Jon Stewart

[Blizzardwizard]

No threads in tribute to this guy? Whatever your political opinion/affiliation, this guy brought political satire to our screens like no one else.

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:cry

[spurraider21]

i will forever miss his nightly 30 minutes of pencil-tapping and prolonged goofy camera stares

[spurraider21]

...but seriously, was a big fan of the show :lol

[ChumpDumper]

He's not gone yet, but it's already an extraordinary legacy.

[HI-FI]

I liked Stewart since his talk show and hosting You Wrote It, You Watch it. I love his cameo in Half Baked. So I am fan but didn't care for the DS too much, I didn't need to see him become a liberal hero while throwing softballs to Hillary Clinton.

still, i am curious to see what he'll do next with his career.

[benefactor]

I love his cameo in Half Baked.
Red team go red team go

[HI-FI]

Red team go red team go
:lol

[lefty]

He was born to do do satire/comedy tbh

Just dat face tbh :lol

[DarrinS]

Don't worry -- he spawned several more fake news shows

[Infinite_limit]

Use to watch every episode. His political correctness and double standard with Obama turned me off

Jon leaving with Obama is weak

[Nero5]

oh bullshit. He was no softer on obama than anything it's just that the GOP has so much going for satire that obama pales into insignificance most of the time. I LOVED his work with Fox 'news'. Stewart has an international audience that is perhaps the greatest of any american comedian and commentator.

[unleashbaynes]

:lol Jon has killed Obama plenty of times. He kills everybody. Because all those politicians and people who's job it is to talk about politics on TV seem to contradict themselves, have double standards, and basically be blithering idiots who will say anything for the right price. To me,, his job is pretty damn easy.

[boutons_deux]

JS obviously has a liberal status, but when Obama or Dems screwup, he let's them have it as much as the Repugs and Fox.

Obama and Dems don't screw up bad enough or often enough to push Repugs and Fox off a given day's hit list.

Luckily for JS, he's had huge can't-miss target over at Fox, and with fucking wingnut crazy Repugs.

[Ignignokt]

JS obviously has a liberal status, but when Obama or Dems screwup, he let's them have it as much as the Repugs and Fox.

Obama and Dems don't screw up bad enough or often enough to push Repugs and Fox off a given day's hit list.

Luckily for JS, he's had huge can't-miss target over at Fox, and with fucking wingnut crazy Repugs.

lol liberal logic

Lets be real, pokes at gaffes about the Austrian language and 58 states were nowhere to be found.

Also, it is well known that comedians don't poke fun at the prez because of social justice dynamics and the "punch up" rule.

Anhybody saying otherwise is a partisan dumbass.

[Spurminator]

This will free up a ton of space on my DVR. But it sucks. Especially since 2016 is approaching and he was always at his best during election years.

NBC needs to think long and hard about making him their next Nightly News anchor. The typical evening news audience is quickly dying off, and they could dominate that spot by bringing a Daily Show format.

[Ignignokt]

No threads in tribute to this guy? Whatever your political opinion/affiliation, this guy brought political satire to our screens like no one else.

https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10806316_10153060252787908_9072199360142476839_n.j pg?oh=c5782b04fbb0e468b843a98492103d56&oe=5549FB3E


:cry

because the business man made that money by providing value to society, meanwhile a leech just takes resources. Liberal logic is baffling.

[boutons_deux]

providing value to society

:lol

financial games and gambling provide huge profits, but almost NO VALUE to society. one result: USA's World Champion inequality.

[Clipper Nation]

Meh. He was funny when he first started doing the Daily Show, but slowly became just another snooty libtard.

[Blizzardwizard]

because the business man made that money by providing value to society, meanwhile a leech just takes resources. Liberal logic is baffling.

Brainwashed Repug view of life :lol

So everyone who is unfortunate or can't afford for any number of reasons are 'leeches'?

And yes, businessmen are just great people aren't they? :lol

[Clipper Nation]

Brainwashed Repug view of life :lol

So everyone who is unfortunate or can't afford for any number of reasons are 'leeches'?

And yes, businessmen are just great people aren't they? :lol
:lol "Proud socialist"
:lol Welfare and food stamps as a lifestyle
:lol The Kirby Bryant economy
:lol Sharts
:lol #ItWas3-0
:lol 2014 Banner Night Champions

[unleashbaynes]

because the business man made that money by providing value to society, meanwhile a leech just takes resources. Liberal logic is baffling.

tax evasion is a crime of literally not providing value to a society :lol

[CosmicCowboy]

I thought he was funny and he was pretty much equal opportunity when it came to lampooning stupid.

Yeah, he gave some softball interviews along the way but it was pretty simple...if he didn't he wouldn't get the interview.

[Blizzardwizard]

:lol "Proud socialist"
:lol Welfare and food stamps as a lifestyle
:lol The Kirby Bryant economy
:lol Sharts
:lol #ItWas3-0
:lol 2014 Banner Night Champions

Murica :lol

But but but Bill O'Reilly told me Socialism is bad, it must be true :cry
Butthurt socialism actually works :lol
Clippers :lol
'RepeatingPERIOD' :lol
Not even in the fucking playoffs :lol

[Clipper Nation]

:lol Socialism only "works" for sissy cuck countries, not alphas like the USA
:lol McDavid = LA boundPERIOD
:lol Sharts = f:lolckedPERIOD

[Blizzardwizard]

:lol Socialism only "works" for sissy cuck countries, not alphas like the USA
:lol McDavid = LA boundPERIOD
:lol Sharts = f:lolckedPERIOD

Probably can't even name any actual socialist policies other than the lazy 'welfare and food stamps' BS conservative crap :lol

McDavid going to the Oilers :lol

4-0 humiliation on Banner Night :lol

[Infinite_limit]

oh bullshit. He was no softer on obama than anything it's just that the GOP has so much going for satire that obama pales into insignificance most of the time. I LOVED his work with Fox 'news'. Stewart has an international audience that is perhaps the greatest of any american comedian and commentator.
He never went after Obama as a Black American. In the end his political correctness came off as reverse racism.

[Spurminator]

He never went after Obama as a Black American. In the end his political correctness came off as reverse racism.

I guess I could see how it would seem that way to a racist.

[Infinite_limit]

I guess I could see how it would seem that way to a racist.
He went after Bush in every possible way imaginable. Then ignored one entire aspect of Obama that is a centerpiece of his Presidency: race relations.

Stewart leaving with Obama is shameful.

[Spurminator]

He went after Bush in every possible way imaginable. Then ignored one entire aspect of Obama that is a centerpiece of his Presidency: race relations.

Really though, only racists think race relations is the centerpiece of his presidency.

[Infinite_limit]

Really though, only racists think race relations is the centerpiece of his presidency.
He made comments about some Little League Baseball team just because they had black players.

Yah right. One major reason he was elected was his race and one political agenda he keeps reiterating is race. He brought up Ferguson at the State of the Union speech.


Reasons Obama was President
1. Not Bush
2. Black


I voted for him 2008. I was a self hating Liberal.

[Ignignokt]

Brainwashed Repug view of life :lol

So everyone who is unfortunate or can't afford for any number of reasons are 'leeches'?

And yes, businessmen are just great people aren't they? :lol

Sure i used extremes to illustrate the absurdity of the principle. But the fact is that someone who earns their money shouldn't have to justify keeping it over someone who needs it because they are out of luck.

[Ignignokt]

Really though, only racists think race relations is the centerpiece of his presidency.

lol so why was his presidency labeled "transformative" before it was inaugurated?

[Ignignokt]

Probably can't even name any actual socialist policies other than the lazy 'welfare and food stamps' BS conservative crap :lol

McDavid going to the Oilers :lol

4-0 humiliation on Banner Night :lol

Real Socialism is the workers owning the means of production.

What you love and what bubba hates is just welfare statism, not socialism even though there is a similar principle behind it.

Welfare Statism is basically Economic Fascism or Corporatism. Not that fascism has to be a pejorative if we discuss the matter objectively.

[Spurminator]

lol so why was his presidency labeled "transformative" before it was inaugurated?

I'm not familiar with "transformative" being the agreed-upon way to describe his election, but he is the first black President. That's at least significant and a milestone.

Not sure how that makes race relations the centerpiece of his presidency as a policy.

[Ignignokt]

I'm not familiar with "transformative" being the agreed-upon way to describe his election, but he is the first black President. That's at least significant and a milestone.

Not sure how that makes race relations the centerpiece of his presidency as a policy.

I'm not sure whether a moniker was official is the point, rather at how people looked at his presidency initially. To deny that race was non existant is just like those Republicans who are like, " I see no color, Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and he free'd the slaves!". It's mildly dishonest, myopic and solipsistic at best.

[Spurminator]

I'm not sure whether a moniker was official is the point, rather at how people looked at his presidency initially. To deny that race was non existant is just like those Republicans who are like, " I see no color, Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and he free'd the slaves!". It's mildly dishonest, myopic and solipsistic at best.

I didn't suggest race hasn't been an issue or present during his presidency. I said race relations aren't the centerpiece of his presidency.

[Ignignokt]

I didn't suggest race hasn't been an issue or present during his presidency. I said race relations aren't the centerpiece of his presidency.

That's just a shit oppinion that negates what he has done while in office like; oppining on criminal investigations involving race, injecting himself and having presidential addresses on trivial overblown criminal trials, having his cabinet members show up at Tray Tray's and MB funeral memorial services, having his Justice Dept intercede when those those trials didn't go his way.
I just don't trust you as being anything but a partisan hack with that kind of statement. I mean why do damage control for the prez without pay?

[Spurminator]

That's just a shit oppinion that negates what he has done while in office like; oppining on criminal investigations involving race, injecting himself and having presidential addresses on trivial overblown criminal trials, having his cabinet members show up at Tray Tray's and MB funeral memorial services, having his Justice Dept intercede when those those trials didn't go his way.
I just don't trust you as being anything but a partisan hack with that kind of statement. I mean why do damage control for the prez without pay?

:lol How is it damage control? Calling it damage control assumes the perception that "race relations" is a key platform of Obama's presidency is damaging.

I would see an issue like Domestic Spying as both more central to his presidency and more damaging.

[Blizzardwizard]

Real Socialism is the workers owning the means of production.

What you love and what bubba hates is just welfare statism, not socialism even though there is a similar principle behind it.

Welfare Statism is basically Economic Fascism or Corporatism. Not that fascism has to be a pejorative if we discuss the matter objectively.

How can you possibly compare the Welfare State to Fascism in anyway at all? That's the sort of thing some dumb Libertarian like Rand Paul would say. Also, what would you describe as 'Real Socialism'? Because the workers owning the means of production is Marxism, not Socialism. Typical Bill O'Reilly way of describing Socialism "ah it's just the same as Communism and Marxism".

[boutons_deux]

"Real Socialism is the workers owning the means of production"

and who, in USA or any industrialized country, is pushing for that red herring?

[Infinite_limit]

In Soviet/Iron Curtain Communism everyone had a job. Different than welfare.

[Nero5]

You know that is fundamentally untrue. Even during the 1950/60's when the Soviet union was at it's peak it did not have 100% employment - far from it in fact. There were also strong ethnic and nationalist differences within the block that added to economic tensions. The problem with have is that data and information of this period only became available freely for a short time - the current government has taken a backwards step in becoming more revisionist.

[spurraider21]

Murica :lol

But but but Bill O'Reilly told me Socialism is bad, it must be true :cry
Butthurt socialism actually works :lol
Clippers :lol
'RepeatingPERIOD' :lol
Not even in the fucking playoffs :lol
:lmao O'Reilly
:lmao tide goes in, tide goes out, you can't explain it

[Nero5]

Sure i used extremes to illustrate the absurdity of the principle. But the fact is that someone who earns their money shouldn't have to justify keeping it over someone who needs it because they are out of luck.

There is no luck.
The issue changes a little if you really look at the right wing economics of it with a social justice element. The current GOP is really portraying the me/mine/always view really well and the economics of it are very short sighted. The 'small government' dream has the expectation that others will pay for what needs to be done. You want healthcare/justice/education for the longer term benefits in reducing costs and reducing crime. You want the wealth spread for the spending benefits...the rich accumulating wealth reduces the circulation of money in the economy. Paying the minimum amount of tax you are supposed to is fine if it is legal. Is the amount of tax collected good for the economy in a 20 year span - that is a different question. At present China has one political advantage over the USA and the rest of the democratic world - they have a long term plan that they revisit every few years. They plan for decades in advance and if you track what they have planned and where they are now you can see why they own so much of the USA's future prosperity. The contrast is stark - in the USA there is the spectre of the next president being the Koch's president.

[RandomGuy]

He's not gone yet, but it's already an extraordinary legacy.

Jon Stewart Rejects Arby's Job Offer: "This Motherf—ing Thing Ain't Over"

https://tv.yahoo.com/news/jon-stewart-rejects-arby-s-job-offer-161517180.html

[RandomGuy]

But I’ll admit to being surprisingly taken aback and sad about this news. It will gladden the people who were his biggest targets and it will look like gooey, liberal weepiness to get maudlin about a TV personality moving on to something else. I get that. But Stewart is a national treasure in my book – someone I’ve repeatedly said is one of the funniest people on the planet. You don’t just swap in a new person and all’s well.
And that’s really the early takeaway here. You can’t replace Jon Stewart. The show will undoubtedly go on and Comedy Central will find someone to take over the reins who will valiantly try to keep the standards high and the relevance there. John Oliver proved over the summer, when Stewart was off making his movie Rosewater, that an orderly transition of leadership is possible and that idiots everywhere, but particularly in Washington D.C., will get their due comeuppance via hilarious public flogging. The Daily Show — a watchdog on the media, done with humor but often done so much better than those whose sole job that is, will continue. Ignorance will be roasted. Incompetence will be outed. Bullshit will be detected.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bastard-machine/jon-stewart-leaving-daily-show-772421

I think the guy gets it right.


Selfishly, which is the gut reaction to something like this, it feels like a painful loss and something that happened too soon. It’s painful all right, but Stewart has been doing it for so long and with a brilliance and elan that defies those years that you can’t argue that he’s earned the right to give it up.

Furthermore, letting go of something you’re great at before you’re not anymore is brave stuff. I applaud him for that. It’s human nature to hang on too long.

[boutons_deux]

Jon Stewart Rejects Arby's Job Offer: "This Motherf—ing Thing Ain't Over"

https://tv.yahoo.com/news/jon-stewart-rejects-arby-s-job-offer-161517180.html

another great show, started with Jon saying, after a long silent pause ... "Did I die?"

(because of all the premature obituaries The Day After his announcement)

[RandomGuy]

another great show, started with Jon saying, after a long silent pause ... "Did I die?"

(because of all the premature obituaries The Day After his announcement)

definitely going to be listening to this with one ear during todays Pointless Conference Call.

*edit*

Praise be to Allah, for the mute button.

[Ignignokt]

:lol How is it damage control? Calling it damage control assumes the perception that "race relations" is a key platform of Obama's presidency is damaging.

I would see an issue like Domestic Spying as both more central to his presidency and more damaging.

why? the reliable 48% will still vote for him if there were an alternative that refused to practice domestic spying.

[Spurminator]

why? the reliable 48% will still vote for him if there were an alternative that refused to practice domestic spying.

That would have more to do with his party affiliation than his race. But I disagree that a Republican candidate who pledged to eliminate domestic spying initiatives wouldn't see significantly increased support from centrists and liberals (though he might lose some conservatives who think he's soft on terror.)

[boutons_deux]

"a Republican candidate who pledged to eliminate domestic spying"

... would be lying. No Pres is going to control the out-of-control NSA/FBI/CIA/national-securitt-state.

[RandomGuy]

why? the reliable 48% will still vote for him if there were an alternative that refused to practice domestic spying.

I wouldn't.

I would be fine voting for quite a few Republicans.

Problem is that the useful idiots vote the way the rich white people that run the Republican party tell them to.

Those useful idiots would never let anybody who might be even halfway moderate through the gauntlet of GOP primaries.

The GOP has truly lost its mind.

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/11/evolution_and_the_gops_2016_candidates_a_complet_g uide/

[RandomGuy]

ut Walker’s refusal to indicate whether he accepts a fundamental tenet of biology underscores the GOP’s tortured relationship with science, not least on evolution. With Walker and other GOP hopefuls gearing up to launch their 2016 campaigns, Salon now provides you with a comprehensive guide to where the Republican candidates stand on the origin of life.

We boil the prospective candidates’ positions into four categories: Those who unequivocally accept the science; one candidates who accepts it, but with caveats; those who won’t make clear where they stand; and finally, contenders who are evolution denialists.


he Evolutionists

Nobody.
The Asterisk

Jeb Bush: Asked in 2005 whether he accepted evolution, Bush affirmed that he did — but that it shouldn’t be taught in schools. “Yeah, but I don’t think it should actually be part of the curriculum, to be honest with you,” Bush said. “And people have different points of view and they can be discussed at school, but it does not need to be in the curriculum.” Later that year, he argued that students should be presented with “varying viewpoints.”
They Aren’t Scientists

Chris Christie: Does Christie affirm evolutionary science? “That’s none of your business,” he replied with characteristic brusqueness in 2011. “Evolution is required teaching,” he added. “If there’s a certain school district that also wants to teach creationism, that’s not something we should decide in Trenton.”
Ted Cruz: While his kooky father would like you to know that evolution is a Communist lie, the Texas senator himself “won’t discuss evolution directly,” the New Yorker reported.
Bobby Jindal: The Brown University biology major, Rhodes scholar, and scorner of “the stupid party” feigns ignorance on the subject, emphasizing last year that he’s not an “evolutionary biologist” and contending that local schools should decide what they teach.
John Kasich: During his 2010 run for Ohio governor, Kasich seemed to place evolution and creationism on a par with one another, saying only that both evolution and “creation science” should be taught in classrooms.
Rand Paul: During his 2010 Senate campaign, Paul courted young earth creationists and said he would “pass” on the question of how old the earth is.
Marco Rubio: Asked the earth’s age in 2012, Rubio replied, “I’m not a scientist, man.” He added, “At the end of the day, I think there are multiple theories out there on how the universe was created and I think this is a country where people should have the opportunity to teach them all.” After his remarks on the earth’s age were widely derided, Rubio acknowledged that it’s 4.5 billion years old, but maintained that that wasn’t inconsistent with creationism.
Scott Walker: He’s going to punt on this one.
The Hell No Caucus

Ben Carson: He may be an acclaimed neurosurgeon, but Carson casts his lot with the creationists. “Evolution and creationism both require faith. It’s just a matter of where you choose to place that faith,” he declared in 2012, proceeding to imply that evolutionists lacked an ethical framework.
Mike Huckabee: During a 2007 GOP presidential debate, the Southern Baptist preacher and former Arkansas governor indicated that he doesn’t accept evolution. “But you know, if anybody wants to believe they are the descendants of a primate, they are certainly welcome to do it,” he said.
Rick Perry: Calling evolution just a “theory that’s out there,” Perry proclaimed in 2011 that “God is how we got here.” Creationism and evolution should both be presented in public schools, he added.
Rick Santorum: Denouncing the idea that evolution is “above reproach,” Santorum said in 2008, “I obviously don’t feel that way. I think there are a lot of problems with the theory of evolution, and do believe that it is used to promote to a worldview that is anti-theist, that is atheist.”

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I wouldn't.

I would be fine voting for quite a few Republicans.

Problem is that the useful idiots vote the way the rich white people that run the Republican party tell them to.

Those useful idiots would never let anybody who might be even halfway moderate through the gauntlet of GOP primaries.

The GOP has truly lost its mind.

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/11/evolution_and_the_gops_2016_candidates_a_complet_g uide/

I really wish that the tea party populists would have gone after Priebus and the kingmakers and effected meaningful change in the party. Cruz, Lee, et al are now just cliche obstructionists. History is replete with them and none viewed favorably.

[Nero5]

You just know that the rest of the world will be looking at this and shaking their heads. In the countries that I travel to I suspect that if a major politician was to state that they did not believe in evolution they would be subject to considerable ridicule.

[sickdsm]

Political satire pretty much writes itself. See jay lenos schtick.

Jon Stewart is not that funny IMO.

[Ignignokt]

I wouldn't.

I would be fine voting for quite a few Republicans.

Problem is that the useful idiots vote the way the rich white people that run the Republican party tell them to.

Those useful idiots would never let anybody who might be even halfway moderate through the gauntlet of GOP primaries.

The GOP has truly lost its mind.

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/11/evolution_and_the_gops_2016_candidates_a_complet_g uide/

translation: Nuh uh i don't need no freedoms! More gibs me dat!!

[Infinite_limit]

Political satire pretty much writes itself. See jay lenos schtick.

Jon Stewart is not that funny IMO.
He became too predictable. Bill Maher sometimes surprises with the stance he takes.

[Nero5]

He's been doing it for a long time and some of the 'stupid' in congress has simply been repeated so many times that anyone would start to run out of different ways to poke the jello!

[RandomGuy]

translation: Nuh uh i don't need no freedoms! More gibs me dat!!

Pretty much. The useful idiots keep voting against their own interests and freedom.

[RandomGuy]

I really wish that the tea party populists would have gone after Priebus and the kingmakers and effected meaningful change in the party. Cruz, Lee, et al are now just cliche obstructionists. History is replete with them and none viewed favorably.

The thing about the rich white guys that run the GOP, they have so many ready-made media mouthpieces. It just takes one call to the Fox "news" editorial desk, and new talking points are handed to the talking heads to parrot within the hour.

One has to admire the effectiveness, if not the sheer cynical manipulation.

[boutons_deux]

The thing about the rich white guys that run the GOP, they have so many ready-made media mouthpieces. It just takes one call to the Fox "news" editorial desk, and new talking points are handed to the talking heads to parrot within the hour.

One has to admire the effectiveness, if not the sheer cynical manipulation.

Part of the VRWC strategy, in addition to the extremist rightwingnut hate media, has been to appoint, elect extreme right wingnut judges at all levels, eg, this week's Hanen and up next, 5th circuit appeals.

Very effective strategy to marginalise, disenfranchise voters, because VRWC hates Human-Americans other than as sources of wealth to be plundered, pillaged, raped.