The Media is spinning POTUS's Daily Show appearance as a failure

[live love laugh]

GMA clips only showing Stewart calling Obama timid.

Frankly, I'm pissed at Stewart. Here he is calling a rally for Democracy at a most important time and he puts this out there? I didn't watch but that was not smart.

OBTW...GMA has graphs showing that women are switching from Democrat to Republican. Where the fuck did they get that "data" from? :eyes:

[stray cat]

1. the rally for democracy isn't for democrats but for sanity in out discourse and expectations

[seabeyond]

22. and stewart fed into the messiah bullshit..... and went opposite of what his supposed rally

is about, in his turn around way

[CrispyQ]

2. What did you expect from our media?

Stewart's comments were valid.

Here are comments about the show from a DUer that watched it:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9404192

[dennis4868]

25. How can you say Stewart's comments were valid....

Stewart has bought the narrative that Obama is not making the change he promised as fast as he said he would.....WTF! Over and over during the campaign for president, Obama always said that change is going to be hard and take time and we all have to be patient. This was even one of the first things Obama said in Chicago the night he won the presidency. Now you have people like Stewart that is saying that Obama promised change right away. This is not what Obama promised. He never said he was a Messiah! Just the opposite. Stewart treated Obama very unfairly,

[seabeyond]

28. the idealist made him messiah as obama kept saying, ... hey, mellow out. now the idealist are

disappointed adn pissed at obama as he has accomplished more and headed things in right direction and deserves more credit.....

agree with your post

[deacon]

3. There was absolutley NOTHING wrong with that interview. They never miss a chance to bash him, n/t

[pinboy3niner]

4. On women, they're citing the NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/us/politics/28poll.html?_r=1&hp

[dennis4868]

5. No matter what Obama does.....

Is going to be reported in a negative way.....this reminds me of the Clinton years. With regard to Jon Stewart, sometimes he pisses me off. Does Stewart not remember that in every campaign speech, including his speech the night he was elected President, Obama always said that change Will Take Time And Will NOT Be Easy. Obama did not set high expectations for his administration. Only people like Stewart did and that is not Obama's fault.

[City Lights]

6. That's our "liberal" media for ya!

Good Mourning America has been unwatchable for years, IMHO. Corporate drivel at its finest.

[deacon]

7. Also, shouldn't they be hammering those avoiding interviews and dodging the press instead? At least

he has the gonads to stick his neck out. Bastids.

[PeaceNikki]

8. You didn't watch, but you're "pissed" at Stewart??

[live love laugh]

10. Yes I am. I only saw a clip but Stewart could have done better. nt

[PeaceNikki]

17. You should watch the entire segment rather than forming an opinion on a clip that you say "spins" it

http://www.thedailyshow.com/

[treestar]

37. You mean like we have to listen to all three hours of Rush Limbaugh's

bloviations for all of five days per week before we can comment on his crap.

Don't think so.

[seabeyond]

23. both hubby and i love stewart. both hubby and i enjoyed the interview. both hubby and i

stated he was too snarky adn that would be the clip that would be picked up by media.

reality

[dennis4868]

27. I agree...

and you don't call the POTUS "dude." There is a certain level of respect that you should have for a president no matter if he is a repub or dem....it was embarrasing when Stewart called Obama "dude."

[seabeyond]

30. what got me was the childishly snarky repeated comments. obama tells of a women in whereever

stewart comes back with a member in the audience. and there was another comment like tht earlier. the first one, disrespectful, but ok. the second one.... rude.

[dennis4868]

33. I think Stewart's growing fame in this country...

is starting to get to him in a negative way....:-(

[seabeyond]

34. no one can be right on all the time. stewart never has been. but he is good. he screws up too. nt

[JamesA1102]

9. I love Stewart

But I think he has bought into a narative that is not totally the truth.

[live love laugh]

11. I agree on both counts--I also love him (slightly less for the moment). nt

[seabeyond]

24. he bought into it, as he criticized and blamed obama for it. you promised messiah, and failed

wtf

[Dawgs]

12. Agree. I thought Stewart, and many in his audience, were too giggly and not polite.

I also didn't like Stewarts questions. I learned nothing new from his "interview"; which is not what I expected from Stewart.

In saying that, most in the audience seemed to be VERY supportive of Obama.

[blogslut]

13. Excuse my language but

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck the mediaaaaaaaaa!

[live love laugh]

15. I couldn't have said it better. I hate the fuckers. BUT I fear their reach. nt

[rucky]

14. Rally to Restore Sanity...

will be our most effective GOTV effort. watch.

The angry and disenfranchised don't want to hear the Obama love. Justified or not, we need to appeal to cynicism as well as reason. That's why partisan Dems seem to hit a brick wall when it comes to persuading voters: they're unwilling to acknowledge that they're part of the problem. Independent voters do not see it the same way.

[PeaceNikki]

16. Yup

[travelingtypist]

18. Hopefully some of our media watchdogs today take this on.

Media Matters, Randi, Hartmann, Bill Press. It'll be fun to see if the battle is engaged.

[spanone]

19. and you expected something else?

[asjr]

20. I like Stewart. I hope his head is not getting

so large he can't hold it on his shoulders.

[seabeyond]

21. hubby and i enjoyed stewart show. we knew he was being a bet pissy.... not approrpiate

but stewart.... but was fun to watch. after, hubby said, fox will grab it and say, see, stewart doesnt like obama either....

we knew this would happen

thanks stewart for being a tool.

but then we figured stewart will come back and address. we hope

[bullwinkle428]

26. Let's be clear - Stewart is not leading a "Democratic Party pep rally"

on Saturday. I realize that "Rally to Restore Sanity" is awfully close to a direct hit on tea-baggers, but Stewart's primary job is still that of a political satirist.

[seabeyond]

32. yes, but he bought into the messiah, is demanding it from obama, and in the extreme for not getting

it as he throws a rally to oppose that mentality. what sense does that make

[MadHound]

29. Wait a minute,

You state that "The Media" is spinning the appearance as a failure, but then you go on to cite one show, Good Morning America (which is, if I remember right, the least popular of the morning shows). Then you state you didn't see the Daily Show in its entirety, or at all, yet you blast Stewart for asking a tough question.

Rather than overreacting to such limited information, you could spend your time on broadening your information intake. The Daily Show is rebroadcast this morning. Try listening to other shows besides GMA, or better yet, read the newspapers and listen to the radio.

Geez, this is the epitome of Obama fanboyism. Taking minute amounts of information and painting broad brush insults of entire groups.

[malaise]

31. Is that the same media that has told us

that Obama has shoved through his pro-black, radical, communist, socialist, Muslim, totalitarian, fascist agenda.
Tell them to make up their fucking minds.

[NC_Nurse]

35. Oh bullshit. I watched and had no problem with the interview. Maybe I'm one of

the idealists, but I have felt the same way that John described quite a few times. I felt that Obama answered those concerns well, and given the dischord of this campaign, I hardly think his tone was disrespectful. "Dude" doesn't strike me as any where near "Shove it" or "Kenyan Socialist Nazi" which are the kind of nastiness spewing from some politicians' lips.

Not surprising that our crappy MSM is spinning this as a failure. They spin everything he does as a failure. Nothing new there. I don't see why John Stewart is at fault. He's tougher on BOTH sides than anyone that works for the "real" news.

[Ichingcarpenter]

38. He asked some questions that I wanted asked

to Obama. He asked some questions I wouldn't.

Overall a good interview by Stewart and Obama but must be seen in its complete context and not just snippets.


Imagine a John King, Billo, Tweety, Wolf Blitzer, David Gregory,
Larry King etc interview?


I would like to see Obama do one with Rachel or Keith again.

[seabeyond]

39. i think that is the point. i liked interview too. i also recognized what msm would grab

which is the unfortunate. i think that is all people are saying. or most

[treestar]

36. Of course they are

I'm so sick of the "timid" meme.

[rocktivity]

40. Yawn--the MSM always throw a hissy fit when Obama "bypasses" them

and when it's in favor of Stewart, of course, it's doubled.

If John hadn't said anything even remotely critical, they'd be criticizing him about that!

:boring:
rocktivity