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Jon Stewart Mocks Obama’s SOTU bin Laden Opener: ‘Does Rick Springfield Open With ‘Jesse’s Girl?!’

Jan. 26, 2012 11:38am Billy Hallowell

Jon Stewart Critiques Obama Opening State of the Union With bin Laden If you were watching President Obama’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday evening, you likely noticed that he brought up terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden early on in the address.

Rather than holding off on praising his accomplishment (i.e. ridding the world of bin Laden) until later in his speech, Obama wasted no time in proclaiming, ”For the first time in two decades, Osama bin Laden is not a threat to this country.”

Last night, “The Daily Show’s” Jon Stewart critiqued the address and hilariously took aim at the president’s early mention of the now-deceased terrorist:

“You open with I killed bin Laden?! You open with that? ‘Hey everybody, how you doin’? You having a nice night? I f**king killed bin Laden! I killed him!’” What are you doing? Does Rick Springfield open with “Jesse’s Girl?” No! He opens with “I’ve Done Everything for You” and then he transitions into “Don’t Talk to Strangers” — slows it down a bit with “Affair of the Heart,” and then hits you with something off the new album. And then just when you think it can’t get anymore…beautiful – ”Jesse’s Girl” and the place goes f**king nuts — it goes nuts!”

Watch these comments, below (around 1:30):

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The comedian went after a number of other themes as well, as he likened the president to “tax-credit Oprah.” Imitating Obama in the talk show queen’s role, Stewart said, “You get a tax credit! And you get a tax credit!”

He also went on to address the “spilled milk” joke, which likely didn’t go over as well as Obama had hoped.

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BillnGA
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 8:53am
Even the Democrats were in disbelief but “tow the party line” for this DA president. You have got to be a “wedge” to joke about “spilled milk” or anything else with 25 million people out of work and the economy in the toilet.

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- johnbarlycorn
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 5:17pm
  At the time I thought I had already seen and heard much of the speech in a movie. Leave it to Eric Peters to nail it: The Emperior’s Speech about the Galactic Empire in Star Wars. I suggest there would not be a nano’s difference if it were Mittens and perhaps even more emperial if Newtie was giving it. The speech was a tour de force in the unconsititutional power of the office and underscores the need to reverse course to return, if possible, to original intent.
  
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hugo65hsv
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 7:59pm
I found the clip entertaining.. Clearly we don’t need a tax code for politicians to perpetually play there games with.. We need a flat tax.. A small agency to oversee it.. Abolish the IRS.. Government on a budget.. Less regulation and other agencies cut down to size.. As well as a President who calls our government what it is a Republic..

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JG1000
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 7:56pm
I was surprise how hard was to find a POLL that ask you about the State of the Union speech.

I found the only one at http://www.AmericasChronicle.com
but it seems the Huntington Post visitors also found it, even though it is a conservative site.

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bucklywheat
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 6:00pm
All I can say is why hasen’t he done it by now”??? He needs excuses to say “tax credit” I guess.

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Zen Patriot
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:42pm
Jon Stewart is a nitwit, but sometime’s he’s VERY funny.

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- Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:35pm
  One of you morons says that same thing every time he has a clip on here that makes fun of a democrat. Nice job, idiot.
  
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kapu
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:20pm
this is almost laughable coming from a twit that was panicking if the useful idiots in OWS would start throwing things through a Starbucks window. ALMOST…. methinks that Johnny-boy ought to get a clue….and grip…….and a life….

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mrmikejohnson
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:54pm
It’s so funny to listen to liberals brag about killing bin laden. These are the same people that pretended to be anti-war when Bush was president. When a liberal president bombs civilians, they’re just fine with it.

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- SoiledDove
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:18pm
  I don’t think all liberals were “anti-war.” I think their position was that we should be trying to get Bid Laden rather than attacking a country that had nothing to do with 9/11/
  
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- Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:35pm
  Yea. In your face Mike Johnson.
  
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- Lucy Larue
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 7:41pm
  @SOILED DOVE,
  And that comment is why you are a clueless liberal.
  
  We have been at war with IRAN all along. At least Iraq had an educated populace and what we thought was an infrasructure.
  
  Afghanistan has ROCKS!
  
  It’s been over ten years Soiled. Get your learn on.
  
  BTW….,there WERE WMD’s!
  
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Revere2
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:41pm
He’s the new threat !!

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- smithclar3nc3
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:55pm
  I make it a point not to watch John Steward if the blaze wants to keep putting this socilaist bin the lime light I guess I need to not read the blaze as well.
  
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- survivorseed
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:13pm
  Thats right Smithclar because if you stick your head in the sand, all your problems will go away
  
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- Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:36pm
  This is the same type of person who homeschools their kids.
  
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- smithclar3nc3
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 9:50am
  Thats right Smithclar because if you stick your head in the sand
  No if you listen to BS you only here BS. As a intelligent person I’ld no more give credence to a liberal idealog as a christian would give to a satanist. For far too long people have taken the route of hate the message not the messenger. well I’ve come to the conclusion they are one in the same. So liberal progressive idealogs are liberal progressivism bounded in flesh. And I already know their message and reject it to the every core of my being. Steward could fall off the face of the earth today and it would be no different than a gnat falling off the face of the earth. They’re both irritating and useless in my world.
  
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- fdraiden
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:09pm
  @biblequotin…you phony, you’re not a conservative or an American…go back under the rock you crawled from under, you friggin idiot!
  
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RebelYell1862
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:40pm
While obama’s spewing his lies, joe’s in the background scratching his hairplugs..

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Sumrknght
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:16pm
You know, Obama has laid everything else in George Bush’s lap. Getting Osama Bin Laden – is the ONE thing that I KNOW that George Bush and the policies he instituted after 9/11 was responsible for. Only thing Barry did was to come in off the golf course and say “Yeah sure let’s do that” when the military presented him the opportunity.

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- doomytram
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:26pm
  Right, the reason that he looked like a deer in the headlights is because people like Axelrod were telling him that this will make or break whether or not he get’s re-elected.
  Oblamer doesn’t want us to know that our beloved Navy Seals of seal team 6 may have lost their lives while helping that director do research on Obama’s movie that comes out about him this October…..huh… kinda evil.
  
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- Jim in Houston
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:53pm
  He gave the go ahead, but it took 16 hours to make a decision that should have taken a nano second.
  
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- SoiledDove
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:26pm
  Yeah, it should take a nanosecond to decide to send a dozen men on an incredibly risky mission where any number of think could go wrong when there isn’t any evidence Bin Laden plans on moving any time soon. God help us if we ever have a President with a twitchy trigger finger like you. The human race would never have survived the Cuban Missile Crisis if JFK would have been so agressive.
  
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- JAMACAMECRAZYMAN
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 5:50pm
  How true
  
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- Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
  Posted on January 27, 2012 at 2:53am
  If it had gone wrong, you Einsteins would be jumping at the chance to hang it on Obama. To think that a sitting president wasn’t ALL OVER that mission is incredibly STUPID.
  
  Obama got the job done and you guys CAN’T STAND IT. It’s awesome.
  
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GO-FOR-LIBERTY
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:05pm
And now it begins! The eating of their own. Love it!!

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- RayOne
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:07pm
  Just wait until the panic sets in.
  
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- doomytram
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:21pm
  Even this Idiot Leftist bag of Vinager Hates Oblamer. 20 million less Americans watched the SOTU this year than last. Obama isn’t rich (relatively speaking) and still classifies himself as one of the Rich. He has Ozero class.
  
  Half of all American voters with any sense in their heads at all would vote for a Sock or an Old shoe over the POS in the White House.
  
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ambrosia
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:01pm
Surprised, Obama didn’t take a page,
out of his traveling, “American idol” campaign, Roadshow, at the Apollo
and sing his little Al Green ditty-
“I’m…I’m so in love with you”-
except,
to make it more relevant,
he would only need to just change ONE word-
“I’m….I’m so in love with ME”……..

Obama is SO vain….he probably thinks Carly Simon’s song was ABOUT him !

LOSER…..BIG, effin’ ANTI-American LOSER !

Give me Shelter,
Give me Love,
Give me Peace of Mind-
Give me Gingrich……dooby-dooby-doo !

America’s Best
Gingrich/West 2012………….www.newt.org

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- CorpsmanToPA
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 1:33pm
  Wow – you sound just as messed up as Obummer
  
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- doomytram
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:14pm
  Ron Paul / Jim DeMint 2012.
  
  Newt Gingrich/ Pelosi 2012
  
  Mitt Romney / John McCain 2012
  
  Barrack Obama/ Joe Biden 2012
  
  The choice is clear…. If you want lower taxes, smaller gov’t, more freedom, more liberties, and less ridiculous fiscal insanity, then the choice is clear…
  
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- Rearden_Metal
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 4:19pm
  Ha ha ha!
  
  Another Newtard for Newt!
  
  Lemme know how that works out for you in November…
  
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G-WHIZ
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:32pm
Stewert and Colbert are the “new” Charley Dickens! OL’ C.D. used very-remote scarcasm to show-up the dangerously-bad politics of his day. Dickens’ Fiction was so close to reality, but not enough to get him hanged by the King. Look him up, and his (real) story-lines. WE need S. and C. to help get the real story out.

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wewantchillywilly
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:27pm
Obama is using the SEAL Teams’ work ethic to equate to his campaign of shared sacrifice and fair share doctrine.

Here is what he is saying, in a not so subtle way to me: ‘The Navy SEALs work as a Team and make sacrifices together. We need to do the same thing as Americans, and the people who are more fortunate need to pay more so they don’t hurt OUR TEAM.’

He is exploiting the US military for his own re election, and it’s right in front of us. remember, this guy had 3 SEALs facing eric holder prosecution for punching a terrorist.

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Tri-ox
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:15pm
Jon Stewart can’t wait to vote for his messiah – AGAIN.

The White House-scripted jabs that Stewart takes at obama are completely transparent.

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LTinUT
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:09pm
I like Jon. From what I have seen, he is ‘fair and balanced’ in his mocking of politicians, regardless of their party. So much so, I sometimes I wonder if he is a closet conservative!

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- M13
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:15pm
  And from what we have seen of your posts, we all know that you are an idiot.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:16pm
  Where does his money go? To Obama.
  
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- jasmer
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:32pm
  The only stance such a view could come from is extraordinarily deep in left field. Stewart throws softballs infrequently at the left and bricks constantly at the right.
  
  His audience is so socialist-oriented I’m not surprised they don’t show them often for fear of burning out the “red” filters.
  
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- ModerationIsBest
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:38pm
  I think it’s hilarious how all of these things break down to party lines.
  
  Far right people couldn’t imagine ever watching Jon Stewart or liking what he does. Claiming they throw softballs at Obama. Give me a break.
  
  Just last week he crushed Obama when he planned on vetoing the NDAA, not because it expanded the power of the executive power……..but because it didn’t give the executive branch UNLIMITED power to detain people it wanted.
  
  Everyone is so caught up in their political and religious affiliations that they don’t even bother viewing anything from any position from their own.
  
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Gonzo
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:08pm
Obama is more like Tommy Tutone…a one hit wonder. 8675309

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Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:08pm
He will be getting a call from Obamas Media Czar very soon…. And he must be reported to ATTACK WATCH….How dare he poke fun at Dumbo !!!

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- doomytram
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:32pm
  He was being less than cordial to the dictator. The dictator is going to sick his FCC czar on Comedy Channel and make it very difficult for them to renew their licenses.
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:06pm
Talk about “nuts!”

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db321
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:06pm
Jon just figured out that with Obama as President there is an endless flow of material , but don’t tell the Late night Shows host – they are still using Chaney shooting a fellow hunter in the face to get a laugh.

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twistin
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:05pm
you made me laugh…little clown…awww.

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Jayms
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 11:54am
Stewart is one talented guy – I don’t agree with his views, but he can still make me laugh. He can walk that fine line between comedy and cruelness and do it in an innocent way.

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- M13
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:17pm
  He is so talented that he can’t even use his real name.
  
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Jefferson
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 11:53am
“Since when did starting a new war with a Middle Eastern country become the equivalent of Dangerfield saying hey we’re all going to get laid?”

Since our CONgress, and Senate, and White House have become infiltrated, bribed, and blackmailed by AIPAC. That’s when.

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- kwolfburg
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:13pm
  YES our controlled is by the Zionists! Ourcountry is just a puppet controlled by our bosses in Israel.
  Please, stop being so stupid, Israel controls us about as much as Iran or any other country.
  
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 11:51am
Has Jon wised up? Unlikely, but I did like this criticism of the SOTU.

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- GollygeeMrwilson
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:07pm
  Keep your friends close,
  Keep your enemies closer.
  
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- JJ Coolay
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 12:14pm
  You can’t say he doesn’t go after both sides.
  
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WILFREDFROMSUNCITYFL
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 11:48am
Jon Stewart is really good, no matter his point of view. Colbert is a just smartass and only mildly amusing.

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- DrFrost
  Posted on January 26, 2012 at 11:56am
  Ridicule is fueling the partison hatred in this country and it’s one of the rules for radicals… I, for one, am really getting tired of it.
  
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