Guess Where Obama Says He Gets His News: ‘I Think Jon Stewart’s Brilliant’
- Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:46am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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First there was Hillary Clinton saying that she considers the anti-American outlet Al Jazeera “real news.” Now there’s President Obama saying he gets some of his news from the comedy program “The Daily Show.”
Obama revealed his go-to information sources in a cover story for Rolling Stone magazine. In an interview, he was asked what outlets he likes to digest for news outside his inner circle. Jon Stewart made the list:
What do you read regularly to keep you informed or provide you with perspectives beyond the inner circle of your advisers?
[Laughs] Other than Rolling Stone?That goes without saying.
I don’t watch a lot of TV news. I don’t watch cable at all. I like The Daily Show, so sometimes if I’m home late at night, I’ll catch snippets of that. I think Jon Stewart’s brilliant. It’s amazing to me the degree to which he’s able to cut through a bunch of the nonsense – for young people in particular, where I think he ends up having more credibility than a lot of more conventional news programs do.I spend a lot of time just reading reports, studies, briefing books, intelligence assessments.
Newspapers?
I’ll thumb through all the major papers in the morning. I’ll read the Times and Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, just to catch up.Do you read Paul Krugman?
I read all of the New York Times columnists. Krugman’s obviously one of the smartest economic reporters out there, but I also read some of the conservative columnists, just to get a sense of where those arguments are going. There are a handful of blogs, Andrew Sullivan’s on the Daily Beast being an example, that combine thoughtful analysis with a sampling of lots of essays that are out there. The New Yorker and The Atlantic still do terrific work. Every once in a while, I sneak in a novel or a nonfiction book.I thought you were going to say Playboy.
No [laughs].
That’s the same Jon Stewart who compared the Occupy movement to the Tea Party and said “if this thing devolves into throwing trash cans into Starbucks windows, nobody’s going to be down with that.” And now it has.
(H/T: Poynter)
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Comments (103)
Sue Dohnim
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:32amPaul Krugman is a Keynesian Socialist nut job Economist, these kooks dominate modern Economist thought of central planning and unlimited debt expansion.
Krugman explains here in this vid that the threat of an invasion from space aliens would solve the Economic crisis… these people are lunatics AND THEY RUN THE WORLD, YIKKKESSS..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Fzzs7oVaA
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:49amKrugman is just one of the MANY Far Left nut jobs who write on the NYT, the old Red Lady ! They throw red, conservative meat to the loyal Far Left nut jobs who post their largely “ I Hate America ” comments on the paper.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:52amI thought he got his news from Pravda…..
Report Post »vox_populi
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:56am“Krugman explains here in this vid that the threat of an invasion from space aliens would solve the Economic crisis”
Well… it probably would.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:57amStewart is brilliant because he says thing alike: ‘I support Obama… because he wants to change things… so I’ll give him a test period… after all HOW MUCH DAMAGE CAN HE DO?’
Report Post »HKS
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:03amGUESS WHERE OBAMA SAYS HE GETS HIS NEWS: ‘I THINK JON STEWART’S BRILLIANT
Now that would explain why this guy has no clue what’s going on.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:12amObama also thinks you can spend your way out of debt, Government jobs are help build an economy,inflating will solve the gas crisis,algea will soon fuel the world,thye muslim brotherhood is pro-democracy,Eric Holder is a good A.G.,the Constitution give the government power to force people to purchase items,ect…….
Report Post »this just another thing he wrong about
johnjamison
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:23amhe also thinks unemployments and welfare creates jobs,that solydra is the a shining example of the new green technology movement,that Israel can find peace if it goes back to the 1967 parameters,that requiring voter to bring ID. is racist,that bring down standard to bring up minority GPA will create better students,that abortion isn’t murder even if the child is fully developed…ect…..
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:33am@VOX_POPULI
Explain how..
It wouldn’t,
The “socialist” Keynesian error is that the money/debt comes from somewhere and somebody’s labor, either now or in the future. The Government does not create any wealth, it takes it and redistributes it. So, by fighting the threat of aliens, capital/wealth is misallocated to wasteful purpose. While there would be short term activity, in the long run there will be debt to pay and it won’t be aliens paying it. Government spending is the most inefficient way to spend money.
BUt, it keeps the elites in power.
“There are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you’re doing, and you try to get the most for your money. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then I’m not so careful about the content of the present, but I’m very careful about the cost. Then, I can spend somebody else’s money on myself. And if I spend somebody else’s money on myself, then I’m sure going to have a good lunch! Finally, I can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government. And that’s close to 40% (now over 100%) of our national income.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RDMdc5r5z8
Report Post »JRook
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:14pm@Sue Dohnim Your explanation of Keynesian is at best sophomoric. Regardless of who borrows the money the federal government or business it is what the money is spent on that determines the over utility and performance outcome. If it is invested in longer term assets such as infrastructure and education that provide increase the size of the economy in the future then it is positive. If it is used to purchase weapons or offset inadequate tax revenue for government supplied services it is a negative. Clearly top executives and investors of military contracting companies gained a tremendous amount of wealth over the past 50 years. The US exemplifies that use of government spending on infrastructure, roads, ports, railroads, airports, educational and research funding that has dramatically improved the economy. There is nothing magical about business spending over government spending, it is all about what the spending is on. And there is no moral superiority in the “Free Market”, particularly in the situation where most of the time the free market is in one direction. If the US demanded free bilateral free markets and reasonable labor and wage policies as a condition of trade agreements we might have avoided the steady decline, in real dollars, since the 1980′s. The US economy was held up by government spending under Reagan and Bush Sr., capital gains under Clinton and debt under Bush. And now there is no way to fund the consumption levels that are necessary for economic growth
Report Post »HKS
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:17pmSpending social security money to champagne for re-election by Obama is just wrong. We need to make a lot of noise on this issue. Our social security is going to be cut next year to pay for Obama’s champagne travel this year. Make some noise
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:30pm@JROOK
I disagree, you are giving the Keynesian textbook answer and considering that nearly all academia, media and Gov is dominated by this perverted thinking it is no surprise. You use the word “if” this and “if” that, the truth is the theory seems sound but in reality it is a scam. It is theft of future labor, spent inefficiently now.
You have it half correct, the economic utility of spending is also a factor of WHO is spending it and WHOse wealth is being spent.
Modern Keynesians believe that ANY Government spending has economic utility. This is why the US is bankrupt.. Keynesianism is a massive failure and has caused the economic crisis we find ourselves in now.
Keynesianism = PONZI scheme
The “wealth” that you claim was produced was simply “redistributed” stolen from the future. That future is now.
However, You miss the context, Krugman is a hard core Keynesian. claiming that creating a fake alien invasion will fix the economy is sophomoric. This is not building useful infrastructure. Keynesianism itself is sophomoric, it is ponzi economics which gives Governments psuedo-academic cover to legitimize expanding the State and utilize Central Planning through debt expansion. Government spending redistributes wealth, it does not create it. The scam is that it redistributes wealth/productivity from the future.. to be wasted now.
To claim that proper spending on the right infrastructure is a naive defence of the real application of Keynesianism.
Report Post »Huguenot Descendant
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:49pmWell this explains a lot on how uninformed Obama is to the real American public. Jon Stewart does news for hippies, commies, and pot smokers and Obama is definitely two of the three.
Report Post »ChildOfTheKing
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:07pmDo Christians not see that we have a civic duty in the very least as Romans 12:20 points out to: “Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good”?
These are excerpts from the speech given on March 23, 1775 by Patrick Henry (Christian farmer)to the legislature.
“This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should
Report Post »consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the majesty of heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings…”…There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in
submission and slavery! Our chains are forged!… Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace, but there is no peace. the rest is here: http://www.dailyjot.com/dailyjot/The_Jot.html
ChildOfTheKing
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:25pmPledge to defeat Obama in November!!!
https://www.freedomworksforamerica.org/pledge?source=contrib
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:18pm@JROOK
On more point..
The Keynesian dogma.. that there is no difference between Gov spending and private spending is a clue to this perverted thinking.
A business spends its own resources for its own interests, they risk the failure of their business if they are inefficient. Forced efficiency through voluntary investment and risk to business.
A Gov spends future citizens labor and risks nothing, there is no built in efficiency, money is spent politically and without the risk of failure. No efficiency through forced investment and no risk to Gov.
When the Government bails out a business that made poor decisions and is failing that creates a market distortion which effects future decision making. Moral Hazard.
Keynesianism is the promise of a heaven without hell. In the long run, it just doesn’t work.. There is no free stuff… somebody is paying… eventually
WE now live in a world of moral hazard, decisions are distorted by the expectation of Government intervention and enablement.
Keynesianism is “economic socialism” free stuff and promises now that you can’t afford. When the bill is due, the party is over. Collapse the currency/debt and start over..
Report Post »slappyhooper
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 7:13am1st, in response to the Al-Jazera thing. I’m a Marine, I’ve served 2 combat tours to Iraq, and worked in the middle east for 2 years on top of that on other assignments. Al-Jazeera is a legitimate news source. I guarantee the people who dump on them have never seen one broadcast. News stations these days are a lot like MTV…..They started doing one thing, then spun off and wound up doing something else. Al-Jazeera is actually a station that (gasp) broadcasts news.
2. Jon Stewart isn’t offensive. I disagree with most of his social stances, but as a person he’s pretty funny, and there’s one thing that he does better than most people, and that is point out stupidity.
Report Post »vic138
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:32amIf Palin had said that it would be on page 1 of the new york times.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:53amVote for Sarah and Allen in 2012.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:54amWho would have thought tha Obama would only watch a program and read media journals that wouldn’t hold him accountable no matter what he did.
Report Post »Obama only watches the Obama cheer leaders the only diversity he has in his people is color THAT’S WHAT MAKES HIM AN INNCOMPOTENT LEADER.
While our greatest leaders in history who actually accomplished things surrounded themselfs with a staff of diverse oppinion and color didn’t matter. Leaders like General Patton,Macarthur and General Washington.
Obama is part of a collective
MONICNE
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:03amAt the Tampa convention, let’s support a Real Christian Woman Working M-O-M and a War-Fighting Real Black M-A-N ticket in 2012.
Go Sarah Plain/Allen West! Go Taxed Enough Already!
TEA
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:25amMONI: Just vote for Obama.. and quit bothering us with that ” let’s divide the Republicans” Democrat scam ( Plan B of their 2012 campaign agenda ).
Report Post »texasbeta
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:31amAwww….you poor folks. Are you upset he didn’t response with your favorite, “You know, all the magazines and newspapers…which ones? You know, all of em’.” Morons. You actually have the nerve to get your news from Beck of all people and then hit on Stewart? What a joke.
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:39amI’ll take being called a moron by you as a compliment…
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:47ambeta you are so far behind a moron that you can even see the light of moron. Compared to you a moron is a mensa candidate.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:55amYes. We know you were assigned the “ attack Beck” topic on the Blaze. Just wonder which affinity group is in charge of the assignments..
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:15amTexawhatever, who are you and what are you here for? I don’t know about the rest of the bloggers here, but I think you are silly. That’s it-just silly.
Report Post »majasdad
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:54amExcellently put TEXASBETA!! Now I don’t have to post a comment, you said it all. Thanks.
Report Post »2smart
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:05pmTEXASBETA, why are you here? Either you are looking at the news or you want to denigrate the others that are here. Unlike you, I get my news from fact based sources, many of them. I don’t listen to the comments at the water cooler and then take them as fact as you do. Besides, who’s the bigger moron, the supposed moron or the one who follows him just to ridicule him?
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:31amEveryone that has been a loyal reader of post here at the blaze, should do a little research as Glenn likes to tell us. Check out the origins of the writers here. Then side by side compare the Huffington Post website with this site. TheBlaze has even adopted the same format as Huffington Post. Most of the stories come from the HuffPost too.
Report Post »Know when you are being fed the lefts propaganda, and know when you are being used as a tool.
It’s one thing when our childeren are being lied to in school, they don’t know it is happening to them.
Us grown ups should know better.
The only reason i bring this to you is that i dearly enjoyed reading the conservative side of issues, however over the past 2 years this site has become the HuffPOs way to indocternate the Right with the lefts point of view. They post only stories that will divide the Right, divide the Christians from the GOP, the whites, form the blacks, making sure we all have someone to hate.
The trolls from HUffPost have rendered this site to no more than hate filled retoric, and useless banter amoung toothless porch monkeys, Every poster that was ever worth reading has left this blog.
I have said my peice, and i leave you in peace.
barber2
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:50amWell, you are still here…guess that tells us something..
Report Post »grimmy
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:51am@macpappy aka encinom.
Hey dumbass, the only person you are fooling with that, is yourself,you huffpo, media matters, b!tch boy……
Drago.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:51amGood post. I have my “core-beliefs” & not influenced by The Blaze or anyone-else. I obey God and leave all the conseqences to Him!
Report Post »God Bless!
Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:55amMacpappy
Report Post »And you are a piece…..
vox_populi
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:59am@GRIMMY
You think everyone is Encinom, don’t you?
Report Post »vox_populi
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:03amAlso, @MACPAPPY, the lead manager of The Blaze is the former leader of The Huffington Post. If you haven’t yet figured out that no one here really cares about politics as much as they do about money, well…
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:06amLOL! Grimmy proves MacPappy correct!
TEA
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:26amVOX Obama: don’t you have some phone calls to make or some canvasing to do ? Spare us…
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:08pmMacPapSmear…Don’t let the door hitcha…
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:28amno wonder why the president is such an uninformed derelict
Report Post »tennantusa
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:23amWhat I thought it would be Sesame Street. His bro Elmo, will be heart broken
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:19amSo the White House gets its news from John Steward and Hillary gets it from Al Jazeera? With the radicals and traitors of the administration that is no suprise; anyone want to bet Obama soon makes Disneyland his home in the dictatorship to come?
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:16amJon Stewart and Al Jazeera. No wonder our domestc and foreign policies are complete failures.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:27amyes birds of a feather, terrorists and comedians, let‘s make light of the serious issues at hand and if that doesn’t work we will just turn on our daily propaganda at al jazeera.
Report Post »GeorgeWashingtonslept here
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:13amFigures.
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:08amObama:”Every once in a while, I sneak in a novel or a nonfiction book.”…Let us not forget this…http://www.conspiracywatch.net/2012/04/obama-reading-anti-american-book.html
Report Post »Razlord
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:31amnice, thanks
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:07amWhat’s next, Obama on Dancing With the Stars?
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:10amMaybe Obama can act out scenes from Apocalypse Now with Charlie Sheen.
Report Post »Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:15amI am sure Air America would love to interview him….wait…..they went bankrupt, well, there is still NPR…….nope, they are government funded Objective radio….wait, not their not…..how about Gilligans Island? Yeah, they could cut him in as Gilligan using just his face…..
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:20amGilligan was a loveable idiot, Barry is just an idiot.
Report Post »In a Bunker
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:27amDancing with the Czars!
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:34amDon’t give him any more dumb ideas. He’s already made the US the laughing stock of the world.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:37amWould not doubt it .. MO was on “The Biggest Loser” … talk about losers. ;-)
btw .. any show that has them on .. has automatically gotten on my will never watch again list. NASCAR also lost a lifelong fan after the last race of last season teaming up with MO. Haven’t watched one race this year .. and won’t in future.
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:05amJon Stewart: Brilliant as a cracked lightbulb. . .
One dimwit watches another. . . ;-)
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:01amI thought TOTUS told him everything he needs to know?
Report Post »inexiletill2012
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:00amObama….”I think he ( John Stewart) ends up having more credibility than a lot of more conventional news programs do.”
Says it all right there…..the election has become “American Idol”
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:00amYou can’t ask people what they read! That’s gotcha journalism!
Report Post »poster
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:59amThis does not surprise me. But, I‘m sure he didn’t come to that opinion on his own. Someone told him to say it.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:59amHey Barry, tonight try reading the writing on the wall…and pack your bags.
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:58amFrom the article…”I don’t watch a lot of TV news. I don’t watch cable at all. I like The Daily Show, “………The Daily Show is on Comedy Central….Uh…That’s CABLE…
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:06amI thought that I had read some where that 0bama usually does not want to be bothered during most of the day while he sits around watching mostly cable sports. One of the reasons that he is never in touch with his cabinet.
Report Post »Nemo13
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:57amSo the Kenyan fraud gets his news from a semi-interesting comedian? No surprise. This must be when he is on vaction, which is often.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:57amWhy am I not surprised?
Report Post »DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:55amUgh.
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:55amGuess Where Obama Says He Gets His News?: ‘I Think Jon Stewart’s Brilliant’……………Well,that certainly explains a lot…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:05amHold on .. didn’t the Katiedid (Couric) .. do a number on Palin because of where she got her news? Palin said she got hers from a lot of sources .. and this is what Obama has? Does explain a lot …. Obama is a arrogant fool.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:54amHe get‘s new’s from Tele Prompter, Axelrod, c/o Soros…. He makes his Media Matters, Acorns, and Administration Goons watch the Commie News for him.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:54amOh….that Jon Stewart, he is so insightful, so intelligent, so sucky uppy to me………Is that what Obama is saying?
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:49amHubris – Fits the idiot obama to a Tee– he things he is the news..
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