Jon Stewart Does Obama's Job for Him {w/ stewart video @ link}

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/162872/jon-stewart-does-obamas-job-him

If you didn’t see Jon Stewart’s summer break sign-off Thursday night, in which he summed up the right’s “class warfare” hysteria over demands that the rich go back to paying the same tax rates they paid during the Clinton boom years, you’ve got to give this two-part clip your eyes for just a couple minutes:
 
In all this, Stewart makes clear that Fox News is able to lie and bark absurdities because it’s not a news organization but a one-note propaganda machine whose seamlessness would have left George Orwell’s Winston Smith paralyzed in admiration.

But what’s best about Stewart is the way he makes crystal clear that Democrats are engaged in self-censorship. For two weeks now, Tavis Smiley and Cornel West have been on a poverty tour, calling for Obama and the Dems to recognize that they’ve been fighting with one arm tied behind their back, to stop limiting their concern only to the “middle class,” and to dare to say the “p” word. When half the country possesses only 2.5 per cent of the country’s wealth, the diminishing middle can choose either to be bodyguards for their overlords or throw their lot in with the poor.

“The poors,” Stewart calls them. Obama needs to recognize that the world economy is shuddering to a halt because the global rich are so focused on wealth protection into a distant future that capitalism can’t find the money to function and grow. The time that his paltry stimulus bought the system has run out. As they did by going after Saddam instead of Al Qaeda, the political class is again setting off weapons of mass distraction—this time, by going after “spending” and the deficit instead of unemployment and the foreclosure crisis.

[LetTimmySmoke]

1. I totally agree. Stewart, Colbert, and Maddow are our leaders.

[canoeist52]

2. This is what I've been waiting for Jon Stewart to say.

This is his best segment.

[socialindependocrat]

3. Need to Vote OUT our BOUGHT congress!! n/t

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. Poignant and brilliant

[CurtEastPoint]

5. I laughed and nearly cried. It's infuriating the f'ing lies and propaganda Fox puts out there.

They are the elephant and our side is the pipsqueak, at least in making our voices heard.

[nxylas]

7. Bbbbut they're just balancing out the liberal media

Don't you know that all the other media outlets are owned by George Soros and in the tank for Obama? You'd "know" that if you watched Fox Noise.

[BeyondGeography]

6. Fux is really going off the deep end, which is saying a lot

To me, the most effective bit of all was the pie chart showing the bottom 50% control 2.5% of the "wealth" in this country. Talk about trying to get blood from a turnip.

[smokey nj]

8. That was absolutely brilliant. Thanks for sharing!

[Poll_Blind]

9. +1 Watched those both, everyone should see 'em!

:thumbsup:

PB

[bvar22]

10. I posted the clips here:

Jon Stewart's World of Class Warfare 8-18-11


These are MUST SEE VIDEO,
and I agree with the OP.
Jon Stewart is demonstrating EXACTLY HOW our Democratic Party Leadership should be attacking the Republicans.
The fact that they are NOT doing so tells me a great deal about Our Party.

Do yourself a favor, and watch both of these clips, beginning to end.
This is some of Jon Stewart's BEST work.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-18-2011/world-of-class-warfare---warren-buffett-vs--wealthy-conservatives

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-18-2011/world-of-class-warfare---the-poor-s-free-ride-is-over





Who will STAND and FIGHT for THIS American Majority?
Jon Stewart WILL!!

You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

Solidarity!
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