‘Don’t Tase me, bro’ student breaks silence

[Divine Discontent]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21558022/


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"When my story is over, they won’t start covering Blackwater or Ron Paul. It’ll be Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, business as usual."
"I think “Don’t Tase me, bro” genuinely makes some people think about the growing threat to American rights. But I think most people are having a laugh, disregarding the seriousness of the situation. Thank you Jon Stewart." <snip>

He mentions Ron Paul not getting mentioned, and disses John Stewart as being part of the problem for lack of seriousness with important issues. I thought he was annoying when I saw him and the way he questioned Sen. Kerry in a bullying manner, but he should have not been tasered - 100% not.

So, he's a repub one would take from these comments, right? Even if he's a moderate one. I think speaking support for Ron Paul and dissing a harsh critic of neocon-ism might say he is, but what do you all think?

[Virginia Dare]

1. He's working the hell out of that 15 minutes isn't he?...n/t

[lvx35]

2. Its really good to hear anybody dissing Stewart.

I mean I love him, he's hilarious, but the reason Lynn Cheney (for instance) wants to be on his show is because the right loves him; they see him as marginalizing left wing commentary to the realm of comedy.

[Fredda Weinberg]

4. Dey dumb. Laugh In didn't help Nixon, but he tried

and when SNL still had sway, they buried Jimmy Carter over 3 Mile Island. Stewart's not our man or theirs, so both sides should use him cautiously. I think he'll be on the airwaves soon and then we'll see what happens to the next version of TDS.

[Recursion]

3. Calling Ron Paul "moderate" misses the point

In some ways Ron Paul is to the GOP what Kucinich is to the Democratic party: somebody who takes them so far back to their roots (which, incidentally, is all "radical" literally means) that it's hard for the spin-meister corporate party-types to even talk the same language. Ron Paul is, except for his views on reproductive choice, a libertarian, and he is even a principled one in that he is just as willing to take on multinational corporate power as he is government power.

Paul, like Kucinich, is tapping into a part of the population that feels like the post-WWII political and economic systems have broken down and that we need a new direction -- they are heading off in different directions, but I think the vehemence of both people's partisans comes from the fact that they feel very, very strongly that the system as-is is totally broken and can't believe that others don't feel that way.

[movonne]

6. I know that way back before the public started turning on the war, I

heard some speeches he made to congress about the Iraq war that I wish I had heard coming out of our dems mouths...but I would never want him for president...but if we were forced into another repub president I would take Ron Paul over the other batch....

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

5. I think he's a publicity seeking idiot.

[rAVES]

7. Dudes a grade A douche bag.

[Mojorabbit]

8. He is young and sincere

and he is speaking out. At least he is tuned in as opposed to being uninformed and apathetic.