Jon Stewart vs. Bill O'Reilly

Watching the unedited version on the foxnews site, I thought Stewart came off better than I initially gave him credit for, including on the stuff I'd already seen.

Sometimes laughter was the only way to respond when O'Reilly tried to bait him, calling his writers pinheads, asking him if he feels bad about distorting the truth to make a liberal point, calling Glen Beck an 'everyman,' mocking Stewart for using big words and telling Stewart he was smarter than he'd expected.

 

Of course she's not going to criticize Rush. She doesn't want to be called to Palm Beach and taken over Limbo's knee.

She is a joke.

 

She is a joke that the NY Times has written 2 front pages stories about this week.

 

That aside...how does some guy who makes $30-million plus a year realistically claim to be "everyman?"

I don't know who's more pathetic- Beck or the dopes who think he really gives a shit about them.

 

I'm glad that she was the keynote speaker at the same convention where Tom Tancredo called, to thunderous applause, for a return to Jim Crow-era voting literacy tests.

 

They were just trying to play the gotcha liberal media game with her.

 

Oh, the unintentional irony. Could Sarah Slime herself pass such a test?

 

Stewart has said he has respect for Bill O. His appearances on the Daily Show are usually very entertaining, in a good way. Bill O. is a hothead, to be sure, but watching him on the Daily Show, you wonder how much of it is an act to satisfy Roger Ailes' red-meat requirements.

 

Nearly every speaker uses index cards or such to remind them of a topic or point to make. Palin wrote a note on her hand.

The Reader in Chief, however, is just that: a reader. Without a teleprompter he's a blooming idiot.

There's a huge difference between using a note and having to read every single word from a teleprompter.

Those who don't know the difference are just as much of an intellectual fraud as Obama.

 

Obama didn't have teleprompter in Baltimore when he made the GOP congressmen all look like fools.
They were all obviously believing this "Obama is a dumbass without a teleprompter" line of thinking and then they got their asses handed to them when they tried to engage him.
Or has the Rush/Beck/Savage radio crowd come up with a way to explain that?

 

The issue with Palin is not that she brought notes with her to help her in her speech. That's to be expected.

The issue is one of professionalism. Instead of using index cards or paper or something adults would use, she wrote on her hand like she's an 11-year-old trying to remember a boy's phone number. (Except that with 11-year-olds having cell phones, they don't even need to do that anymore.) I hope she never refuses to shake a dignitary's hand because she's afraid that would smudge her greeting.

 

Go get 'em Tony!