Oh, those poor victimized conservatives!

Jon Stewart offers a montage of the complaints by poor, underprivileged oppressed conservatives.

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Who could ever imagine that the conservatives have so much to put up with?

Stewart skewers Ben Stein's "defenses" of Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Ben Stein, presumably practicing class solidarity in protecting his fellow rich man, presented a truly sad case for Dominique Strauss-Kahn in face of the rape charges which have been made against him. No one can do a better job of taking Ben Stein down than Jon Stewart. So Jon does it.

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It's nice to have a competent President who tells the Repubs they are liars - to their faces!

Jon Stewart gets this one very well. Well, so does Barack Obama. He had something to do with the success of the moment also.

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FOX, in the meantime, fails as both a news organization and as a right-wing propaganda outlet. They knew it and abandoned the field to competent news organizations. Wouldn't want to contaminate the minds of their audience with facts - or with the additional fact that Barack Obama can do something that Bush never could. Deal with questions successfully while speaking competent English.

Jon Stewart on how FOX handles "news."

Jon Stewart describes FOX's perpetual revulsion machine. Not only is is funny, it is extremely educational.

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Best take on the GOP web site failure; Jon Stewart, Natch.

What can I say? The GOP website pushed by Michael Steele is.... well here's Jon Stewart.

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When anyone is going to be totally out of touch with modern times, the Republicans will demonstrate the greatest degree of "out of touchness" and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele will be there to show them the way.

Jon Stewart on Olympia Snowe and the health care idiocy

Once again, Jon Stewart puts our American politics into perspective. What is with the Senators and health care?

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Where do the rightwing talking points come from?

Jon Stewart masterfully explains the Crank Cycle.

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I wonder of David Frum watches Jon Stewart?

OK. Here is Jon Stewart on "The first Great Depression."



Now actually this is quite ahistorical - as you would expect from an American. History in America is what happened last week, and last year never happened. But the renown British historian Erick Hobsbawm points out in his excellent book "The Age of Empire" that the first Great Depression occurred between 1873 and the mid 1890's. Sine America was still an agricultural economy with relatively little international trade outside cotton, this has generally escaped notice in America. But by WW I America had entered international trade in a big way, besides which there are still people around from the 1930's who can argue the severity of the Depression of the 1930's, so the earlier one Great Depression gets no real press.

Still, who am I to actually argue with the great comedian Jon Stewart?

Besides, Stewart's follow up to the above video, Clusterf#@k to the Poor House - The Decabox, is really outstanding comedy.



One pundit on one screen isn't enough? Add another - and another - and another - and another - and...

Is the Decabox enough? Do we need even MORE pundits cluttering inhabiting our TV screen at once?

Please! Don't ask the unthinking TV "news" executives. This is another idea they don't need to hear. They won't think. They'll just try it!

They are TV executives, after all.

Jon Stewart on the Palin pick

Here's why so many people are currently getting their political news from Comedy Central:



[h/t to tristero at Hullabaloo.]

Happy talk vs Truth about the economy

Courtesy of Calculated Risk, here is Jon Stewart on the economy.



When I write about "Happy Talk" - that's what we are hearing from George W. Bush.