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John Stewart Exposes GOP Hypocrisy!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/04/jon-stewart-hits-karl-rov_n_123852.html
hypocrites....
Stewart hit Karl Rove and Bill O'Reilly with damning evidence of their hypocrisy regarding Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
While Rove recently praised Palin's experience as the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Stewart showed video of Rove trashing Virginia Governor — and former Richmond Mayor — Tim Kaine's executive experience, listing all the cities that are bigger than Richmond and calling such a pick "political."
Then, after recent video of O'Reilly describing Bristol Palin's pregnancy as a family issue, Stewart showed a clip of the Fox News host blaming Jamie Lynn Spears' parents for her teenage pregnancy.
Finally, after showing video of Dick Morris complaining about the rampant sexism in the media coverage of Sarah Palin, Stewart unveiled a clip of Morris saying that Hillary hides behind the sexism defense, and that anytime "the big boys" pick on Hillary, "she retreats behind the apron strings."
"In Dick Morris' defense," Stewart said, "he is a lying sack of sh*t."
You're not a
big deal, Steph.
Get over yourself.
Haven't seen many
of your posts to include much 'substance', sort of like Palin's speech.
Mighty vain of you to think differently.
You're certainly not a big deal......the issues are.
OT...Glad you'll be
joining us again.
Good luck.
O.T. Susie
don't forget to pickem at Raging Bull...we're looking for you. Neb has most everyone's picks.
Good luck,
Joe
Maher, just
hilarious.
Bush gives Dead Soldiers the Finger, takes heat for WMD jokes
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- What was meant by President Bush to be a joke about the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has brought little laughter to some Americans.
During the annual Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner this week, Bush presented a slide show of quirky photographs from inside the White House. In one, the president is looking under furniture in the Oval Office.
"Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere," Bush joked. "Nope, no weapons over there ... maybe under here?" (Bush pokes fun at himself at dinner)
Democrats have seized on the matter, calling it astonishingly insensitive when Americans have died for their country in Iraq while the search for WMD has turned up nothing.
The administration had cited the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons program as one of the primary reasons for the need for war.
"It's inappropriate to the thousands of people obviously who have been wounded over there," Terry McAuliffe, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Friday.
"This is a very serious issue. We've lost hundreds of troops, as you know, over there. Let's not be laughing about not being able to find weapons of mass destruction. ... We certainly should not be making light of the situation."
McAuliffe's Republican counterpart, Ed Gillespie, responded by saying people need to lighten up, that the president made the comment in jest.
He noted that the correspondents at the dinner laughed when the president made the remark.
"There is a long-standing tradition of the president making light of serious matters and self-deprecating humor" at the dinner, he said.
"The people in the room obviously saw the humor in it at that moment. And to play it back now in a different context is unfair, frankly, I have to say."
Mark Katz, a former speechwriter for President Clinton who wrote jokes for the former president when he appeared at the same dinner, told CNN he thought the joke crossed a line.
He said the joke sounded like something a speechwriter would write for internal White House amusement, but something "I never would expect" to have been approved for public consumption.
"There are lines you cannot cross," Katz said. "With regard to going to war, sending American troops to war to find weapons of mass destruction, that's a joke that's playing out on the world stage -- and is at our expense."
A non-scientific poll by CNN.com showed 54 percent of the more than 200,000 respondents felt Bush crossed the line.
A majority of CNN viewers who have responded by e-mail also said they were offended.
"Seeing our president joke about WMDs at a comedy function was terrible. How can a thinking, caring human being joke about the lie that led to body bags and broken young men and women? I was appalled," wrote Fran in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Ron in Pittsburgh added: "I couldn't believe my ears when I heard Mr. Bush joking about weapons of mass destruction. It was tasteless and childish."
But Paul in Portland held a different view: "Sometimes I've written some very critical letters of the president's policies, but [Wednesday] the president was actually very funny."
Bush gives Dead Soldiers the Finger, takes heat for WMD jokes
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- What was meant by President Bush to be a joke about the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has brought little laughter to some Americans.
During the annual Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner this week, Bush presented a slide show of quirky photographs from inside the White House. In one, the president is looking under furniture in the Oval Office.
"Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere," Bush joked. "Nope, no weapons over there ... maybe under here?" (Bush pokes fun at himself at dinner)
Democrats have seized on the matter, calling it astonishingly insensitive when Americans have died for their country in Iraq while the search for WMD has turned up nothing.
The administration had cited the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons program as one of the primary reasons for the need for war.
"It's inappropriate to the thousands of people obviously who have been wounded over there," Terry McAuliffe, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Friday.
"This is a very serious issue. We've lost hundreds of troops, as you know, over there. Let's not be laughing about not being able to find weapons of mass destruction. ... We certainly should not be making light of the situation."
McAuliffe's Republican counterpart, Ed Gillespie, responded by saying people need to lighten up, that the president made the comment in jest.
He noted that the correspondents at the dinner laughed when the president made the remark.
"There is a long-standing tradition of the president making light of serious matters and self-deprecating humor" at the dinner, he said.
"The people in the room obviously saw the humor in it at that moment. And to play it back now in a different context is unfair, frankly, I have to say."
Mark Katz, a former speechwriter for President Clinton who wrote jokes for the former president when he appeared at the same dinner, told CNN he thought the joke crossed a line.
He said the joke sounded like something a speechwriter would write for internal White House amusement, but something "I never would expect" to have been approved for public consumption.
"There are lines you cannot cross," Katz said. "With regard to going to war, sending American troops to war to find weapons of mass destruction, that's a joke that's playing out on the world stage -- and is at our expense."
A non-scientific poll by CNN.com showed 54 percent of the more than 200,000 respondents felt Bush crossed the line.
A majority of CNN viewers who have responded by e-mail also said they were offended.
"Seeing our president joke about WMDs at a comedy function was terrible. How can a thinking, caring human being joke about the lie that led to body bags and broken young men and women? I was appalled," wrote Fran in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Ron in Pittsburgh added: "I couldn't believe my ears when I heard Mr. Bush joking about weapons of mass destruction. It was tasteless and childish."
But Paul in Portland held a different view: "Sometimes I've written some very critical letters of the president's policies, but [Wednesday] the president was actually very funny."
Meet the Truth-Challenged GOP VP Candidate: Sure A. Pallin'
Now that we've had a chance to see Sarah Palin and to hear her speak -- or at least read the big rolling white block letters on the teleprompter in front of her -- we can see that she's prone to telling whoppers.
Now we know politicians as a group have a propensity to embellish the truth -- particularly when describing their opponents or themselves -- and even to lie outright, but Palin does it so well, she's like a George Bush with reading and pronunciation skills.
In her acceptance speech last night, Palin told a whole string of lies. My favorite was talking about little Trig, her latest offspring, who was born with Down syndrome. Looking right out into the camera, she told the parents of America with special needs children that if she and John McCain win in November, "You'll have an advocate in Washington."
Hard to square that with the truth, though, which is that as governor, Palin has proposed a reduction in funds for special needs grants to schools in both her budgets -- this at a time when the state of Alaska has been benefiting from record oil tax revenues, which Palin is pushing to return to citizens as cash rebates.
Left unsaid by Palin was the fact that McCain himself, in Congress, has voted against funding for the Head Start program, an early childhood program particularly important to children of teen mothers, and that he has opposed bills to increase funding for special education. So in fact, parents of children with special needs such as Trig not only won't have an advocate in the vice president's office, but also they won't have an advocate in the White House either.
Palin has also tried to turn a family tragedy -- her 17-year old daughter Bristol's getting pregnant by a local self-described 18-year-old "redneck" athlete from the same high school -- into a virtue by saying that she and her husband will be helping their daughter "keep the child" and raise it. To keep things cool in the eyes of god, she also announced that the two teen parents would be getting married. Both kids were prominently on display at the Republican National Convention during her speech.
What Palin didn't tell convention-goers or the national viewing audience was that as governor, she cut the funds for a program in the state to support single teen mothers and that as a PTA member, mayor, and finally as governor of Alaska, she has opposed sex education in the schools -- something her daughter and future son-in-law clearly could have used. Less advantaged single mothers in Alaska and, should she be elected, in the rest of America, will not have a friend in the Blair House. She also failed to mention that McCain has voted against funding of teen pregnancy prevention programs in Congress.
Palin continued, in her acceptance speech, to spout another lie that she had already been making in her first days on the stump since being picked by McCain as his choice for running mate: she had said "No thank you" to the $439-million "Bridge to Nowhere" which, as perhaps the biggest single earmark in a year of record earmarks last year had become a national joke line. The truth: Palin backed that bridge, and was even ready to add state funding to get it built, until it became a national joke. Then she thought better, and killed the bridge, while still taking the money, which the state's senior senator, Ted Stevens (now under indictment for taking bribes from contractors), had earmarked.
Palin went on to lie about her opponent, Barack Obama's, tax plan, saying it would raise taxes on businesses and on all Americans. In fact, Obama's plan calls for lowering the corporate profits tax, while increasing the tax on dividends and capital gains, both of which fall not on businesses but on investors, and for lowering taxes on most Americans, while raising them for people earning over $250,000.
John McCain likes to ride around in a bus he dubs the "Straight-Talk Express."
Sarah Palin, in her debut on the national stage since being named as McCain's Number Two, has lied enough times to deserve the sobriquet Sure A. Pallin'.
Meet the Truth-Challenged GOP VP Candidate: Sure A. Pallin'
Now that we've had a chance to see Sarah Palin and to hear her speak -- or at least read the big rolling white block letters on the teleprompter in front of her -- we can see that she's prone to telling whoppers.
Now we know politicians as a group have a propensity to embellish the truth -- particularly when describing their opponents or themselves -- and even to lie outright, but Palin does it so well, she's like a George Bush with reading and pronunciation skills.
In her acceptance speech last night, Palin told a whole string of lies. My favorite was talking about little Trig, her latest offspring, who was born with Down syndrome. Looking right out into the camera, she told the parents of America with special needs children that if she and John McCain win in November, "You'll have an advocate in Washington."
Hard to square that with the truth, though, which is that as governor, Palin has proposed a reduction in funds for special needs grants to schools in both her budgets -- this at a time when the state of Alaska has been benefiting from record oil tax revenues, which Palin is pushing to return to citizens as cash rebates.
Left unsaid by Palin was the fact that McCain himself, in Congress, has voted against funding for the Head Start program, an early childhood program particularly important to children of teen mothers, and that he has opposed bills to increase funding for special education. So in fact, parents of children with special needs such as Trig not only won't have an advocate in the vice president's office, but also they won't have an advocate in the White House either.
Palin has also tried to turn a family tragedy -- her 17-year old daughter Bristol's getting pregnant by a local self-described 18-year-old "redneck" athlete from the same high school -- into a virtue by saying that she and her husband will be helping their daughter "keep the child" and raise it. To keep things cool in the eyes of god, she also announced that the two teen parents would be getting married. Both kids were prominently on display at the Republican National Convention during her speech.
What Palin didn't tell convention-goers or the national viewing audience was that as governor, she cut the funds for a program in the state to support single teen mothers and that as a PTA member, mayor, and finally as governor of Alaska, she has opposed sex education in the schools -- something her daughter and future son-in-law clearly could have used. Less advantaged single mothers in Alaska and, should she be elected, in the rest of America, will not have a friend in the Blair House. She also failed to mention that McCain has voted against funding of teen pregnancy prevention programs in Congress.
Palin continued, in her acceptance speech, to spout another lie that she had already been making in her first days on the stump since being picked by McCain as his choice for running mate: she had said "No thank you" to the $439-million "Bridge to Nowhere" which, as perhaps the biggest single earmark in a year of record earmarks last year had become a national joke line. The truth: Palin backed that bridge, and was even ready to add state funding to get it built, until it became a national joke. Then she thought better, and killed the bridge, while still taking the money, which the state's senior senator, Ted Stevens (now under indictment for taking bribes from contractors), had earmarked.
Palin went on to lie about her opponent, Barack Obama's, tax plan, saying it would raise taxes on businesses and on all Americans. In fact, Obama's plan calls for lowering the corporate profits tax, while increasing the tax on dividends and capital gains, both of which fall not on businesses but on investors, and for lowering taxes on most Americans, while raising them for people earning over $250,000.
John McCain likes to ride around in a bus he dubs the "Straight-Talk Express."
Sarah Palin, in her debut on the national stage since being named as McCain's Number Two, has lied enough times to deserve the sobriquet Sure A. Pallin'.
Sexually
uptight repubs...gotta love em.
What was
McCain doing in court?
You left out,
incontinent.
What do I
care. I'm watching moron now, just for laughs.
Are you actually listening?
What a
bore.
Damn...just got
in. I heard on the radio that they dumbed down the speakers tonight to make McSmack look smart.
It's not working.
Are you kidding yourself
McPlain debate? He's the worst speaker of the bunch. His temper will lose this election.
Bring on the debates. Should be interesting watching him stand and try to speak at the same time.
Females everywhere
should be proud?
That's a typical winger response that sends us back 50 years.
If your wife didn't slap you, she's either handless or has one of those red state 67 I.Q's.
I'll take a
burger, well done, no cheese and extra onions. Fries also please.
I bet she screws it up. Typical.
You're easily
impressed by lipstick.
She reminds me
of that waitress at Denny's. Rode hard and acts tough.
Mayor of a city
with 8000 people...lol
What a tough job.
As governor she ear marked more monies than any state in the union.
So morals
and values only come into play when speaking of Clinton. You really don't mean it?
LOL....
Guillani IS A ZERO. Cheating, lying zero.
Ha ha
they can't get laughs or applause with the truth. FIGURES.
If you're
stupid it is.
Touche Karin
Look it up.
Another outright lie by the winger group.
That's a spare
testicle.
Excellent post!
Thank you much Longhorn.
Best to Texas football. Red River should be fun this year.
Interesting....
I hope you gained some enjoyment or knowledge from your show because I got totally lost with the RNC.
Now lieberman another
brilliant speaker. LOL
Wasn't he the loser with Gore? Now the republicans trust him? Way to funny.
Thompson has only
stated 43 misthruths thusfar. I quit.
He can babble on...Americans will see right thriough his cr*p.
Fred Thompson...
Now he's funny.
So is VJ.
Obama and Camp, must really think the American people are stupid
They majority is stupid...they voted in Dubya twice!