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Its a flip and a flop and an Obama flippity flop.
The transcript, below, is from Politico.
Last night on “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart played a clip from Obama’s town hall in Colorado on Saturday when the president said … … “the public option, whether we have it or we don’t have it…”
“Wait a second! What did you just say?!,” Stewart asked, feigning surprise.
“No public option?” Stewart continued. “We still get to kill old people though, right?”
Then, again, Stewart asked: “Did you just drop the public option?”
“Mr. President, I can’t tell if you’re a Jedi — 10 steps ahead of everything or if this whole health care thing is kickin’ your ass just a little bit,” the “Daily Show” host ranted. “Why is this so hard? Why can’t you guys just stay on message? Remember the Bush team? Little bit of discipline, little bit of repetition. They sold us a war nobody wanted and nobody needed.”
Stewart then played a series of clips featuring former President George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney speaking about weapons of mass destruction in the lead-up to the Iraq war.
“Salesmanship!” Stewart said, after the clip. “Those guys could sell ice cubes to Eskimos. The Democrats, I don’t even think could sell Eskimos BEEP they need: insulation, heating apparatus.
“Yes, we can! …Unless you don’t think we should!” the host concluded before going to commercial.
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Steve Maley
Still not a fan of Jon Liebowitz
bannedtroll Tuesday, August 18th at 11:00PM EST (link)When he starts ragging on Obama for what a stupid idea government healthcare is or how we would get the money to pay for it, let me know. Of course, he’s a committed liberal, so that’ll never happen. The best you’re going to get is whenever he backs down from the uber-liberal agenda, like this.
I’m a banned Democrat who came here to promote the idea that Republicans are racists for disliking Barack Obama.
Liebowitz?
lthurwitz (Diary) Wednesday, August 19th at 2:43AM EST (link)I didn’t know – but I guess that makes sense. And, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
I guess if you're going to go into the business of insulting people (and passing it off as satiric news)
bannedtroll Wednesday, August 19th at 1:53PM EST (link)you probably want to trade in your last name for something a little less ethnic. It makes an easy target for return cheap shots, and he’d certainly be doing the Jewish community no favors by dragging that last name through the mud with him.
I’m a banned Democrat who came here to promote the idea that Republicans are racists for disliking Barack Obama.
And the intramural beatings inside the Dem
Dan Perrin (Diary) Tuesday, August 18th at 11:07PM EST (link)party will continue, until there is more clarity.
The beatings, apparently, help.
I must be too old, but Jon Liebowitz is not funny...
DONTREADONME (Diary) Wednesday, August 19th at 12:11AM EST (link)You hit your thirties and he just sounds like a clown who does not have a clue. You know what was most irritating about that video is that its always about Bush Lied! Or some other invocation of the Bush administration, frankly, its old and tiresome and its recycling the same old stupid jokes. BTW, I would like to see Mark Levin tear Jon Stewart a new one.
I guess this exemplifies the next generation of kids that will arise out of college, I know, I work with two who get their current events from “Jon the Recycler”. I actually told them the other day what Rush always asks, you know that the Daily Show is not news, right?
Anyway, I had to mouth off after watching that clip. Sorry for mouthing off on a front page post.
To be fair
mallcopsaysno Wednesday, August 19th at 9:35AM EST (link)Rush isn’t news either. By his own admission he is an entertainer. He and JS aren’t so far apart with regard to profession.
I refused to apologize for chickenhawking when told to.
Eisenhower was right.in a way, you have just insulted me?
DONTREADONME (Diary) Wednesday, August 19th at 3:16PM EST (link)seriously, I hope you did not believe that quoting Rush, meant that Rush is a comprehensive news source? That said, I would put Rush much closer to the news than JS.
No worries
Dan Perrin (Diary) Wednesday, August 19th at 12:22AM EST (link)I expected more of it, frankly
I think the reason there is not more is because Obama is getting his butt kicked on this issue
government option
eyesopen007 Wednesday, August 19th at 4:14AM EST (link)We should not using the liberal’s teminology. We shouldn’t call it a “public option”, we should call it what it is, a GOVERNMENT OPTION.
Funny yes, but still stupid
mustango (Diary) Wednesday, August 19th at 8:26AM EST (link)I suppose we should mark the day (in red of course) on our calendars as a historical event (“Jon Stewart Says Something Positive about Bush”), but recasting Bush and the GOP as these super-salesman is still so very badly missing the point.
If the Republicans were that good, how come McCain isn’t president?
“I just miss — I miss being anonymous.” — Barack Obama
I fully sympathize, Mr. President. I miss you being anonymous too.