The Critics are Lining Up: Now Jon Stewart Questions Obama Over Libya
- Posted on March 23, 2011 at 7:58am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Remember after the midterm elections President Obama blamed the Democrats’ “shellacking” on a lack of communication? Well, if you ask Jon Stewart, that communication problem still exists. Especially when it comes to Libya. And it’s a problem.
Stewart became another voice on a growing list of liberals stating their displeasure with the president’s decision to intervene in Libya. In short, Stewart couldn‘t figure out exactly why we’re in Libya. Matt Schneider at Mediaite sums Stewart’s critique up like this:
If it’s just to stop the violence against civilians, then Stewart listed off many other countries where we should arguably be helping as well. Or if it’s something else, then Stewart essentially asked Obama, “why won’t you talk to us?”
“One of the problems we are having with you Mr. President is a communications gap,” Stewart said. The money quotes come when Stewart compares Obama’s communication skills to a couple married 40 years.
The entire segment is broken up in two parts. The first part is below, the second part (referenced above) can be viewed by clicking the “Obama’s Communication Gap” link below the video:
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Comments (85)
Demloather
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 11:05amMystery Solved!
Obama is a master communicator when discussing THEORY, but completely clueless when addressing REALITY.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 11:04amTranny Mike,
Report Post »Yes, us lefty teachers have been purposefully confusing you about the shape of the world ever since you landed in our classrooms after flunking Head Start. Now be a good Christian Patriot and look into the ‘Boy Who Visited Heaven Is Mocked By MSNBC Host’ story.
TammyChicago
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 10:46amCommunications gap????? Ummm no. There cannot be a gap in communication when there is NO communication. Seriously, WTH did these people expect from a man who accomplilshed nothing
Report Post »before holding office? He was a NON LEADER famous for voting present. The idiots who elected him didnt have a clue what they were doing. Obama knows exactly what he is doing.
tranymike
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 10:42amI will send in mine are we sending them to fox i don’t want them to get losed in the big mail room we do you got a better address to get them to glenn
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 10:40amDon’t get too excited, flat-earthers. Stewart is critsizing the President from the left. He is not meandering over to your point of view. You all need to focus on things more up to your speed and sentiment, as in the article Glenn Beck posted on this site recently: ‘Boy Who Visited Heaven Is Mocked By MSNBC Host’. Truly outrageous, isn’t it?
Report Post »dirtypolitics
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 10:31amNot a bit hilarious. If you analyze, it is more of Obama behind licking, less of Obama criticism and more criticism of the Conservatives.
Stewart is no different from …. who is that guy who was terminated by MSNBC.
Report Post »renoguy2010
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 9:54ami wuld like to start a new movement,,, along with the 9-12, and tea parties movement,, it will will hurt me alot, as i only got one award, when in service,,, so sending my medal to beck, lets make beck make a wall for all our medels, not to piss him off but to show how much we love him and what he has done for us and our county,,,, send in a medal and lets see if beck canonot deny us, or make a wall for us, i will be the first to send in mine,,, not sure if i want to send in my ribon or medel,, am sure this will tick beck as a movement, id just like to see it on the wall,,, and we stand behind our oath,,, my ribions mean everything to me,, all i got left,, so lets see if we can flood fox there with medles,,, make them soak them up with vets,, that are willing to say,, i gave my life for that,, but ill send it to them, in hopes we can make a wall
Report Post »of them, saying we are the people, we are the vets, we are the tea party, and we are 9-12ers,
we will stand by our oaths, we are still military,, till life and to the grave,,,
so say we all,, send in your ribbins
clockwatcher
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 9:32amGee this self hateing jew did not show any of the democrats that that pushed the no fly zone. These scum are so easy to read.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 3:33pmSimilar to you using the term “self hateing jew” making you “easy to read.”
Report Post »hempstead1944
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 9:11amNot a water shed moment….these guys will all be back in the tank for BO as soon as he agrees to show up on their TV programs …..
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 9:09amNotice how Stewart says Pubs are the ones wanting war, and trots out three RINOS to make his case.
Pffft!
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 9:07amJon Change of Name Stewart and his writers could make fun of Japan and all his lemmings listeners will believe him
Journalism died awhile ago and so has comedy
Liberal Loonbats will continue to mock anyone in Bush’s administration BUT no way will they reveal any gaffes by Obummer and clan
Jay Leno is still making jokes about Dick Cheney and his cardiac problems
Comedy to some is PAIN to others
Report Post »When JonnyBoy made a “joke” about Lupus (which a member of my family has) I removed the comedy channel from my tv
I do pity Jon’s kids poor things growing up with that attitude of crap
beekeeper
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 2:02pmI saw a great interview of Jon Stewart on Rachel Maddow’s show – she said (essentially) we model what we do after what you are doing over at The Daily Show…‘ Jon Stewa said ’you gotta stop ding that.’ Rachel was confused, she didn’t expect that reaction at all…
Report Post »tranymike
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 9:00amThe plan to make. white turning on black. black turning on white. gods people turning on Allis people. Allis people turning on gods people. right verse left. left verse right. rep verse dem. dem verse rep. rich verse poor. poor verse rich. OK I get we are all being pushed little by little we don’t even feel it happening. look I used to watch shows about 2012 being the end years ago and I remember thinking how in the hell can the world go to hell in 3 or 4 years. well it can as we all see. the ? is how do we stop it. I don’t care what you are if you live in the US stop fighting with each other. look at the world all the country’s that would never go to a NWO or can‘t because of it’s laws like us are turning on there own selves. taking down all there laws and governments. obama pushed the right so hard that we got up and protest hell we even made a new government party and he pushed us some more but we did not fight or shoot anyone so that didn‘t work so now he’s pushing on the left cleaning out all his friends from his white house and he will push and push in hope that they will rise up and take out the government we don’t need to take out the government we need to all come together and safe the government from it self and how do we do that? we all use the govement on it’s self. Like we did I hope the left will do the same. I believe we all can do this and I do believe in freedom. Obama I pray to my god that the people in this country will fight I just pray they will not fight the way you want them to. Why would any elected person start ******* off the people that support him if there wasn’t a good reason. Were all being set up.
Report Post »God bless all of us.
ares338
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:49amOnce again; WHO CARES?
Report Post »StevenL1955
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:46amPsssst…? Ya think even the liberals are beginning to see that Obama doesn’t have a clue even how to run a cookie business? DAH!!!!!!!!
Report Post »QuietRiot
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:37amGoing off the rails of the crazy train…..Let me hear you scream……
Report Post »raspberrytea
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:29amThe left won’t stay upset with Barry very long….They will
Report Post »support anything he does in the long run anyway.
ProgressiveLiberalMarine
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:36amDon’t be so sure.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 11:41amWent over to Huff Post the other day to see what their temp was……..saw 3-4 people urging Robert Reich to run for President in 2012. Is going to be interesting to watch them………..
Report Post »sabrinacle
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 9:25pmSo true. Im to the right. My husband is to the left. Right now he is so gun-ho save the poor Libyans from the evil Kaddafi it isnt funny. Obama used the exact same words as Bush to invade a country that had not attacked us. I believed in Bush, but I was wrong. Now its my honeys turn but every time I tell him he sounds like me from the Bush days he dismisses it as “this is different”. Im sure he represents most of the left. Lucky for us we have been married 15 years and have never let politics or religion get in the way of our partnership. But Its hard sometimes!
Report Post »ColoWolf
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:22amObummer will destroy this country one way or the other.
Report Post »idontgetit
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:20amI suppose you can appreciate the consistency of some dems, who acted the same under Bush. The President is commander in chief and is able to make sudden decisions requiring military attention to protect U.S. citizens. However, you’d think an elapsed time of over a month would disqualify this as a “sudden decision.”
Report Post »bobodu
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:35amYa wanna bet THIS quick decision doesn’t lead us into ten years of losing?
Report Post »LICENSEDTOCARRY
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:20amBe careful what you wish for. Biden The Bumbler is next in line.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 1:16pmBiden is the reason “mr o” is still in office…When the 2012 land slide in begins “mr o” will wonder why he is at the bottom.
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:19amJon Stewart needs to be silenced and he should be sent to the Gulag to reflect on his careless objections to our supreme leader.(sarc) Stewart has just added his voice to the chorus around the world who can‘t find the logic in Obama’s actions.
Report Post »Obama is the one they claimed would dial back the wars and make the world love the United States. Who could possibly have believed that unless they ignored Obama’s personal history and the history of his policies?
LizB
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:42amGet real. Jon Stewart is one VERY funny guy. I’m a huge Beck fan, but I also like to watch Stewart. He may be a liberal, and that’s okay … he’s not one of the far left evil ones. I do think he loves his Country and I believe he is relatively fair showing, in a very funny way, the incredible words, which come out of our politician’s mouths.
Report Post »Monday’s show had me laughing out loud! My boys even came in to see what I was laughing at.
I like the guy!!
If we want to get our Country back on the right track, the work is going to have to come from the right, left and the middle. There are more moderates in this country than anything else. They are just more quiet and don’t believe in all this craziness to get their voices heard.
Thank goodness we have Glenn Beck bringing our attention to the evil that a select few are trying to do to our Country! And thank goodness we have Jon Stewart showing his audience the double standard of the words and actions coming from our government!
aquillanobile
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 9:05amWhy would you want to go so far as to silence people. Oppression belongs in the old World…“the hell pit of humanity” I call it!
Report Post »As an American you have the responsibility to fight oppression among other human fallacies!
John is a funny guy, but I can only take so much of him so I don’t tune in.
smithclar3nc3
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 9:26amLIZB, Steward was and still is complicated in not covering (or at least joking) the huge unethicall moves the Obama adminstration has been doing since he was put in office. He77 Steward didn’t even bother to rip on Obama tax cheat now running the IRS. Steward is very very far left and the only reason he’s saying something down is because very very far left are very very anti-military actions.
Report Post »pablodez
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:14amAs soon as Gadaffi is ousted the Libyans will be burning American flags.
Report Post »UncleBuck
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:13amObamba at not work… wasn’t jobs priority one? KOTUS AWOL…
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 4:23pmBingo
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:11amI like the impeachment idea – thanks dems. One thing you have suggested recently that we agree on. Let’s roll!
Report Post »jdparizee
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:40amthis won’t last long, he will give a speech soon and half the brainless bumbleing lefties will love him again.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 9:38amjdparizee – Maybe not. Hillary looks like she’s going to bail and there are a number of Dems that got caught in the union backlash. Michael Moore is running around advocating taking all the money from the rich people, which probably has alienated a whole ‘nother group. The Attorney General won’t prosecute the Black Panthers because they are “his” people and the unemployment rate is still rising. The only thing B.O. hasn’t done is appoint Charlie Sheen as a White House czar, but stay tuned, it could happen any day now….
On the positive side, B.O.’s golf game has improved considerably and Mrs. B.O. is going to outlaw all unhealthy food. Isn’t that special?
Report Post »mattwakulik
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:10amstewart is just doing this because it is popular now!
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:37amWhat you actually think that Stewart is a leader among liberal comedian/ fake news reporters. Besides he gets his marching orders from the guy holding the check book. And so do his writers.
Report Post »warrior21
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 9:30amWhat kind of people think this idiot is funny?
Report Post »ProgressiveLiberalMarine
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 9:34amJust because you don‘t agree doesn’t mean he isn’t funny. Beck is hilarious, even when I don’t agree with him.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 2:05pmBeck is hilarious especially when I don’t agree with him!
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:09amwatch the OTHER hand
Report Post »GeneralBeasley
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 8:53amStewart must be on zoloft, he’s starting to seem a little more balanced, not by much, mabey it’s time to up his dosage.
Report Post »Miguelito
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 9:39amWhat’s in it for him?
Report Post »drbage
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 9:55amIronic, isn’t it, that Stewart is complaining about the lack of communication skills when Tingle etal have touted the O as the best communicator since Pres. Reagan. Even in an interview, the O stated that the health care message hadn’t been transmitted will despite a thousand or so speeches and interviews. After a while you come to question if it is the messenger or the message.
Report Post »weeblewacker1
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 10:02amhmmmm,looks like this would be a good time for mr.beck to go on jons show! after all beck needs something to boost his failing ratings!! good bye mr.beck in dec.2011.
Report Post »Class2000Generation
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 10:09amNot a fan of Stewart or Colbert but this was hilarious. I ended up recording that show.
Report Post »TexasProgressive
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 12:16pmIts funny that Blaze uses Jon Stewart as a legitamate source when it fits their story…
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 1:53pmTEXASPROGRESSIVE wrote:
“Its funny that Blaze uses Jon Stewart as a legitamate source when it fits their story…”
Uh, you have a more reliable source for Jon Stewart‘s opinion of Obama’s communication of late?
Jon Stewart IS the story, he‘s not ’supporting’ a story about something else…
Report Post »KickDemOut
Posted on March 23, 2011 at 9:29pmIt’s proven that zoloft, prozac, etc. do nothing. Try Xanax.
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