Discussion for article #229916
LOL. That was nauseating BS for sure.
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Rat bastards never admit to being rat bastards. If you listen to what they say instead of paying attention to what they do, you will always be confused.
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I question Jon Stewart’s priorities and perspective. But then again I don’t get paid millions of dollars to turn low-hanging fruit into lazy political humor.
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i encourage you to use your own incredible wit to achieve the success Stewart now enjoys…there is nothing lazy about creating this brand of satirical humor. you want lazy…check out the mind numbing tripe coming from our beloved MSM
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Jon Stewart is the only JOURNALIST who has the balls to tell the truth. Under the guise of comedy he delivers pointed political commentary while CNN and Fox News deliver cowardly bullshit under the guise of news.
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You don’t get paid millions of dollars by networks to read, on air, the “news”.
It’s sad when comedy shows speak the truth more clearly than network “news” shows…
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See, this is that thing Jon does that bothers the crap out of me…both siderism. Obama has repeatedly tried to work with the GOP and much to the angst of his base. He’s reached out to McConnell and Boehner countless times and he’s been rebuffed every time. So, I think it’s incredibly disingenuous to act as though “both sides do it” when there’s mountains of evidence that only one side is the problem.
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But it’s also disingenuous to think that Obama actually believes it when he says he takes McConnell “at his word”. That’s the dynamic that really is at play by both sides here. Both know this is all a farce, and that nothing will actually get done.
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I guess I don’t see it as both sides when one side has repeatedly reached out and repeatedly tried to work with the other side while the other side has repeatedly said “go fuck yourself”. Obama saying, “I take him at his word” is Obama simply trying to be magnanimous. What else is he supposed to say?
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That’s been true in the past. Do you think that Obama is genuinely reaching out this time? If so then you have to think that McConnell is too. I’m quite sure both are putting on smiley faces while keeping their hands on the knife handles.
I thought it obvious that when Obama says he takes McConnell “at his word” it is just a tactful way to apply some pressure to McConnell to follow through. It doesn’t mean that he’s disingenuous to say it (or naive enough to believe it).
Why on earth would one “have to” take McConnell–who has repeatedly shown that his word is more or less than a fart on the wind–at his word simply because one is taking Obama–who has shown that his word IS worth something–at his word?
One of these things is not like the other. It would be the height of stupidity to pretend they were, particularly if it were just to be “polite”. (Why do some people think it’s polite to pretend that one person who is primarily good is actually mostly bad, in order to “not insult” someone who actually IS bad? Doesn’t it occur to them how rude that is to the person who is working to be good?)
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Actually, yes. I genuinely believe that Obama hopes like hell that now that Mitch has been reelected to his final term, he’ll return to being the once sane Senator he used to be. If Obama’s looking at the 2016 map, he knows it’s very unlikely McConnell will be Majority Leader for more than 2 years, and even less likely if he doesn’t get anything positive done. There’s been a lot of political talk around KY that now that McConnell has solidified his place in history, he’s never going to run again, and now has more to lose working against the president than working with him.
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At least here he it’s being fairly applied - both Obama and McConnell are being equally dishonest about the prospects for cooperation, which is the point of the piece. Obama’s meek attempts at bipartisanship with such snakes isn’t exactly an asset.
I agree. Granted, Stewart might be poking the comment and not the man but the president isn’t going to whack decorum for cheap political points.
But only because the dysfunctional side recognizes the importance of voting.
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Oh, Plucky? I so hope you are right.
I so hope.
I guess this is what we lowlifes were unaware of when Jon Stewart said he’d recently moved and hadn’t figured out where to vote in his new location yet: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/realestate/jon-stewart-sells-tribeca-penthouse-for-175-million.html?ref=realestate