Tag: Jon Stewart

Rant of the Week: Jon Stewart: Email Chains, Lanes and Automobiles

Email Chains, Lanes and Automobiles  – Chris Christie Bridge Scandal

The Chris Christie administration allegedly closes a lane on the George Washington Bridge as a means of political retribution.

Did probable Republican presidential favorite Chris Christie personally order a controversial traffic hit on Fort Lee, New Jersey?

Rant of the Week: Jon Stewart: Dem Nukem

Dem Nukem

Harry Reid bypasses the Senate’s filibustering Republican minority by launching the “nuclear option.”

   Stewart: Actually, Sen. McConnell, he did try to make a more substantive case against this filibuster amending.

   McConnell: I realize this sort of wishful thinking might appeal to the uninitiated newcomers in the Democratic conference who’ve served exactly zero days in the minority, but the rest of you guys in the conference should know better.

   Those of you who’ve been in the minority before should know better.

   Stewart: Mark my words! One day you Democrats will want to be obstructionist assholes making a mockery of our system of government. And who’ll be laughing then? Turtle Man.

Rant of the Week: Jon Stewart: Tower Record

Jon Stewart: Tower Record

Let me explain something, deep-dish pizza is not only not better than New York pizza. It’s not pizza. It’s a f***ing casserole!

Let me add this, if you can’t pick it up in one hand and have to eat it with a fork, it isn’t pizza.

Rahm Emanuel Sends Jon Stewart And ‘Daily Show’ ‘Deep Dish With Dead Fish’ After Pizza Fight

Apparently dead fish are Rahm Emanuel’s version of an olive branch. [..]

In a nod to one of his most infamous political shenanigans, Chicago’s mayor made sure the deep-dish pies were topped with dead fish (y’ know, anchovies). [..]

Yet as much as the feisty mayor wanted the last word, Stewart and company were having none of it. Their response to Emanuel’s “peace” offering? A Vine video showing a pooch turning his nose up at the delicious pie.

Rant of the Week: Jon Stewart: Medican’t

Medican’t

Health-challenged states like Texas and Mississippi refuse to take advantage of a federally subsidized Medicaid expansion.

If statehood was health care, moocher states like Mississippi and Missouri would be rejected as having a preexisting condition.

Rant of the Week: Jon Stewart: Priorities USA

Priorities USA

The Obama administration believes in freedom of the press — just not freedom of speech for people who might talk to the press.

Priorities USA – Too Big to Jail

The Obama administration’s legal priorities tilt towards unusually harsh punishments for individuals whose crimes don’t seem to merit them.  

What Gaius Publius said.

Rant of the Week: Jon Stewart

Broken Bad

The Senate strikes down the Manchin-Toomey amendment, but protects a gun owner’s right to complete anonymity.

Broken Bad – Legislated Evil

The Senate is unwilling to infringe upon Constitutional freedoms through the power of legislation, except when it wants to.  

Rant of the Week: Jon Stewart

Empire of the Gun

The Senate preserves America’s right to sell weapons to international terrorists and drug lords.

Rant of the Week: Jon Stewart

The Lost Channel of Atlanta

Under the leadership of Jeff Zucker, CNN broadens the definition of news to include more goat holograms and murder dramas.

Rant of the Week: Jon Stewart

Rand Paul Ends Epic Filibuster

Rand Paul’s filibuster comes to an end in the traditional way that all filibusters must.

STEWART: Those other senators are recent additions to the Senate, so I don’t mind them jumping into Paul’s filibuster, but you don’t get to jump in on the concern the executive branch might be trampling the Constitution train. If I remember correctly during the Bush torture, suspended habeas corpus, see if you can get the Attorney General to sign off wireless wiretapping while he’s in a coma years, I believe your response to that was… yeah.

Rant of the Week: Jon Stewart

Hagel With a Smear

Senate thespian Lindsey “Beauregard” Graham foils Chuck Hagel’s Secretary of Defense confirmation.

Hagel With a Smear – Country First

Republican filibustering of Chuck Hagel’s Secretary of Defense confirmation vote is tinged with a hint of junior high school-level pettiness.

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