Deadliest Snatch: The Daily Show on Race and Abortion

6 Responses to Deadliest Snatch: The Daily Show on Race and Abortion

1. Emily L. Hauser | March 9, 2011 at 11:57 pm | Reply

   I’m fairly certain you meant “Hilarz,” but whatevs. Of course-um-z, it was awesumz sauces! It was them! How could it not bez?

   I wonder if the people of the Daily Show have any idea how much comfort they give the country (the sane part, at any rate).

2. Paula | March 10, 2011 at 12:33 pm | Reply

   Fuckin’ A … inevitably, that cross-post in BJ is once again going to turn into an inane bitch-fest about how Jon Stewart Betrayed the Unions, so I’ma stay out and rant here instead:

   In what way did Jon fucking Stewart equate Teabaggerism w/ the pro-union people?? Because he had the gall to point out that the one guy w/a swastika on his poster looked ridiculous? That making incoherent points on TV makes you look dumb no matter what you’re arguing for? God forbid people on “our” side should be criticized for being incoherent because all that matters is we’re RIGHT, GODAMMIT RIGHT.

   FALSE EQUIVALENCE! HIPSTER DAVID BRODER! COMEDIAN FULL OF HIMSELF! HISTORY’S GREATEST MONSTER. THAT RALLY WAS ABOUT NOTHING!

   I swear to fucking jaysus the 2nd worst thing Shrub did after his actual policies was making everyone stoop to his level so that they are now intellectually incapable of absorbing non-partisan nuance.

   • stopthemadness | March 10, 2011 at 12:38 pm | Reply

     some of those commenters are just fucking idiots.

     maybe we should have another bradley manning discussion which will devolve into some fool calling me a “clown” because he has no rebuttal to my points.

     the lack of logic and critical thinking on the left is stunning.

3. stopthemadness | March 10, 2011 at 12:40 pm | Reply

   i was not at all pleased about stewart’s comments on gitmo, so I’M NEVER WATCHING HIM AGAIN!

   i swear. some people

   • Paula | March 10, 2011 at 1:08 pm | Reply

     The hilarious thing is that he had an anecdote from YEARS ago about the kinds of viewers who tell him he’s very funny — except on this [x] issue, which is very serious, which he should never joke about because it’s very serious.

     At which point the ridiculousness of asking a comedian, who makes money from being a comedian, to stop being a comedian just in this ONE case should settle in. He said very clearly that people should not expect him to be “that guy” like Olbermann is.

     He’s a political satirist who gets credibility because he and his writers are good at being funny and insightful about politics as viewed by “regular”, non-politics junkie viewers, not just because he talked about “serious stuff”. The mistake that right-wingers made when criticizing his lack of “balance” or “hiding behind the comedy mask” was assuming that having a strong POV that he expressed on TV somehow meant that he wanted to be taken seriously as a pundit/leader. However, most of his credibility among his viewers comes w/ being seen as completely opposite that, of presenting himself as an everyday consumer of news and therefore a non-expert. And that involves believing (the lie according to a partisan) that there is a non-partisan POV that can be explored. You can see him struggle w/ this kind of intellectual honesty in his interview w/ Rumsfeld.

     Now stupid people on the left are making the same assumptions. And what I find embarrassing is that it says less about Stewart than about how there’s really a thin line between left/right talking points when you’re given a limited intellectual discourse to respond to. That “limited discourse” is often the target of TDS — how people on both sides of the aisle use cliche to simplify and obfuscate really complex ideas and problems.

     But damned if people on “our side” are also dumb enough to mistake criticism of meaningless noise as Stewart’s facile call for civility or worse, censorship. It’s the “either you’re with us or against us” model of rhetoric reproduced for the Left. And it’s dismaying because … how useful was that shite?

4. asiangrrlMN | March 10, 2011 at 9:38 pm | Reply

   My biggest beef with Stewart is that he jumped on the ACORN bandwagon when the edited video was released and never apologized for it. Stewart lost me a bit when he said that thinking the teabaggers was racist was part of the problem. Frankly, I am much more a Colbert fan these days. But this bit was funny.