Jon Stewart mocks Olbermann for suggesting Scott Brown advocated violence against women

[Irish_shark]

Regarding the time when a Scott Brown supporter yelled that someone should shove a curling iron up Martha Coakley's butt. see video

My take: Brown was referring to winning the elections when he said, "we can do this."

[Red Knight]

1. Stewart is great

I haven't been able to watch Olberman like I used to. He is becoming ever more self-absorbed and it annoys the hell out of me.

He should stick with the facts--ignore his little personal battles with O'Riely or Coulter or whoever mentions his name. He seems narcissistic and it just doesn't play well.

There is plenty--and I mean PLENTY to attack the Republicans with--but I watched the thing Stewart highlighted and was thinking the same kinds of things as I watched it: it was a stretch at best.

Stay on the issues and lose the personal stuff. The problem already is that the media isn't issue oriented enough. Keith is better than this.

Still love Maddow, like Shultz and have been impressed with Ratigan.

Olberman needs to stick with the things that he does well--important things. This is not all a personal battle. It's bigger than that.

[HipChick]

2. like the violence encouraged at the Palin rallies..

did Brown ever come out and denounce it?

[Zoeisright]

3. Brown didn't condemn it, even after the fact.

That's damning enough for me. Besides the fact he hides behind his daughters when called out on a lie. AND voted against helping first responders after 9/11.

The man is pond scum. And Keith Olbermann is right on.

[Irish_shark]

7. Stewart says its ridiculous to expect politicians to condemn every crazy thing the public says

They would be indeed very busy apologizing if they took it upon themselves to disagree with what people scream at those rallies.

[corpseratemedia]

4. yes and Jon mocked Maddow for talking about Haiti's history of being occupied when the earthquake

occurred. He was trying to equate whatever fox and the other networks were doing with maddow, which is bullshit.

That's the old "R/L the same" decades-old propaganda, just in a fairly-soon-too-old-to-be-hip format.

[stray cat]

5. Sometimes Olbermann and Maddow stretch the truth in taking things out of context

I watch and like both - but prefer them to stay with the context of the words they report rather than focusing more on inflamming people. There are plenty of factual things to get upset about

[robcon]

6. Olbermann is a chronic liar.

Turned him off when he made shit up about Hillary Clinton during the primaries.

[Berry Cool]

9. He is not a liar of ANY KIND

and he never "made shit up" about Hillary.

Defend your statement or back off.

[Clintonista2]

11. +1

[bigtree]

8. Stewart tries to be 'balanced' sometimes

. . . and just ends up giving pretenders and liars an equal platform for their bullshit defenses against legitimate criticisms.

But, he's an entertainer. What should we expect from a comedy show?

[Raine]

10. KO showed the bit on his Friday show

he seemed to enjoy Stewart's razzing of him and admitted that he had been over the top.

[JI7]

13. yeah, they are both great, but you can tell the audience on Jon's show

loved what Keith was saying when he was playing the clips.

[Political Heretic]

12. I agree with Stewart completely, or the point he made through political satire

Many, many people will disagree because we all like different styles. But for me Keith has jumped the shark with his name calling and cheap theater. Maybe he's gotten slowly worse over time about this, or maybe I've just gotten more tired of it over time, but to me - and this is just one person's opinion - he's starting to sound about as bombastic, inflamatory and ridiculous as the people he chastizes on his show.

That comment about women calling her a fat assed lump of meat. Some people think that's just delicious because its an idiot conservative. But I don't don't hate it when Limbaugh or O'Reilly engage in outrageous disgusting namecalling simply because they are conservatives. I hate it because the disgusting namecalling is well.... disgusting, and I feel something that should be beneath people claiming to be acting in some professional capacity.

Which means when Keith turns around and does some of the same things, it fills me with the same disgust. To me, being "right" is not always exactly the same as "doing the right thing" or "being right in the right way."

Just my take.

[woo me with science]

14. Love, love, love Jon Stewart.

He is a class act.