Video: Health Care - 'Don't fix it if it's already awesome!'

Jon Stewart notices that Glenn "I am not a fear monger" Beck had a much different attitude towards the health care in this nation last year while recovering from anal surgery. source: C&L

Video: Lewis Black puts health care reform in perspective

They see weakness! Everybody duck!!!!!!!

Balzheimer's Disease & Freedom Fighter's for Information

Jon Stewart feels better after talking to Elizabeth Warren

Jon Stewart's economic worries get soothed by the Obama Administration's Elizabeth Warren who is the 'Overseer of the TARP' funds.

From AlterNet:

We start[ed] pulling the threads out of the regulatory fabric and what's the first thing we get: we get S+L crisis," Warren said. "Seven hundred financial institutions fail. Ten years later what do we get? Long Term Capital Management, where we learn that when something collapses in one place in the world it collapses everywhere else. Early 2000s, we get Enron, which tells us the books are dirty. And what is our repeated response? We just keep pulling the threads out of the regulatory fabric.

So we have two choices -- we are going to make a big decision, probably over about the next six months. And the big decision we are going to make is going to go one way or another. We are going decide, basically, "Hey, we don't need regulation. You know, it is fine. Boom and bust, boom and bust, boom and bust, and good luck with your 401k." Or alternatively we are going to say, you know, "We are going to out with some smart regulation that is going to adapt to the fact that we have new products and what we are going to have going forward is we are going to have some stability and real prosperity for ordinary folks."

How do you feel?

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Shuster signs off 1600

The Ed Show premiers on Sunday. Shuster's got a new show in a different slot.

Here's one more from Jonathan. My favorite is still 'Hey Paul Krugman, where the hell are ya, man?'

Working on a Dream: Bruce Springsteen on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart's demagoguery according to Tucker Carlson

Stop Hurting America

This was the beginning of the end of CNN's Crossfire.

Must See TV: Jon Stewart interview Jim Cramer

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Getting FoMENTAL: Jon Stewart counter-punch; Jim Cramer, Thursday's guest on The Daily Show

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Basic Cable Personality Clash Skirmish '09

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Jim Cramer talks about 'fomenting' stocks. Everybody does it.

• agitate: try to stir up public opinion
• bathe with warm water or medicated lotions; "His legs should be fomented"
  wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
• To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate; To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge
  en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foment
• (verb) to promote the development of (rebellion, discord)
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source: Google

The host of Mad Money says he regularly manipulated the market when he ran his hedge fund. He calls it "a fun game, and it's a lucrative game." He suggests all hedge fund managers do the same. "No one else in the world would ever admit that, but I could care. I am not going to say it on TV," he quips in the video. He also calls Wall Street Journal reporters "bozos" and says behaving illegally is okay because the SEC doesn't understand it anyway. "A lot of times when I was short at my hedge fund, and I was positioned short, meaning I needed it down, I would create a level of activity before hand that could drive the futures," -On falsely creating the impression a stock is down (what he calls "fomenting"): "You can't foment. That's a violation... But you do it anyway because the SEC doesn't understand it." He adds, "When you have six days and your company may be indoubt because you are down, I think it is really important to foment." source: BuzzFlash.net

Jon Stewart takes a look at CNBC financial reporting

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Stimulating: Jon Stewart has fun with the Republican Governors

My favorite was "well I think being against it doesn't preclude taking the money..."

Fix this thing so we can get out of this stuff

OK. I admit it. I have mocked of the Republican grandstanding, and enjoyed the grandstanding of my peeps.

Jon Stewart puts it all in comedic perspective.

It is reasonable to expect that our representatives be better at preventing and intervening to stop crises, than grandstanding after the fact. There would be much less suffering and we would be a better nation for it.

But, we the people have to start paying better attention and caring about what is happening when it is happening and acting upon it by raising our voices through phone calls, e-mails, newspaper editorials, and yes blogging, which we don't do often enough and in great enough numbers.

Change doesn't come by yelling in our living rooms at a television, or even at a computer monitor.

So it turns into something akin to sport and we get grandstanding after the deed is done.

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Bush has left us, but there will be Presidential comedy again: Obama and Biden | Abbot and Costello

I adore Joe Biden. I really do. It must be a generational thing, but I find his candor and his verbosity refreshing, relatable as well as amusing.

That being said, I think that Ed Walsh is getting to where the comedy will flow from in this administration.

In an earlier post, I mentioned the trouble comedians were having coming up with a funny trope to use to poke fun at President Obama. The experts’ conclusion seems to be that Vice President Biden is the fattest target for humor in the Administration.

Now we see the story developing further. It’s not just Biden, see, but Obama’s reaction to Biden that is becoming a reliable comic routine. In this scenario, Barack Obama is Joe Biden’s straight man. source: Podium Pundits

This Politico video gives a little compilation of those Obama-Biden moments of late as skillfully used with comedic intent by Jon Stewart, Jay Leno and Stephen Colbert.

Another possibility for comedy lies within what Jamie Foxx was able to do with an impression integrated while reciting Obama's Grant Park election night speech for the We Are One event on the Sunday before the inauguration.

Opportunities are there to mimic Obama's cadence which is unique, endearing and quite giggle inducing when someone like Jamie Foxx times the mimic of it just right.

Begins about 1:54

Fox News Alert!!! Be Afraid! Be Very,Very, Very, Very Afraid! Socialism!

I wonder who bent over today and took it in the back of the knee caps. That's what Limbaugh means, isn't it?

I have been bending over for eight years. Enjoy Mr. Limbaugh.

Trickle-down economics, my sore ass.

Source: Jed L, Daily Kos

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"I didn't like the line in the speech about uh we don't have to compromise our values to protect ourselves, um, I think sometimes we do." Bill O'Reilly

"If you don't stick to your values when they're tested... they're not values, they are hobbies." Jon Stewart

"This hate stuff, this rooting for the administration to fail in Iraq and in other areas is unAmerican, unbecoming and unacceptable. Like it or not President Bush is the elected leader of this country...." Bill O'Reilly

"Well guess what? CHANGE has come to America!" Jon Stewart

Political Funnies from the Late Night Comedians

I had to snag this from Daily Kos. Special thanks to Bill from Portland, Maine.

"A new study says that unhappy people watch more TV. I just want to say, Helllllooo, Republicans!"
---Jay Leno
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"It was so cold today, I was shaking like Sarah Palin taking a geography test."
---David Letterman
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"Yesterday in Georgia, John McCain was campaigning for a Republican congressman who is facing a runoff election. You can tell McCain is a little bitter about his defeat because instead of saying 'My friends,' he now says, 'My ungrateful bastards.'"
---Conan O'Brien
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"Barack Obama met with Hillary Clinton on Friday to see if she would be interested in a role in his administration. 'Of course,' said Hillary. 'I'll take president.'"
---Seth Meyers
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"I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say things are not going well for the Republicans. Two years ago they controlled both the White House and the Congress. Soon they'll be controlling both the Coke machine and the fry station."
---Stephen Colbert

And our favorite, from The Daily Show:

Fox News announcer: Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted. The South Texas indictment says there's a---quote---"money trail" of Cheney's prison-related businesses.

Jon Stewart: Dick Cheney has prison-related business. Is there any unpleasant aspect of our society that Dick Cheney isn’t making money off of? Kos

Comedy Central: Jon Stewart does it again - Cheney and Gonzales indicted! What the who?

Cheney Indicted

We can do that?

And we're just thinkin' of it... NOW?

What they get him for? Another face shootin'?

Bill O'Reilly Surrounded by Pandas

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