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Cush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-03 10:03 PM
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The Daily Show: 'Beat The Press'
Edited on Thu Jul-31-03 10:08 PM by Cush
showing * having problems with a name

now about Bush blaming the press for the economy (march to war)

Jon: Now why would they do that? Its not like there was some asshole leading us to war

On Homosexuality: the sinner comment

Jon: I know you don't hang out with gay people, but the log doesn't go in the eye
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-03 10:08 PM
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1. LOL! that was great!
and the audience was with him.

Bush's press conference was a display of what an idiotic lying s.o.b. he is.
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Cush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-03 10:09 PM
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2. lol
Edited on Thu Jul-31-03 10:09 PM by Cush
"He knows their names! Even some of their nicknames!"

after about the economy....THe President left for a 28 day vaction on his ranch!
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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:27 AM
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16. "I will not stop working until Americans have Jobs" ~~Bush*
He immediatly goes on a month long vacation. Jon has a way about him. His dead-pan face and uses their own statements against them. "I don't want to be forced to have man sex. If they aren't forcing me to do that why should we care?" That line cracked me up.
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CastorTroy Donating Member (239 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-03 10:09 PM
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3. Killer
We have a fucking moron for a president . . .

"It's not like some asshole was leading us to war!"

killer . . .
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-03 10:10 PM
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4. "that's not where the log goes."
ROFLMAO!

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drdigi420 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-03 10:10 PM
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5. Jon Stewart for President!
j/k

i wouldnt want him doing anything than what he's doing now.

Can we petition Comedy Central to extend his show to an hour?
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TheDonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-03 10:10 PM
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6. HILARIOUS STUFF!!
What a great little skit.

Gotta love the Daily Show, now only if Gore would make his liberal cable network. We could have this 24-7 :-D
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-03 10:11 PM
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7. unless that 'eye'...
is the 'third eye'.
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Cush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-03 10:12 PM
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8. now the Cheney's
Edited on Thu Jul-31-03 10:14 PM by Cush
housework at the VP's house in annoying the neighbors

Lol, shit....Colbert is doing an impression of Cheney
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Cush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-03 10:23 PM
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9. CNN Anchor
Jon: What would happen if they (press at a press conference) didn't play along, and kept aking tough questions?

Anchor: I don't know
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TheDonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-03 10:28 PM
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11. I've meet Soledad...
nice girl but damn she is a puppet to corporate CNN whores.
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-03 10:28 PM
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12. SOLEDAD SUCKED!!!
She seemed so disinterested in John's questions about these farcical "press conferences." Definitely a newsreader, not a reporter.

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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-03 10:31 PM
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13. Her answer to everything was "I don't know".
Maybe she's so used to reading the news, she doesn't know how to have an opinion on the air??

Maybe she's just young??
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Friar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-03 10:38 PM
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14. I think they are grooming her to replace Katie Curic
She was very good on the old C|net show on sci-fi. She's pretty much a bubblebrained talking head now. I'm glad for her success, but she isn't very important. On the subject of bubblebrained talking heads: Jane Clayson......grroooooowwwwwllllll..... Too bad I can't stand to watch those morning shows anymore.
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RichM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:43 AM
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17. She did indeed suck. Her empty-headedness shows what is & is not
required to "get ahead" in the biz of being a media news person. Brains and intellectual curiousity are not only not required, they're frowned upon. The more docile & empty-headed, the better. A nice harmless smile is the main requirement.
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-03 10:27 PM
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10. So Funny
might have to watch again at 11
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Blecht Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:21 AM
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15. Bump for those who missed it last night
It will be repeated today at 7pm Eastern. Do not miss it.
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MODemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 11:56 AM
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18. Beat the Press was such a good show
How I love the Jon Stewart show. He seems to be able to extract more from the news than anyone else in the business. You go Jon.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 12:17 PM
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19. she is a rising star...
....and certainly doesn't want to jeopardize that. Okay, but don't call yourself a journalist, honey. You're a news reader.
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Gloria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 12:23 PM
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20. Article today about how Soledad is going to
start as anchor on the CNN morning show....so she's out of NBC....Do you believe she went to Harvard??? She's going to be paid something like a million bucks. Seems like she's done a lot of "light" stories according to the article.

She has no sense of humor. Jon was way over her head. When he asked her, "so what will you be covering tomorrow?" and she came back with Saddam's daughters, he was obviously jabbing at the ludicrous, timewasting nonsense of repeating that story over and over....and she missed his teasing completely.

Pathetic.
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goobergunch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 12:26 PM
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21. ROTFLMAO!!!
Except for the Soledad O'Brian bit, possibly the funniest Daily Show in months!

:D :7 :evilgrin: :bounce: :thumbsup: :loveya:
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HFishbine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 12:47 PM
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22. Not quite as funny in print
But here is the transcript of the Bush mangling:

"Our people have done a really good job of hauling in a lot of the key operators: Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah, Ramzi -- Ramzi al Shibh, or whatever the guy's name was. (Laughter.) Sorry, Ramzi, if I got it wrong. (Laughter.) Binalshibh, excuse me. Swift Sword is dead, thanks to the Saudis."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030730-1.html
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 12:55 PM
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23. Last night was Beautiful!
My wife, the Republican, was watching with me. When they showed the Chimp stumbling and fumbling over that name, she turned to the rest of us, my older step-daughter, her husband, and me and said "He's just not a good President, is he?"
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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 01:15 PM
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24. No, honey, in fact he's not even a particularly good scumbag.
Finding something he's good at could almost be the subject of a long running reality show.
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imax2268 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 08:04 PM
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25. I must say...
that was a great show except for the "news reader"...she's cute but...anyway...

I just love the way Jon makes fun of *'s bumbleing...it's great...

even my roommate, who is a Repub(but I'm working on changing her mind)looked at me and said..."God...he is an embarrassment to the Republican party...!"

I just laughed...

Great show Jon...keep up the good work...!
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stanwyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 08:13 PM
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26. The Daily Show keeps me sane
seriously. It's the only show that doesn't bow and scrape to the Bush Reich. How sad that a comedy show has the guts and backbone our networks lack. Stewart is relentless. Yet I believe he is fair. He's not mean or petty. The entire staff is wonderful.
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