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Jon Stewart Rants: After ‘Winning’ Debt Deal, Tea Party Angry Gov’t Still Exists

On Daily Show Comedy Centrals Jon Stewart Says Tea Party Unhappy Government Still Exists Even After Winning Debt DealAmong Democrats, some of the most spirited opposition to the debt deal has emerged, with well-known politicians and media figures attacking both the contents of the agreement and the Tea Party. Jon Stewart is the latest to make disparaging comments.

On Monday night, the “Daily Show” host went on a rant against the Tea Party, making low-cut jabs and lamenting the conservative push for spending cuts.

But, before going there, let’s review a few of the other recent Democratic responses to the debt deal. First, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria called the Tea Party “anti-democratic“ and accused it of ”hostage-taking.” Then, there was Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s “satan sandwich” Tweet (which was more entertaining than it was disparaging).

And last, but certainly not least, Democratic Rep. Mike Doyle and Vice-president Joe Biden expressed their discontent with some conservatives, allegedly likening the Tea Party to terrorists. This brings us to Stewart, a comedian known for his anti-conservative meanderings. According to Business Insider, the liberal celebrity simply can’t understand why the Tea Party is unhappy with the final deal. He rants:

“You control less than half of one chamber of Congress and yet have somehow convinced everybody they have to cut trillions in spending because of the ‘deficit crisis’…Take the win!  What are you still angry about?  Yes.  Government still exists.  We still have traffic lights.  We’re sorry.  Not everybody defines freedom as the ability to not pay taxes.”

Like Zakaria, Stewart also uses a hostage analogy to drive his point home. Watch him spout off, below:

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:33am

    Liberals = confirmation that God has a silly sense of humor

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:39am

      Someone tell Steward that while not everyone aquaints freedom as the not having to pay taxes. NO DESCRIBES FREEDOM AS HAVING TO PAY TAXES.

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    • Firebrand
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:02pm

      @smith
      That’s a good point. Taxes are a byproduct of the cost of freedom not a requirement for.

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    • riverdog1
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:03pm

      jesus was a liberal.

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    • Silversmith
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:05pm

      ” Not everybody defines freedom as the ability to not pay taxes.”

      The problem here Jon, is that half of Americans don’t pay any taxes. It ticks off the rest of us, and is part of why Americans are growling at each other. Flat tax – and we’re all in the same boat, millionaires and blue collar. But I‘m pretty sure the progressives don’t want a unified America.

      Silversmith

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    • beckisnuts
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:07pm

      Jon Stewart must simply hate all of the people in “fly-over country” that believe a big, bloated, overspending Federal Government is a bad thing. His snarky comedy bit failed on many levels.

      http://www.flickr.com/photos/55751455@N02/5987685144/in/photostream

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:12pm

      @Silversmith

      Yes, a little under half of America doesn’t pay taxes (if you don’t count the illegal aliens working for cash under the table, or listed as “independent contractors” so the employer doesn’t have to file, they are supposed to). I don’t mind the graduated tax rate, and I don’t even mind people under the poverty level getting all their taxes back. But the government goes above and beyond that with the Earned Income Tax Credit, where people are getting back MORE than they put in, not just what they put in. Plus they probably qualify for Food Stamps. It’s Cloward and Piven.

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    • knockered
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:14pm

      I am glad the tea party is having a big effect on everybody because they will lesd us in the right direction.They can say what they want but they keep bringing up the tea party so I would say they all fear what the tea party stands for. Tea for everyone

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:18pm

      Jesus was apolitical.

      Jesus said the ONLY way to the Father was through the Son. Jesus said HE is the way the truth, and the life. There are NO other alternatives. How is that a liberal message?

      That is just a stupid talking point that is actually quite wrong when we examine it.

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    • Vietvet1
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:31pm

      TO RIVERDOG1 …. “jesus was a liberal”

      MARK 12:17….And Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were amazed at Him.

      When is a Liberal ok with paying a Government taxes, without differentiating poor and rich?? He made this statement to EVERYONE…not just the poor. So Jesus a Liberal??? Maybe not so much.. I found this reading very interesting and I bet controversial…

      http://brainmind.com/JesusChrist8.html

      http://www.jesuspolice.com/common_error.php?id=12

      Now I am not a Religious person and I am not looking for an argument. I am just posting my opinion and some interesting reading.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:31pm

      No firebrand the point flew by you.
      The point is that SOME might not decscribe freedom as being tax free.
      NO ONE describes freedom as being taxed.
      Tax isn‘t a by product of freedom it’s real product of government
      The size and amount of that tax is based on the size and scope of the government
      Our founders knew that to a establish a free society was to limit the scope of Government.
      To establish a prosperous society was to limit the size of government
      Top establish a free and prosperous society was the limit both the size and scope of government
      Over the last 200 and change the government has grown far beyond the Constitutional limitations put on it…THIS IS WHY THE TEA PARTY HAS BEEN ESTABLISH

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:42pm

      Similarly…not everybody defines “political analysis” as the schtick of a so-so comedian with a team of writers behind him.

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    • gs425
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:54pm

      “jesus was a liberal.”

      Jesus wanted God in peoples lives, not out.

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    • jumper1977
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:56pm

      Could we please stop with the outright distortion that 50% don’t pay “any taxes”. They don’t pay “income taxes”. (This distinction seems to cleverly disappear when it serves the argument).

       
    • hxchick71
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:03pm

      @riverdog1 – Jesus never espoused government to be set up to take care of people, we as individuals are to do so!!

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    • robert
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:05pm

      I’ve got a good sense of humor. Always have. Nothing I like better than a clever stand-up comic.

      But I fail to see much humor in anything Jon Stewart says.

      In fact I’m wondering if his show might be like the situation with Steve Martin. It’s just all media hype.

      The man is NOT a comedian.

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    • redbone007
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:06pm

      DO NOT BE FOOL. This a plan to make their base believe that the tea party won and his package was designed by the tea party. The left know that this plan will not save the market/AAA rating and make everything worse. As thing get worse, the left will blame the tea party for crafting and forcing this bill. This bill only give more money to Obama to spend which will only harm the country. THIS IS A TRICK FOR OBAMA TO USE DURING THE ELECTION AS THING GET WORSE. REMEMBER, HE WON BIG IN 2008 IN THE MARKET WHEN BAD AND BLAME THE REPUBLCIAN…

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:14pm

      I remember something about no loaves for the loafer, or in this case, for RiverMutt.

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    • the hawk
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:40pm

      THERE IS NO one WHO DOES’NT PAY TAXES IN THE U.S. !
      eVERYONE HAS AT LEAST BOUGHT A BEER, CIG,GASS,SOUP,SHOES, SHIRT,PANTS,
      maybe haft of america get back MORE than they pay, that would be better claim.
      Haft of Americans don’t pay taxes is JUST NOT TRUE……………….keep it real !

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    • Mtroom
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:46pm

      Spot on redbone…it’s a deal to place blame elsewhere ..and to continue to spend our money

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    • AmericanPatriot01
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:48pm

      If anything I believe that Jesus was a Libertarian – to let us know that we have not been forgotten by our creator and that those that hear his message would know that they will be saved the horrible experience of what is to come. Some of us will be spared, some of us will be left here to rebuild (the meek will inherit the earth), and yet many more will perish because they refuse to accept the truth that God (our creator) will return. Jesus never mandated religion on anyone, they are free to disagree, to not believe.

      Progressives want to shove it down your throat! Not a Jesus type action. So, no, Jesus was not a liberal.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:59pm

      The Congressional Teapublicons were willing to not just “take the country back” but take the country down. We all saw it and there are several threads in here on which many a comment was supportive of economic default in the name of making the government ‘small enough to drown in the bathtub.’ No thanks. Stewart is funny when he busts on Bush, Cheney, Obama, Biden, media, or pretty much any target. Nice that you have a place for commiseration en masse though :^P btw, just curious, what freedoms do you want that you don’t have?

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:44pm

      Sums it up!

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    • Servant Of YHVH
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:58pm

      @riverdog1
      I got news for you. Jesus’ number one thing regarding mankind is that He is absolultely and totally for individual freedom if you wish to say anything about Jesus in regards to mankind. If He was not 100% for individual freedom then we would not have the free say in whether we choose to follow Him or not. Also He spoke a number of times about there will always be poor and that we cannot fix poor. As for someone claiming that He is a liberal shows that that person knows absolultely NOTHING about Him!

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    • Servant Of YHVH
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:01pm

      @the hawk
      You forget all these people on welfare that get’s lone star cards or whatever they call them in each individual state. They are buying that stuff with OUR money and if they are charged taxes on it, we too are paying the taxes for them as well.

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    • Servant Of YHVH
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:07pm

      @tifosa
      To begin with, anyone with ANY sense at all wants a very important freedom called “FREEDOM FROM EXCESSIVE GOVERNMENT”! And there are quite a few more!

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:24pm

      @tifosa,

      “We all saw it and there are several threads in here on which many a comment was supportive of economic default in the name of making the government ‘small enough to drown in the bathtub.’”

      Will you please define “drown in the bathtub”?

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:26pm

      @Vietvet1

      Liberals/leftists wouldn’t hate Jesus and Christianity so bad if he was indeed a liberal. Jesus was/is Jesus. That conservatives follow Jesus and liberals don’t would be the only thing that connects Jesus to a contemporary political ideology. But since we live in the contemporary, and judging by what we know (re:above) we would have to conclude he was a conservative.

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:27pm

      Excuse me, He was a conservative.

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    • Firebrand
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:27pm

      @smith
      I understood your point just fine.
      The point I was trying to reiterate is that freedom isn’t free. It’s paid for in blood, sweat, tears and taxes, period. Interestingly enough, many of the taxes go to prevent the payment in blood in the form of defense spending. In other words, we have freedoms that cannot be taken away (albeit unless we allow them to be). In order to protect those freedoms, we have to pay taxes. For this, I said that taxes are a by-product of our freedom.

      “Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” – B. Franklin

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:40pm

      B. Franklin showing his disgust for taxes.

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    • lemmings4obama
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 3:42pm

      @Riverdog1
      Are you talking about Jesus Garcia or Jesus Fernandez?

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    • RavenGlenn
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:00pm

      @ Those saying that everyone pays taxes because of sales tax…

      Oh shut up. You know damn well what people mean when they say 50% don’t pay taxes. Nobody cares about sales tax. It’s a small percentage that people have to pay on items. Nobody generally thinks twice about it when they buy something.

      You know full well that people are talking about income taxes that are due April 15th. Those are the ones that are like a punch in the gut to half of U.S. citizens. If I’m losing 30% or more of my annual income, and others are losing nothing, then there is a problem.

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    • chazman
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:51pm

      Jon Stewart is a brain-fried Liberal Marxist. He’s gone, people!

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    • Rightsofman
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:52pm

      Like all libs he sets up a straw man and then slaps it down. TPrs aren‘t against gov’t and he knows it. We‘re against out of control gov’t.

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:57pm

      Stewart is a highly paid fool.

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    • johnannegalt
      Posted on August 4, 2011 at 4:46pm

      Stewart is such a leftist tool.. I hate how many people in my generation flock to him. It’s vomit-worthy.

      We didn’t win anything. We still have a huge battle looming ahead, and we must all be William Wallace (if you liked Braveheart, you’ll get this article).

      http://markamerica.com/2011/08/04/abandoned-on-the-field-as-the-nobles-surrender/

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  • elosogrande
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:33am

    The press tells us that Stewart is a genius and that he is funny, so we should watch his program. The press also tells us that Obama, Geithner, and Bernanke are brilliant, Paris Hilton is beautiful, and that Linsey Lohan and Britney Spears have talent.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:37am

      And Anna Nicole married for love….LOL

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    • TelepromoterNChief
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:04pm

      Who wouldn’t want to marry a corpse?

      Anna was clearly very happy.

      Wedding night, she just closed her eyes as the tears flowed thinking of happier times as the “popular girl” in her trailer park.

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    • Zorro6821
      Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:03am

      I think the point is that we the people are screwing ourselves. We are cutting our own SSI, and Medicare. The Corporate right media calls them “entitlements”. They are programs that hard working Americans paid into over a lifetime. Now we want to cut our own throats because the Oligarchs on the right wants you to believe in “shared sacrifice”. Be a good teapartyer. Now all the folks in Washington give up nothing, yet they keep saying stuff like for the good of the country to make you feel better. So what do we have to look forward to, no retirement, no healthcare, lower wages, no good schools, no nothing. Is that the vision of the tea party. Was it the tea party that got us in this mess? No, yet it us the civilian class that will sacrifice and the Oligarchs and Corporate masters will sacrifice nothing.

      “None are most hopelessly enslaved than those
      who falsely believe they are free”

      -Johana Wolfgang von Goethe-
      1749-1832

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    • Knight Templar
      Posted on August 3, 2011 at 5:25pm

      @Zorro6821—I have seen everything in your post a thousand times before. Have any ideas of your own?

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:33am

    Oh the hurting of the left; they still cannot get it that the tea party is just trying to restore the nation and keep us from sliding unto the darkened hands of a tryanical government the left wants to impose upon all of us…utter confusion to the left, and utter madness to their distorted, myopic bound view of the world within chemically enhanced stated of delusional paranoia mind stimulation and simulations with disconnections of reality.

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    • IMPEACHBHO
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:46am

      They don’t like to have their socialist party broken up. Drunk on stupidity all of them.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:17pm

      Mitch, Paul Ryan, Cantor all voted for uber-expensive Bush policies and now don’t want to pay? Reagan knew, and said, not to play games with the debt ceiling. This hasn’t been a giant game with the US economy?

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  • Firebrand
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:33am

    It’s a shame that the narrative is such a mischaracterization. TEA Party members don’t want NO government, just a highly limited one that defends our country, builds infrastructure, and settles disputes between States. Many, in fact, even want programs for those that need a hand up in times of hardship. I don’t understand why that is so hard to understand.

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    • Edct
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:09pm

      Most of these liberals like him are stupid and make so much money every year that paying some taxes won’t hurt him…he will just be a rich socialist…more taxes and government will hurt the people trying to make it on a day to day basis and will run all the entrepreneurs out of this country….seems like the rich liberals and poor minorities on welfare want this socialism nightmare.

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    • Edct
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:09pm

      Most of these liberals like him are stupid and make so much money every year that paying some taxes won’t hurt him…he will just be a rich socialist…more taxes and government will hurt the people trying to make it on a day to day basis and will run all the entrepreneurs out of this country….seems like the rich liberals and poor minorities on welfare want this socialism nightmare.

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    • Hemispheres
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:14pm

      I agree. I’m usually amused when some politician or talking head comments on what the members of the Tea Party stand for. The description never matches the beliefs of anyone I know that considers himself/herself a Tea-Partier. We need to do a better job of communicating to others what exactly it is we stand for. It is our fault if we let this happen.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:31am

      Fire you hit the nail on the head…the correct phrase is hand -up not hand -out.
      My neighbor had two kids and no husband got into a section 8 house moved her boyfreind in and had two more kids making it a total of 4 kids and mother and an illegal boyfriend…..Because she had two more kids when she couldn’t afford the first two they moved her to a larger section 8 house. I’m busting my ass to keep my little 1200 sq.ft. while paying the taxes to put her a a brand new 2400sq.ft. house. And this happens all the time welfare mothers driving Escalades buying T-bones,Shrimp and lobsters while I work my a55 off to drive a dodge dakota and eat whatever I can afford. The system is broken and it’s time to set things right.
      That’s what the tea party is about

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    • Zorro6821
      Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:17am

      EDCT@ with all due respect, this government is the farthest thing from socialism than you can imagine. How I wish people would use the proper terminology instead of the right corporate media driven talking points. How i wish this was socialism, like say Canada, There is a much more sinister operation going on. I would label it fascism. Facism is “fascist regime” is foremost an authoritarian form of government, a political movement that is linked with Sindicalist-Corporativism ” I hope more people will wake up and smell the coffee.

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  • Oldphoto678
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:31am

    You baggers don‘t like Stewart because he’s so much smarter than you.

    Tea sucks!!!

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:36am

      Uh, for the record, a block of bricks is smarter than Steward.
      http://artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (cat folk gallery)

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:38am

      ROFLMFAO! I see you decided to join us today! I just had a look at all your latest postings and I must say that you are either a seriously bitter SOB or the world’s most pathetic troll. Either way, I can see you are trying hard so I commend you for that. Have a blessed day! =)

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    • DarthMims
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:39am

      At least a bag of bricks could probably spell Stewart.

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    • TRONINTHEMORNING
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:39am

      Can you do better than that?

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    • Servant Of YHVH
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:43am

      @oldphoto
      As for the name of baggers, we are not the ones that are bending over and begging these liberal wackos to “do it to me” and tell me what you want me to hear and repeat. I believe that “honor” goes to the wackos that are spewing the same hate and anti-American garbage that they are told to say. Especially when they are told to say such things as:
      “You baggers don‘t like Stewart because he’s so much smarter than you.

      Tea sucks!!!”

      Besides genius, he doesn’t know how stupid he is because if he did, he would have taken the chance to make more stupid remarks about how the Tea Party is even more pi**ed off and that these crooked politicians on both sides of the aisle will be looking for real work before too long, and they won’t like that when we finally get people in Congress and the White House that will be working and deciding things FOR THE PEOPLE. This also includes eliminating this garbage of paying crooks a lifetime salary for “working” for even just 4 years. This WILL end!

      So old(broken down)photo(graph) – - – PARTY ON!!!

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    • IMPEACHBHO
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:55am

      OLDPHOTO – My I.Q. as measured by three separate testing measures came in at 140-145. Stewart, BHO appears to be around 100-115. Based on your comments, yours is most likely to be around 90 or less. In fact, when you look back at the arguments the left spews out, their average would be inline with yours.

      So, in fact, those on left really should not be allowed to operate machinery.

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:00pm

      you maybe right,i may not be as smart as him, but i don’t call be people racist for beveling is a smaller government, i don’t believe in a government who is taking our freedoms away through regulations, i don’t believe in freeloading entitlements,i don’t believe in one world order, i don’t believe in universal health care { government run limited health care } i don’t believe in open boarders, i don’t believe in limiting free speech } i don’t believes in stimulus that only helped the unions,i don’t believe in bailouts that only helped the democrats buddies at the unions and the banks, i don’t believe in one global currency,i don’t believe in a socialist,communist style government. and i don’t believe in people who once tried to blow up federal buildings or who thinks the free market system is bad, i don’t believe in people who think chaves and castro are heroes,i don’t believe in people who hate this country so much,but yet live here,make a living here,and still want to destroy the greats country on earth, so if these things make me not as smart as you and the rest of your anti American,communist buddies, then so be it, you can talk and shout all the hateful nonsense,and call me names,but i still have a vote { unless your commie friends in the government can change it before the next election } and there are millions more just like me who have had enough, i may not be as smart as you and your commie friends,but i am not as stupid as you for believe in communism.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:09pm

      Oh Oldphoto, it’s rather sad that this is all you had to contribute to the thread. You could have demonstrated true intellect and decorum and made a wonderful point, yet instead chose to hurl ad hominem and invective at people whom you have never met. Your behavior is reminiscent of that of a teen aged boy whose views on life are affirmed based on slinging poorly worded insults at every passer by and high fiving his friends.

      Perhaps in future posts you can contribute something of value to the discussion. Until then, I wish you well and hope you’re enjoying this beautiful August day. Slainte.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:37pm

      Nice job Jon!!! :^)

      Yep, you ‘re onto him. Jon Stewart makes jokes about the Teapublicons in Congress because he FEARS them, because he’s angry and his listeners are stupid. He’ll be stunned to have been found out.

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    • Obama_Sham
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:38pm

      Oldphoto has a bad case of etoughguy syndrome…

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:31am

    Guess what, smarta$$ Stewart; when the money runs out and people start dropping cable and satellite tv–you, my friend are back at the Improv doin’ stand-up. See, libs never think through anything.

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    • h20sue
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:23pm

      You certainly hit the nail on the head!
      I had to give up spending $60 plus dollars for cable monthly as we need to eat, pay mortgages, gas, insurance, purchase meds, etc. As a small woman in business, I have to watch every dime. It‘s a word Obama doesn’t know how to pronouce….“BUDGET”. If Stewart and other comedians think this is funny, they are incredibly wrong! I miss seeing Nascar races, watching the weather station,Fox News, and if Obama has his way rabbit ears and converter boxes will have to be thrown in the trash. This is my only way of enjoying nightly programs and news (not ABC, NBC, or CBS).
      It sure would be interesting to know how many of us don’t have cable, who simply have to spend our money more appropriately….This is a subject that should be brought to Congress, as American’s are suffering. I’ve been trying to find a part time job in my area…. NONE. Been looking since 2010…
      The America as we once knew it, is quickly changing to socialism. Thank you Obama and your followers.

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  • TADTAD
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:30am

    Never heard of Jon Stewart. Who is this guy?

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    • Servant Of YHVH
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:10pm

      @tadtad
      He/it is a nothing. Just pretending to be a human being and trying to act like he knows what he’s talking about.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:24pm

      He’s the jew who is ashamed to BE jewish. “Jon Stuart Liebowitz.“ ”He critiques other news shows from the safe, removed position of his “fake news” desk.”

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  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:29am

    The Tea Party are not anarchists like the left would have you believe. LIMITED government per constitution is not radical or extreme. Give me a break. I wish the left would focus on the real anarchist radicals on the extreme left and extreme right, they are out there, all they have to do is LOOK.

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    • LC LaWedgie
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:47am

      I doubt that Stewart actually thinks that the Tea Partiers are anarchists — he, like most comedians, use hyperbole to stretch truth into a joke.

      The scary ones are the liberal idiots elected into government positions by the sheeple who actually believe Stewart, Maher, Behar and Letterman are being truthful.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:55pm

      It appears that you may not have been following what’s going on in the states with new Teapublicon governors. They have not only made government small enough to fit between you and your OB-GYN, but even smaller to fit into your uterus.

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  • Fernyyy
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:27am

    What the liberals don’t seem to understand (among so very many other things), is that they need to allow conservatives to run things for a while so we as a nation can afford to put up with liberal childishness.

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    • riverdog1
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:08pm

      you all HAVE ben running the govement pretty much sinse 1981. thanks for a lot for the huge deficits, thanks for the wars, thanks for sending jobs overseas. way to go.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:56pm

      @riverdog1
      Ah, another product of a liberal public education. Read a real history book, then get back to us. Perhaps a visual aid will help:
      http://uspolitics.about.com/od/usgovernment/l/bl_party_division_2.htm

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    • Fernyyy
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 1:17pm

      That’s the best you got? Thanks for making my point.

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    • lemmings4obama
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:00pm

      @Riverdog

      Right, the Tea Party hasn’t even been around that long Donnie Dorko. Republican doesn’t mean Conservative but that would probably take more explaining to you than I have time for. Good luck with keeping your head in the sand.

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  • hauschild
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:26am

    “Not everybody defines freedom as the ability to not pay taxes.”

    Yeah, liberals/progressives/communists/Marxists/fascists trade a bit of security for liberty – traditional Americans will not.

    Ah, the genius strikes again. Mr. Shyster himself, Jon Stewart. I mean, how worthless is a dude like this? What does he do now that he’s rich to server his fellow man? Typical bottom-feeder antics – appeal to America’s lowest common denominator.

    You can almost see the anger and hate seep out of his eyeballs when he talks about Tea. Losers like Al Sharpton, Barney Frank, Obama – he has no problem with, but traditional Americans – kill them all!!!

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    • DarthMims
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:44am

      I see that you subscibe to the same idea as Benjamin Franklin that anyone who would give up some of their liberty for some temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety. But I would remind you that under the Patriot Act, this is exactly what happened. All Americans had to give up some of their liberties, and those of us caught in the middle were told by conservative republicans that it was necessary to secure our freedom. So liberals are not the only ones guilty of failing Ben Franklin’s test. Conservative republicans are just as guilty.

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    • hauschild
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:08pm

      Actually, I was leaning more towards taxation because these idiots continually take a little bit more each generation, yet each generation is a worse product than the previous one. It’s wasted money on nothing more than a Utopian dream that will never come true – yet they’ll never admit it. I mean, this idiot Stewart is in his 40‘s or 50’s and he still won’t own up to the fact that liberalism is a failed ideology, or worse, he won’t admit it because it would affect his bottom line in a very negative way.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:11pm

      Well said Darthmims. Both “sides” have convinced their base to trade liberty for false security on demand. Those of us who subscribe to neither side’s fear mongering are, of course, classified as extremists.

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    • DarthMims
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:25pm

      It is sad that those of us trying to make democracy work are sometimes thrown in with the crazy outer “extremes” of the two parties, when if they would just look closer, we are the ones in the middle holding everything together.

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    • Commonsense Libertarian
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:30pm

      @ Darthmims:

      I agree that the issues are caused by both sides. However, I would hardly call G.W. Bush a “conservative”. Regardless of the R or D in front of the name, the Progressive ideology is the affliction our nation suffers from.

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  • Jaycen
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:26am

    First of all, they’re trying to create the narrative that the Tea Party “won”. We didn’t, or there wouldn’t have been a deal at all.

    Second, he knows we don’t hate government. We simply don’t want the government involved in all its extra curricular activities. Stick to Article I Section 8, please.

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  • SREGN
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:25am

    Guess I’m guilty as charged on that one.

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  • StrangernFiction
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:24am

    And when it implodes it will be our fault because we cut too much.

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  • Steel Awesome
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:23am

    No, Jon, we’re still mad that you still exist.

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  • HD Veteran
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:22am

    He makes his living by filling young minds with garbage. Oh, and name-calling.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:37am

      Usually, only ******** and union, or both, watch him, but unsuceptible young minds are also being filled with his un-funny, progressive garbage. The same people who cannot tell the difference between propaganda and real comedy. Teach your children, inform your friends and neighbors. The propaganda machine is gearing up for 2012 and it’s going to be a knock-down, drag-out, dog-fight.
      You know whose side the MSM is on.

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  • It is their RIGHT, it is their DUTY...
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:21am

    I think a better topic is, o wait, a laughable topic, Obama wants to violate my right
    privacy by paying for my birth control!! Thats not health related, that’s sex related, and
    bedroom related. What am I supposed to do now? Skip to my nearest Walgreens and be
    a super happy idiot that I can get free birth control?? You know Ive never seen so many
    ads about suing drug company’s for stupid regular side effects in my life, but one drug I haven’t
    seen on these ads are birth control drugs….. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, why are these drugs
    so important to this bozo administration?? STOP trying to control me!! We like freedom !!

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    • leftwardho
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:51pm

      How in the world is telling insurance companies they have to pay for birth control, taking away your freedom? What color is the sky on your world? You have freedom with this rule. Don’t want birth control? Don’t get any. Stop telling ME what to do.

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  • martinrnelson
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:19am

    I’m a conservative and I do like Jon. He doesn’t agree with most of what I believe, but you have to keep a sense of humor about politics. Whether your Rep or Dem…we both have some screwed up politicians we’re counting on.

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    • HD Veteran
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:22am

      Just because there is a softball game going on does not mean you have to player catcher.

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    • HD Veteran
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:25am

      An astounding number of “under 30′s” get there news from Jon.

      I would guess the majority of Americans would take your stance though, let’s enjoy and not look to deep.

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    • h3llyahimerican
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:04pm

      MARTINRNELSON: I am with you, and as many times as I have ever said that, people do not understand. It is the people who cannot take Jon’s show for what it is, a comedy show.. the one’s who use it as an actual news source.. that is scary. I have seen him bash democrats, and republicans alike. I always hear that a large majority of his viewers are “pot head liberals” (I have never seen the numbers just what seems to be the consensus) , I am neither, but I do watch him from time to time, I think he is funny. I watched last night, he did a nice piece on a USO trip he took to meet some troops as well. Also, right before he said that, he made light of inconsistencies with Obummer’s statements. If they would have just played that clip (making light of the president) then you would see a lot of comments along the lines of “I think Jon Stuart is an idiot, don’t watch him, but he was good on that one!” etc. etc… Like anything, I would rather watch the whole thing and come to my own conclusion, not a couple of sentences taken from a 30 minute comedy TV show.

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    • flsnipe
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:33pm

      your a sell out

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    • brado9505
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 2:38pm

      stewart is an ass!

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  • endgamer
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:19am

    F.O. Jon! The Tea Party won nothing!

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    • Oldphoto678
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:29am

      And you never will.

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    • vennoye
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:37am

      Oldphoto678
      Be sure to come back and talk to us after your “Government Utopia” comes down around your ears!! Tell us again how much government can do for us!!! lol!

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    • spotster
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:54am

      hey oldphoto i bet you wont come to a rally and call someone a tbagger to their face. and if you ever had the ba!!s. please please say it to me

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:17pm

      You’re most likely right Oldphoto. Your side seems intent on forcing the rest of the nation into a long drawn out national suicide and you will stop at nothing to ensure that this occurs. It’s such a shame really, to see how so many have not only forgotten what America is supposed to be about but who have been taught to loudly scream like the good sheep during Napoleon’s speech about “four feet good two feet bad”. You do not wish debate nor alternate ideas, you wish for nothing but destruction, starvation and machine guns on walls, and the sad thing is you probably don’t even know it.

      Slainte.

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    • DarthMims
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:30pm

      GhostofJefferson, good “Animal Farm” reference! I sometimes feel like the horses, out doing the hard work while some sit and grow fat on my hard work. And, I know, I will eventually be shot.

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    • Erabin
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 12:35pm

      That’s a lot of things you read out of the four words he wrote.

      Stop jumping to conclusions please. If everyone could do that, we might actually get somewhere.

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  • ssingh1515
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:18am

    Just because your a comedian, that does give one the moral ability to alter the facts. The Tea Party is not some chaotic terrorist organization and neither a hostile group of anarchists. The Tea Party is for the principles in which most of the founders believed in. Restoring the country to constitutional government will bring in decades of prosperity.

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  • BIGJAYINPA
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:17am

    A legend in his own mind. Sorry Jon, no one with half a brain listens to you or cares one whit for what you say. Of course half a brain pretty much describes your audience……Just sayin’

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  • beenaroundyaknow
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:17am

    If Stewart wasn’t so partisan and ignorant of the real issues, he might be funny. But he never will be. I won’t comment on his know nothing audience.

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    • Attention2Detail
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:27am

      I will. His audience is right out of Berkeley. They don‘t have the mental capacity to even consider ideas that don’t line up exactly with theirs. What the left considers intelligent is the ability to twist anything into a liberal lie. It’s really the only thinking worth doing.

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  • freedomisasfreedomdoes
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:16am

    such an angry man. pity.

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  • Whitehouse Mouse
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:15am

    Typical Stewart rant to his ever shrinking audience.

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  • It is their RIGHT, it is their DUTY...
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:13am

    Who cares!! John Stewart inst the most important guy on the planet…

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    • Inbred Jed
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:18am

      It’s sad, I know a few people who are pretty intelligent and yet they consider this guy a source for news.

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  • I.Gaspar
    Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:10am

    Two words: NOT FUNNY!
    Never has been, never will be.

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    • Attention2Detail
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:21am

      Not true, Before he became a liberal activist he was funny, and occasionally he still slips up and says something funny. It‘s too bad that he’s living in the dark and has no desire to see the light.

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    • UlyssesP
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:38am

      Funny 25 years ago making fun of videos on MTV with that hag Garafalo, perhaps.

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    • DarthMims
      Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:51am

      I laugh when I watch Jon Stewart the same way I laugh when I watch Glenn. It is because I hear them when they say they are not news commentators, they are entertainers. Beck has a Don Rickles feel to Stewart’s Jerry Seinfeld comedy.

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