[Guest post by DRJ]
Via Instapundit and Ann Althouse, Jon Stewart takes a second look at Obama’s recent decisions and reminds viewers to always read the fine print:
Yes We Can.
(But that doesn’t necessarily mean we’re going to.)
Stewart’s video lasts about 5 minutes. Enjoy the whole thing.
— DRJ
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Perhaps someday the reversal on military tribunals will be seen as the moment when Obama jumped the shark (though jumping the shark has, frankly, jumped the shark), though we should never underestimate Dear Leader’s ability to hold his spell on the academic & media complex.
JVW (eabe68) — 5/15/2009 @ 1:13 pmCan’t view the vid here, but I’ll assume it’s Stewart at his best.
Nonetheless, I give him little credit. IMHO, Stewart belatedly is realizing that he’s viewed as 90% “in the tank” for Obamessiah. This video, along with occasional cracks on his show (“It’s OK to make fun of him”), are meant to show how balanced he is.
Not fooled, here. That he isn’t exactly like DPRK Radio talking about Kim Jong-Il doesn’t mean he’s not (unintentionally) hilariously left-biased.
Mitch (890cbf) — 5/15/2009 @ 1:16 pmStewart has spent quite a bit of time ridiculing the media’s treatment of Obama, without actually addressing Obama’s policies. Many are fooled into believing that this constitutes criticism of the Obama administration, when it is simply criticism of the media. With types such as Olbermann and Matthews on camera, that’s not a tough job.
Stewart asking at least some of the questions regarding the about-face of the Administration regarding these policies is welcome news. Watching his performance, however, gives me the impression that Stewart is finally getting around to the idea that there might actually be a problem with these people we’re fighting.
Apogee (e2dc9b) — 5/15/2009 @ 1:42 pmWhat continues to surprise me is that someone over 40 years of age and supposedly educated could still have this childlike belief in a politician’s BS in the first place!
Patricia (94c68d) — 5/15/2009 @ 1:49 pmGive Stewart credit for one thing–recognizing when a reversal of policy is so freaking obvious that no amount of spin will make it sound credible.
More than anyone else, Obama needs to watch out with Stewart. If (and that’s a big if) Stewart starts making the president a target on a regular basis, eventually even the dumb-truck college students that make up his primary audience will begin thinking Obama is “uncool” and will start making him an object of riducule rather than worship. If that happens, it’s all over–Gen-Yers don’t view politics as a substantive debate over policy, but one huge internet 4chan flame war, and no politician wants to get stuck in that box.
Another Chris (2d8013) — 5/15/2009 @ 1:53 pmI’ll believe Stewart’s changed his attitude when his program devotes over 90% of their content towards making fun of the Dems, instead of the GOP – which they’re still doing, because they just can’t help themselves.
Dmac (1ddf7e) — 5/15/2009 @ 2:13 pmHere’s another great Stuart bit
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=223862&title=Baracknophobia—Obey
VietnamEraVet (04b9ee) — 5/15/2009 @ 3:06 pmBy God I hope Obama doesnt reverse Republican Christian values of contrived wars and attacks on gays otherwise God might remove His blessing on our pro-torture policy!
VietnamEraVet (04b9ee) — 5/15/2009 @ 3:25 pmVEV – again, the problem I have with Stewart is represented at your link. He notes that ‘losing’ should taste like a ‘shit sandwich’.
Unfortunately for Stewart, this ignores American history. The reason that many moved to the colonies was to avoid religious persecution, brought on by the eternal Catholic/Protestant fight over the levers of power in the old world. When one side won, the other ate ‘shit sandwich’ – back and forth, over and over. We’ve tried divisive ‘shit sandwiches’, and got a civil war with a million dead. Europe fared far worse. Swapping roles between boot licking lackeys and iron fisted dictators does not a strong society make. E Pluribus Unum was not a mistake, because it recognizes that our differences can be overcome and turned to strength.
That Stewart agrees with the Old European position of championing the divisive fight for control of the money funnel is indicated in his final admission: ‘it can actually be quite profitable’.
Apogee (e2dc9b) — 5/15/2009 @ 3:39 pmRegulars, you know the drill. When you see a mess . .
Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R., (018e38) — 5/15/2009 @ 3:39 pmYou’re not near as funny as Stewart, VEV, but nice try.
DRJ (f55947) — 5/15/2009 @ 3:40 pmStewart refers to one of the terrorists as “prick” but that word is used in an offhand way that actually diminishes the evil represented here.
Prick?
There is a joke about digital cameras being everywhere and maybe we should outlaw the taking of photos… when the reality is that the pictures of “torture” are tame business next to the pictures of beheadings that American news refuses to run.
A picture of a guy with a pair of panties over his eyes looking like the victim of a fraternity hazing never bothered me much, if at all, and not at all since the night I saw Nick Berg’s formerly attached head make an unscheduled appearance on Jihadi Idol.
To my mind, insurgent videos of raw meat being strewn throughout the streets by their IED’s is much more ghastly than the worst of the Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo photos
SteveG (c99c5c) — 5/15/2009 @ 3:44 pmBrother Bradley – Regulars, you know the drill. When you see a mess . .
Yes, but he did give a link, and it was related to the post, so I answered.
His 3:25pm, however…
Apogee (e2dc9b) — 5/15/2009 @ 3:48 pm“Many are fooled into believing that this constitutes criticism of the Obama administration, when it is simply criticism of the media.”
Maybe, but for the left, even that is going too far. Anything less than 100% shoe-licking is treason. Check out the recent Gibbs conference – only FOX questioned him about Pelosi, and he flatly dodged it, knowing that no one else would press him on it. Even asking questions that might discomfit the God Emperor is forbidden.
Stewart is an inch deep anyway, as his fumbling of the Harry Truman business showed. He’s not as big a zero as Bill Maher, but he’s not profound. And I remember not long ago when he gave a sanctimonious lecture to the media because they didn’t ask enough questions about Iraq. That stupid Bush, who in spite of his stupidity seems to play everybody like a banjo.
I’m willing to see Stewart make amends, but let’s see what he does when the true believers turn on him in fury for his little Obama tweaks.
Glen Wishard (02562c) — 5/15/2009 @ 5:23 pmGlen Wishard – Maybe, but for the left, even that is going too far.
I disagree. My friends on the left are none too smitten with the media, although they love Stewart. Yesterday there was a link at Hot Air to The Daily Howler, described at HotAir as “one of his sharpest lefty critics”. Try the links. I think you’ll find an excoriating view from the left of the media establishment.
The media serves as a safety valve – Like Stewart, you can always rag on them and avoid dealing with the Obama administration directly. Stewart may be an inch deep, but he knows the approved targets.
As for the media’s reluctance to engage at the Gibbs conference: To me it looks as though the Administration’s threats to withhold interviews and access is working, with the exception of Fox, which does better from an adversarial position anyway.
Apogee (e2dc9b) — 5/15/2009 @ 6:07 pmWith the exception of Fox, media coverage of Obama continues to insult our intelligence. Lou Dobbs and his guests were spinning Obama’s reversals on the photos and “military commissions” as evidence of Obama growing in the job.
At this rate Obama may grow to know as much as Bush if he gets an IQ implant serves two terms (ain’t gonna happen.)
Terry Gain (4f27d2) — 5/15/2009 @ 7:28 pm“Not fooled, here. That he isn’t exactly like DPRK Radio talking about Kim Jong-Il doesn’t mean he’s not (unintentionally) hilariously left-biased.”
Why would you be fooled by Stewart picking on the president for going back on his leftist promises?
imdw (c990d8) — 5/16/2009 @ 7:37 amJon Stewart and his fellow Obama lapdogs have just been rear-ended (if you know what I mean) by their political lover.
Edward Cropper (6a7a91) — 5/16/2009 @ 12:02 pmI can’t stop laughing.
What contrived wars? Like the war on Haiti?
And what torture? Where?
Michael Ejercito (7c44bf) — 5/16/2009 @ 6:13 pm