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2004-08-25 Home Front: Politix

Jon Stewart asks Kerry the Cambodia Question- Kerry stares

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Posted by mhw 2004-08-25 8:37:14 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Not odd at all, actually. But interesting indeed and extremely amusing. Would that Stewart have kept the staredown going until Kerry reacted!

Posted by Atropanthe 2004-08-25 9:13:53 AM|| 2004-08-25 9:13:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#2
I've seen a few interviews where Jon Stewart was asked about his political leanings. He claims that he is neither pro/anti Bush.

He further states that as a comedian, he views both parties and their candidates as fair game. My take is that he's more moderate/centrist oriented than liberal.

CiT

Posted by CiT 2004-08-25 9:21:05 AM|| 2004-08-25 9:21:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Jon Stewart is annoyingly leftwing, but he is also a comic. Lotsa anti-Bush jokes, but he goes after the left too. The anti-Bush smirk he uses gets lotsa laughs from the NY live audience, but he also gets laughs for teasing the other side.

And (if you can't already tell I watch The Daily Show a lot ) the other 'correspondents' are laugh out loud funny, too, maybe even funnier than some of the smarmy jokes Stewart gets away with in his presentations.

Posted by badanov 2004-08-25 9:44:47 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-08-25 9:44:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I find Stewart fairly in the middle, and very funny, making shots at both sides. Question is, why didn't Kerry just answer the question? What a pussy

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-25 9:45:51 AM|| 2004-08-25 9:45:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Badanov
So you watch both the Daily Show and South Park, eh.

Posted by mhw 2004-08-25 10:16:15 AM|| 2004-08-25 10:16:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Not South Park. It is a funny show, but for some reason after the fifth show I saw, I lost interest in it, failing to see any continuing attraction.

Posted by badanov 2004-08-25 10:19:48 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-08-25 10:19:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 steve cobear is leftist. he in funy as hell tho. stewart is seem pick on evryone. :)

Posted by muck4doo 2004-08-25 10:28:14 AM|| [http://www.meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2004-08-25 10:28:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Jon Stewart is a liberal Jew, but most importantly he isn't funny. I used to watch the show when Craig Kilborne was on there and it was a masterpiece show when he was on there. However, the Craig Kilborne show sucks bad. He's apparently stiffeled creatively by the "Big Three's" internal censorship. I don't even remember if it's ABC, CBS or NBC that he's on now, but they're all the same in my mind. They stiffle creativity, especially in comedians. But when I did watch the Daily Show with Craig Kilborne I came to the conclusion that the writers on that show were brilliant.

Posted by Kentucky Beef 2004-08-25 10:43:01 AM|| 2004-08-25 10:43:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I always thought Mo Rocca is funny.....

Posted by Jarhead 2004-08-25 11:02:13 AM|| 2004-08-25 11:02:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Like Charley Gibson, John Stewart is an RNC plant. . .

Posted by BigEd 2004-08-25 11:13:24 AM|| 2004-08-25 11:13:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Badanov

Several of the South Park episodes give hint that the directors hate self righteous democrats. They refer to the 'earthday brainwashing festival'; they hit Rosie O'D very hard, they have Whoppi getting giggles and laughs from a high brow audience with repeated moronic one liners like 'I hate Republicans'; they had a good hit against Rain Forest lovers.

Posted by mhw 2004-08-25 11:13:45 AM|| 2004-08-25 11:13:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Jon Stewart used to have a late-night talk show that I never watched 'cause I figured he was an idiot. Then I saw him as a guest on "Politically Incorrect" and discovered that he's really smart, well-informed, quick-witted, and funny as hell.

What "Weekend Update" was in its glory years, "The Daily Show" is now. But 10 times better.

BTW, anyone have a link to the interview? I'd like to see it, and it's not up on Comedy Central's site.

Posted by growler 2004-08-25 11:32:02 AM|| 2004-08-25 11:32:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 I suppose it was inevitable that "The Daily Show' would replace the info-tainment of ABCCBSNBCCNNFOX as "America's most listened to news source". I saw it coming when The National Enquirer replaced the New York Times as "America's Newspaper of Record". (Which I suppose puts the LA Times on a par with The Weekly World News.)

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-08-25 11:53:47 AM|| 2004-08-25 11:53:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 Anonymoose : "The LA Times" is "The Weekly World News", except the Times did reject the Saddahm sex-change story, but the editor was criticized for doing so. . . .

Posted by BigEd 2004-08-25 12:00:59 PM|| 2004-08-25 12:00:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Badanov Several of the South Park episodes give hint that the directors hate self righteous democrats. They refer to the 'earthday brainwashing festival'; they hit Rosie O'D very hard, they have Whoppi getting giggles and laughs from a high brow audience with repeated moronic one liners like 'I hate Republicans'; they had a good hit against Rain Forest lovers.

I hold no ill will against South Park. It's just that the talking turd lost me somehow. I know for a fact they are politically irreverent; one of the funniest shows of theirs I saw was where two cops were talking about their 'normal business' of framing rich black men for crimes they didn't commit, the chief bad guy/character being a black guy who was drawn to look like and sounded an awful lot like Michael Jackson.

Posted by badanov 2004-08-25 12:01:15 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-08-25 12:01:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 I agree Badanov, Mr. Hanky is the most disgusting character I've ever seen on TV. I switch channels if this character appears.

Posted by mhw 2004-08-25 12:33:36 PM|| 2004-08-25 12:33:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Almost as bad as when they 'reversed the flow' of the eating/digestion/pooping process. Disgusting.

But over all a funny show :)

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-08-25 12:40:04 PM|| 2004-08-25 12:40:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 ima take it you guys arent see the episode with gerbil and mr. slave.

Posted by muck4doo 2004-08-25 12:43:49 PM|| [http://www.meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2004-08-25 12:43:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Muck
I saw part of it then turned it off.

Posted by mhw 2004-08-25 1:10:27 PM|| 2004-08-25 1:10:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 I saw the show last night and it seemed pretty much to me to be "See, I can be like ordinary guys and be funny, too" on Kerry's part. The part where Stewart asked about Cambodia was very rushed and the laught track was going but I don't think Kerry knew beforehand it was comming.
I liked the Civil War Reenactor South Park. Hilarious. (I'm a Civil War Reenactor. I was awarded a Purple Heart for a sabre wound that required stitches. It happened at the Battle of Saltville, Virginia. Does this mean I get to go home early?)

Posted by Deacon Blues 2004-08-25 2:12:59 PM|| 2004-08-25 2:12:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Go home Early? wuz he had saltville too?

Posted by Half 2004-08-25 2:22:24 PM|| 2004-08-25 2:22:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Half, I was portrating a cavalry trooper from the 13th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, a Union unit. I got cut across the back of my right hand during a sabre fight on horseback and had to have stitches. It was my opponent's first event and no one told him to dull his sabre.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2004-08-25 4:05:16 PM|| 2004-08-25 4:05:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Slate has a review of the Kerry performance at:
http://www.slate.com/id/2105618/

the author of the review gives Kerry a below zero

"...Kerry's charisma was less than zero: It was negative. He was a charm vacuum, forced to actually borrow mojo from audience members. He was a dessicated husk, a tin man who really didn't have a heart. His lack of vibrancy, his utter dearth of sex appeal made Al Gore look like Charo. (I've always found Al Gore sort of hot, actually, like a stuffy high school principal just begging to be broken down. But I have some issues with authority.)"

Posted by mhw 2004-08-25 4:52:49 PM|| 2004-08-25 4:52:49 PM|| Front Page Top

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