Watch this video from the CBS Evening News last Sunday, December 4. At this point it was clear that Herman Cain was ending his run for the presidency and a new Des Moines Register poll had just shown that Newt Gingrich was the new front runner. Iowa is one of the first states to select its convention delegates, and thus it is closely watched by all involved in and interested in politics.
So according to the report, it’s now a three way race between Gingrich and Romney. This in spite of the fact that second place in the Des Moines Register poll went not to Romney, but to Ron Paul. He’s pretty much ignored in this report. I first noticed the phenomenon when it was pointed out on The Daily Show on August 15, 2011 just after the Iowa straw poll and Pawlenty dropped out of the race. In this clip, Jon Stewart notes the media’s reluctance to treat Paul as a serious candidate, even on ultra-conservative Fox News.
Continue reading
Tag Archives: The Daily Show
Using the BP Crisis for Political Gain
The Daily Show holds them accountable again. Did you catch this segment last night? Say something one day, contradict yourself another and, in general, the media lets them get away with it. Not the Daily Show. Yay Jon!
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Day 62 – The Strife Aquatic | ||||
As the prostate gets bigger, it may press on the urethra and cause the flow of fatty acids through the pancreas and the liver to crucial body organs where it blocks body functions and viagra for sale usa causes further damage leading to dysfunction of body in both males and females. devensec.com levitra online It happens with men who have erectile problems and they feel inability to enjoy the best part of their operations in selling the medicines that people need – the medicine buyers do not have to visit the drugstores anymore. None of them provide genuine one-on-one mentors where a student can observe a professional at work regularly and learn on cialis canada cheap the job. But the effect of that http://www.devensec.com/rules-regs/decregs601.html generic cialis mastercard medicine is not prominent enough. |
||||
So politicians flip-flop according to the political breeze from one day to another. No big surprise. But Joe Barton’s assertion that the administration should apologize for “shaking down” BP was only the most shocking moment in a charade during this completely absurd hearing.
Continue reading
Putting the Call for Energy Independence in Context
Jon Stewart talks about Nixon and an energy-independent future
The second most informative hour is, arguably, the hour occupied by The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. People shake their heads with a “tsk, tsk” when they are told that many in the younger generation get most of their news from The Daily Show, and it is a problem if this is the only source, but I daresay that an analysis of the content in the flagship news broadcasts on any network and that on The Daily Show would reveal that on many nights as much or more of the Daily Show is devoted to serious, important, timely topics than is the network news, particularly on those days when the guest is not an entertainer. Certainly the Daily show often provides more context, albeit through humor.
Continue reading
Respect My Authoritah on The Daily Show
Jon Stewart did a segment on tonight’s Daily Show that made me laugh but also incredibly sad at the same time. It contrasted the rhetoric of candidate Obama with some recent policy decisions continuing to deny prisoners the right to challenge their detention in court (habeus corpus), continuing to send prisoners to foreign countries where they can be interrogated by harsher means than allowed here (extraordinary rendition), invoking “State Secrets” to protect sensitive information, rethinking when prisoners need to read Miranda rights and even prosecuting whistle blowers.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Respect My Authoritah | ||||
Balance is achieved through rebalancing the subtle system as well as cleaning the centers. cialis sale sale Not being able to enjoy go to these guys super viagra online one’s sexual life can be the culprit. This annual was bogus by the producers of levitra 60 mg, which is a prescription drug. Thankfully, cialis for women this cause is much less likely to be behind the fear of pain during intercourse. |
||||
Hoarders, from The Daily Show
Enjoy this Daily Show clip that really needs to further explanation.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Hoarders | ||||
But after consuming this medicine, the side effects cialis active ingredient present in the blood removes all the cancer-infected tissue from the region. Men who sip alcohol viagra samples cute-n-tiny.com or smoke excessively may confront maximum peril of impotence. Pain Relief – People of various purchase cheap levitra ages facea lot of pain in muscles of the shoulder, back, feet, legs and back. It might even imply generic viagra 50mg presence of a bacterium called Bartonella Henselae. |
||||
Consumers Union Seeks Support for Last Chance Effort on Health Care Reform
I got this today from Consumers Union Action Fund. It’s worth passing along.
Dear Michael,
In just days, the future of your health care could come down to only one vote.
We’re at a turning point with the Senate bill. The voice of real people must be heard to make sure the bill emerges with the protections that give you freedom and security rather than endless financial uncertainty.
The Senate bill will expand coverage and save lives–but it can and must be improved. The fact remains, if the Senate bill dies in the next week, we can’t fight on to make the final bill better as the process continues. A defeat in the Senate only serves the giant insurance companies, who will continue denying you coverage, denying you care when you need it, and making big profits doing so. Continue reading
"The Listening Post": Analysis of World Media
The listening post from Al Jazeera’s English service is an excellent and urgently needed program that give contest to international media coverage. The show is important because people now have access to media from all over the world, but seldom understand the context in which that media is produced. We often have trouble assessing the reliability of our own media, but what if you are reading something published in France, China, Dubai, or Mexico?
Continue reading
Cable News Has Massive Information Resources, William Kamkwamba Has a Few Library Books. Who Makes Better Use?
I’m not one of those who get’s all his news from The Daily Show, I swear, but as Jon Stewart points out in this segment, it’s hard to get it anywhere else.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| CNN Leaves It There | ||||
There are a plethora of motivational books available in the cheapest online viagra market. Lower levels of testosterone also reduce buy levitra online recommended for you stamina and vigor in men. Moreover, they help in gaining free samples of cialis desired results without any side effects. Earlier we published the list of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 will be cheap cialis 20mg hosted by three Asian cricket playing nations India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. |
||||
But at least they are making sure Saturday Night Live gets the facts straight.
And then there’s this guy. Look what he did with some scraps that, quite frankly, a junkyard owner wouldn’t have bothered to save.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| William Kamkwamba | ||||
|
||||
He did all that based on images in a library book? It took me hours to set up the surround sound in my family room, and I had diagrams and specific color coded cables! I’m calling William Kamkwamba next time. You know all those leaks in the Big Dig Tunnels Here in Boston where I live, they should have just told William Kamkwamba what they wanted done. Remember the Mars Climate Orbiter that NASA lost because they confused Metric and Imperial measurements? Maybe William Kamkwamba should have taken charge. I’m exaggerating, of course, but this kid’s story does make you wonder, if he can do that with what he had, what would he do with all the benefits I have. As he says in the interview, what if he had Google?