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Jon Stewart identifies the GOP’s Romney paradox
Candidates defend the unfettered influence of money in America -- except where it concerns Mitt Romney VIDEO
(Credit: Comedy Central) The year-long grind of the Republican nominating contest has had a strange effect on the remaining candidates in the race. Sure, they’re all still arguing for less government, less regulation, lower taxes on America’s “job creators.” And each of them will still emphatically state that our country’s richest businesspersons don’t deserve Barack Obama’s “class warfare” and the politics of the 99 percent.
How is it, then, that those very same candidates have spent the past several weeks lambasting Mitt Romney over his significant net worth? The former Massachusetts governor — between his history as a successful businessman and his free market ideology — is the human embodiment of the Republican party platform. As Jon Stewart put it on “The Daily Show” last night: “You’re mad at Mitt Romney? For God’s sake, it’s like Mitt Romney answered the Republicans eHarmony ad, and now you’re saying its unfair.”
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“The Daily Show” details the absurdity of GOP obstructionism
Who knew it took so much legal wrangling to do absolutely nothing? VIDEO
(Credit: Comedy Central) Barack Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray isn’t just the latest political controversy du jour. It’s also the first time in a long while that the president hasn’t been hamstrung by Republican obstructionism. The stakes of Obama’s gambit seem clear enough: Rather than sit by while House Republicans quietly prevented the Consumer Financial Protection Board from ever becoming operational, he would take matters into his own hands. But how we got to this point, and how the political battle might play out from here, is a lot more complicated than it appears on the surface.
Continue Reading CloseJon Stewart’s compelling anti-Santorum argument
Hint: It involves boxed chocolates VIDEO
(Credit: Comedy Central) Though “The Daily Show” taped before the Iowa caucuses last evening, and Jon Stewart didn’t know just how close the contest would be, he was nonetheless prepared for the eventuality of a Rick Santorum upset victory. After all, this isn’t the first insurgent candidacy the GOP has seen in the past few months. To illustrate just how far into primary season this “Santorum Surge” might extend, Jon Stewart broke out the props, and asked viewers to imagine that the GOP field was a box of chocolates.
Continue Reading CloseThe pop culture legacy of Kim Jong Il
Few will miss the North Korean despot -- except perhaps writers on "30 Rock," "The Daily Show" and "Team America VIDEO
Kim Jong Il in "Team America" Kim Jong Il was one of the most chilling figures of the modern era, with a harrowing human rights record. But of the tyrannical madmen who have died this year, he was also the one who made the oddest pop culture splash. Moammar Gadhafi’s ability to rock a golden muumuu will never be paralleled. But from “30 Rock” to “The Daily Show,” the departed North Korean leader will be missed. Was it those rock star shades? His fondness for olive green? The way he really knew how to throw a tank-rolling, goose-stepping military parade? In a word, yes.
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Mary Elizabeth Williams is a staff writer for Salon and the author of "Gimme Shelter: My Three Years Searching for the American Dream." Follow her on Twitter: @embeedub. More Mary Elizabeth Williams.
Jon Stewart holds intervention for GOP
The "Daily Show" host urges Republican voters to step down from the Gingrichian ledge VIDEO
(Credit: Comedy Central) With just weeks left until the Iowa caucuses, Newt Gingrich maintains a small lead over his opponents both in statewide and national polls. Though dozens of Republican leaders have taken to the airwaves to encourage voters to not vote for the former Speaker of the House, he remains squarely in the race. That in mind, Jon Stewart delivered the GOP faithful this message on “The Daily Show” last night: “You don’t have to do this!”
Continue Reading CloseJon Stewart to Cain, Romney and Obama: “WHAT?!”
Each of these politicians has recently made statements so outlandish as to merit a spit-take VIDEO
(Credit: Comedy Central) Politicians are often left in the difficult position of delivering statements that fit their political narrative of choice, whether or not they conform to the realities at hand. And it can take a certain amount of cojones (to use the Spanish word) to make it through such moments. “But there’s a fine line,” as Jon Stewart pointed out on “The Daily Show” last night, “between courage and audacity, and several public figures have recently crossed it.”
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