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    Jon Stewart Does Obama's Job For Him

    The Nation --

    If you didn’t see Jon Stewart’s summer break sign-off Thursday night, in which he summed up the right’s “class warfare” hysteria over demands that the rich go back to paying the same tax rates they paid during the Clinton boom years, you’ve got to give this two-part clip your eyes for just a couple minutes:

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    The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
    World of Class Warfare - The Poor's Free Ride Is Over
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    In all this, Stewart makes clear that Fox News is able to lie and bark absurdities because it’s not a news organization but a one-note propaganda machine whose seamlessness would have left George Orwell’s Winston Smith paralyzed in admiration.

    But what’s best about Stewart is the way he makes crystal clear that Democrats are engaged in self-censorship. For two weeks now, Tavis Smiley and Cornel West have been on a poverty tour, calling for Obama and the Dems to recognize that they’ve been fighting with one arm tied behind their back, to stop limiting their concern only to the “middle class,” and to dare to say the “p” word. When half the country possesses only 2.5 per cent of the country’s wealth, the diminishing middle can choose either to be bodyguards for their overlords or throw their lot in with the poor.

    “The poors,” Stewart calls them. Obama needs to recognize that the world economy is shuddering to a halt because the global rich are so focused on wealth protection into a distant future that capitalism can’t find the money to function and grow. The time that his paltry stimulus bought the system has run out. As they did by going after Saddam instead of Al Qaeda, the political class is again setting off weapons of mass distraction—this time, by going after “spending” and the deficit instead of unemployment and the foreclosure crisis.  

    The time for muddling through—for saying you can see “both” sides of the argument—is past. Obama is so smart, right? Then he must know this, too.

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    • The Illuminator  •  9 mths ago
      Survival without dirt is inconvenient, but not impossible; survival without water is impossible. Dirt mixed with water becomes mud; no further addition of water, regardless how pure, can ever change the mud back into water: at best, it can only dilute the mud.

      However, to dilute the mud requires the addition of water at a rate faster than the rate at which additional dirt is introduced; within the context of the metaphor, this is very nearly impossible.

      In the genetic sense, the dirt is dominant, but it offers no survival advantage beyond convenience; the water is recessive, but survival is impossible without it. Nevertheless, dirt is superabundant and water is scarce.

      From a human perspective, there is a point beyond which the removal of water from the dirt is so impractical as to be impossible; however, long before that point is reached, the survival environment becomes unprofitably austere.

      During the period of white domination of the USA -- with less advanced materials, a smaller labor force and a smaller economy -- we built a water purification and distribution network unmatched anywhere else in the world, because we all understood the importance of water to our welfare, and we all agreed that safe drinking water is a basic human right.

      Such belief and similar achievement describes every white civilization that has ever been; to a lesser, but nonetheless significant extent, it characterizes Mongolian societies: it is the most basic and fundamental element of societal development, and the launching pad to rise from Third World to First World status.

      Today, the refined gold that was the character of former generations of noble races has been reduced to iron: hardness has replaced softness, vulgarity has replaced the subtle and the sublime; worse, it has through the evils of empire become mixed with races of clay.

      The various crises around the world -- not the natural disasters, per se, but every maladaptation involving human genius -- each and all have a common single cause; that cause is the degradation, diminution and destruction of racial differentiation. Miscegenation is genocide; worse, it promotes less-evolved dominant genes to the detriment of more-evolved recessive genes:

      Except for the evils of political machinations promoting such absurd, obvious and unreasonable lies as the "manifest equality of all races" and the insanely evil and self-destructive policies and practices arising therefrom, the proper hierarchy would have been preserved and leadership would have provided sufficient prosperity for each and all.

      What we see today is instead a matter of the animals having overtaken the farm; the pigs are now at the top, and the public has neither the mind to discern, the will to acknowledge nor the courage to correct the problem. The destructive chaos of egalitarianism is anathema to essential social and societal order: even when confined within a race, egalitarianism is an asinine and destructive system of belief rightly suppressed.

      Order requires creative intelligence to design and perpetually diligent effort to maintain. The principal inventions of Dark Continent natives are theft and kidnapping, slavery and the sharpened stick. Left to their own devices, they would today be remarkably as they were 200 years or 200,000 years ago: such us the nature and pace of their industry and initiative.

      Through miscegenation and selective breeding under the direction of white masters, Afro-American average intellects have in the most recent 200 years been improved between 50 and 70 percent (with roughly 85 percent of that increase occurring within a span of 50 years), and the basic physical attributes of Afro-American have been similarly enhanced: modern-day specimens in the USA have greatly enhanced potential, but they lack the character inherent in good breeding.
      • The Illuminator 9 mths ago
        Intellect is not additive: a thousand fools working together cannot match the wisdom of a single wise man. Regardless, modern Africans and Afro-Americans possess not only greater individual and group intellect than primitive Caucasians, but also familiarity with and access to technology that would have seemed miraculous to even the most advanced white cultures of just 400 years ago.

        Despite all the foregoing advantages; despite easy access to food, water, building materials and minerals of great commercial and industrial importance; despite the ongoing benevolent contributions of historically white nations, in the form of food, medicine and health care -- in addition to economic and other material aid -- the nations of Africa consistently are ranked among the most corrupt governments on the planet,

        African nations demonstrate degrees and extent of poverty and crime unmatched by any civilized people; it isn't a matter of insufficient knowledge or intellect or resources: their lack of constructive initiative is the product of 2 million years of evolution, with each generation willfully choosing to perpetuate the selfishness of its forebears while adding its own style of predation to the mix.

        That characteristic lack of will for self-betterment cannot credibly attach to the interracial trade in slaves that exploded during the 19th and late-18th centuries: kidnapping and slavery had by then been a way of life for African natives for many centuries if not many millennia. Moreover, had the interracial aspect been detrimental, African natives would be more advanced than Afro-Americans; however, they are not.

        Having no aptitude for any constructive pursuit, they steal whenever they think they can; only for purposes of selfish consumption, they exercise dominion presumptively unless forcibly restrained; they are inveterate and irresponsible liars whose habit is to avoid accountability and to shift or otherwise misplace blame whenever they sense (regardless whether inaccurately) that they are being accused.

        Bred and taught from birth to hate white people, these people dominate the executive offices of federal, state, county/parish and local government throughout the USA:

        They are the principal racial class holding jobs from the US Postal Service to the IRS, from the offices of Public Works to the DMV, from Social Services to Law Enforcement; they predominate in utility and communications services, in primary and secondary education (for ideological reasons, especially at the core-curriculum level), and in every living-wage blue-collar job, and are through the machinations of affirmative action often awarded welfare jobs for which they lack any real merit.
    • fishfinder  •  9 mths ago
      way to go, Jon...u da man!
    • HenryC  •  9 mths ago
      It is not the wealthy that is causing the economy to shudder to a halt. We are drowning in debt caused by and elitist political class, Republican and Democrat, US and European. Jon Steward has his progressive blinders on and can't see this. We are spending more than we take in, and are taxing our seed corn, and regulating away our future.
    • sharon  •  9 mths ago
      I gotta say .. the court jester is the man telling the TRUTH.. what the hell is going on with Obama? Is he scared ? Is he just 'above it all'.. is he trying to remain the sane voice in this nutball country that is eating itself.. well the rick are eating the rest of us.. as we watch and ooogle them on reality tv.. oh that could be us... works every time.. BUT I was for Hillary.. I figured Obama was too new at this horrid game us merican idiots play.. called elect yer officials based on superstition and your own personal private hell realm.. voice yer stupid prejudices in yer vote.. don't look beyond that.. whinny whinny.. that's the horse being led to the slaughter house.. oh that be the 'small people' of the U S and A.. now we're all considered the same as the folks who were here when the whites showed up to slaughter them and take ther land.. now it's our turn to get et by the big fish..it's a tribute to Arrogant Ignorance..
      • The Illuminator 9 mths ago
        Welcome to the horrors of egalitarianism and miscegenation: the New Genocide, same as the Old Genocide, but with a "new and improved" flavor. Now the blood (for the most part) stays on the inside: it's genetic warfare (24/7 during football, baseball, basketball and track seasons). Woohoo! We gots duh thug life!

        Fo shizzle, dizzle!
    • PAUL  •  9 mths ago
      The (liberal) Media definitely 'got his back'. Is this really news?
    • B Young  •  9 mths ago
      Jon Stewart had to do it, Obama hasn't the intelligence or courage to do it.
    • Lisa  •  9 mths ago
      I suppose my politics will always come from heart, I can't help it. And becasue I kinda have figured out, this is our one shot, I don't like to see people in pain, people so poor they can't afford a house for their family, they can't feed their kids, and the poor just keep getting much more poor.

      No one cares....it really is sad, they look at it like, well it is their fault! Never considering this person story...and when people like Jon talk about the poor, it sures bring out the evil in masses. The post on here alone....whoa! But, I bet that most of nasty posters on here would claim to be in with Jesus wouldn't they?

      My Atheist self probly has more compassion in my pinky finger than you holy rollers with big mouths on here. So, with say, the Bush tax cuts to the RICH expiring, that would help out so many...and gee, all of you people it would effect out there, could you maybe just do without that car next year? It may even feel good to donate something? Or spend some time with the homeless? No? I didn't think so. Your little bit of extra taxes could help out an awful lot of people.....

      Unreal....................thank you Jon for giving these people a voice. And for calling out our politicans for all of their crappola!
      • B Young 9 mths ago
        What a load of crappola. If you cared a whit about the poor or anyone but yourself you wouldn't be a democrat or a liberal. Neither has ever done anything to improve the lives of the poor because without the suffering "poor", they would have no one to vote for them. That's why they saddle the poor with substandard public educations and competition for even the most menial jobs from illegal aliens. Then they convince them to use drugs, drop out of school, have kids with no paternal commitment, and commit crimes. That ensures another generation of liberal voters.
      • Larry5150 9 mths ago
        You hit the nail right on the head B Young...!!!!!!
      • Joe 9 mths ago
        So how much of your own personal time and money have you donated in the last 12 months?
    • kurt  •  9 mths ago
      fox news is better then anything mr pin head has ever been on so he can go jump off a bridge please!!!!!!!
      • Thomas 9 mths ago
        Good argument. Are you 5?
      • Joe 9 mths ago
        Fox is news like pro wrestling is a sport.Wait....you probably think both are real.
      • Donna 9 mths ago
        Fox is news unless proven different. I have not seen anything much disproved by the left that fox reports on. So they must be more honest than the bias lefties.
    • WATTs12  •  9 mths ago
      Dam anyone could do as good as the holy man obama can do. Look if you know how to talk and delicate others to do your job, well this is the way of obama. He spends more time telling others what to do then him making the plans. Biden go out there and make the congress beleive that this plan is good. Reed and pelosi, go out there and make the rep do what you say and do not take any #$%$ Obama, obama this is not a way to be a leader, you need to except things when they are wrong and right. Obama only wants the glory and not the failure of his dam policies. Time to impeach this bum for being a loser for the president of this fine country.
      • Thomas 9 mths ago
        "Delicate"? Do you mean "delegate"? Stop trying to make yourselves sound intelligent and just admit that you go along with the Republicans because it's easier to believe what you see on Fox than it is to think for yourselves.
      • Tom 9 mths ago
        I think you meant to say Bush there.
      • OneFrozenMigra 9 mths ago
        You forgot to all of his good talking skills to his teleprompters. How could you? Shame. We all have seen and heard him without them. That is why he has created portable ones for his town halls, impromptu speeches, etc.....heck, he even needed them for a speech to students.
    • Paul  •  9 mths ago
      since when is jon stewart a ligit reporter and not a fake news far left leaning hack
    • Matt  •  9 mths ago
      right wing racists and haters
    • KevinE  •  9 mths ago
      The usual "cloudy" pile of crap. When are you guys going to take your countries needs to heart and drop the kill the other side operative? We need to take a breath and move forward. we're in an eddy right now and it's the wrong time to take the round about.
      Kev
    • BOK  •  9 mths ago
      Who cares what this clown say's..
    • Vaffanculo  •  9 mths ago
      I'm amazed at the number of Libs who consider paying their taxes, acts of charity. Try not paying (unless your Rangel or Kerry) and see how fast they come after you. Real charity is the taking of you own money or time and giving it away to those less fortunate.
    • Paul  •  9 mths ago
      Jon Stewart, the Will Rogers of our time.
    • robin  •  9 mths ago
      Ah yes the great cult of liberalism has lost it's all knowing Messiah-Obama but, they still have the Royal Clown -John Stewart. Just like the pied piper of Hamlin-leading the brainless over the cliffs like the liberal lemmings that they are. why is it that Liberals put the Cult of Personality over substance every time? Perpetually ships adrift looking for a rudder.
    • Solid Citizen  •  9 mths ago
      Anytime the federal government declares "war" on a social issue, the issue becomes perpetual.
    • anonimo  •  9 mths ago
      Once again lobs show they know nada about finance and economics.
    • Jeremy  •  9 mths ago
      His initials say it best... B.O.! and it stinks
    • Ray Sisd  •  9 mths ago
      There are no liberal (in the true and classical sense of that fine word) mass-media outlets.
      And, there are no conservative outlets either (conserving just politicians' and banksters' rear ends don't count.)
      There is only the neo-cohnned type of corporate media outlet, and their whole and entire important "diversity of opinion and viewpoint" and their whole permissible spectrum of "acceptable variance" centers mainly on ... whether we will continue to kill--first of all, our own sons and daughters--but also, Iraqis, Afghans, and Libyans ("only") for the time being, or whether we rain hellfire down on Iran too, and do it sooner rather than later. That's it. I see no other actual difference, aside from the utterly inconsequential (to US) cheerleading for this or that utterly interchangeable figurehead and shill, who works only for them.
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