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Labels: Jon Stewart, Larry Willmore, The Daily Show

# posted by Robert A. George @ 7:11 PM

The man who electrified the nation with his speech at the Democratic National Convention of 2004 put it to sleep Tuesday night. President Obama's address to the nation from the Oval Office was, to be frank, vapid. If you watched with the sound off you might have thought he was giving a lecture on the history of the Interstate Highway System. He didn't have to be angry but he had at least to show passion and conviction. It is, after all, the worst environmental crisis in the history of the nation.

With the sound on, his words hung in the air with all the force of a fundraiser for your local public access TV station. Everything seemed to be in the passive tense. He had authorized deepwater drilling because he "was assured" it was safe. But who assured him? How does he feel about being so brazenly misled? He said he wanted to "understand" why that was mistaken. Understand? He's the President of the United States and it was a major decision. Isn't he determined to find out how his advisors could have been so terribly wrong?

Labels: Jon Stewart

# posted by Robert A. George @ 10:06 AM

Labels: Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart, Keith Olbermann, Scott Brown

# posted by Robert A. George @ 10:15 AM

Labels: Jon Stewart

# posted by Robert A. George @ 10:30 AM

All is not lost! 

Yeah, there are a couple of wars going on. And, yes, there is a mini-, almost-but-not quite -Great Depression enveloping the world. 

But there is cause for hope:  A lot of famous and semi-famous people are really happy to declare their hate for one another!  It's Celebrity Smackdown-A-Rama.  And, we're not talking about Trump's Apprentice wannabes either.  

The GOP vs Rush bit a week ago looked like it was going to fall by the wayside, with Republicans realizing they had been expertly set up by Democrats to get into a Rush-denunciation fest. Then Newt reignited things on Meet the Press, saying that hoping for the president's failure was “irrational.”

Rush then unloaded on the former speaker on Monday:

“I'm frankly getting tired of talking about Newt. I mean, it's a pointless exercise. I'm surprised by nothing when I'm dealing with people in the media who think they're in politics. ... They are fly-by-night operators, and most of them stand for nothing until they see a poll about what the American people want, and then they go out and try to say one way or another what the American people want while trying to falsely hold onto an ideology at the same time — and you can't count on them. You can't depend on them. They will sell you out; they will throw you overboard to save themselves, faster than anything. And they'll use you on their way up as often as they can at the same time.

"I mean, next week Newt could come out and profess his total admiration and love for me if it would serve his purposes. They're running TV ads against me. Newt Gingrich wishes they were running TV ads against him."

Of course, Rush is someone in the media who thinks he's in “politics.” Limbaugh is great at what he does, but it's not like he's ever run a political campaign or won an election. But, so what? The ego has landed on everyone! Newt, for his part, may have staged the whole thing, knowing how Rush would react. After all, Newt is one of the few in the conservative movement who has enough independent cred that he doesn't have to worry about offending dittoheads. The former Speaker won't be “apologizing

Just as these two were swiping at each other, another precinct was  to be heard from!  Yep, ladies this time! Meghan McCain decided to take after Ann Coulter and settle some scores left over from the presidential campaign in the process:

Is she for real or not? Are some of her statements just gimmicks to gain publicity for her books or does she actually believe the things she says? Does she really believe all Jewish people should be “perfected” and become Christians? And what was she thinking when she said Hillary Clinton was more conservative than my father during the last election? If you truly have the GOP’s best interests at heart, how can you possibly justify telling an audience of millions that a Democrat would be a better leader than the Republican presidential candidate?

Coulter, surprisingly didn't immediately return fire. Possibly because she was busy Monday going at it with her best frenemy, Bill Maher.

Not to be outdone, however, CNBC's money madman decided that Jon Stewart had been too unfair to him on a recent “Daily Show.” Stewart actually went after examples of analysts on the network getting predictions wrong. Admittedly, Stewart did take great pleasure pointing to Cramer's boosting of Bear Stearns several days before it collapsed. So, Cramer responded to Stewart. He also hit the airwaves to dismiss Stewart as just an “entertainer.”

Interestingly enough, that's the same word many of Rush's denouncers in the Republican Party use to dismiss his lines. Hmmm....does this mean that Stewart could be the (a?) leader of the Democratic Party? Joe Scarborough might want people to believe that as he happily tag-teamed with Cramer to slap at Stewart. Of course, Stewart wouldn't let that alone – so he dumped on Cramer again.

Cramer vs. Stewart vs. Scarborough!!!

McCain vs. Coulter vs. Maher!!!

Newt! vs. Rush! (you know you've made it when you only need one name) vs. everybody!!!

Now, none of this is up there with the intellectual firepower of William F. Buckley vs. Gore Vidal. But as end-times entertainment, it sure beats a string quartet on the Titanic 

Labels: Ann Coulter, Jim Cramer, Jon Stewart, Meghan McCain, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh

# posted by Robert A. George @ 1:05 AM