Surely there has to be a well educated, well respected, Latino or Black man the Republicans could put up against Obama. That would be there best bet to get some popularity back. Not sure if this is a racist statement by me or not? Meh - I'll stand by it!
well this should make for an interesting episode of The Daily Show
Cant see how it could be more biased than it already is.
The man doesnt even have the guts to use his real name. John Stewart - hahaha.
That ticket has no chance of getting past the primaries - its just news garbage.
I can see a Palin ticket, not with Beck though.
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The Daily Show is a comedy program. Yes, Stewart clearly is liberal and yes he felt like he had to change his name to escape the persecution of people like Beck. Fox is a news network that creates its own news and contrives controversies to satisfy the insatiable appetite of dumb christian bumpkins. It unabashedly promotes the ignorant, bigoted scapegoating of homosexuals, immigrants, African Americans and damn, dirty liberals for everything wrong in the country.
Fox has crafted a revisionist view of the Founding Fathers and Constitution that fools people into thinking that America is a conservative, Christian country, when even a cursory reading of Jefferson reveals the extremely liberal, secular heart of American democracy. They somehow convinced people that opposing a misguided war is un-American, but opposing heathcare for everyone makes you a patriot.
Sure MSNBC is biased and guys like Olberman are as bad as Hannity. However, Fox pushes a political agenda that supports the curtailment of civil rights, the entrenchment of wealth and extremely interventionist foreign policy. All things fundamentally irreconcilable with the constitution and the writings of the forefathers.
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The Daily Show is a comedy program. Yes, Stewart clearly is liberal and yes he felt like he had to change his name to escape the persecution of people like Beck. Fox is a news network that creates its own news and contrives controversies to satisfy the insatiable appetite of dumb christian bumpkins. It unabashedly promotes the ignorant, bigoted scapegoating of homosexuals, immigrants, African Americans and damn, dirty liberals for everything wrong in the country.
Fox has crafted a revisionist view of the Founding Fathers and Constitution that fools people into thinking that America is a conservative, Christian country, when even a cursory reading of Jefferson reveals the extremely liberal, secular heart of American democracy. They somehow convinced people that opposing a misguided war is un-American, but opposing heathcare for everyone makes you a patriot.
Sure MSNBC is biased and guys like Olberman are as bad as Hannity. However, Fox pushes a political agenda that supports the curtailment of civil rights, the entrenchment of wealth and extremely interventionist foreign policy. All things fundamentally irreconcilable with the constitution and the writings of the forefathers.
No way she makes it far if she decides to run. She killed any chance she had when she quit being governor of Alaska. (After not even finishing her term!)
FYI, the Sarah Palin interview in Runners World Magazine. Good interview. I like her comments about running in different places, which is always an interesting way to see a new community. The Newsweek cover was taken from this issue.
The man doesnt even have the guts to use his real name. John Stewart - hahaha.
What an assinine statement. Borderline anti-semitic.
The guy is an entertainer. There are thousands of entertainers who have a stage name that is different from their real name, many of them because names like Leibowitz tend to be targetted for discrimination and hate-speech by a good chunk of the people he tends to crack on.
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What an assinine statement. Borderline anti-semitic.
The guy is an entertainer. There are thousands of entertainers who have a stage name that is different from their real name, many of them because names like Leibowitz tend to be targetted for discrimination and hate-speech by a good chunk of the people he tends to crack on.
It's not just Jews that do that. Many entertainers with Slavic names change them to more anglo sounding names. It's just easier for people to remember a lot of the time...
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AP assigned 11 reporters to pick apart her book and your above article was the best they could come up with. Look at the content of the article. The AP were truly grasping at straws.
Nothing in the article speaks to Sarah Palin's intelligence either way. Your argument lacks substance.
She talks about Reagan getting out of the recession by cutting capital gains taxes and removing the estate tax and believes that's what the country should do now. The problem? Capital gains taxes are lower now than they were under Reagan and Reagan never removed the estate tax. In other words, she has no idea what she is talking about.
It seems to me you are the one grasping at straws. She is clearly completely unqualified to be President and its truly scary anyone would think about voting for her.
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Do you know he's an entertainer? Apparently lots of Americans don't know that.
According to a Pew Research poll in 2004, twenty-one percent of Americans "considered comedy outlets such as "SNL's" "Weekend Update" and Comedy Central's "Indecision 2004" coverage on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" their regular sources for campaign news. According to the survey, Americans under 30 cited these shows nearly as frequently as newspapers and broadcast news sources as their election news outlets of choice.
He IS an entertainer but he knows, because of the stats above, that he's actually more than that for a good swack of the population that seems to take him seriously . . . . . yet the entertainer label is an easy fallback position if someone calls him on it.
Great gig if you can get it. I don't really care one way or the other. It's just an odd reaction to the guy.
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Surely there has to be a well educated, well respected, Latino or Black man the Republicans could put up against Obama. That would be there best bet to get some popularity back. Not sure if this is a racist statement by me or not? Meh - I'll stand by it!
JC Watts.
He won't run though, he's been in the private sector too long now.
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Do you know he's an entertainer? Apparently lots of Americans don't know that.
According to a Pew Research poll in 2004, twenty-one percent of Americans "considered comedy outlets such as "SNL's" "Weekend Update" and Comedy Central's "Indecision 2004" coverage on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" their regular sources for campaign news. According to the survey, Americans under 30 cited these shows nearly as frequently as newspapers and broadcast news sources as their election news outlets of choice.
He IS an entertainer but he knows, because of the stats above, that he's actually more than that for a good swack of the population that seems to take him seriously . . . . . yet the entertainer label is an easy fallback position if someone calls him on it.
Great gig if you can get it. I don't really care one way or the other. It's just an odd reaction to the guy.
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I think it just says more about people ignoring the media during the 2004 campaign and so they happened to get most of their information from other sources by default. It was specific to the 2004 campaign.
I mean, his show is on the comedy channel for crying out loud. There is not way people can think that he is a serious journalist. If he were on news channel (like Beck), then I could see the confusion.
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According to a Pew Research poll in 2004, twenty-one percent of Americans "considered comedy outlets such as "SNL's" "Weekend Update" and Comedy Central's "Indecision 2004" coverage on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" their regular sources for campaign news. According to the survey, Americans under 30 cited these shows nearly as frequently as newspapers and broadcast news sources as their election news outlets of choice.
The only difference between the Daily Show and CNN or Fox is the image they portray. "Worldwide news leaders" and "Fair and Balanced" are funnier to me than "Goofy noises and sarcasm."
Other than who they say they are, they're all the same. Just trying to pander to their audience, support their narrative, and avoid doing anything long enough to become boring.
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Do you know he's an entertainer? Apparently lots of Americans don't know that.
According to a Pew Research poll in 2004, twenty-one percent of Americans "considered comedy outlets such as "SNL's" "Weekend Update" and Comedy Central's "Indecision 2004" coverage on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" their regular sources for campaign news. According to the survey, Americans under 30 cited these shows nearly as frequently as newspapers and broadcast news sources as their election news outlets of choice.
He IS an entertainer but he knows, because of the stats above, that he's actually more than that for a good swack of the population that seems to take him seriously . . . . . yet the entertainer label is an easy fallback position if someone calls him on it.
Great gig if you can get it. I don't really care one way or the other. It's just an odd reaction to the guy.
Cowperson
Whereas Fox News does much the same and tries to pass off their garbage as serious news and don't care if someone calls them on it. It's just wash and repeat. They should change their name to Fox News Entertainment much like the WWE.
