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The President of the United States, Barack Obama, appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night for a lengthy three-part interview. It’s still kind of weird, isn’t it? What I mean is, we’re at the point now where The Daily Show has been around forever, and Jon Stewart has been on the cover of Most Important Guy Magazine three times, or whatever, and YET, it is still weird when the sitting president of the United States of America appears on the show as a guest. Y/Y? Also, the interview is kind of depressing. Not because of any of the content. It is a completely genial conversation that glosses over pretty important issues with gentle humor and broad-spoken ideas that are easy to digest. In a word: it is exactly what you would expect from a half hour of Jon Stewart talking to Barack Obama. But, like, the needle is at rest, you know? That thing don’t move! It just doesn’t matter. We’re in such a fractured, angry, fearful, jobless, Christine O’Donnell mess. There’s nobody watching the Daily Show whose mind just changed and there’s nobody tuning into the Daily Show that doesn’t normally watch in order to see if the President clarifies some of the message he has supposedly (if you are to believe the LIBERAL MEDIA ELITE) had so much trouble clarifying to the American people. It’s depressing in that it’s a half hour (semi) candid interview with the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES and it DOESN’T FUCKING MATTER. Head stomp head stomp head stomp.
That being said, you can still watch it:
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Part Two:
Part Three:
*Shrug*.
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I’d like to just point out that this interview isn’t about changing the minds of Daily Show viewers. It’s about prodding them to GO OUT AND VOTE instead of whinging that they didn’t get everything they dreamed of in 20 months. So, you know, GO OUT AND VOTE, Monsters.
Can someone help me down off this soapbox?
I would vote, but I’m afraid of getting my head stomped on.
I think it’s called “rallying the base.” But seriously, R2D2, Esq. is right. Go vote. At the very least you get to wear a sticker and feel better than most people for a day. And if you vote early, some places will give you discounts if you bring in your sticker.
Almost a year after moving from Chicago to Cleveland and becoming a resident of the fine state of Ohio, I have still yet to register to vote. Thanks for the kick in the pants, Superglue.
………….and I just found out I needed to register by Oct. 4th. Maybe next year!
I don’t know how Ohio works, but a lot of times, you can do one-stop registration and voting if you go during early voting.
Oop, you’re right, holy smokes! Though I guess I couldn’t have expected better out of Ohio’s board of elections (super corrupt, am I right????).
Judges, County Commissioners, the whole gang.
Absolutely it was for uber-liberal people like me who have been frustrated by the deliberate and ordinary progression of things.
Stew Beef asked some of the questions that I would have asked Mr. President, questions that aren’t typically addressed by the mainstream media (not referring to any nominal political biases, just a certain frivolity – whereas Stewart’s questions were, if not uniformly substantive, at least thoughtful) and addressed by the vocally liberal media mainly in the form of Ed Schultz’s nightly televised brain aneurysms.
I may be a socialist Marxist atheist blameAmericafirst homoloving dopesmoking elitist piece of unpatriotic scum, but I’m also a normal insecure person who gets scared about the future and sometimes needs to be reassured that the President has not forgotten about the naive brown shirt fuckheads like me who democratically elected his fascist regime.
You, sir, are not unpatriotic. You clearly give way too much of a shit to be called that.
The guy who clapped when he said we were in the worst times since the Depression is definitely our boyfriend
Whoa, whoa, wait. The president is black?!
AND a Muslim socialist. Hide your kids, y’all.
well obviously, we have a SOCIALIST in the white house.
ugh, sorry.
He’s makin’ errybody equal out there.
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How do you think this whole Tea Party thing got started?
Are you trying to say white people don’t know how to get a party started? Because I find that offensive, sir.
might be one of my favorite gif’s to date.
I’m always amazed that the Pulp Fiction fingers across the eyes move is still a go to for so many people. It’s become some sort of classic dance move? Also – is there a cabbage patch in there? haven’t we come up with anything new in the last twenty years?
Dancing With The Stars. It’s like NASCAR. For people who like to pretend they don’t like NASCAR.
it’s been around way before Travolta
logged in just to upvote this gif. well done.
New favorite gif. Now it’ll be easier for me to explain when people ask me what I mean by white cultural guilt
Haha, you like to date Bristol Palin!
Me, January 20, 2009.
I met a girl who said that this dance was highly offensive and disgusting. She was highly religious. I have no idea what she meant. I was fascinated but couldn’t get her to explain how it was these things. It just was. I thought it was sublime. Shows what I know.
See you guys in Hell.
I think the real issue here is that Eye-an Ziering is now selling cosmetic products to himself. Hard to survive in this enconomy you guys.
Eerie Ziering…
You guys, I think the Pres is stalking me. First of all, he emails me ALL THE TIME. He sends me snail mail too, so I know he knows where I live. And! his motorcade is always following me around in Chicago. I don’t date married men, Barry. Take a hint.
And he updates Facebook CONSTANTLY. Not to the point where he’s posting photos of his dinner (people do that!), but seriously, I had to hide him.
is it the president or is it brett favre?
Honestly, I find it depressing that he was on there at all. I love The Daily Show, Jon Stewart is great, and all that, but it is still a JOKE NEWS SHOW. Shouldn’t the President be doing more Presidential things? Running the country and all that?
I’ll take him spending a half-hour on a joke news show than spending weeks on end at a ranch in the middle of Texas. Perhaps that’s just me.
But it’s a Joke News Show that’s watched by millions of young people who (at least somewhat) care about politics, right before a major election. This seems like one of the most appropriate things the president could do.
I concur.
Sure it may be a joke show but I still think that john stewart is the only interviewer who is currently self aware enough to conduct an interview longer than 4 praise jesus’s and actually listening to the interviewee. Other than wise cracks here and there the interview part of the show is normally very professional.
I find depressing when lazy people still lazily marginalize The Daily Show as a Joke News Show (JNS). Jon Stewart is at times guilty of this as well, but if the Rally is any indication, he may be inching towards recognizing his own cultural force. Everyone else has.
I’m not sure facetaco is a lazy person just for having an opinion about the lack of John Stewart’s credentials. He’s a comedian.
facetaco, you have my support on this, for what it’s worth. which i realize is… not that much.
AskMen.com missed the mark. That interview would have been much more influential if James Franco (ranked #7) had interviewed the president.
To me it seems like the interview was just a state of the union address in a much more comfortable setting and tone, meaning it was a little boring. There was really little dialogue, but just enough to keep the talk moving. It hardly even felt like a comedy show, and I think that credited the program.
Is it just me or does Jon Stewart look really old? When the president stood up Stewart looked like a short old man.
He’s 48 or something and about five feet tall if a foot
“Can I just ask, with reference to your second point, when you say souls don’t develop because people become distracted… [looking out window] Has anyone noticed that building there before?”
Take it from a LADY… I’d still hit that.
Obligatory Jon Stewart GIF party:
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and for my fellow Monster ladies:
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That’s still my president.
This episode wasnt nearly as rad as that time Dubya went on Nancy Grace and they fucked
Link please!
Ok, I’m an evil french-canadian from up north in Quebec but I always take the time off my hockey and maple-syrup-slurping to follow US politics because I must not have anything better to do.
I have watched Jon Stewart for years and still find most of his humorous criticism pretty much spot-on.
The show loves to highlight hypocrisies & inconsistencies in the government as well as the media, and loves to laugh about it. I believe this is healthy. However I agree with Gabe that one cannot rely on this show, the rally, its host or anyone else but themselves if they really want to see any change happening.
In fact, they shouldn’t even rely on Obama for that. Go out and vote Americans and think of the rest of the world, because we also have our illusions and we’ve put some of our hopes on you.
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Somewhere in Bizarro World, on Videomug, this post is titled, “Those are both your boyfriends”, and the post is filled with Ebag’s trademark vitriol directed at the President: “Socialized medicine? YIKES.” “Forget it, Jake, it’s Socialisttown.” etc.
Made me laugh!
Why is it now the President’s job now to defend everything he has achieved? If his administration had done a better job at selling these policies to the public and explaining the long term benefits in the first place, then they wouldn’t have to constantly defend themselves. Don’t come in after the fact and be on the defensive. Go on the offensive, tell people not to question it, tell them exactly what it is going to achieve in the future and be sure of yourself.
Not to carp like a cranky lunatic, but It’s The Media’s Fault(TM). I mean, the president gets something like universal health care passed, which is an amazing accomplishment that is most likely to directly help more people than it ever indirectly hurts, and the media, trying to be balanced says this: “Today, legislation passed. Democrats hailed it as historic, but Republicans called it a socialist travesty destined to destroy the universe.” There is hardly ever a followup sentence where the media dares to call out either side as full of crap on any point; you rarely see a newspaper drag facts in, if the facts contradict some politician’s press release. They are killing themselves to appear “objective.” Or so it seems to me.
They need to take a page out of the Republican playbook and tell people, “Fuck you, our policies WILL work, we know what we doing, please sit down and let us do what you elected us to do” instead of trying to come up with excuses why it hasn’t gone the way they wanted it to yet.
Just remember to get out and vote, you racist, bitter, religious gun-clingers who are too stupid to understand the great job Obama is doing.
Can’t wait till Colbert gets a chance to interview him. That will be rad.
Also, while watching this absolutely booooring interview, I came to the conclusion that Obama really has no sense of humor. Not that a president actually needs one to do his job well, but still… you’re on a comedy show, Mr. President! Couldn’t you have one of your staff writer’s give you a few jokes?
Oh well, he’s the president, not an entertainer…