I doubt this will be greenlighted, but thanks, subby. It was a really great clip, and I'm glad I saw it. That 'short term memory' bit would have been hysterical if it weren't so depressingly true.

damn, can't watch it at the moment...this isn't a bookmark

I can't watch the clip until lunch (or at least until my boss leaves) but because as TDS attacks all sides equally, they are the class.

/still liked Craig Kilborn better than John Stewart.

They do it so effectively that sometimes a comedy show makes me depressed.

You can't invade a foreign country and occupy it's capital in the 21st century!!!
It's amazing to watch Bush, Condi, and McCain say that with a straight face. After I got done laughing, I was pretty pissed off.

Unreal.

Once again The Daily Show demonstrates why this administration sucks so badly

Fixed that for you subby.

Surly_Duff: I doubt this will be greenlighted, but thanks, subby. It was a really great clip, and I'm glad I saw it. That 'short term memory' bit would have been hysterical if it weren't so depressingly true.

This is one of the best Daily Show clips, but I have to admit I don't find it very funny. I mean, I laughed because it is technically funny, but I was depressed by the end.

Now that accusations of inexperience are clearly not being effective, McCain accuses Obama of X, largely projecting his own weakness onto him. Media reports McCain's opinions as fact, and never calls him or his campaign on hypocrisy.

All I can hope is that they're just trying to keep the race close - unfortunately, I have this really bad feeling about this election in the past few days.

/Really just wants his country to rejoin the global community as a productive, influential, well-liked member.

I honestly like the Daily Show better than the Colbert Report. It's more informative and he lets his guests talk and debate more than Colbert. I feel like I actually learned something after watching it.

It is funny watching one of those Obama is presumptuous commercials and then watching the responses of McCain and Obama back to back.

Yeah a link to the comedy central site is extremely helpful. Sweet!

EsteeFlwrPot: I honestly like the Daily Show better than the Colbert Report. It's more informative and he lets his guests talk and debate more than Colbert. I feel like I actually learned something after watching it.

Say that again while I act like I care.

McCain: In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations.

This may sound hypocritical now but don't worry. I understand John Yoo has a memo out retroactively redefining Iraq as a non-nation entity so we're in the clear.

I'm pretty sure the audience is crying, not laughing

MeGoWeGo: Yeah a link to the comedy central site is extremely helpful. Sweet!

Yeah what is it with fark lately? It's like all of the links only go to other sites...

DarnoKonrad: They do it so effectively that sometimes a comedy show makes me depressed.

In a time where supposed news outlets pretty much give that unbiased presentation thing a swift kick in the 'nads and showcase their political leanings like a badge of honor...

Who better to drag us back to journalistic integrity than the funnymen?

beerrun: You can't invade a foreign country and occupy it's capital in the 21st century!!!
It's amazing to watch Bush, Condi, and McCain say that with a straight face. After I got done laughing, I was pretty pissed off.

I had to rub my eyes a few times after hearing that.

"OTHER nations can't invade a foreign country and occupy its capital in the 21st century" I guess is what they meant? WE can still do it because we're Team America: World Police. FARK YEAH!!!

/cry

In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations.

whateva

bartink: EsteeFlwrPot: I honestly like the Daily Show better than the Colbert Report. It's more informative and he lets his guests talk and debate more than Colbert. I feel like I actually learned something after watching it.

Say that again while I act like I care.

Wow. Such a necessary and useful addition to the commentary.

Cinaed: showcase their political leanings like a badge of honor...

I've been advocating this for awhile. The days of Morrow and Cronkite are gone and over -- they were a stop measure in a limited market.

They did a tremendous job -- but ultimately they were an aberration in time.

Most news outlets used to be partisan rags -- that oddly makes reading them more objective.

Today, the corporate media is just idiocy -- like the story I saw recently on the new trend of luxury grilled cheese.

Smartest thing the right did was equate that crap with Liberalism, it took the left a decade to understand just how badly they were undermined.

The internet is changing things tho. And there's still hard-nosed journalism like Frontline that people can turn to if they enjoy knowing anything other than what the inside of their colon looks like.

WaltzingMathilda: Wow. Such a necessary and useful addition to the commentary.

Well i'm just saying that Colbert is funny and all but John Stewart actually discusses issues more and lets his guests speak. Colbert interrupts them a lot and they barely get to explain their opinions or what they do or anything like that.

WaltzingMathilda: bartink: EsteeFlwrPot: I honestly like the Daily Show better than the Colbert Report. It's more informative and he lets his guests talk and debate more than Colbert. I feel like I actually learned something after watching it.

Say that again while I act like I care.

Wow. Such a necessary and useful addition to the commentary.

Shhh. He's Internet Tough Guy, here to impress the ladies with his anonymous badassed-ness. Leave him be.

beerrun: You can't invade a foreign country and occupy it's capital in the 21st century!!!
It's amazing to watch Bush, Condi, and McCain say that with a straight face. After I got done laughing, I was pretty pissed off.

I didn;t see the clip but in W's statement he specified a democratic country.

You also seem to ignore the years of UN sanctions and coilition building that went on before going into Iraq.

/Iraq may have been wrong, but not as wrong as Russia and Georgia

EsteeFlwrPot: Well i'm just saying that Colbert is funny and all but John Stewart actually discusses issues more and lets his guests speak. Colbert interrupts them a lot and they barely get to explain their opinions or what they do or anything like that.

That wasn't directed against you but the troll.

I am going to miss the daily show being funny if Obama wins.

/Thats all I came to say.

liam76: I didn;t see the clip but in W's statement he specified a democratic country.

Iraq was a "democracy" with sham elections.
In 2004, the US refused to let international inspectors in to supervise the election in counties where there were allegations of vote fraud in 2000. Hmmmm...

It's amazing how you can spin up people with a few precisely edited quotes to completely erase the point of what the speakers are trying to say.

You have to be spinning harder than Rush Limbaugh to try and equate what the US did in Iraq to what Russia is doing in Georgia. The two have little in common. Russia's excuse is about as good as Germany's was for invading Poland.

Whatever you think about Iraq, I can't believe people are using this situation as a means of bashing the administration. The Russians are the bad guys here, not us.

EsteeFlwrPot: WaltzingMathilda: Wow. Such a necessary and useful addition to the commentary.

Well i'm just saying that Colbert is funny and all but John Stewart actually discusses issues more and lets his guests speak. Colbert interrupts them a lot and they barely get to explain their opinions or what they do or anything like that.

I was referring to the other dude's response.

Illidan: EsteeFlwrPot: Well i'm just saying that Colbert is funny and all but John Stewart actually discusses issues more and lets his guests speak. Colbert interrupts them a lot and they barely get to explain their opinions or what they do or anything like that.

That wasn't directed against you but the troll.

But that's the whole point of the show! He's mocking the Faux News interview style.

DeltaXi65: Russia's excuse is about as good as Germany's was for invading Poland.

They were invited! Punch was served. Check with Poland.

EsteeFlwrPot: WaltzingMathilda: Wow. Such a necessary and useful addition to the commentary.

Well i'm just saying that Colbert is funny and all but John Stewart actually discusses issues more and lets his guests speak. Colbert interrupts them a lot and they barely get to explain their opinions or what they do or anything like that.

Well he is spoofing O'Reilly with his shtick.

DeltaXi65: Whatever you think about Iraq, I can't believe people are using this situation as a means of bashing the administration.

No, they're using the words and actions of the administration's response to this situation to point out their ridiculous hypocrisy.

The Russians are the bad guys here, not us.

Exactly. Just like we were in Iraq.

Once again The Daily Show demonstrates why the news media sucks so badly ... in Europe?

/and everywhere else

The first thing I saw when the US government commented is how they can say all this with the War in Iraq.

What depresses me more (perhaps it has been asked all ready) is how no one has seemed to call them on this. I want to see their BS answer about how this is different.

liam76: I didn;t see the clip but in W's statement he specified a democratic country.

...in europe.

DeltaXi65: You have to be spinning harder than Rush Limbaugh to try and equate what the US did in Iraq to what Russia is doing in Georgia. The two have little in common. Russia's excuse is about as good as Germany's was for invading Poland.

It's a special sort of blindness to miss the fact that Georgia initiated military action here

Whatever you think about Iraq, I can't believe people are using this situation as a means of bashing the administration. The Russians are the bad guys here, not us.

Not to the South Ossetians.

DeltaXi65: Whatever you think about Iraq, I can't believe people are using this situation as a means of bashing the administration. The Russians are the bad guys here, not us.

Are you being intentionally obtuse or just trolling? No one is saying we're the bad guys in regards to Russia/Georgia. What we're saying is how hypocritical the administration is being in the statements highlighted in Stewart's broadcast. The details of the two conflicts are like night & day, yes, but the outcome is the same. A country (Russia or US, take your pick), invaded & bombed the crap out of a sovereign nation (Georgia or Iraq, take your pick), with little or no provocation. Oh, and the added fact that both invaded countries just happen to be rich in oil.

We're in absolutely NO position to claim the high road by admonishing Russia in this way.

Skleenar: It's a special sort of blindness to miss the fact that Georgia initiated military action here

Actually, the Soviet Union initiated military action. It's the same damn fight that's been going on since the fall of the USSR. It never stopped, it just fell out of the headlines.

Guysmiley: beerrun: You can't invade a foreign country and occupy it's capital in the 21st century!!!
It's amazing to watch Bush, Condi, and McCain say that with a straight face. After I got done laughing, I was pretty pissed off.

I had to rub my eyes a few times after hearing that.

"OTHER nations can't invade a foreign country and occupy its capital in the 21st century" I guess is what they meant? WE can still do it because we're Team America: World Police. FARK YEAH!!!

/cry

Add me to the list of those that had to back up the clip and watch it again just to make sure I heard her correctly.

You know, the most disappointing thing about that is that Condi can make such a statement on behalf of the Bush administration and NO ONE IN THE PRESS CALLS THEM OUT ON IT?!?! WTF, MAN???

WaltzingMathilda: I was referring to the other dude's response.

Oh...sorry.

Hobodeluxe: Well he is spoofing O'Reilly with his shtick.

Yeah but its getting a little old. One or two times is funny but not every farking interview. He's had a lot of interesting people on and its frustrating when I want to hear what they have to say and they can barely get a word out.

liam76: I didn;t see the clip but in W's statement he specified a democratic country.

FTFH

t3knomanser: Actually, the Soviet Union initiated military action. It's the same damn fight that's been going on since the fall of the USSR. It never stopped, it just fell out of the headlines.

You are mistaken.

Unless you truly are trying to equate the fall of the Soviet union with a military action or something else I don't really follow.

WaltzingMathilda: bartink: EsteeFlwrPot: I honestly like the Daily Show better than the Colbert Report. It's more informative and he lets his guests talk and debate more than Colbert. I feel like I actually learned something after watching it.

Say that again while I act like I care.

Wow. Such a necessary and useful addition to the commentary.

He's just annoyed because he really wants to f__k her, but never will.

t3knomanser: Actually, the Soviet Union initiated military action. It's the same damn fight that's been going on since the fall of the USSR. It never stopped, it just fell out of the headlines.

Soviet Union? Dude, did you just climb out of your fallout shelter?

Here is lighter clip of my brother featured on the Daily Show...

CULM

DeltaXi65: It's amazing how you can spin up people with a few precisely edited quotes to completely erase the point of what the speakers are trying to say.

You have to be spinning harder than Rush Limbaugh to try and equate what the US did in Iraq to what Russia is doing in Georgia. The two have little in common. Russia's excuse is about as good as Germany's was for invading Poland.

Whatever you think about Iraq, I can't believe people are using this situation as a means of bashing the administration. The Russians are the bad guys here, not us.

These are the same 'precisely edited' quotes that are getting airtime in Australian news, so it's not solely a comedy central edit for laughs. Regardless of what the two situations have in common, it's more than a bit hypocritical for the US to be condemning the actions of Russia when we (on two occasions now since 2001) have invaded sovereign nations and taken control of their governments/cities. You know pot/kettle sorta thing.

It is just plain dumb for Rice/Bush/McCain to have phrased their statements the way they did.

/American studying in Oz

It's pretty sad when the best news show on tv is satire.

Audioboxer: These are the same 'precisely edited' quotes that are getting airtime in Australian news, so it's not solely a comedy central edit for laughs. Regardless of what the two situations have in common, it's more than a bit hypocritical for the US to be condemning the actions of Russia when we (on two occasions now since 2001) have invaded sovereign nations and taken control of their governments/cities. You know pot/kettle sorta thing.

It is just plain dumb for Rice/Bush/McCain to have phrased their statements the way they did.

I agree. It's not the actual situation that everyones uppity about, its the hypocrisy of our administration. I still cant believe those words actually came out of their mouths.

great clip subby

Skleenar: DeltaXi65: You have to be spinning harder than Rush Limbaugh to try and equate what the US did in Iraq to what Russia is doing in Georgia. The two have little in common. Russia's excuse is about as good as Germany's was for invading Poland.

It's a special sort of blindness to miss the fact that Georgia initiated military action here

Whatever you think about Iraq, I can't believe people are using this situation as a means of bashing the administration. The Russians are the bad guys here, not us.

Not to the South Ossetians.

It takes a special sort of blindness to think that the Russians could have orchestrated this kind of an attack in a week.

brigid_fitch

There's nothing hypocritical about it - the point Rice and others have made is absolutely true. What the Russians did was purely and simply a land grab, and they used a trumped up provocation as their excuse for going in. South Ossetia and Abhazia are going to end up part of Russian territory. That kind of thing shouldn't be happening in the 21st century.

What happened in Iraq was completely different on so many levels that it strains credulity to event ry and compare the two. There's nothing hypocritical for calling out the Russians for what they did - we haven't done anything like that since the Spanish American War.