Ozymandius

I know it makes me evil, but I actually take great solace in this. For example, apparently about 17 million black babies (i.e. future Democrats) have been aborted since Roe v Wade. This country would've been screwed had they been born. What man intends for evil, God uses for good.

They would just make the cheerleader resemble Sarah Palin and make her spout some conservative views, and then it'd be okay.

back at you.

lol, fine. but with regard to the statement below: Looks like you were wrong, and I schooled you.

So you're saying, big Stewart fan that you are, that you weren't aware of interviews like the Rolling Stone one I posted where Stewart pretended to be non-partisan. He went YEARS doing that.

One thing that's been proven in this thread is that both Jon Stewart and GreggyT are liars

Yep, that's how I remember it, too. Check out this Rolling Stone interview with Stewart and Colbert (excerpts below): Your show has thrived during the Bush administration. Will you miss it? Stewart: I remember people used to say, "What are you gonna do when Clinton leaves?" And I'd say, "I'm really OK not having to make another intern blow-job joke in my life." And it'll be the same with these guys. I'd much prefer these guys to leave than to have to continue to make Lord Vader jokes about Cheney. I have great faith in institutional absurdity. But wouldn't, say, a President Obama be harder to make fun of than these guys? Stewart: Are you kidding? Colbert and Stewart in unison: His dad was a goat-herder! Stewart: I'd rather make fun of somebody who is wearing their humble beginnings on their sleeve than somebody who has created a situation where casualties are involved. So the idea that somehow it's easier now – it's not. Because right now it is a comic box lined with sadness. Do you think the country would be better off if the Republicans or the Democrats were running it? Stewart: I have no idea. Colbert: I wouldn't mind finding out what the options are. Stewart: Yeah. It's sad that there are only those two choices. I think we'd be better off if you had a sense that people were making decisions based less on their future political considerations and more on what they believed were in the best interests of the country and the world. What were your political influences? Colbert: I was from this big Irish-Catholic family, and my dad was president of Physicians for Kennedy. So we had a picture of the president and my dad. I was sure my parents were Democrats but then later realized they only voted for one Democrat. The Kennedy pictures were more like religious icons. Stewart: There was no "I remember hearing Hubert Humphrey speak at the Citadel while I was dating a Radcliffe girl." No moment of shaking hands with Kennedy at Boys Nation. I still don't consider myself political. People confuse political interest with interest in current events. The political industry is devoted to the electing and un-electing of officials, and that can be corrosive. If the Republicans don't lose either house, people will talk about Karl Rove's genius. There's no genius. It will be the triumph of machine and money and strategy over reality. I don't think that's anything to honor or enjoy.

I would say there are very few people watching Fox News who don't know where they stand. CNN, CBS, NBC, etc are far more dangerous in that regard. Agreed. I also respect Maher's views on Muslims.

I've watched the Daily Show, too, and I've read or seen his interviews with other media. Stewart carries a pretense that he just "goes where the comedy leads him" and it just-so-happens that the Right is more ridiculous and it's funnier to lampoon them. As a Stewart expert, do you not agree that he's held this pretense? From a practical standpoint, I'm not sure it matters. Most people have more or less figured out that The Daily Show is a progressive show and that Fox News leans Republican. The guests sure have.

Not really. He says people like Glenn Beck call him a progressive and he mock-chokes on the term. His intention there is to deny the label, no? There must be a better example clip than that. I mean, yes, quite obviously he IS a liberal. Just like Fox News quite obviously leans Republican (or, for GG's sake, at least some of their talking heads do). But I don't think either one is honest about it on-air. At the very least, that article shows he wasn't honest about it circa 2002, right?

Give me just one clip from the daily show where he states he's a liberal. Even if you can find it (which I doubt), it seems like he wasn't always that honest: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jon-stewarts-progressive-legacy/2015/07/28/f6587a2a-34a5-11e5-adf6-7227f3b7b338_story.html

lol, seriously? what's our bet going to be?

Both Fox News and Stewart state that they are non-partisan, though. From that standpoint, they are both dishonest.

missed opportunity not signing him. winner.

Right, it is hardly shocking that a big segment of Trump's support is the white working class. The Post probably intended that article to be a takedown of Trump's supporters in order to thrill the Post's elitist progressive readers. But really, uneducated is a compliment, because it also means un-indoctrinated and un-lied-to. As I've said before, I'd much rather the country be run by your average midwestern working class white than by a Harvard graduate.

Well, if ISIS can be blamed on global warming, I'm sure progressives will blame the Iran deal on global warming at some point. Thanks to progressives, global warming is now permanently on-topic.

Is he an Islamic scholar, too? The bold sentence depends on the exegesis of 65:4, of which there are conflicting interpretations. In any case, it doesn't matter to me. I agree with your last sentence and my original point wasn't to condemn but just to point out that it is possible for Obama's "daughters" to really be his 3rd and 4th wives.

In any case, he married a teenage girl who could child-bear, but he didn't consummate or at least hadn't consummated at the time of Jesus' birth. This is far different from marrying a 6-yr-old and consummating when she was 9. Besides, Joseph is a mostly irrelevant person for Christians. Muhammad is the prophet for you guys.

Obama made the deal as a gift to his Muslim second wife, Iranian Valerie Jarrett. Jarrett was upset and jealous that Obama had been spending too much time with his third and fourth wives*, Sasha** and Malia**, so Obama had to do something to placate Valerie. * The Koran allows a Muslim to marry up to 4 wives: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/017-polygamy.htm ** They are alleged to be Obama's daughters to avoid criticism, but Muslims love marrying children, as Muhammad married a 6-yr-old and boned her at age 9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisha#Age_at_marriage

How come the women who work for Planned Parenthood are always so butt ugly? I'm not sure adult male genitalia have ever been near them. Are all progressive organizations basically just about envy? These ugly chicks obviously just want to kill the babies of women who can attract adult male genitalia. It's sick and sad.

lol, not a single one of those equal signs is accurate

It was actually Bland herself who de-valued her own life and then committed suicide. I think it's a shame, as I posted upthread. I actually do not blame her for being upset at getting pulled over for a lane change violation or for being upset at being told to put out her cigarette. As I said, I think the cop was a bit of a jerk. However, you must comply. Don't make this a right/left thing. Make this a common sense thing. You have someone much bigger than you, with a gun and taser and club, giving you orders. You obey first, and then you can file a complaint against him afterwards. Regardless of whether you think that complaint would go anywhere, you must obey the bigger man with lawful authority, gun, taser, and club. If Cliven Bundy were pulled over and disobeyed authority like Bland did, I would think he acted dumb, too, just on common sense, and yes, I do believe Mr. Bundy would also have been detained in lockup. This is not some sort of rare situation. I've been pulled over several times in my life, and quite often the officer was a jerk. But I never allowed it to reach a point where I ended up in jail. And I did not buy into the ideology of victimhood, that I have no control over my life, such that I became depressed and committed suicide. No. I control my life.

First of all, I didn't say they were a waste of time. I said they didn't need to be studied, and I said studying history would be much more beneficial. Secondly, parents are paying 50K/yr (it's actually more, in most cases now) so their child can get a degree from the elite institution, NOT to study the classics, lol. What their kid actually studies during those 4 years hardly matters. Once the kid has the Harvard credential, pretty much all doors are open. It's the credential they're after, not the specific study material, which can also be studied at a community college. You dummy.

The only "classics" that needs to be studied is history. Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler. Now, that was classic! Obama's appeasement of the mullahs doesn't stand a chance of going any better.

"Pronounce Marine Corps." lol, I can't believe that idiot Obama is the CIC