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Jon Stewart’s GOP Debate Recap: ‘A Mormon Gambling With An Evangelical Over Who’s The Bigger Liar’

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This Saturday marked yet another soundbite-riddled Republican presidential debate, one Jon Stewart recapped as one of the worst for Mitt Romney. From the grave mistake of attacking Newt Gingrich‘s “one awesome idea” (establishing a permanent lunar colony) to the bet heard around the blogosphere, it was not entirely Romney’s night in Stewart’s eyes.

RELATED: Wait What?! Romney Comes Out Swinging Against Gingrich’s ‘Permanent Lunar Colony’ Plan

Stewart ribbed at the fact that it took Romney so long to come up with a disagreement with Gingrich, only to then attack the “permanent lunar colony.” “Gingrich is a life support system for bad ideas… and you reach in and pick out his one awesome idea,” Stewart joked. He then turned to Rep. Ron Paul, and noted that he did so well “the media that normally acts like Ron Paul is wearing one of those cloaks of invisibility invited him on a Sunday show.”

Stewart turned once again to Romney, however, because of the most memorable comment of the night: Romney’s $10,000 bet over the text of his book. “A Mormon gambling with an Evangelical over who’s the bigger liar– are there any commandments left?” Stewart joked.

Stewart then brought on correspondent John Oliver to explain what Romney’s problems were. Oliver offered that “everything about Romney tells the tale of a man who just fired your dad,” joked that every candidate has an Achilles’ heel (Perry couldn’t count to three, of course), and concluded that Romney’s path to victory was “embracing his inner rich douche.”

RELATED: Gamblin’ Man: Romney Challenges Rick Perry To $10,000 Bet During GOP Debate

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  • Tucsonense

    Ok here we go………………..I want to remind you republicans/teabaggers/conservatives……………………this is SATIRE

  • Anonymous

    Spot On!

  • 12voltman1

    Once again Jon is spot on!

  • Tucsonense

    Go get a job/life and quit spreading that silly stuff around. Did you make that palins dirty secret webapage or did you find it, and how come you keep changing your log in names????

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

    Best analysis on TV comes from a comedy show.

  • 12voltman1

    Is that really you picture that you use on your avatar or is it some kind ofincommunicado  photo?

  • 12voltman1

    Ne

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

    The obvious defense for Mitt is to compare Newt to the disastrous Delaware GOP train wreck nomination of Christine O’Donnell.
    The only problem is that Mitt stupidly accepted Miss Not-a-Witch’s endorsement and cash, so that avenue is now closed to him.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GVWU6V6ORHYQ57UOHAEI52XTVU Dennis

    Jon Stewart is the only person that makes me consider renouncing my Republican status

  • Anonymous

    Great stuff.  PS: Ron Paul 2012!

  • Anonymous

    Newt and the Donald don’t have that effect on you?

  • us995

    she probaly made Obama’s but they had to shut it down

  • Anonymous

    Go for it, but before you do, vote for Ron Paul in you local caucus or primary ;)

    I want to screw over the Republicans sooo bad. I’m registered and ready.

  • Anonymous

    Jon has been really cool with Paul. I’m thankful for that. You guys can’t even begin to believe the blatant media attempt to undermine. I mean, this should be ringing bells. Aside from the fact that he’s the only one who isn’t getting corporate money, but instead small grassroots money and military servicemen donations. 

    Just this alone should tell you that he is the man the establishment doesn’t want you to even consider.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t understand how people in the news do not get that Jon Stewart is merely showing how ridiculous they are.  That Ron Paul interview on meet the press was just weird to me, acting as if Ron Paul was some paid contributor to come on the show to talk about the over hyping of Gingrich and Romney, Ron Paul deserves more respect than that. Our media is such a joke. This is why Jon Stewart is given credibility because all he is doing is poking fun at what is going on in the news.

  • OSTL

    r u that desperate?

  • OSTL

    really? I thought you loons considered lebow hard core news…

  • Levi

    Jon Stewart, a comedian, the only one to give Paul a chance, how unfortunately ironic.

  • Tucsonense

    we keep telling you but…………………………….you can’t UNDERSTAND ………or something

  • http://www.facebook.com/marcalvira Marc Alvira

    Ron Paul 2012!!!

  • OSTL

    one day he’s news and the next day he’s a “comedian”…bla, bla, bla

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul 2012!!!

  • Tucsonense

    Maybe you shouldn’t believe everything you see on TV

  • Tarik Toulan

    Without a second thought, Ron Paul is the one who America just needs at this stage. 

  • Anonymous

    Track Record and Substance
    OVER Rhetoric and Flip Flopping.Ron Paul 2012

  • Hout Bosques

    Mittens is on a frickin’ ROLL, man:

    http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2011/12/romney-using-kkk-slogan-steve-benen.html

    Yeah, baby – just like it was Bill the Butcher & The Bowery Boys in 1852, 
    now it’s Mitt the Scutcher & the KKK in 2012.

    (Scutcher – look it up; it’s what he does.)

  • Gloves J. Donahue

    Jon Stewart’s GOP Debate Recap: ‘A Mormon Gambling With An Evangelical Over Who’s The Bigger Liar’

    Recap of the tired old Daily Show:

    TV Clown Still Making Faces and Reading Boring Lines Churned Out by Platoon of Lefties in the Back Room, While Ignoring Hapless Boob in the White House Asking # 1 Enemy if We Please Could Have Our Spy Drone Back, Pretty Please?

  • Hout Bosques

    Yeah, an America under Ron Paul is an America returned to its nativist roots:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLKbcrC0krQ

    Who trusted the GOP was love indeedAnd love Creationism’s final lawTho’ Nature, red in tooth and clawWith ravine, shriek’d against his creed

  • Anonymous

    Newt would likely threaten a nuclear attack to get it back. How about you, gloves, what would you do?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LURAM6LPYOGWDSVJUW3JYXYKDI Bob Segget

    What a stupid and baseless statement you made. Ron Paul would not FORCE his views onto people. I find it funny people like you keep confusing his personal beliefs and what he would actually do as president. Do a little research before you go and make baseless assumptions. The man is the only person who isn’t bought off as a politician running…http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/billionaire-donors/2011/12/05/gIQAa3spXO_graphic.html

  • Gloves W. Donahue

    Barry has a 3 point plan worked out for getting the drone back:

    1.) Escalate request to ” Pretty please with sugar on it, can we have our drone back?

    2.) Invite Ahmadinejad to White House party and concert featuring Iranian Rap Artists and ask him to bring drone with him, ” Hey, man. It would be a cool centerpiece !”

    3.) Send in Batman.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Sounds like the tired old Daily Show really struck a nerve. :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Not sure Ron Paul would agree with your hawkish approach to foreign policy. 

    If something from Iran crashed on American soil it would be a cold day at Fox News before we gave it back.

    Grow up peeps.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Who is the biggest liar between Willard and Tollbooth? Demonstrably, Tollbooth.

  • Anonymous

    Who is the bigger liar – what a good question.  Is it Holder or Obama….both knew about Fast and Furious and both have lied about knowing.

    I wonder why Jon doesn’t ever worry about the liars on the left?  Oh wait a minute, he is one!  No wonder.

    Yawn.

  • Anonymous

    I hope you recover soon from your bout of paranoid delusions.

  • Anonymous

    Yawn back at you Tina…same old same old from you.

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    Yea, there should have been an atheist lib in the debate.

    No contest on whom would be the biggest liar then.

  • Anonymous

    oh yes..because as we all know liberals are liars and those that don’t believe in the man in the sky are the biggest liars of all.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    It’s frustrating, isn’t it, F&F never seems to have gained the traction you predicted. Must really stink being you.

  • Anonymous

    RON PAUL 2012!!!!

  • Philip Petracca

    John pretty much nailed this one – Perry = idiot, Romney = Elite Rich Liar on the side of big banks and Wall St (just look at his campaign donations, says it all), Newt = another liar that can not be trusted and all out for himself, and then you have Ron Paul = the voice of reason and sanity and the only qualified candidate for President!

    Ron Paul 2012!

  • http://twitter.com/Screaming_Head The Screaming Head

    Republicans have a lot of nerve…posing as politicians! Will Mitt take it from Newt? We will see!

    http://alturl.com/c6e4s

  • http://twitter.com/philoec Nora Smith

    These couple of jokes are throwing a great show, but aren’t both from the same vine? After 1517 I do not whom to believe!
    RONPAUL2012 IS THE SOLUTION TO CONFUSION!!!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, how dare he try to use diplomacy!!  Shoot!!! Launch!!! Shoot!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Yes because beliefs about whether God exists and your political point of view are the same thing as facts. 

  • http://al-gored.myopenid.com/ Al Gored

    “man in the sky”

    I love that description.

  • Anonymous

    So our drone crashed while we were spying on them, and they have no right at all to keep it. Is that it?

    President Obama should just say “give it back or we’re coming to get it” is that it? Is that what a real American would do?

  • Anonymous

    I like Ron and respect his honesty. I also caught some of the Huntsman Gingrich debate on C-Span and felt Huntsman was more presidential than Perry or Romney and doesn’t have the baggage that Gingrich has.

  • Anonymous

    And a President Paul would still have congress to deal with.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, it’s satire. Thank you Captain Obvious. But satire and humor is oftentimes used to reveal truth. Jon Stewart is trying to influence people with comedy.

    Does employing the term “teabagger” pass for wit in troglodyte circles?

    Okay, here we go…the above post was NOT satire :)

  • Anonymous

    Look everyone, the statist knows how to use ellipses. The next thing you know it will be able to form complete paragraphs!

  • Anonymous

    Maybe you should watch less t.v. and read more books?

  • Anonymous

    I think Newt and Willard to a pretty good impersonation of the current president. Some don’t quite grasp that the party establishments are basically the same. You can continue in your delusion if you wish. By all means, carry on…

  • Anonymous

    I agree. Let’s not have any immigration laws at all. It shouldn’t be controlled. People should be allowed to freely come into this country in waves of millions, then set up communities where they have no desire to assimilate. Balkanization is great! Multiculturalism is working out so wonderfully.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, but that is true with any president. That is hardly a disqualifier. People who say that sort of thing are just looking for a reason not to support Paul.

  • Anonymous

    Who cares if other people write his material. It’s hard to do a 30-minute show 4 days a week, especially when it has to be on current topics. I think the show does a great job of lampooning the entire political class. I don’t agree with all of Jon’s politics, but he is intellectually honest. He has an open-mind.

    Ron Paul 2012 :)

  • Anonymous

    Yes, but neither can hold a candle to the Gingrich that Stole Taxpayer Money. He is in a league of his own.

  • http://twitter.com/Desnoxvu Gerald

    Exactly. Satire uses the truth to show how absurd people and things are.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, and I just realized that I should have used the verb “are” after humor and not “is.” Oops!

  • Anonymous

    Of course. What I meant was that while I don’t agree with all Paul’s positions I still very much appreciate his honesty especially on certain topics, and I think congress would temper what he could actually do, and we’d at least be having the right conversation.

  • Anonymous

    Not surprising, since one of the main recurring themes of his show is how all the ”hard news” outlets march in lockstep with each other, particularly when they behave badly. 

  • Gloves W. Donahue

    Read slower, genius. Try to comprehend.

  • Anonymous

    The only thing I didnt 100% agree with Ron Paul was our Foreign Policy until I watch a few videos like the following..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvrlGhdQZac

    Now there is NO WAY I would EVER vote for anyone else but Ron Paul in 2012… Sorry.  I’m not voting to just “defeat” Zer0-Bama. 

  • Anonymous

    Way to let your douche bag liberal colors shine so brightly.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org (CAR)

    TRUMP BACKS OUT OF DEBATE: AHHHHH AHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAH AHHAHAHA  AND THEbest, you can’t even comment on it on Fox!!! Ahh hahahaha hahaha

  • Tucsonense

    Proud of it mate! Thanks

  • Anonymous

    Love it!  So true.

  • 12voltman1

    Ru That stupid?

  • 12voltman1

    I though you were telling a joke when i read the first sentence. Then i realized you were talking about a pair of jokes.

  • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

    Jon Stewart just said Dr. Paul “Killed it” at the debate [VIDEO]

  • Anonymous

    No, it’s what you keep telling us the left considers to be hard core news.  Truly.  So, it must be true because ya keep say’n it.  That either makes you crazy or the left thinks Stewart is hard core news. 

  • http://twitter.com/mrbogey steve bourg

    It’s not exactly satire……because it’s pretty well-known (did you know it Tuscon) that Jon Stewart LOVES democrats and HATES republicans.  Heck, Jon Stewart was good pals with Anthony Weiner, one of the farthest-Left lunatics in Congress.  Jon Stewart will vote for Obama no matter if ABE LINCOLN was running.  This, therefore, is not just ‘satire’ — he’s spewing because his writers think the same way.  They’re not intelligent on substantial economic issues……..just not.  And, unfortunately, that holds for many/most of their viewers.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jackie-Debs/1330149028 Jackie Debs

    Why am I not surprised liberals keep believing Jon Stewart is simply satire? Do not act like you don’t see what he is doing, it is the only reason you even like him. He just sticks to liberal talking points at all times, using ‘satire’ to mock and insult those who he (and you liberals) see as political enemies. All you have to do is look at his show this year to see it.

    - Michelle Bachmann was frontrunner, he spends two weeks tearing her apart
    - Rick Perry was frontrunner, he spends two weeks tearing him apart
    - Hermain Cain was frontrunner and he spent a week tearing him apart, then the sex scandal stuff came out and he continued for another two weeks, but this time with the help of the traditional left leaning media
    - Newt Gingrich was announced as the front runner last week and guess what hes spent all this week doing? SHOCK!

    Now tell me, how many days in a row has he EVER had anything negative to say about Obama? The guy who is in office, and has more available soundbites and video clips than all the republican candidates, and he rarely dares to touch him, and even when he does, its normally with kid gloves. Even if you are the most hardcore liberal you cannot tell me with a straight face that Obama, in 3+ years has not had anything about him worth mocking right?

    So if Jon Stewart is REALLY only a satirist, why is he so careful and calculated about who and what he attacks? Why is it so important to him to make only conservatives look bad? The only time he will even go after a democrat is if
    a) its a scandal too big to ignore (Anthony Wiener who he admitted he didn’t want to attack)
    b) to go after them for being too soft on conservatives or on liberal policies

    This guy USED to be an actual comedian, but early in bushes first term, he changed course and decided to use his show to be a political activist, while still throwing in some genitalia/fart jokes in so he can still do his famous clown nose off, clown nose on act.

    And of course, liberals who agree with every word that he says love to also use that lame ‘hes just a comedian’ crap even though only the most dimwitted of them actually believe it,

  • Anonymous

    Jon Stewart … yawwwwwnnnn…..

    I thought he was fired a long time ago.

    Dweebs and Koolaid-drinkers…all.

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