Jon Stewart, Aasif Mandvi and Jason Jones do a riff on the race to the bottom, in the context of their adoption of right-to-work legislation by Michigan and Indiana.
It ends with Mandvi proposing a bill where workers remuneration is thrown into a pit where they fight each other using the bones of the dead.
Jon Stewart doesn’t challenge gun ownership per se, but rather the sh%$ storm freakout accompanying Bob Costas’ comments on gun violence in the context of the Jovan Belcher murder/suicide.
He made the rather unremarkable observation that absent Belcher’s (legally owned) firearms, he and Kasandra Perkins might still be alive today.
The NRA, and its inadequately endowed paranoid ilk, want to make discussions of gun violence, and gun culture literally unspeakable in the media.
Jon Stewart faults his own journalistic chops on l’affaire Petraeus:
Yes, he interviewed Paula Broadwell, and did not pick up anything untoward, but so did a lot of people.
What he has is enough self-awareness to realize that he missed a big story.
It could be worse. Robert MacNeil, formerly of the MacNeil/Lehrer report, on November 22, 1963, at Dealy Plaza, he ran into a man, and asked where he could find a phone.
The man he ran into was Lee Harvey Oswald.
Journalists don’t have any more senses than the rest of us, and Jon Stewart has an almost unrivaled ability to call out bullsh%$ in a clear and concise matter.
I do think, and Jon Stewart would agree, that it’s f%$#ed up that a comedian is arguably one of the finest journalists on cable today, but we are living in a f%$#ed up world.
Stephen Colbert retires his Super Pac, and talks with his lawyer.
Spoiler: He gets to keep all the money and do whatever he wants with it.
I am laughing and wicked pissed off.
Yesterday, I said that the Log Cabin Republicans were idiots for believing that Mitt Rmoney would sign ENDA, which would outlaw workplace discrimination against gays.
Well if you are a gay Republican and think that Romney is going to protect your job from bigots, the news that he actively prevented sane sex parents from being listed on their children’s birth certificates:
It seemed like a minor adjustment. To comply with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that legalized gay marriage in 2003, the state Registry of Vital Records and Statistics said it needed to revise its birth certificate forms for babies born to same-sex couples. The box for “father” would be relabeled “father or second parent,” reflecting the new law.
But to then-Governor Mitt Romney, who opposed child-rearing by gay couples, the proposal symbolized unacceptable changes in traditional family structures.
He rejected the Registry of Vital Records plan and insisted that his top legal staff individually review the circumstances of every birth to same-sex parents. Only after winning approval from Romney’s lawyers could hospital officials and town clerks across the state be permitted to cross out by hand the word “father” on individual birth certificates, and then write in “second parent,” in ink.
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Romney expressed similar beliefs during a speech in 2005 to socially conservative voters in South Carolina, as he was beginning to be viewed as a serious candidate for president.
“Some gays are actually having children born to them,” he declared.”It’s not right on paper. It’s not right in fact. Every child has a right to a mother and father.”
Why on earth do gay Republicans think that Rmoney will protect them in the workplace if he wants to deny them basic rights as parents?
Seriously, Mitt Romney just sold you the Brooklyn Bridge.
BTW, as a note, Murray Waas wrote this, and I’ve always been impressed by his journalism, and he got this story despite attempts to cover this up:
In a preliminary response this month, the Department of Public Health withheld most of the documents because they reflected conversations between lawyers working for the state and “are therefore exempt from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege.” The Globe subsequently obtained many of the documents from a source who requested anonymity.
Here’s a piece of advice if Murray comes calling about a story, tell him the truth, because he’ll get it anyway.
Murray Waas is now officially on my list of “People I Do Not Want to Piss Off”.
And I really don’t intend to.
That being said, I did watch Jon Stewart, who summed it up when he said that, “Rmoney won, “even though he was lying his ass off the entire night.”
I’m not a fan of his, but his stint on The Daily Show is brilliant:
It manages to encapsulate all the insanity of the referee lockout in the NFL to the dulcet tones of Patrick Stewart.
It appears that “Sh%$ unbleeped will not be a regular part of the lexicon for The Daily Show:
“The Daily Show” is not changing its standards concerning which words it will bleep and which it won’t, though it might have seemed that way Wednesday night.
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Comedy Central executives emphasized that the decision to leave the words in affected only the initial late-night showing of “The Daily Show” and the ones run later at night. All the words were cut from repeats run during daytime hours Thursday.
A spokesman for the network, Steve Albani, said in an e-mail comment:
“Occasionally we allow certain language to go unbleeped on the show during its late-night premiere and encore. When we do, we have an alternate, bleeped version which runs during the daytime in its encore time slots, which receive a broader audience.”
The decision to allow the language this time had mostly to do with the substance of the comedy piece, another Comedy Central executive said, and did not signal a change in the network’s overall approach to what it will permit to be said uncensored on the show.
I am unclear as to why people are so frightened by a simple 1 syllable word, particularly on cable.
But you cannot say “Chaos ullsh%$ Mounting” without that word.
Remember last night when I said Jon Stewart was dropping the S-word without it being bleeped?
Well, you can see it here, Chaos on Bullsh%$ Mountain:
Truth be told, this is the most polemic I’ve ever seen him, but that’s got to leave a mark!
Jon Stewart on the how the Senators (with 2 exceptions) sucked up to Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase when they were supposed to be grilling him.
I was going to write about it, but there weren’t enough obscenities in my vocabulary to do it justice, and Jon Stewart nails it with a PG rating.
Go figure.
In reviewing the Republican faux outrage over Obama noting that he whacked Osama bin Laden, Stewart shows us what Rove would have put out if Bush had managed to do so.
Brutal.
Works for me.
Glad not to be named Rick!
Dan Savaged is, of course, the genius who coined the nelogism for Santorum, “The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex.”
Well, all I can say is that everyone in the United States named Rick is desperately hoping that he stops hating on the gay.
Lewis Black. Seriously. This guy is brutal.
I really have no opinion on the death of Whitney Houston, but the coverage has been awful, thought thankfully I have missed the self-debasement of Nancy Grace over this event (In fact, avoiding her clear psychological pathologies is kind of a goal of mine).
As an aside, I’m pretty sure that he has the lowest blood pressure in America, because he doesn’t keeop anything bottled up.
Liz Trotta at Fox said that female soldiers getting raped have it coming to them.
Jon Stewart begs to differ.
It’s subtle, but this is the first time that I’ve ever seen him truly enraged.
Because the obvious hypocrisy and venality that is Newt must make his job easier.
Stewart’s observation to Newt’s fake outrage:
You imagined your wife, while she was dealing with having MS, would be open to you having sex with another lady you’d already been having sex with for six f%$#king years!” Stewart said. “I think you’ve got a pretty good imagination dispicability-wise.
And then there is Gingrich’s claim to be running as an outsider:
You are the Washington outsider? When Washington gets its prostate checked, it tickles you.
Watch the video. It’s a good way to spend 8 minutes and change.
Stewart looks at Foxconn and what it does to its workers in order to make the iPhone.
He plays it for laughs, but he absolutely nails just how horrific the conditions are, and how little we actually save for the pain that we inflict.
He takes a complex issue, researches it, provides documentary evidence, and puts it all in context better than anyone in the news media today.
He is a national treasure.
John Stewart gives Barack Obama a righteous, and justly deserved, beat-down over the President’s signing of the “f%$# the Bill of Rights” indefinite detention defense authorization bill.
It’s remarkable how much eloquence he (and to be fair, his writers) gives to the absolute outrage through humor than the outrage expressed by other commentators.
If you want to show someone who doesn’t get why what happened is so wrong, this conveys it more succinctly than anything I’ve read from Greenwald, or Taibbi, or the Rude Pundit.
Stewart is a national treasure.
He showed up to a press conference for Florida governor Rick Scott, and asked for a urine sample for a drug test:
Gov. Rick Scott and his drug testing policy became the unwitting target of Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” on Wednesday as a reporter for the show broke into budget news conference and asked the governor to “pee into this cup.”
“You’ve benefitted from hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars over the years so would you be willing to pee into this cup to prove to Florida taxpayers that you’re not on drugs,” asked Comedy Central reporter, Aasif Mandvi. It was a reference to the governor’s drug-testing requirement imposed on all state employees and all welfare recipients.
Scott looked straight at him, didn’t miss a beat and said: “I’ve done it plenty of times.”
Mandvi then attempted to hand the sealed, official-looking collection cup to the governor. “We could all turn around, that’s fine,” he said.
At one point Mandvi persuaded other reporters to pass the cup to the front row but Scott ignored it. Mandvi asked again. “I hate to keep harping on this, would you pee in a cup?” Scott shot back: “You don’t get to run this.”
Last session, Scott persuaded the legislature to pass a law requiring all welfare recipients to pass a drug test but the measure was challenged by state Sen. Arthenia Joyner, D-Tampa, and the Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and put on hold by an Orlando court. Scott is appealing the ruling.
Remind me to never ever piss off anyone on The Daily Show, not even Steve the Intern, ever!
Well, here is the evidence: