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| Jon Stewart asks Kerry the Cambodia Question- Kerry stares |
| 2004-08-25 |
| EFL This is available from a variety of sites. ...As Kerry launched into a monologue about why President Bush avoids talking about issues like the economy, jobs and the environment, the comedian interrupted. "I'm sorry," Stewart said. "Were you or were you not in Cambodia?" Stewart and Kerry then leaned in and stared each other down before Stewart asked about other things Kerry's opponents are saying. How odd that an anti Bush comedian (on last night's Comedy Channel's Daily Show) is the first person to ask Kerry an actual tough question that actually matters. How interesting that Kerry doesn't answer. How amusing that the MsM still refuses to address the Cambodia question substantively. |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #23 Slate has a review of the Kerry performance at: http://www.slate.com/id/2105618/ the author of the review gives Kerry a below zero "...Kerry's charisma was less than zero: It was negative. He was a charm vacuum, forced to actually borrow mojo from audience members. He was a dessicated husk, a tin man who really didn't have a heart. His lack of vibrancy, his utter dearth of sex appeal made Al Gore look like Charo. (I've always found Al Gore sort of hot, actually, like a stuffy high school principal just begging to be broken down. But I have some issues with authority.)" |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-08-25 4:52:49 PM |
| #22 Half, I was portrating a cavalry trooper from the 13th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, a Union unit. I got cut across the back of my right hand during a sabre fight on horseback and had to have stitches. It was my opponent's first event and no one told him to dull his sabre. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-08-25 4:05:16 PM |
| #21 Go home Early? wuz he had saltville too? |
| Posted by: Half 2004-08-25 2:22:24 PM |
| #20 I saw the show last night and it seemed pretty much to me to be "See, I can be like ordinary guys and be funny, too" on Kerry's part. The part where Stewart asked about Cambodia was very rushed and the laught track was going but I don't think Kerry knew beforehand it was comming. I liked the Civil War Reenactor South Park. Hilarious. (I'm a Civil War Reenactor. I was awarded a Purple Heart for a sabre wound that required stitches. It happened at the Battle of Saltville, Virginia. Does this mean I get to go home early?) |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-08-25 2:12:59 PM |
| #19 Muck I saw part of it then turned it off. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-08-25 1:10:27 PM |
| #18 ima take it you guys arent see the episode with gerbil and mr. slave. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-08-25 12:43:49 PM |
| #17 Almost as bad as when they 'reversed the flow' of the eating/digestion/pooping process. Disgusting. But over all a funny show :) |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-08-25 12:40:04 PM |
| #16 I agree Badanov, Mr. Hanky is the most disgusting character I've ever seen on TV. I switch channels if this character appears. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-08-25 12:33:36 PM |
| #15 Badanov Several of the South Park episodes give hint that the directors hate self righteous democrats. They refer to the 'earthday brainwashing festival'; they hit Rosie O'D very hard, they have Whoppi getting giggles and laughs from a high brow audience with repeated moronic one liners like 'I hate Republicans'; they had a good hit against Rain Forest lovers. I hold no ill will against South Park. It's just that the talking turd lost me somehow. I know for a fact they are politically irreverent; one of the funniest shows of theirs I saw was where two cops were talking about their 'normal business' of framing rich black men for crimes they didn't commit, the chief bad guy/character being a black guy who was drawn to look like and sounded an awful lot like Michael Jackson. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-08-25 12:01:15 PM |
| #14 Anonymoose : "The LA Times" is "The Weekly World News", except the Times did reject the Saddahm sex-change story, but the editor was criticized for doing so. . . . |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-08-25 12:00:59 PM |
| #13 I suppose it was inevitable that "The Daily Show' would replace the info-tainment of ABCCBSNBCCNNFOX as "America's most listened to news source". I saw it coming when The National Enquirer replaced the New York Times as "America's Newspaper of Record". (Which I suppose puts the LA Times on a par with The Weekly World News.) |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-08-25 11:53:47 AM |
| #12 Jon Stewart used to have a late-night talk show that I never watched 'cause I figured he was an idiot. Then I saw him as a guest on "Politically Incorrect" and discovered that he's really smart, well-informed, quick-witted, and funny as hell. What "Weekend Update" was in its glory years, "The Daily Show" is now. But 10 times better. BTW, anyone have a link to the interview? I'd like to see it, and it's not up on Comedy Central's site. |
| Posted by: growler 2004-08-25 11:32:02 AM |
| #11 Badanov Several of the South Park episodes give hint that the directors hate self righteous democrats. They refer to the 'earthday brainwashing festival'; they hit Rosie O'D very hard, they have Whoppi getting giggles and laughs from a high brow audience with repeated moronic one liners like 'I hate Republicans'; they had a good hit against Rain Forest lovers. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-08-25 11:13:45 AM |
| #10 Like Charley Gibson, John Stewart is an RNC plant. . . |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-08-25 11:13:24 AM |
| #9 I always thought Mo Rocca is funny..... |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-08-25 11:02:13 AM |
| #8 Jon Stewart is a liberal Jew, but most importantly he isn't funny. I used to watch the show when Craig Kilborne was on there and it was a masterpiece show when he was on there. However, the Craig Kilborne show sucks bad. He's apparently stiffeled creatively by the "Big Three's" internal censorship. I don't even remember if it's ABC, CBS or NBC that he's on now, but they're all the same in my mind. They stiffle creativity, especially in comedians. But when I did watch the Daily Show with Craig Kilborne I came to the conclusion that the writers on that show were brilliant. |
| Posted by: Kentucky Beef 2004-08-25 10:43:01 AM |
| #7 steve cobear is leftist. he in funy as hell tho. stewart is seem pick on evryone. :) |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-08-25 10:28:14 AM |
| #6 Not South Park. It is a funny show, but for some reason after the fifth show I saw, I lost interest in it, failing to see any continuing attraction. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-08-25 10:19:48 AM |
| #5 Badanov So you watch both the Daily Show and South Park, eh. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-08-25 10:16:15 AM |
| #4 I find Stewart fairly in the middle, and very funny, making shots at both sides. Question is, why didn't Kerry just answer the question? What a pussy |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-25 9:45:51 AM |
| #3 Jon Stewart is annoyingly leftwing, but he is also a comic. Lotsa anti-Bush jokes, but he goes after the left too. The anti-Bush smirk he uses gets lotsa laughs from the NY live audience, but he also gets laughs for teasing the other side. And (if you can't already tell I watch The Daily Show a lot ) the other 'correspondents' are laugh out loud funny, too, maybe even funnier than some of the smarmy jokes Stewart gets away with in his presentations. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-08-25 9:44:47 AM |
| #2 I've seen a few interviews where Jon Stewart was asked about his political leanings. He claims that he is neither pro/anti Bush. He further states that as a comedian, he views both parties and their candidates as fair game. My take is that he's more moderate/centrist oriented than liberal. CiT |
| Posted by: CiT 2004-08-25 9:21:05 AM |
| #1 Not odd at all, actually. But interesting indeed and extremely amusing. Would that Stewart have kept the staredown going until Kerry reacted! |
| Posted by: Atropanthe 2004-08-25 9:13:53 AM |