The Daily Show: Anyone Can Be a Pundit
I apologize ahead of time for the man jokes told about Ann Coulter in this bit by The Daily Show. Not that I am concerned about any insults to Coulter, since she pretty well deserves every bit of scorn she's brought upon herself. Instead my concern is to the trans-gendered community, which doesn't deserve to be associated with her or used as a way to insult her. I know most trans-gendered people in this country are good and decent people and not hate-spewing attention whores like Coulter, and I hate to see her give anyone a bad name unfairly. Apparently The Daily Show didn't mind going there.
That said, the mere fact that they managed to again make Kevin James look like the complete ass that he is and that my You Tube video of James actually made its way onto The Daily Show, I just couldn't help myself with wanting to post this anyway. Jason Jones takes a shot at the pundit class and just how little is required to be a talking head on the television these days, and sadly this parody is way too close to the truth.
I just want to know when they're going to quit giving Pat Buchanan five hours a day of air time on MSNBC and maybe make a few minutes for our own John Amato instead. Pat needs to take that cot up and give someone else some room.
Much as I congratulate you for having your youtube copy make it to a daily show sketch, I don't think you have bragging rights. All you did was put a clip created by someone else online. I think the credit should go to the actual people that gave this gift to us The original is here.
Had it been some incredible "gotcha" find that you had researched I would be more inclined to give you kudos.
Please don't think this is criticism against posting such videos. It's purely about giving credit where it's due
out whether they edited the video themselves first? when they say "my youtube video" it usually means they took someone else's footage and then edited it, making the person who did the editing the new author of the piece.
If you look at them both for yourself, there is a 1 second difference and that's only because of the way youtube fades out at the end.
Look I'm not complaining about posted videos or even suggesting copyright, it was posted for discussion and comes under fair use IMO. I'm grateful sites like this do it as it shows me things I would otherwise miss.
This site has always been great at giving hat tips acknowledging others, In this case I'm sorry but the credit should go to Mathews.
"I Think" - the first words of an engaged nation.
I never saw such compassion when Bush was compared to a chimp. What did our simian friends do to deserve such liberal insensitivity?
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
He doesn't look amused
http://johnhofmann.com/images/scarymonkey/mon...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I detest Coulter, I think she's wrong wrong WRONG about every thing. But, when folks say Coulter is a man, it's just the same criticism women always get when someone dislikes or disagrees with them--call her sexuality or gender into question as a way to "punish" her. Or, call her ugly, etc. It's like her calling Edwards gay--she doesn't like his political views so she'll attack his sexuality (on the assumption that there is something wrong with being gay) and masculinity. It's not a shock when the right seeks to punish people by questioning their sexuality or sex--the right loves everyone staying "in their place." But when the left does it, it's more than a little disappointing because we're the ones who supposedly rejected all that BS. It's a lame tactic mired in rigid gender stereotypes that we should have outgrown by now. And, most annoying, it ends up with me having to sound like I'm defending someone like Coulter, who I despise.
"most annoying, it ends up with me having to sound like I'm defending someone like Coulter, who I despise."
Actually, it probably means you miss the point, which is to use a common tactic of Coulter in reverse. That usage can be questioned on the very grounds you raise, particularly because it is executed in a way that smart people like you misinterpret the intent. Nonetheless I don't think they were poking fun at her sexuality, but suggesting one who pokes fun at others can also have her own questioned. I could be wrong.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
Yes, you could be wrong. Using her tactics against her cheapens your own criticism of her by buying into her framing and assumptions of gender, sex, and sexuality. Second, it's something done to women all the time, not just Coulter. Janet Reno, Hilary Clinton, . . . you get the idea. To the extent we mimic those tactics, we are relying on the same stereotypes she is and endorsing them. If you want to criticize Coulter, she provides ample ammunition just by being wrong every time she opens her mouth. Criticize her ideas and opinions and leave her "tactics" for her to use.
Simply calling her a dude isn't cogent analysis or deft criticism. It's second grade name calling based on theories of conformity and cooties.
Is hardly what one expects when tuning into the Daily Show.
If it were a comment on Olbermann your point would be more on the money.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
However to be the clever host of the Daily show requires 20 writers.
fine on his own when he showed "crossfire" on CNN up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11TaDDUVcGQ
Did you come up with that all on your own?
It even has a link to Michelle Malkin. Nice. Partisan hackery, the gift that keeps on giving.
need 20 writers just to counteract all of the spin the Pukes lay out there
how many writers this person thinks Faux has, and it isn't even comedy intentionally.
think that much thought went into sirfiths comment, they're just repeating shit coming from Tush Lumpboils ass
I actually went to the website. It's quite nice, although a majority of the articles are factually incorrect to say the least.
The title of his website seems to be fairly factual. At least with his own little crowd.
shines best in his interviews which are unscripted. I especially liked his handling of Bill Bennett. If writers were all it took to be funny one would have expected Fox's Half Hour News Hour to produce at least one joke. Instead, it was one.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
And you are truly a troll. He's clever, with and without writers. You, on the other hand, are just transparently stupid all on your own.
For a minute, I thought this was about the "King of Queens" guy.
What was it Chamberlin did? Does Chris know?
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
The right wing like to bring up Neville Chambermaid's "policy of appeasement" to show how bad it is not to stand up to tyrants!
how the PM is used, not what he did.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
Chris did know, he went on to explain it. He seemed seriously pissed off that the guy had no clue what he was talking about (why it only bothered him then is anyone's guess).
or did anyone else enjoy the juxtaposition of the Google ad banner
between this and the Gay Marriage video? "Is your husband gay?"
"Is the IRS sucking you dry?"
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
They are targeted based on things like zip code, email content and browsing history.
That would explain the Viagra, Singles ads and ads for conservatives...
(I need to stay away from the porn for a while.)
"When are we going to stop trying to tell elected officials what to do. Our job is to spend the taxpayers' money the best way we can." -- Tommy Watkins, Justice of the Peace, Crawford County, Arkansas
but I have no husband (its unconstitutional and all), I take a standard deduction and my zip code went for Obama in part due to faith he would raise our taxes.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
back when they used to teach history
Neville Chambermaid, British PM, allowed Hitler/Germany to annex Czechoslovakia without a shot being fired.
Teh wiki hazzit.
Chamberlain represented the view of the British Parliament and the King of England not himself; although he clearly agreed with the view since at the time England had no major vested interest in the League of Nations creation Czechoslovakia. Also, the appeasement idea came more from American interventionist after the fact then it did the British people, because until the true start of the war between Germany and England, Chamberlain was viewed as a great statesman by the majority his people. Although he ended up taking a disproportionate amount of blame once the war started.
"There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear." - Ted Turner founder of CNN
Also check out Operation Mockingbird if anyone is curious.
"Operation Mockingbird was a secret Central Intelligence Agency campaign to influence domestic and foreign media beginning in the 1950s. The existence of this operation was made public during the Church Committee investigation in 1975 (published 1976).
The activities, extent and even the name of the CIA project remain in dispute: the operation was first identified as Mockingbird in Deborah Davis' 1979 expose, Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and her Washington Post Empire. But Davis' book, alleging that the media had been recruited (and infiltrated) by the CIA for propaganda purposes, was itself controversial and has since been shown to have had a number of erroneous assertions.[1] More evidence of Mockingbird's existence emerged in the 2007 memoir American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate and Beyond, by convicted Watergate "plumber" E. Howard Hunt."
seen the old military clips in black and white with Ronnie Raygun's voiceovers talking about the dreaded threat socialism? Quite funny to watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs&fe...
unsurprisingly ted turner is a bit off--like in everything he does.
there are 6 companies, ted forgot to include the one he is part of--time warner
also, it is fascinating (see, chilling) to see other instances where the govt used disinfo in domestic news outlets. for instance operation TPAJAX (overthrow of mossadeq in iran). now that the official secret documents have been released it is exposes just how often, from president eisenhower on down, officials made statements knowing full well that they were misleading at best, out and out lies at worst.
Aren't they supposed to throw puns around? Is that Rick James? Oh no, wrong guy, sorry. Superfreak, superfreaking out!
that never occurred here! yes, they do call Coulter "this guy" a few times, but never do they call her 'transgender', or imply anything about it. its just a crude, school-boy mentality type of joke. I've seen people make specific jokes about her in relation to trannies which were hurtful and wrong, but this wasn't an instance of that.
Iggie Pop on whore-moans.
Neither The Daily Show or Comedy Central are apologizing for their humor,... why do you bend over backwards to do so every time you talk about Coulter? It's a joke, & a poignant joke, because we are comparing Coulter to something she hates, namely anyone who isn't a right wing Christian,... what better way than to show her how close she is to all the things she fears, detests, & attacks?
Kevin James is obviously a disciple of Rush Limbaugh. I couldn’t help notice the distinct weight gain. By the time Kevin is 50 he will look just like Rush.
In case Rush gets busted for drugs again (and goes to jail, like he has said of others who are caught with drugs), Kevin is ready to go.
The #214 apartment door swings open with an aging unshaven fatman in a bathrobe asking "what r you lookin at". Channel 12 news is viewable behind the stacks of newspaper, utensils and video game consoles.
I decide not to do the Where Are They Now interview and say "sorry, wrong apartment."
comes to mind
Even me?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
you!!
Personally, I think you're being overly PC about the "transgender" thing.
Would it be PC to call AC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krzO-RgTLus&fe...
OK?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I'm sick to death of this "pc" bugaboo.
PC doesn't always have to be a bad thing,and certainly not just liberals insist on it's usage.It really boils down to control of the language,which equates to control of the issues.
Of course political correctness taken to the nth degree is absurd,but it can also empower certain disaffected individuals who have no one to stand up for them.This knee jerk disdain for all that is PC can be counter productive and may be used to ridicule other wise good liberal policy.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
Ann Coultergeist? Naw, just what happens when your parents do heavy drugs while pregnant.
Ann was not being accused of being transgenedered but transexual, like Rudy G. She is in costume, not in possession of altered genitalia. I think. Some find her attractive. Some found Lenny Bruce's "Carnal Knowledge of a Fowl" joke hit to close to home as well.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
This segment reminds me why I never watch TV news anymore.
No matter how wrong, no matter how foolish, no matter how many suffer and die.
No good republican will ever admit making a mistake.
And that very last picture of coulter was the best I have ever seen him look!
"Apparently The Daily Show didn't mind going there."
Your sensitivity Heather,is commendable.
That said,and in fairness to Jason Jones,he is portraying an idiot in this faux interview.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
This whole incident is indictive of the psuedo-intellectual garbage that has permeated our media over the last 20 years or so. All you have to do is say "Chamberlain, Churchill, Sartre, Nietzsche" without ever backing any of it up, and bang, you're considered credible and smart.
When Tweety interviewed Bush in the White House early in his first term Tweety asked him "who is your favorite politician?". Bush said "Winston Churchill", and Tweety gave him this look "wow, you're so smart!". So simply saying "Churchill" gets you cred in the MSM, which isn't hard to do. Not defending James in any way, but he was just playing the game by saying "Chamberlain" without actually knowing what the controversy was, but for some reason, Matthews was pissed off that day, and Tweety called him on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6kgQTBo80E
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Very nice mockery of today's pundit. This was a very hard hitting sarcasm toward the news and how it actually became a joke and entertainment that was meant to be reserve for the Jerry Springer show, and next up is chair tossing from the likes of Bill'O Reilly.
Coulter is a freak. Whatever.
But using the word "whore" to describe her?
Sorry.
When is the last time you used that word to describe a man?
I've seen a lot of contemptuous labels dropped on Joe the Plumber, but attention "whore" has not been one of them.
The last time I saw "whore" used with such abandon on blogs such as this one was when Hillary Clinton was running for President.
We've come absolutely nowhere, baby.
and a whore. We should eschew language if it has any negative gender connotations, but I am afraid our descriptive efforts might be too restricted. You know what they say, "life's a butch."
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
Go ahead and call Joe a "bimbo" and a "whore".
That'll even it all out.
pimped Joe way too much during the campaign.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
...that's why I made it a point to never make tranny jokes about Coulter because it would paint transgendered people in a negative way. There's nothing wrong with being transgendered, of course, and such people are deserving of love, understanding and support, not to be used as an opportunity to smear a right wing gas bag.
That's why I just call Coulter a ****.
JP
http://giveusthisdayourdailtydread.blogspot.com
"I like his hair," Priceless. Gimmie a break with all this 'smear' angle. Good wholesome humor.
jon stewart, if there really is justice you will be somehow a part of the Bush legacy library center.
i hope we can laugh and learn from these times we live in...ignoring guys like coulter or o'reilly only lets their intent work its dark little secret magic on the body politic. they are loaded with disinformation and arguably psychpathologically tainted ideology. they slip it in as entertainment that irritates and makes target audiences either turn away in disgust or keep watching in an induced state. but we must dissect them carefully and refute their lies or we will repeat this past 8 years. only next time their twisted roots will be in our collective stream providing a base for the next occupation. like with a disease or infection healing requires extraction.
"That guy's got great hair"
hahahahahahahahahahaha! I'm sorry but that was funny.
Now that George is 'yesterday', Jonno is struggling. Where's the Jon Boy that we had come to love and adore. I know it's hard to knock Barak, but you are going to have to learn to do so, or else you'll be going south pal.
I really don't think the transgendered community has a problem with the Coultergiest jokes. Look who the joke is.
Besides, no one is directing the jokes at them.
true it is callous. but life is callous.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Seriously too many people in this world are too insensitive and too many are way too sensitive. We need more people who can relax and not take things so personally.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
Comments are closed on this entry