Jon Stewart's The Daily Show: Indecision 2008 - McCain's Sweet Talk Express »
Posted By ybdogsct 1 year, 2 months ago in HumorJohn Hagee, whose endorsement McCain accepted, said "New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God." Hagee's God doesn't "Damn America" like Jeremiah Wright's; Hagee's God just destroys the parts of America he doesn't like. You're not wearing a flag pin, McCain. How are you going to answer that question?
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ybdogsct1 year, 2 months ago
Jon Stewart addresses inconsistencies in the media's treatment of McCain:
1) John Hagee, whose endorsement McCain accepted, believed God sent Hurricane Katrina to destroy New Orleans for an excessive level of sin. Hagee's God doesn't "Damn America" like Jeremiah Wright's; Hagee's God just destroys the parts of America he doesn't like.
2) An examination of McCain's interviews shows that, like Obama, McCain doesn't wear a flag pin on his lapel either.
3) McCain visited a predominantly black neighborhood in New Orleans to reach out to minority voters who are traditionally ignored, only to draw an audience that was almost entirely white.
LOL
Some like to boast how well McCain is running in head-to-head polls against Clinton and Obama. What they fail to realize, however, is that--the Democrats are currently divided, McCain has gotten a free pass--this is as good as it gets for McCain. Once the Democrats have their candidate settled, McCain will face a much tougher campaign.
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Isoparm1 year, 2 months ago
This whole political dynamic has all become quite sickening.
These unrelenting attacks and hypocrisy continue, because it works. It isn't only the Republicans who have an aspect of their constituencies who are swayed by these stupid attacks. These distractions just provide an excuse for bigotries that may lay just under the surface, to manifests themselves.
I hope your right, and the Dem. party CAN come together, but the longer this goes on, the greater a split within the Dem. party, resulting in a Dem. candidate so damaged, as to allow McCain a good chance to win.
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ybdogsct1 year, 2 months ago
Some more Jon Stewart vs. John McCain can be seen here:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?v...
McCain Flip Flops on Jerry Falwell and GW Bush
McCain once called Jerry Falwell an "Agent of Intolerance." But then, he flip flopped by agreeing to give the Commencement Address at Falwell's Liberty University.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?v...
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?v...
McCain Flip Flops on Cheney and the Issue of Torture
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?v...
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?v...
Republicans Use Push-Polling in South Carolina to Slander John McCain
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?v...
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Goppy1 year, 2 months ago
MAN ALIVE ybdoggy!
Those are some AMAZING links!!!
But I got all lost on the VERY FIRST ONE!!
I was listenin to John McCain ... but I simply could NOT understand ANYTHING he was sayin!!
WHY, YOU MIGHT ASK?!!
Simple all you lefties...
HE WASNT WEARIN A FLAG PIN!!
We Conservatives ONLY listen to poeple who wear flag pins.
And JOHN MCCAIN wasnt wearin a FLAG PIN.
Dont know why!
The only think I can think of to explain it is that he aint really an American.
Hmmm. Maybe he should wear a PANAMANIAN FLAG PIN.
FLAG PINS ... Its how we Conservatives judge poeples politics.
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Mdiar1 year, 2 months ago
That was good. Should check this out to, I found it hilarious:
http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/vide...
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Natureboy1 year, 2 months ago
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bubba21 year, 2 months ago
I am repeating myself, but I just can't help it ...
McCain is a flip-flopper and a hypocrite.
He will say and do ANYTHING to be President. He has made his deal with the Republicans - and apparently with the devil - to sell himself to those who can 'assist' him in reaching his goal of "President McCain".
Actually, I just can't see how being President of the United States can be so desirable that people will compromise themselves, throw out their integrity, and lie to get there.
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MajJohn1 year, 2 months ago
Agreed Bubba, but being a flip flopper can be interpreted as modifying your position as one gains knowledge and a new prospective, the argument used by Democrats when they were attacked in the past. Now why one would lie and throw integrity to the wind, who knows? Maybe we should ask Hillary, a proven liar.
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Lurch1 year, 2 months ago
Look, Cindy McCain is already trying to make a fortune off his/her new found stardom in right-wing circles. Look at that recipe book she plagiarized first chance she got. She blamed the plagiarism on `researchers`, which means she either didn`t write the book at all and just paid a few unemployed writers to write it under her name (unethical opportunism anyway), or she plagiarized expecting her researchers to whitewash her stealing of recipes. Either way, she has shown her true colors.
I mean it is not even a `my story` thing like Barak, Clinton, Laura and many others have written.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
At one time the man displayed some integrity, and his party chastised him for it. The Bush campaign of 2000 used every filthy trick in the book against him. I think Cheneybush finally broke the man somehow. They say every man has his price, for some, that price is cheap. But he has made some kind of Faustian deal that is for certain. He has reversed himself on every issue, there are no issues he isn't on both sides of. Maybe Cheney has one of his family tied up in his basement.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
How did he become the nominee? Well you had Rudy who all the real neocons backed and advised, but his own family apparently didn't even vote for him, I'm not even sure he voted for himself. No traction for Rudy. You had the alleged "savior" of the party Fred Thompson, Fred fell asleep and no one cared or noticed. You had your Mitt Romney who appeared to me to be wearing a mask of some kind that was something I'd seen in a Devo video. He got some traction but not enough. You had your Sam Brownback who ran as an anti-evolutionist who no one noticed outside of Kansas. Then you had your Duncan Hunter who got some votes from republicans for being strongly against womens rights but his stance against illegal immigration, and opposition to free trade agreements like North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization made the republicans reject him early on.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
Then of course you had your Baptist minister Mike Huckabee who appeared affable enough but wanted a theocracy and a 30 or 40% national sales tax instead of a 28% income tax. As much as a certain wing of the republican party wants a nice theocracy like they got over in Iran, there were enough who realized that it wasn't going to sell on mainstreet USA, (or the Supreme Court). In the end McCain was the only one left.
And since they know there is no chance of winning after the Bush record even if the democrats run a hairball coughed up by an alley cat, they didn't care. And that is how McSame got the nomination!
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nikkibabe1 year, 2 months ago
Yesterday McCain said that Obama is insensitive to poor people. It is scary that this is coming from a hypocrite who flies his wife's private jet, wants to make permanent massive tax cuts to people like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and the super rich.
Mr. McCain, while you and Mr. Keating were bilking thousands of small depositors of their life savings, Barack Obama was helping poor people on the streets of Chicago.
Now stop your lies. Have you ever gone shopping for groceries or pulled in to a gas station to fill up your corporate jet!!!!!!!!!!!
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wtagg1 year, 2 months ago
Something to consider is that the networks and mainstream news has a bit of a conflict in interest with the candidates that a small network like CC doesn't have. Come election season, the networks and mainstream news live off of those advertising dollars. You could probably consider it their retail Xmas season.
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Poulenc1 year, 2 months ago
Alas, in a bake-off of provocateurs--Hagee vs. Wright--many will instantly see the latter as more deeply dangerous than the former, if they see the former as dangerous at all.
That's because of their racism and authoritarianism, which instantly bridles at any (perceived) attack on America, however "local," as if the denunciations of one man equalled sedition.
Putting aside the fringe who AGREE with Hagee, he's still "home team," in a great tradition of American demagogues whose appeal to mass bias can get him a free or freer pass.
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Lurch1 year, 2 months ago
I`m not sure I understand your point.
I believe there are about 45 million Catholics in America and many times that outside of America. How can McCain sucking up to Hagee appear any other than the bigoted hate-mongering it is?
Also, Wright spent six years in the military. He is a proven patriot compared to Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rice, Rush, AC, Hannity and all the other haters.
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bubba21 year, 2 months ago
Hagee has called the Catholic church 'The Great (hore),' an 'apostate church,' the 'anti-Christ,' and a 'false cult' system.
McCain spokesperson Jill Hazelbaker said, "Hagee endorsed John McCain. While we welcome his support, it shouldn't be seen as a wholesale endorsement of all of Mr. Hagee's views."
Now ... how is that 'different' or 'better' than any association between Obama and Wright?
The right-wingers are complaining that Obama's association with Wright automatically means that he agrees with and supports EVERYTHING that Wright says or does.
But no one will criticize McCain for the support he gets - that he asked for - from Hagee.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 2 months ago
Although in terms of voters, those who would likely be swayed from voting for Obama because of statements someone other than he made would likely not be voting for him anyway. And it's better to get this aired out now and get it over and done with. Surely Britney Spears or some other bimbo will far* or burp and the media will lavish their attention on them for the next "news cycle".
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Poulenc1 year, 2 months ago
Chef, in parody--and satire--there is always truth. That's what comedy does: our laughter is recognition of a norm that's been "transgressed."
You know, we walk upright, certain of our equilibrium, in every sense, and then slip on a banana peel...
But I DO take your point about the irony, let's call it, of finding truer truth in a show made to entertain than in one bent of "informing."
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