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Jon Stewart Has No Future in Politics

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Posted on Sep 21, 2010
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Well, that headline isn’t exactly true—it’s just that anyone wishing to see “The Daily Show” impresario serve our nation in an officially elected position, instead of playing the political gadfly on Comedy Central, should abandon all hope now. Or so says Jon Stewart. To Oprah.  —KA

Lifeline Live on USA Today:

Jon Stewart firmly told Oprah Winfrey today on her show that he “will never run for public office.”

He explained that if he were in the political system, “I would lose my mind almost immediately.”

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By Peetawonkus, September 23, 2010 at 5:15 am Link to this comment

call me Roy
I’m not a doctor, even though I play one on teevee. But I don’t think you should drink Ambien coladoas before breakfast. Just sayin’

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By Napolean DoneHisPart, September 22, 2010 at 6:40 pm Link to this comment

Wouldn’t it be awesome to see a real third-party made up of intellectuals, maybe some actors and some comedians voted by 18+ year olds through hip 40 year olds bankrolling their campaigning… but I’m sure the actor’s guild could bank-role an office or two… things would CHANGE SO FAST… EVEN FASTER THAN A NEW YORK MINUTE MY FRIEND.

How quickly some red necks would spin off their shoulders.. hahaha

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By mdgr, September 22, 2010 at 4:25 pm Link to this comment

I’d vote for Jon Stewart in a New York minute—assuming he runs as a third party candidate, publicly calls for Al Franken and Dennis Kucinich to resign their Democratic affiliation(“it is unworthy of progressives”) and continues his show on Comedy Central.

Ironically, after November, we may actually find some of that happening. I’m not holding my breath, but perhaps it’s within the realm of possibility.

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By Napolean DoneHisPart, September 22, 2010 at 2:20 pm Link to this comment

Anyone ever look at who signed up when on TruthDig?  Search for that list on TG.  You’ll notice two accounts opening, sometimes three or more, at the same point in time… maybe minutes from each other… interesting, I think. You can tell which are coincidental, and which are opened by one character in one sitting.  Look for it, like patterns.

Anyway.

ITW, CMR and the CIA can be seen for their stance and the subjective slope of left / right; your wrong / they’re right suggestive speech… which they represent and many unwittingly follow suit and stumble into that waywardness way of thinking.

Yet we all stand at very opposite sides of a room politically if we were to go subject by subject, historical happening instance by instance, NOT broad-stroking the chattel’s already diminutive thinking by continuing to use words, syntax and structure to propagate further ‘the left’ or ‘the right’ “channel thinking”... which confines the chooser / chattel / consumer / citizen / constituent / comrade / congress into [ one choice = one party affiliation ]. 

There I said it!!!

Much like how when you change the channel on your boobtube, for the time you stay ‘connected’ to that ‘channel’ and that channel’s ‘message’ and further ads and such… you’re being fed one type of style of media as opposed to the other channels you surf…

Yet the affect and suggestions over the choices you make from that moment forward are usually unnoticed by you or others, but ever wonder why the things you buy sometimes reflect the things you see marketed directly to you.. or have seen for years… because after a while, the seller need not advertise as heavily anymore.. market saturation it’s called.

To the dribblers who can only think from a left or right perspective, from a Rep or Dem perspective, etc….. What a dull way to start out the typical dribble from one’s myopic mind ( hey, I remembered myopic from the 14th grade smile.

Please amuse us with something flashier than the maple syrup malaise of conventional thinking…. it gets tiring getting the email that someone said something… and then you find out nothing was said, just more garbage from the ......

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By Tobysgirl, September 22, 2010 at 12:46 pm Link to this comment

I can’t believe that people take CMR seriously. Why not just skip over the obvious idiotic comments and read those by thinking people? (And please don’t delete this. I’ve had to tolerate being called ugly names, so I don’t know why CMR’s comments shouldn’t be called idiotic.)

And, by the way, NO ONE is putting his/her life on the line for me. The sad truth is that these young (for the most part) people are losing their lives, limbs, and minds for the military-industrial complex. If we had faced that truth in our previous “adventures” (no one was killing Vietnamese people FOR me), perhaps we wouldn’t be doomed to endlessly repeat this obscenity.

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By Napolean DoneHisPart, September 22, 2010 at 10:07 am Link to this comment

I’d vote for Jon Stewart before some politico hack.. at least Jon is honest about how he’ll be ‘going crazy’ when he is confronted with the hegemony / the reality of this country.

Just hope he, Al Franken and other entertainers / minstrels turned politico ( higher paid and ‘nobled’ minstrels I should add ) will not be transfixed nor be mutated into absolute liars than absolute truth ( in comedy ) tellers and they’re closer to now.

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By Arraya, September 22, 2010 at 9:32 am Link to this comment

Just to clarify…

a Muslim group warned the show’s creators that they could face
violence for depicting that holy Islamic prophet? Islam is violent? Oh my, it
can’t be? Just because Jon is a disgrace to our armed forces who put lives on
the line every day in Iraq, doesn’t mean he can’t be a politican?

The “Radical” Muslim Group That Threatened South Park Creators Was Founded
and Run by Joseph Cohen, a Former Israeli Radical Who Used to Live in a
Settlement in the West Bank
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/the-radical-muslim-group-
the-threatened-south-park-creators-was-run-by-joseph-cohen-a-former-
israeli-radical-who-used-to-live-in-a-settlement-in-the-west-bank/

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By poonckie, September 22, 2010 at 2:56 am Link to this comment

Really Roy? You form your opinions based on South Park? And no, we don’t “all know the episode of “South Park” ” from which you garner your knowledge…

ahhahahahahahaha

What a rube.

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By ardee, September 22, 2010 at 2:52 am Link to this comment

“Jon Stewart a politician? He already fits right in with the Mao lovers at the White House? Why not?”

An astonishing bit of nonsense worthy only of inclusion in a speech before a Tea Party gathering. To believe that the current administration is at all left of anyone but the raving lunatics on the current right of our political scene is to surrender all ones credibility.

As to the ridiculous and far off target reference to a brilliant bit of satire by the South Park crew I would thank Roy for its inclusion as it is definitely the cherry on the top of a post worthy only of a headshake and perhaps even pity for its obviously over the edge author.

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By Maani, September 21, 2010 at 8:54 pm Link to this comment

ITW:

We’ve really got to stop agreeing like this…LOL.

Peace.

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By Inherit The Wind, September 21, 2010 at 8:20 pm Link to this comment

“Wannabe Diehard” is like Ronald Reagan, describing an “actual event” which turned out to have been a scene from a movie he was in.  “Wannabe” wouldn’t know Mao from a Mau-Mau.

But that’s the reactionaries’ way: Tell any abusive lie you can and keep telling it until it “becomes the truth”.  They learned this from their propaganda god, Dr. Joseph Goebbels.

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By Maani, September 21, 2010 at 8:11 pm Link to this comment

CMR:

Your logic leaves something to be desired.  What does Jon Stewart have to do with South Park?  He doesn’t run CC, nor have any executive say over what is said or done on the channel.

As for the military, you are simply flat wrong.  Stewart has made very clear that he supports the fact that our military puts its lives on the line for us as they do - even when he disagrees with the U.S. policy that put them there.

You really need to get a life beyond accusing everyone on the left of being patriotic.

Peace.

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By call me roy, September 21, 2010 at 6:20 pm Link to this comment

Jon Stewart a politician? He already fits right in with the Mao lovers at the White House? Why not?
We all know now that Jon Stewart is a sell out when the going got tough. Remember the episode of “South Park” that continued a story line involving the Prophet Muhammad was shown on Comedy Central with audio bleeps and image blocks reading “CENSORED” after a Muslim group warned the show’s creators that they could face violence for depicting that holy Islamic prophet? Islam is violent? Oh my, it can’t be? Just because Jon is a disgrace to our armed forces who put lives on the line every day in Iraq, doesn’t mean he can’t be a politican?

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