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Jon Stewart to William Kristol: Why Should We Trust You?Posted on Aug 15, 2007
The “Daily Show” host challenges proto-hawk and champion name-caller William Kristol on the vitriol of Iraq war enthusiasts: “But you said Sunni and Shia would get along. You’ve said a lot of things that, if we went back and picked through, I could say to you—should I call you terrible names? No, of course not. You’re just a simple fellow who devised a plan that the president executed. ... ” Watch it: Previous item: Cheney's Tune Has Changed Next item: Kos vs. Colbert Elsewhere: . CommentsAre you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig. Add Your Comment
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By nonsequitor, August 21, 2007 at 12:58 am #
the question should have been ‘why have we trusted you?’
Report thisBy Kahoneez, August 20, 2007 at 7:18 pm #
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Give me a break , ” he’s a nice guy “, we were bombarded by the neocons before listening to these degenerates lie, and spit on the American people, causing the majority of the world to hate us , ruin Iraq, and frankly he plays the same disingenuous msm disinformation game, he keeps claiming they are failing at ” bringing democracy” to Iraq, ooooh, william you screwed up the democracy thing. ooooh.
Report thisSTEWART should know that it was about taking over IRAQ, PLANTING BASES, and controlling their oil.
IT’S ABOUT OCCUPATION, STEWART. Not democracy , which was never mentioned in the first place.
We have oreilly, hannity , savage , rush, and countless other right wingers playing hard ball, lying and not being civil and WE have the FACTS, AND CAN’T PLAY HARDBALL. Stewart is kibitzing with a homey, mildly disagreeing on the wrong fkn issue, and that’s it. Oberman does ten minutes of politics and the rest comedy. THATS IT? WE informed progressives are being shortchanged and the rest of you can enjoy the circus.
By JJONES, August 20, 2007 at 5:30 pm #
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The Real Progressive is a 25r;. And Hugo Chavez is a far better man than any Republican.
Report thisBy Chaseme, August 20, 2007 at 4:23 pm #
I CHOOSE EXILE
Report thisBy tenstring, August 20, 2007 at 8:35 am #
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“The Real Progressive”:
You sound like a troll to me. Kristol may be a “good guy,” but a doubt it. The fact that he’s willing to pursue policies that result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people kind hurts the credibility of that claim. I’ll take Hugo Chavez over Kristol anyday.
Report thisBy VietnamVet, August 20, 2007 at 8:23 am #
RE: 95972 by The Real Progressive on 8/20 at 7:20 am
Friend, have you seen a head shrink yet? You really should before its too late! Comments like yours clearly indicate a person with problems of reality. Take care and please do seek help!
Report thisBy The Real Progressive, August 20, 2007 at 7:20 am #
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Bill Kristol is a good guy. I agree with him on many core issues - political and economic freedom for all oppressed people, defense of liberty anywhere in the world, and especially at home.
I laugh at the fatuously-named self-styled “progressives” who stand for everything that isn’t actually progressive of liberty and freedom by promoting a far-left agenda that has been responsible for so much tyranny for decades and decades. Witness: Communism, Castro, Hugo Chavez, Ahmadinejad, Mugabe, the list is practically endless….......
Report thisBy Dr. Richard Blackmoor, August 20, 2007 at 4:27 am #
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Kristol is supposed to be a serious journalist. He has been wrong on almost every point about the Iraq war and many other neoCon policies.
Report thisIf your auto mechanic fixed your car correctly 1 out of 100 times would you still go to him?
These opinion pushers should not be considered journalists and only the simple should listen to them.
By simply reading lots of news and some history I knew for a fact that there were no WMDs in Iraq. The Bush government spent billions and got that one wrong and people like Kristol helped dupe the unwary American people into thinking that Iraq was an imminent threat, just as they are trying to do with Iran.
Stewart is an entertainer and doen’t pretend to be a journalist like Kristol.
By Mudwollow, August 19, 2007 at 9:34 pm #
Shill:
One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into participating in a swindle.
Shill of shills, Bill Kristol
Report thisBy H, August 19, 2007 at 2:54 pm #
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I find it interesting to here him say pussy at least twice!
Report thisBy Presumptuous Insect, August 19, 2007 at 12:15 pm #
This irritates. Look, Bill Maher has been saying these kinds of things to people like Kristol, and to their faces, and with much stronger language, for some time now. But now that Stewart makes a few squeaks about it, everyone notices. Bill has more Colbert balls than Stewart ever will. Sorry, he’s funny, but he just is too damn timid for me. Satire should have a very hard edge, which the Daily Show does not. And these crummy interviews just drive me away.
Report thisBy cyrena, August 18, 2007 at 5:29 pm #
Well, it will be an amazing thing if this actually posts. But, my name is highlighted in blue here, (as opposed to being “greyed-out” since my banishment. So, I’m just checking again.
Haven’t been able to post much of anything for 2 days now. Just assumed I was still blacklisted.
Report thisBy VietnamVet, August 18, 2007 at 2:46 pm #
Kristol is one of the few people I have seen on TV, or in real life, that can smile while he is telling a bald faced lie! Most people show some other emotion, such as Cheney’s snarl, O’Reilly’s feigned indignation, Tony Snow’s raised eye brows,...and, well you get the point. But Bill, just that stupid, goofy looking smile!
Report thisBy cyrena, August 16, 2007 at 4:31 pm #
You think so?
Then how did you get it so wrong?
LMFAO!!!!!!!!
Humm…I’m not so sure that I DID get it wrong lilmanzer. Not so sure at all.
We’ll see, eh?
Report thisBy Neoconned, August 16, 2007 at 2:56 pm #
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#95519 by lilmamzer on 8/16 at 2:30 pm
LILMAMZER
What is it with you and this compulsion for petty details? Is there some trauma in your personal life you never got over?
We are talking about Bill Kristol. YOU dragged in 7 Million American Jews, and further suggested what should be done about them. Was this some infantile trap to get a rant from us scum Goyim about “those evil Jews”?
You really need to get outside this Bubble you’ve constructed for yourself. Either that or get Laid. I would oblige since I’ve nothing against (cute) Jewish girls but I don’t think I could take all your Holocaust pillow talk. Sorry.
Report thisBy lilmamzer, August 16, 2007 at 2:54 pm #
#95525 by cyrena
I think Ive got it covered.
You think so?
Then how did you get it so wrong?
LMFAO!!!!!!!!
Report thisBy cyrena, August 16, 2007 at 2:44 pm #
I am tempted to just explain to you how nonsensical your statement above is - you clearly just dont get it. Thats nothing new, of course.
But then, why should you have everything handed to you like a child? You should learn to figure some things out for yourself.
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You’re right this time kiddo….
So, PLEASE…do not be tempted. PLEASE, do not explain.
I think I’ve got it covered.
Report thisBy lilmamzer, August 16, 2007 at 2:34 pm #
#95519 by lilmamzer
I DONT CARE. BUT, you must remember what it is that I dont care about. I dont care about the plight of the 7 million American Jews that youre so worried about, because I dont see them as having any troubles any greater than the rest of us.
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Oh, right, almost forgot - “you don’t care” - all your posts notwithstanding.
Report thisBy lilmamzer, August 16, 2007 at 2:30 pm #
#95517 by lilmamzer
I DONT CARE. BUT, you must remember what it is that I dont care about. I dont care about the plight of the 7 million American Jews that youre so worried about, because I dont see them as having any troubles any greater than the rest of us.
I am tempted to just explain to you how nonsensical your statement above is - you clearly just don’t get it. That’s nothing new, of course.
But then, why should you have everything handed to you like a child? You should learn to figure some things out for yourself.
Report thisBy lilmamzer, August 16, 2007 at 2:25 pm #
#95509 by cyrena
I DONT CARE. BUT, you must remember what it is that I dont care about. I dont care about the plight of the 7 million American Jews that youre so worried about, because I dont see them as having any troubles any greater than the rest of us.
I’m posting this again because it amuses me to see how badly you have dropped the ball trying to follow even the simplest of threads.
Go back and read the exchange between me and mangemeister. Then read your post, as shown above. It’s hilarious what nonsense you come up with.
Report thisBy lilmamzer, August 16, 2007 at 2:21 pm #
#95509 by cyrena
#95492 by lilmamzer
I DONT CARE. BUT, you must remember what it is that I dont care about. I dont care about the plight of the 7 million American Jews that youre so worried about
You fool. You didn’t understand what I was writing to MANGEMEISTER. That is not at all the meaning of my post. Learn to understand what you read, if you even read my post. You have a history of babbling on without showing any evidence of having read the subject matter at hand.
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So, lets keep that in its proper perspective, when I say that I dont care. It is about THAT, that I do not care.
Whatever.
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is there any difference between being a liar and a traitor?
I would think not. So, theres your evidence.
You would think if you could. Haven’t seen any evidence of that, nor have you presented any evidence at all that Kristol has committed treason.
Lame.
Report thisBy cyrena, August 16, 2007 at 1:52 pm #
#95492 by lilmamzer on 8/16 at 12:29 pm
Sorry lilmamzer,
I forgot. Here’s my 3rd statement of non-caring…
I DON’T CARE. BUT, you must remember what it is that I don’t care about. I don’t care about the plight of the 7 million American Jews that you’re so worried about, because I don’t see them as having any troubles any greater than the rest of us. Matter of fact, I’m pretty damn certain that they are proportionately far better off than the rest of us.
So, lets keep that in it’s proper perspective, when I say that I don’t care. It is about THAT, that I do not care.
As for Willie Kristol being a traitor, Non Credo probably knows that he is. I don’t, because I don’t know much about him. So I couldn’t go so far as to call him THAT, but I’d be happy to call him a LIAR, since the evidence of THAT, is right here in this video, where you can see and hear him LYING!
In this context…is there any difference between being a liar and a traitor?
I would think not. So, there’s your “evidence”.
Report thisBy lilmamzer, August 16, 2007 at 12:29 pm #
#95490 by cyrena on 8/16 at 12:24 pm
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Absent any legally-admissable evidence to the contrary, Non Credo, you are guilty of libel - maliciously and damagingly misrepresenting anothers character through defamatory statements.
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So, lilmamzer,
Maybe you should SUE Non Credo? Or, have Willie Kristol sue? That might be kind of fun to watch.
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Well, look who stopped not-caring.
I’m not at all litigious. But I do like skewering assholes who make spurious charges like Non Credo, and then can’t back them up.
Still not-caring, Cyrena? Why don’t you post some more and tell me (again) how much you don’t care (again).
Report thisBy cyrena, August 16, 2007 at 12:24 pm #
Absent any legally-admissable evidence to the contrary, Non Credo, you are guilty of libel - maliciously and damagingly misrepresenting anothers character through defamatory statements.
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So, lilmamzer,
Maybe you should SUE Non Credo? Or, have Willie Kristol sue? That might be kind of fun to watch.
Report thisBy lilmamzer, August 16, 2007 at 12:03 pm #
#95458 by Non Credo
Kristol is a traitor, if there is any such thing as a traitor. Its really as simple as that.
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Absent any legally-admissable evidence to the contrary, Non Credo, you are guilty of libel - maliciously and damagingly misrepresenting another’s character through defamatory statements.
Only a cheesy, low-rent creep would do that. Especially when the damaged party is not around to defend himself.
Not only are your written words slanderous, Non Credo, but absent any evidence to prove your charges, they show you to be lazy and disingenuous.
So, Non Credo, you have the opportunity to wipe the mud off your face and present the evidence, the legally-admissable evidence, of your charges.
Show us what you got.
Report thisBy lilmamzer, August 16, 2007 at 11:39 am #
#95458 by Non Credo
Kristol is a traitor, if there is any such thing as a traitor. Its really as simple as that.
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OK, Nin Credo, one more time -
Show us all something that would hold up in a court of law to support your asinine charge of treason.
Can you do that, Non Credo?
Report thisBy lilmamzer, August 16, 2007 at 11:36 am #
#95458 by Non Credo
Kristol is a traitor, if there is any such thing as a traitor. Its really as simple as that.
You can run but I won’t let you hide.
So, I’ll put you to the test again:
Why is it, then, Non Credo, that people listen to what Kristol has to say, and nobody gives a rats ass what you have to say?
Hes just smarter than you are, more articulate, more reasoned, more informed, more accomplished, and has gravitas.
Everything you lack.
Show us all something that would hold up in a court of law to support your asinine charge of treason.
Can you do that?
Report thisBy cyrena, August 16, 2007 at 11:29 am #
#95384 by Novista on 8/16 at 7:01 am
Why do people engage with lil~ when its evident you could not find its brain with an electron microscope?
Better things to do with your time and words.
Thank gawd Im on the right side of the International Date Line. No Kristol balls for me.
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Novista,
You’re right of course…about wasting time and energy on lilmamzer, (and that’s her own self-appointed screen name, so that’s not anybody else’s fault there).
Still, the best plan is of course to simply ignore her, and most folks generally do, at least for the most part. But it’s like anything else. You can ignore the fly or the bug as long as it isn’t actively pestering you or stinging. Once it gets to be an overwhelming annoyance, the instinct is swat it out of the way.
So, we just have to become more disciplined I suppose.
Report thisBy lilmamzer, August 16, 2007 at 11:22 am #
#95458 by Non Credo
Kristol is a traitor, if there is any such thing as a traitor. Its really as simple as that.
Everybody who interviews him is so afraid of pointing out his blatant lack of loyalty to this country
Why is it, then, Non Credo, that people listen to what Kristol has to say, and nobody gives a rat’s ass what you have to say?
He’s just smarter than you are, more articulate, more reasoned, more informed, more accomplished, and has gravitas.
Everything you lack.
Show us all something that would hold up in a court of law to support your asinine charge of treason.
Can you do that?
Report thisBy lilmamzer, August 16, 2007 at 10:02 am #
#95428 by cyrena
I think you need to tell me several hundred more times that you (the royal we?) dont care.
Ok lilmamzer, this counts for the first of the several hundred times. WE honestly dont give a shit about the 7 million American Jews who support Israel, because youve yet to come up with anything that gives anybody a reason why we should.
My point, was that no matter what the discussion on this site is, or whatever we may be talking about, you always appear with the misery of the Jews, as if they have some special illness or something that we should all be in attendance to, and I really dont get that at all.
The published population of this country is 300 million, give or take a few Im sure. And, 7 million of them are Jews.
So why is it, that all conversation must focus on them, any more than it would anyone else?
Does this help you understand why youre just a boring broken record?
Ok, this will be the second time.
We dont care.
Still not caring, I see.
Report thisKeep up the good non-caring work.
By cyrena, August 16, 2007 at 9:25 am #
I think you need to tell me several hundred more times that you (the royal we?) dont care.
Ok lilmamzer, this counts for the first of the several hundred times. WE honestly don’t give a shit about the 7 million American Jews who support Israel, because you’ve yet to come up with anything that gives anybody a reason why we should.
My point, was that no matter what the discussion on this site is, or whatever we may be talking about, you always appear with the misery of the Jews, as if they have some special illness or something that we should all be in attendance to, and I really don’t get that at all.
The published population of this country is 300 million, give or take a few I’m sure. And, 7 million of them are Jews.
So why is it, that all conversation must focus on them, any more than it would anyone else?
Does this help you understand why you’re just a boring broken record?
Ok, this will be the second time.
Report thisWe don’t care.
By lilmamzer, August 16, 2007 at 8:38 am #
#95392 by cyrena
And, most importantly, why do you THINK WE CARE?
Because your many posts on this and similar topics attest to the fact that you care a great deal.
Furthermore, this thread is whatever we want it to be. If you read my posts in the context of responding to the poster called weather and not you, you wouldn’t have had to make a fool of yourself by asking stupid questions.
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What are we gonna DO about them?
Again with the royal “we”? My questions were posed to one specific individual, by name. And it wasn’t you.
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Can I tell you again that we just dont CARE?
I think you need to tell me several hundred more times that you (the royal “we”?) don’t care.
Then again, you care enough to send the very best, don’t you?
Report thisBy Chaseme, August 16, 2007 at 7:51 am #
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People like William Kristol survive off the blood of the poor and helpless. Attacking Iran is, a good idea.
These are vampires who would sleep on piss stained striped mattresses with no sheets if someone else didnt make their beds for them.
He would rent weekly hotels where roaches boiled out of the grayish porcelain in the drain- plugged kitchenette when he flicked the light switch, if others didnt pay for their rooms at the Hilton.
He would allow the doodie critters and dingle berries to mat and form a cast around his asshole if there was not someone there to prepare his bath.
He would allow his teeth to yellow with plaque and cavities causing decay and chipping to allow them look even more vampire like, if someone didnt remind him to visit the dentist.
To people like William Kristol, we (the American people) are also the poor and helpless. We make them who they are. So, when his people call Comedy Central to ask if he can be on their show, that four letter, one syllable word SURE, gives Kristol enough confidence to believe, WE TRUST YOU.
Therefore, Jon Stewarts motives should be questioned, because if Stewart supports the Vampires and WE support Jon Stewart, then what does that make US Zombies?
I understand there is no either-or in a situation like this. Either, Jon doesnt allow Kristol on his show. Or, once he is on the show, Jon beats the crap out of him.
Regardless, I have supported Comedy Central for sometime now and I have seen Kristol more than enough. I personally believe its time to drag that Vampire into the sunlight.
Report thisBy Neoconned, August 16, 2007 at 7:40 am #
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#95321 by cadence on 8/15 at 10:30 pm
Lilmamzer wants to hear us say we should deal with the “Jews” in a Hitler like fashion. Then she will get that rush of SELF-PITY which is synonymous with Victimhood.
My only response these days is mild amusement by this Infantile obsession with Holocaust revivalism. Not everyone who critiques Israel or the Neocons or AIPAC is out to open up Gas Chambers.
On the one hand we are not allowed to see the connection with Israeli Militarism and AIPAC. On the other, we are never allowed to see Israel other than a gentle Lamb. This bizaar Aristocratic snobbery and violence towards the Palestinians never sits well with Self Pity and self righteousness.
When is Lilmamzer going to grow up? Can a whole nation be in need of Psychiatric help?
Report thisBy cyrena, August 16, 2007 at 7:24 am #
#95310 by lilmamzer on 8/15 at 9:25 pm
You have failed to answer the basic question I put to you: What are you going to do about the 7 million American citizens who are Jews and who support Israel even more than Kristol does?
You have no clue, no plan, no options.
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Lilmamzer,
Why does it always have to come immediately to this with you? This thread is on a William Kristol pretend interview with Jon Stewart, claiming that the surge on Iraq is going well. So, how do we get to 7 million American Jews who support Israel?
And, most importantly, why do you THINK WE CARE?
We dont.
We have no solutions, plans, or options for the welfare of 7 million American Jews, because we dont know what the hell youre talking about, when you even pose the question. What are we gonna DO about them? Are the 7 million American Jews in some sort of danger that the rest of us NON-Jewish Americans dont have to consider?
And tell me again, what this has to do with Kristol claiming that the surge on Iraq is going well when we can see with our own eyes, that it is NOT. And how does anything that ever comes up on this or any other topic, somehow always have to come back to you and your Jews?
Can I tell you again that we just dont CARE?
Report thisBy Novista, August 16, 2007 at 7:01 am #
Why do people engage with lil~ when it’s evident you could not find its brain with an electron microscope?
Better things to do with your time and words.
Thank gawd I’m on the right side of the International Date Line. No Kristol balls for me.
Report thisBy Hemi*, August 16, 2007 at 4:02 am #
“This non-fighting pussy doesnt mind that your kids are fighting and dying.” - vet240
Damn straight! Kristol wouldn’t care if the toll were 40,000 and not 4,000 dead. They consider it a small price for their ends. Mere cannon fodder. That we are unable to produce change in our one party system of government does not alter the facts or our ability and desire to state them. We learn what we can. We do what we can, when we can, for as long as we can.
Some here are sufficiently threatened by our statements. They offer nothing of their own, only resistance.
“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!”
—William Shakespeare
Report thisBy Neoconned, August 16, 2007 at 1:03 am #
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#95310 by lilmamzer on 8/15 at 9:25 pm
What are you going to do about the 7 million American citizens who are Jews and who support Israel
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Lady
That was a very crude set up for anyone. What could you be suggesting, I wonder?
Why don’t we apply the Israeli logic towards the Palestinians back on those who support Israel: If you don’t like it here you can go back to Israel.
And if you think countering a comment with a feeble charge of anti-semitism is good policy, here is something for your New York friends: Arabs are SEMITES. So when Israel shits on the Palestinians, Israelis are commiting Anti-Semitism.
How this East European (Stetle) parochialism has survived in New York into the third millenium, I will never understand.
Report thisBy cadence, August 15, 2007 at 10:30 pm #
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“lilmanzer” keeps asking what “you’re going to DO ABOUT 7 million American jews who support Israel” and that “you have to come up with a plan to DEAL WITH 7 million American jews.” “Do about?” “Deal with?” What ARE you talking about? Sounds like you’re talking “final solution” there, Lilmanzer. Sounds quite threatening. You should try to be more clear, because otherwise you sound demented. Just what we need—lunatic ultrarightwing spew on Truthdig. I am already sick of the comment section being used like a personal chatroom, between certain persistent commentators. Driving me away from the site. It’s like listening to the jerk on the cellphone in the grocery line. If the site is now being infiltrated by neonazis, Truthdig is doomed. Fortunately there are many other sites.
Report thisBy lilmamzer, August 15, 2007 at 9:25 pm #
#95282 by weather
Your sense of entitlement that somehow Israels remarkable arrogance and brazen deceit is now suddenly an American problem only speaks to just how presumtous you are.
Sense of entitlement? What the fuck?
America’s problem?
Do you just ramble on and on in stream-of-consciousness like this all the time?
You have failed to answer the basic question I put to you: What are you going to do about the 7 million American citizens who are Jews and who support Israel even more than Kristol does?
You have no clue, no plan, no options.
All you can do is make your futile and totally lame posts. So lame.
Report thisBy joe in oklahoma, August 15, 2007 at 8:32 pm #
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lilmamzer,
i am fascinated at your suggestion there is a “Jewish Problem” in the US.
what do YOU think we ought to “DO” to seven million Jews in this country?
no doubt the comments that praise Kristol for presenting “reasonable ideas” also thought his ideas were reasonable 4 years ago when he assured us of a quick, cheap, and triumpahnt war that would cause arab nations to ‘fall’ to demoicratic forces like dominoes.
his “reasonable ideas” are destroying lives and replacing the idea of the American republic with the American Empire.
Report thisBy weather, August 15, 2007 at 7:17 pm #
illa-monster.
Your sense of entitlement that somehow Israel’s remarkable arrogance and brazen deceit is now suddenly an American problem only speaks to just how presumtous you are. How sad, how selfish.
Now goto the mirror your favorite zip code and reflect on a part of the problem.
If you love Israel, fly there and fix it.
Israel is dysfunction junction and they have absolutely no one to thank but themselves.
Report thisBy lilmamzer, August 15, 2007 at 4:14 pm #
#95245 by weather
Improve America.
Drop-ship Kristol in the sands of Iraq w/his Israeli passport, his haughty hubris and have him report back his story then.
Tough talk, but we know you can’t back it up.
What are you going to do about the 7 million American citizens who are Jews and who support Israel even more than Kristol does?
We need practical suggestions here, weather, not your lame chest-thumping.
You need to come up with a plan to deal with 7 million American Jews.
I think you don’t have a clue what to do.
Report thisBy weather, August 15, 2007 at 4:08 pm #
Improve America.
Drop-ship Kristol in the sands of Iraq w/his Israeli passport, his haughty hubris and have him report back his story then.
Report thisBy lilmamzer, August 15, 2007 at 4:02 pm #
#95208 by Non Credo
This non-fighting pussy doesnt mind that your kids are fighting and dying.
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His kids are Chosen. Yours are not.
And what are you gonna do about it?
I’ll tell you what you’ll do: nothing
Because you ain’t got the cojones to stand up to the Chosen.
All you do is bitch and complain on this lame website.
Out in the real world, the Chosen make a fool out of you all day, every day, and you ain’t got a frickin’ clue what to do. And everyone knows it, too.
Report thisBy Neoconned, August 15, 2007 at 1:52 pm #
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#95161 by Non Credo on 8/15 at 11:33 am
(230 comments total)
But Stewart, of course, didnt go there. Of god damn course.
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I know what you are insinuating but try to recall the bust up with Sen. McCain.
If Kristol got a mulligan, the Democrats haven’t managed to hold anyone’s feet to the fire. Iraq has happened and the NSA is spying on all of us. The rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Katrina came and went. And the Democrats sat on their hands for nearly eight years.
So what can one lone comedian do now at this late stage anyway? Give the guy a break.
Report thisBy vet240, August 15, 2007 at 1:24 pm #
I was struck of Kristols arrogant smirk early in the interview when he said “Not a bad idea”, when asked about an invasion of Iran.
This non-fighting pussy doesn’t mind that your kids are fighting and dying.
Report thisBy scurvybro, August 15, 2007 at 12:25 pm #
I’m a huge fan of Stewart, but I, too, am disappointed at how he pulls his punches with guests when they’re on the program, but has savaged otherwise.
I’m most irritated by Stewart going easy on Dennis Miller. However, whenever he’s on the program, Miller simply won’t shut up. He fires off one weak joke after another, on subjects of no importance or interest, without any letup. It’s clear that he’s dominating the “conversation” to prevent Stewart from asking him about his being a tool for Bush and the neocons.
Report thisBy cyrena, August 15, 2007 at 12:24 pm #
#95056 by mary on 8/15 at 6:04 am
...“Im still amazed at how the neoCONS will use every media outlet, mostly unchallenged, to sell their agenda.”...
Mary,
You hit this dead on the money. There is no shame in their game. Not the least. And, it’s certainly NOT like they don’t already pander to the overall public through their poisonus influence in the main-stream media. So, it’s not like there isn’t plenty of the Bill Kristol shit floating free, and has been for years now.
Why do we have to see and hear them on our own communications?
It’s always overwhelmingly nauseating to hear ANY of them make the claim that “things are going well” in Iraq, as it has been for the last four and a half years. That he can honestly say that to a public capable of reading simple news stories every single day like, “200 people dead in bomb attacks. Nine US troops dead in a variety of incidents…” and this is everyday stuff, and has been for the past year. It’s only so much WORSE since the “surge”.
For instance, all of the nastiest part of the violence has now spread through the North and Northwest of the country, which had managed to stay largely peaceful, until….“the surge”. Now it’s as chaotic as all the rest of the country.
Iraq Chaos: 9 US Soldiers Dead;
Bombs Kill 175, 200 Hurt
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081407R.shtml
So, when we read this stuff everyday, (even if it’s the AP, with multiple typos) it makes it real difficult to watch and listen to Kristol and those like him, lie through their teeth, and say that things are “going well”.
Things have not been “going well” in the nearly 5 years since we invaded and occupied that soverign state, in order to steal their O-I-L, and set up a permanent colony for US-Israel joint ventures.
So, if Jon was gonna force us to listen to the guy, he should have questioned him about all the millions of dead and/or displaced Iraqis, and maybe checked to see if he thought that nearly 4,000 dead troops was an indication that things were “going well”.
Report thisBy Larry, August 15, 2007 at 12:01 pm #
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This never goes anywhere, John Stewart is just as polarizing as Bill Kristol, except personally i think Kristol presents more valid and reasonable arguments than John does. John has been VERY biased on this issue and i really dislike hearing him badger his republican guests while pushing his liberal views into it
Report thisBy Onion Volcano, August 15, 2007 at 10:39 am #
Okay. That guy had balls to come on the show and end it with a joke. I don’t agree with him or what he stands for, but at least we see someone from that camp who doesn’t come across as a total dedicated fool.
Report thisBy Ronito6, August 15, 2007 at 8:54 am #
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Thank goodness Jon knew that O’Hanlon and Pollack are NeoCons who have supported the war from the beginning.
O’Hanlon and Pollack are pretending that they are former critics who have changed their minds to keep the war going. To keep it going until the Neocons prove that they are right.
Kristol wasnt ready for that, and backed off fast to avoid exposing the big lie that these guys were war critics.
He backed off fast because if the truth about O’Hanlon and Pollack is better known, he won’t be able to point to their phony change of heart to support his invalid views.
Report thisBy Rich, August 15, 2007 at 8:43 am #
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Doesn’t Stewart and Krsitol pray at the same Sinigag?
Report thisBy witkacy, August 15, 2007 at 7:42 am #
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I bailed on Stewart a long time ago after seeing him interview Peggy Noonan (!) re her book on the Pope (!)...Stewart couldn’t have been milder towards the woman; and I was totally disgusted…
Report thisBy Neoconned, August 15, 2007 at 7:41 am #
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Lilmamzer
Bless my soul, I was wondering where you had gone.
‘How very Progressive of you.’
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Speaking of progressive, how is YOUR party line going? AIPAC is it? No one could accuse you of Narcissism, now could they.
Ohhh, how I missed you.
Report thisBy lilmamzer, August 15, 2007 at 7:27 am #
#95056 by mary
Im still amazed at how the neoCONS will use every media outlet
So if a Leftist appears on a news or entertainment program, would you apply the scare-quotes? Or is giving equal time to those with views different from your own somehow illegitimate and threatening to you?
Wouldn’t, say, Dennis Kucinich, “use” media outlets as well?
I get the sense that in your world view, the media ought to be reserved to disseminate your party line, and yours only, and not as a vehicle for a free exchange of ideas.
After all, ideas can be dangerous, especially when they challenge what you hold so near and dear, no matter how wrong you might be.
How very “Progressive” of you.
Report thisBy mary, August 15, 2007 at 6:04 am #
I enjoy Jon Stewart and his show, however I wish he would hit these guys a little harder. Can’t you just feel the storm brewing over an Iran attack. I’m still amazed at how the neoCONS will “use” every media outlet, mostly unchallenged, to sell their agenda. If they can weezle these guys onto a popular show lke this, they will beat their war drums until they get us into Iran, too much oil to walk away from…...
Report thisBy GW=MCHammered, August 15, 2007 at 5:49 am #
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It’s Kristol clear that America needs a counter surge against faulty, arrogant, ķrony-Яovinistic war machine ideology. Republicans are out of touch with reality. No more of their hate in ‘08 - The GOP must go.
Report thisBy Ray Harmon, August 15, 2007 at 5:35 am #
Jon Stewart is a great guy, but sometimes he’s too nice to creeps, but I guess that’s how he can get them on his show. Quite a balancing act, really.
Well, at least we get to hear that Kristol is already hot for the next invasion.
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