craziness…

King,

The Tar Balls issue is actually part natural. The gulf is full of oil, as it actually can seep to the surface and into the water, and eventually make its way to the shore. When the Spanish first arrived to this area, they wrote of the tar balls and how they used it to plug leaks in their Galleons. While I don’t claim this is the only source, it is a natural event.

gordonbloyershow says:
June 9, 2010 at 8:52 am

Well Rahm, opps I mean RRK, has turned against Obama.

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So, in your view, disagreeing with a political or ideological position or simply finding fault in a process is “turning against”? Not hardly. At least, not for me. I know of no one with whom I agree all of the time, and politics, by its very nature, involves some compromises I’d sooner not make.

And, Palin is leading the Republicans back? That should be very good news for Democratic party activists. It doesn’t seem to me that Ms. Palin and her group of Amerikans did very well yesterday. They got clobbered in Virginia, and they probably ensured Harry Reid’s re-election in Nevada, thanks largely to the imploding chicken lady. True, Palin’s adulteress soulmate in South Carolina made it into the primary run-off, after falling short of expectations yesterday. But, is South Carolina going to lead us. Seems that the one time in our history South Carolina did lead at least some of our nation, the results were disastrous. Keep up the good thoughts.

I do have to admit, Blower, I envy your simplicity. Everything is always monochrome, no distracting shades of even muted color. It must make for a very easy life.

King lives in the grey..no right or wrong, no good or evil, no black or white. Kind of reminds me of the guy he put in the white house for us..

TRRK “True, Palin’s adulteress soulmate in South Carolina made it into the primary run-off, after falling short of expectations yesterday.”

Any proof yet on that “adultery” thing, oh wise one?

Gordon..I live in Maine and I promise you guys Snowe is gone when her term is done. We’re keeping Collins though, she’s a neighbor and she did good work as chair on the armed services comm. She gets a pass..

King wrote:

“and they probably ensured Harry Reid’s re-election in Nevada, thanks largely to the imploding chicken lady.”

I’m not sure who the “chicken lady” is as I’m not up to the recent personal attacks. However, be careful about such statements because poll after poll has Harry Reid losing when compared to every single GOP candidate.

The latest Polls have the following with Angle/Reid match up: 44/41-LVRMason-Dixon and 48/40 Rasmussen.
However, Daily/Kos (I know I thought I’d throw this in there) has Reid up by only 6 points.

Dkos Research 2000 is a cheer lead pollster – no credibility.

I agree about reading to much into the projections at this point, LNR. In fact, polling at this stage, in any race, is little more than a matter of idle curiosity.

The Chicken Lady is the self-imploding Sue Lowden, the hands-on front runner in the GOP primary in Nevada. The one who suggested that the solution to our health care crisis was bartering. She used the example of a chicken as suitable payment for medical services. The winner, Sharron Angle, is giving the hapless Senator Reid so much ammunition for the fall campaign, that I suspect the winner will be bloodied.

I would certainly hope that if Reid does win, he would not return as Majority Leader. I have always been unimpressed with him.

Haley Barbour is absolutely correct. Tar balls, from are a natural phenomenom along many parts of the Gulf coast.

Gov. Barbour is just trying to set the record straight, because thecorrupt media will not report honestly. The media puts out BS propaganda which is swallowed hook, line and sinker by the idiot leftards

King, you’re lying. She never said that was her answer to health care. She was harkening back to a simpler time in our country when one would trade their talents for the goods and/or services of another. Her statement was bemoaning the lack of personal contact we so often confront when dealing with large entities such as government or insurance companies. Why do you move out of your ‘grey’ world and not see the nuance in her statement?Hypocrite much..

Barney, Barney, Barney. Where to begin to deal with such bitter crippling hatred. And to expend it on Haley Barbour, a man whose only discernible talent is being able to waddle up to the federal trough and push the other feeding pigs out of the way. Tar balls isn’t the real issue in Mississippi or the parts of the Gulf suffering through this man-made calamity, is it? Barbour’s only concern, as was so evident during Katrina, is keeping hapless people coming into the tacky Mississippi casinos. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t gamble. Never. I don’t even buy lottery tickets. Not on any great principle. I’m just not foolish. By the same token, I have never been one to stand in the way of a fool separating money from himself. Let’s just be honest about Barbour’s motives here. I think you can even make a good argument that Barbour’s efforts to separate fools from their money in Mississippi protects the state’s interest. He is simply being a governor. But, let’s not go into some Holocaust Denial-like argument about the on-going disaster. It is tawdry.

Now, continue with your hate-filled screeds.

Well, Me1Ranger, it appears the Republican voters in Nevada thought my argument the better one.

@The Real Royal King

Have a comprehension problem, do ya? Who is “expending” hatred on Barbour.

Barbour is simply countering the lies of the jug-eared idiot and the media. The state of MS is heavily dependent on tourism…especially in this job-killing Age of Obama. The beaches there are beautiful, and are a major draw.

With regard to the casinos in MS, the majority of them are actually a couple of hundred miles from the beach in Tunica.

Gotta hand it to ya, you’re not afarid to look stupid again and again…and again.

BTW..have you heard about your buddy Helen Thomas?

As far as gambling is concerned, quit trying to force your morality onto others. You’re worse than the Bible-thumping evangelicals.

Oh..and just FYI..over the past 10 years or so, my net gambling winnings are probably close to $100 k. I loves me some Blackjack..and I have a good memory, if you know what I mean

BHO to Rahm: “Once we lose Jon Stewart, we lose the nation.”

Jon you were great.

Thanks for taking BHO’s inventory.

Now King has proudly sided with Tea Partiers, what will his wind-sock driven set of principles lead him to next? Can’t wait to hear..keep talking o’ wise one.

I’ve been through MS many times, always been delighted with the warm welcoming nature of that state. I’d rather deal with them than some pretentious “A-hole” from NY or LA. The beaches are nice, the waters warm and the fishing good. I hope that state doesn’t take too much damage.

As far as gambling is concerned, quit trying to force your morality onto others. You’re worse than the Bible-thumping evangelicals.

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I specifically said I was pleased to see the fools and their money separate. Under what scheme is that forcing my morality? I even said I didn’t adopt my position on principle. I’m just cheap. Is that some indicia of morality to you?

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Liberty – Not Redistribution says:
June 9, 2010 at 10:38 am

I’ve been through MS many times, always been delighted with the warm welcoming nature of that state. I’d rather deal with them than some pretentious “A-hole” from NY or LA. The beaches are nice, the waters warm and the fishing good. I hope that state doesn’t take too much damage.

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I like New Yorkers, and I tolerate Los Angelinos and love Mississippi. I find people in southern Louisiana quirky, fun and an important ingredient in our cultural stew. Mississippi is in many way, a rich cultural and artistic resource in our nation. Southern and American literature, without Mississippi would be rather shallow and hollow. Mississippi has also had a tolerance for tolerance absent in other Deep South states. To be sure, not all Mississippians are tolerant, but there has long been a strong progressive presence there. As a Texan and an American, a loss in Louisiana and in Mississippi is a loss I feel. As for Alabama and Georgia ….

I hope the King will remember, a southern man don’t need him around anyhow. LOL So if Fox comments on Obama, it’s whining, but if Stewart does it, he’s being very astute. By the way, King, is your buddy Farrakhan, whom you can’t comment on if he isn’t present, an American or an Amerikan? And King, glad to see this tear jerking spate of patriotism coming from you. Most times when anyone says anything positive about this country, you rush in to tell us how far superior others are to us. You even knock your own religion (Look at the Crusades!!) to Islam. What a freakin’ hypocrite.

Good one writer…

Farrakhan? At the very best, an Amerikan.

The Crusades? Who better to criticize the Church than an adherent? My mother raised no fools, and the Crusades were a dark, ugly shameful part of the Church’s history. If that offends you, I’m fine with that.

Why did the muslims attack Jerusalem, King? I told you, my ancesters didn’t walk all that way to kick their asses ,twice, for nothing. The inquisition I’ll give you, but the Crusades were jusfified.

Then, I’m sure you’ll enjoy the Children’s Crusades:

http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/children.html

King, if Islam is the religion of peace and you’re so ashamed of the Crusades, why don’t you convert? And I’ve told you before, if you’re going to slam entire states such as Alabama and Georgia, you need to specify that you only hate the white people living there. Otherwise you could be mistaken for a bigot.

ready from day one?

Obviously not.

The idea that any numnut fool actually believed he was – when he had no experience running anything or in governing (outside of a PT gig as a state legislator and a very PT gig as a US Senator for a few months) just shows how stupid and vain the Obotic crowd was when they chose this arrogant egoist over the incredibly qualified and able Clintons (buy one get one free) during the primaries.

But these fools Im sure had their reasons…(but Im sure their “complicated” too)

But this is another red letter day in the downfall of “the One”.. First he drops to 45% approval in the gallup poll (46% disapproval) and now he seems to have Stewart coming to grips with Obama’s failure as a leader and a President. If and when Obama conpletely loses Stewart – Obama’s Presidency is toast…the pile on from the MSM DC media will be unending. If Jon shows its “cool” to mock Obama – the DC press people will all join in and there will be no way back for Barry.

And if the GOP wins back the Congress and the right and power to hold investigative hearings on the Administration – forget about it – his presidency will be skunked – he and his admin do not have the skills or smarts to handle that kind of endless horror – so it seems very possible – even though the CV wisdom now says no – that there will have to be a serious consideration about Obama making his threat to leave after one term and not run again – a real possibility.

FINGERS CROSSED!

Well, Righter, I just can’t do that. There is a gate attendant at ATL who is African-American and the rudest most inept person I have dealt with in years. In fact, ATL has some of rudest and most inept employees and some the most polite and skillful I have ever encountered. They are White, African-American, Hispanic and pretty much every other classification.

King, interesting story you linked..I stand by my statement that the Crusades were just. Young children feeling the calling to fight for what they believe is right makes my point better than yours. I bet you like this “tale” because the little white kids fail at their mission and are vanquished by the Africans and the muslims..bet you used to ask to have that be read as your bedtime story.

As long as you’re not stereotyping entire states based on the actions of a few. I know how much you hate stereotyping.

Actually Me1Ranger, my bedtime stories all came from various saints’ anthologies. I was much drawn to St. John of the Cross and St. Ignatius de Loyola. When I went away to boarding school, this continued as dinner readings. No bedtime stories.

Do you sip sherry with your pinky up, King?

So it wasn’t till years later that you held a grudge about the Crusades? You brought up the Crusades and said that Islam is the religion of peace. What’s the hold up? Convert. It’s like the way you’re always knocking this country and claim to be out traveling the world all the time, yet you won’t relocate. Are you a masochist? You seem to keep staying in these situations that you don’t like.

I still can’t help but think TRRK is really just a college student yanking everyones chain.

Yeah Tim..I get the feeling that he is mostly show and no go. He’s not stupid, just misguided. Oh shit, did I just say something nice about our King.

@Writer

I’m sure that King is sorry that he doesn’t meet your guidelines for absolute, silent obedience. I don’t think you are in any position to demand someone ‘convert’ because they chose to be critical of their own religion.

Stephen, I’m sure what impressed you most was the completely non-partisan tone of all the King’s posts. You have hitched your wagon to a shining star.

me1ranger says:
June 9, 2010 at 12:12 pm

Do you sip sherry with your pinky up, King?

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No. Only tea. Preferably a nice Lapsang Souchong with a thin slice of Meyer lemon in a Royal Worcester Evesham Gold tea cup.

Writer: No, partisanship has nothing to do with this. I just don’t tolerate it when someone doesn’t respect another’s freedom to worship as they see fit. I’m sorry, but I really don’t think you have authority to tell someone to ‘convert’ to another religion because they don’t blindly accept that theirs is perfect.

Yeah, Stephen. Like I have the power to make the King ‘convert’. I’m just pointing out his hypocrisy when he praises Islam and criticizes his own religion. The King reminds me of that old joke where a guy keeps bitching about what’s packed in his lunch box. When someone says, ‘Why don’t you ask your wife to pack something else?’, the guy replies, “I’m not married.” That’s what I’m getting at, Stephen.

The Real Royal King says:
June 9, 2010 at 1:15 pm
“No. Only tea. Preferably a nice Lapsang Souchong with a thin slice of Meyer lemon in a Royal Worcester Evesham Gold tea cup.”

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Not so much Kin(g) then , more effete prince.

http://agonyofeffete.com/post/321646914

Finally. Liberals are starting to understand that the inefficeint bureacracy associate with a bloated government are INCAPABLE OF FIXING COMPLICATED PROBLEMS. Unfortunately, Stewart (and his like) will continue to believe/follow/vote those same idiots who recommend huge government programs to “fix” our problems.

Writer: You are deliberately misinterpreting my words. I never said you had the ‘power’ to make him convert, I said you were making demands for him to do so. Two different things.

And you might want to look up the definition of hypocrisy. Hypocrisy occurs when your actions are inconsistent with your professed beliefs and virtues. This is like a ‘family-values’ politician getting caught having an affair. Criticizing your own religion and praising another is not hypocrisy.

Some say effete, while others might say effeminate and foppish.

Stephen, I prefer to think I was offering the King a way out of his predicament. Let me try an example you might understand. Let’s say you’re constantly bitching about the house you live in, and see the one next door as much better. Then one day the house next door comes up for sale and you’ve got plenty of money to get it. But instead, you stay in the one you hate and keep complaining about it. Make much sense?

The Real Royal King says:
June 9, 2010 at 11:30 am

Farrakhan? At the very best, an Amerikan.

The Crusades? Who better to criticize the Church than an adherent? My mother raised no fools, and the Crusades were a dark, ugly shameful part of the Church’s history. If that offends you, I’m fine with that.”

That’s all you have king?

Something from centuries ago when all religions were killing people in the name of faith?

How about WWI when the peace loving Muslim Turks committed genocide on the Armenians? Or their terrorism attacks since the 1990s?

… or organized Christianity’s complicity in slavery and in the massacres of indigenous peoples.

… or organized Christianity’s complicity (or, the ignoring of) the Holocaust.

… or Mormonism’s massacre of Christians at Mountain Meadow.

We can have a talk about how non-Christian and non-Mormon religions have engaged in such deplorable conduct, all in the name of God, of course, anytime you wish, John.

@Writer

Even with your condescending tone, you cannot provide a good example of a hypocritical act. Your ‘man and the house’ story does not illustrate hypocrisy.

Oh yes, king, religion was responsible for the majority of evil and deaths in the world and most wars with the following minor exceptions: (Deep breath) The Second Congo War, the Gulf War, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, World War II, the Russo-Finish War, the Sino-Japanese war ,World War I, the Russo-Japanese War, the Boer War, the Spanish-American war, the Spanish Civil War , the US Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars, Stalin’s murder of millions , Mao’s killing of over 50 million, etc, etc.”

How’s this for the King’s hypocrisy, Stephen. In some posts he claims how important his religion is to him. Then he goes on to mock and stereotype anyone who disagrees with him. So is his church condoning that behavior, or is he being a hypocrite? As for praising Islam while condemning his own church, I’ll give you that one. It’s not so much hypocrisy in that case as possible masochism. Church attendance is voluntary. Seems to me that if you’re always pointing out good things about one and criticizing another, you’d leave the one you’re criticizing and go attend the one you’re praising. That doesn’t make sense to you? Or is it that since the King is a fellow left winger, you have to defend anything he says, no matter how little sense it makes?

Writer: It is only hypocritical if he criticizes someone else for mocking and then he proceeds to mock another person in the same way at a later point.

I don’t know a single person who follows their religion absolutely and completely. I don’t think it is possible. That would assume that there is a true, definite, objective form of that religion with absolute and complete boundaries, and that simply isn’t the case. Case in point: Protestantism.

And I think it is a good thing to be critical of your own faith, or country, or loved ones for that matter. If there is not a critical intimate voice, how will they improve themselves?

Hey King, aren’t you mad at the coastal blacks in Africa as well? It was they who traded their inland brothers to the Dutch and Portuguese traders that brought the slaves to ‘Amerika’. I’m sure they piss you off..Also, the indigenous people on this continent hated the other tribes so much that they let a couple thousand Europeans have their way with them even though they had them out numbered a million to one at the beginning. Blame all of humanity for our greed, regardless of any religous affinity.

Stephen, you’re getting too hung up on the semantics. Okay, it’s not hypocrisy. It’s stupidity to stay in a situation you don’t like when you can leave at any time. The King has praised Islam and criticized Christianity. Church attendance is completely voluntary. If the King is attending a church he has disagreements with, and he sees another church as being better, then why stay in the one he criticizes? Is someone making him go there? Once more, Stephen, okay. It’s not hypocrisy. It’s either stupidity, or masochism, or a combination of both.

me1ranger says:
June 9, 2010 at 2:28 pm

Hey King, aren’t you mad at the coastal blacks in Africa as well? It was they who traded their inland brothers to the Dutch and Portuguese traders that brought the slaves to ‘Amerika’. I’m sure they piss you off..Also, the indigenous people on this continent hated the other tribes so much that they let a couple thousand Europeans have their way with them even though they had them out numbered a million to one at the beginning. Blame all of humanity for our greed, regardless of any religous affinity.

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Well, that changes everything. I am so relieved we Norte Americanos has no role in slavery or in the indigenous peoples genocide.

So, was England responsible for the Civil War? I hope so!

King..the Spanish conquest of S.America was for gold and goods. A terrible tradgedy I grant you that, but the settlers in N.America were just that, settlers not conquistadors. I hate slavery, but for our young country to get on the map and join the world community, they had to develope their resources and jump into the trade markets, or someone else would have. They had themselves, a couple of kids and millions of fertile acres to work. Slavery wasn’t invented by early Americans, but fighting a war and losing 500,000 lives to free them was. Remember that, that’s why this country is great.

“The Real Royal King says:
June 9, 2010 at 11:30 am
Farrakhan? At the very best, an Amerikan.

The Crusades? Who better to criticize the Church than an adherent? My mother raised no fools, and the Crusades were a dark, ugly shameful part of the Church’s history. If that offends you, I’m fine with that.”

Sounds like the real racist king is being dishonest about why the First Crusade started. I guess the racist can’t really win an arguement without lying. Pity.

and they said comedians were gonna dry up on their political bits after g w

“The intermingling of government and corporations, i.e. corporatism has caused this and exasperated the problem.”

AMEN

@gordon…….”Obama is about to bring down the democrat party”
Perhaps, but so are all the other corporatist blue dogs:lincoln, landereiu,lieberman,baucus and the fake progressives:reid,dodd,schummer,pelosi

“Palin is leading the republicans back.”
hahaha ha thats a good one! your absolutely right,.and after they do that, they’ll impeach her back to the kitchen. ha ha