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Jon Stewart On The Humor In The High Frequency Signing Scandal

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Just because every radioactive cloud has a humorous lining, here is how the event that will take home prices another major leg lower is made funny, thanks to Jon Stewart.

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Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:17 | 634966 Steak
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Happy Friday y'all.  While this is still decidedly EDM it is far from the Techno/Trance I cut my teeth on.  Starts out with a healthy helping of the Mau5 and explores other corners of the House universe.  A guaranteed pantydropper ;)

meh. (a playlist): http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=48CE3C94FAB01826 

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:31 | 635285 heyligen
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Happy friday, FDIC bank closing day. Or did they stop those foreclosures too?

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 15:05 | 636112 Ripped Chunk
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Usually they do 3 or 4 a week at closing time on Friday. They are falling further and further behind.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:12 | 634967 Bob
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Nice twist with the Mortgage Bankers' Association's own strategic mortgage default!

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:14 | 634976 EscapeKey
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10:11a

BREAKING

 

Obama national-security adviser resigning: report

 

If the US economy took on water as quickly as the Obama presidency...

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:28 | 635025 Ragnarok
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Does anybody still work at the white house/executive?

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:05 | 635447 MarketTruth
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Nope. The rats are leaving the ship. Problem is, the American people (without gold, silver... or a job) are just stuck to merely moving their chairs on the deck of the Titanic.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 14:36 | 635977 cossack55
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Whatever you do, stay the hell out of steerage.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 20:43 | 636990 King_of_simpletons
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That would be the citizens.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:31 | 635026 Bob
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/obama-national-security-adviser-to-resi...

It's the de facto LBO by the Fed--downsizing to eliminate redunancies and maximize efficiencies. The new guy wll be a part-time 1099 telecommuter. 

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:36 | 635051 jeff montanye
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i'd say it's neck and neck making the turn into the back stretch (and it looks like the same jockey's riding both horses).

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:44 | 635342 Horatio Beanblower
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This is all one needs to know about the US's National Security Adviser (straight from the horse's mouth)...



"Speaker: James L. Jones

U.S. National Security Adviser Jones gave these remarks at the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof on February 8, 2009.

"Thank you for that wonderful tribute to Henry Kissinger yesterday. Congratulations. As the most recent National Security Advisor of the United States, I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through Generaal Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, who is also here. We have a chain of command in the National Security Council that exists today."

Source - http://www.cfr.org/publication/18515/remarks_by_national_security_adviser_jones_at_45th_munich_conference_on_security_policy.html


Treason, bitchez.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:48 | 635582 downrodeo
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LOL, yeah, and henry kissinger actually gets his daily orders from an evil magic 8 ball made from an infant's skull and cheney's left testicle, and the blood of 1000 kittens as the fluid medium. every response is 'kill all humans'.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 14:38 | 635980 cossack55
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Quick, check his shorts for classified documents.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 22:45 | 637172 Cpl Hicks
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Good old Sandy Burglar. All he had was a little discharge down there he was trying to soak up with whatever was at hand.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:01 | 635424 Big Red
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Hmm, I'm thinking that there is a possibility that Jones was asked/advised/told to resign soon after Woodward's latest book came along.

As Woodward is simply a shill for the military/intelligence cabal, and Jones is one of his "good buddies", e.g., one of the major sources.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:14 | 634979 oddjob
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Jon Stewart is a shill.Nothing funny about him or his act.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:17 | 634984 PlausibleDenial
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I agree. Unfortunately went to W&M same time he did.  What a wonker.... Oh, you do know that Stewart is a name change..

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:42 | 635333 PlausibleDenial
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 I've been junked 15 times, geezzz, I have to go get a haircut......                                 The Haircut

One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, 'I cannot accept money from you, I'm doing community service this week.' The florist was pleased and left the shop. When the barber went to open his shop the next morning, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door.

Later, a cop comes in for a haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you , I'm doing community service this week.' The cop was happy and left the shop. The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door.

Then a Congressman came in for a haircut, and when he went to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I can not accept money from you. I'm doing community service this week.' The Congressman was very happy and left the shop. The next morning, when the barber went to open up, there were a dozen Congressmen lined up waiting for a free haircut.

And that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between the citizens of our country and the politicians who run it.

BOTH POLITICIANS AND DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON!

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:46 | 635350 oddjob
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I have been junked more.....is the synagoge closed today?

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:52 | 635383 PlausibleDenial
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I did want to discuss the Israeli & Palestinian negotiations currently taking place but damn I am not sure the junk meter has three digits and this thread is already gettting long and acrimonious.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:21 | 635506 A Nanny Moose
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One has to wonder about groups of people who feel the need to change their names in order to "blend" in. I am sorry, be proud of your heritage, suffer through the gringo mis-pronunciations dammit, and feel free to even correct them. I've been doing this for 40+ years. Nobody ever gets my name right.

Sat, 10/09/2010 - 01:03 | 637333 SilverIsKing
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It's surely a challenge.  Is it pronounced MÚZ or MOOÇ?

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:18 | 634989 bada boom
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Agreed.  Hits Bush at the beginning, praises Obama at the end.

It's all of them.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:50 | 635089 SheepDog-One
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Badaboom yep, pathetic Jon Stewart the Zionist tool is still bashing Bush, praising Obama, the whole media is just a bunch of pre-programmed tools.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:56 | 635105 A Broken Bear
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If you watched him regulalry you would see how often he gets stuck into Obama. Its depressing as an Aussie to watch how sad the side show of politics in the US is getting...Rome is burning people! 

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:07 | 635152 SheepDog-One
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Yep ABrokenBear and sad to see so many Zerohedgers who are reportedly way smarter than the average bear, still sucked into this shillery of a guy like Stewart who can barely get a word out because his lips are firmly locked around the nutsack of Obama and still bases his entire schtick on the 'Republicrats evil, Demicans saintly saviours' BS. So go ahead and junk away, ya damn party politics knuckleheads.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 15:14 | 636143 tamboo
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obongo's part of the clan so it's a lot more incestuous

than you think.

http://www.savethemales.ca/is_obama_literally_americas_fi.html

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 19:38 | 636896 austin0388
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For all you reactionary whacks who never actually watch the daily show - here is Jon Stewart dishing on Obama, - you have to wait a couple of minutes to get to the Black, Veteran, Female, so don't strain your attention spans.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/21/stewart-obama-kryptonite_n_734227.html

 

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:23 | 635515 A Nanny Moose
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It's not a bonfire until somebody breaks out the graham crackers, chocolate, and marshmallows

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:04 | 635435 Treeplanter
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The dog that did not bark.  GOP Senator Jeff Sessions, let this save our bankers' ass bill go by without a peep. Tea Party needs to put him out to pasture when his term is up.  Will take a few more elections to close down the Wall Street free bar in the Senate Club.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:24 | 635013 sethco
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for what or whom is he a shill?

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:31 | 635040 oddjob
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Kevin  Bleyer joined the writing staff of The Daily Show in 2005, where he has worked on over 1000 episodes. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:41 | 635063 lsbumblebee
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Thank you. Throw Colbert in the shill pile too.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:55 | 635373 Red Neck Repugnicant
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Colbert isn't witty in the slightest, but he's incredibly good looking.

Have you heard the rumor that he's being funded by extraterrestrials and Soros?

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:56 | 635404 lsbumblebee
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LOL. Maybe that's why he's on teevee.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:00 | 635423 Red Neck Repugnicant
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He gets his hair cut from the same fashionista that worked on Tammy Faye Baker. 

I can't confirm it, but I heard it costs $800 per episode to do his hair and makeup.  I suppose if you look like a million bucks, it's a bargain.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:07 | 635457 lsbumblebee
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You're obviously a huge fan. It's good to have a hobby.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:08 | 635463 Xibalba
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hair and makeup folks are union.  $800 a day for all of them is nothin. 

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:05 | 635444 Treeplanter
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Right on.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:46 | 635083 sethco
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Yes, I can see the influence of the CFR in all those dick jokes.

Who are you shilling for? The society of humorless conservative cunts?

Nigger please.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:49 | 635093 tmosley
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Wow, my prediction came true.  Now liberals are calling people with whom they disagree "niggers".

Saddam Hussein never called me a teabagger.

But seriously: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

Humor and sex are the most powerful forms of it.  They are used by our government to great effect.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 13:46 | 635744 Buckaroo Banzai
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nigger+please It means Your Kidding me or that is outragous between two Blacks having a discussion.

It also means quit being rude in the black community

It can also mean stop the bullshit Nathaniel just got promoted to Captain. Reply: Nigger Please! which means that cannot be true or that is a shocker because Nathaniel is an idiot. Nigger Please! She only got promoted because she was black and they needed females to fill the quota.

Two black men are in a store and one is misbehaving or being rude. His friend says to him Nigger Please which means behave or straighten up your act.

Nigger please is not for a white person to say. It is only for a black to say to another black

A black man goes into a 7/11 with his dog and the dog starts growling for food. He tells his dog "Nigger Please" which means quit bothering me.

4 black prisoners are riding in a Jail bus all chained up to one another One Black cuts a terrible fart. Another Black prisoner on the chain says "Nigger Please"

Nigger please can also mean to quit embarassing me.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 14:55 | 636066 tmosley
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I see, so he was calling him a nigger and telling him to stop being annoying.

That makes it SOOOOOO much better.  

Racist, homophobic thieves.  They tire me.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:09 | 635467 Xibalba
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it's 'nigga plz'

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:28 | 635527 A Nanny Moose
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seriously. It just bad when white people try to talk the talk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e3TYKOVCM0

 

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 14:58 | 636078 tmosley
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It's degrading to yourself, and those around you.  Even if you are black, just don't do it.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:53 | 635097 SheepDog-One
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Exactly Oddjob, and remember the writers strike...Jon Stewart had nothing to say, gets all his material pre-written and approved CFR crap. Got to praise Obama and blame Bush, all ridiculous BS. I thought Zerohedgers were smarter than all this kids birthday party sleight of hand from the drunken pervert media controllers.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:03 | 635099 Cognitive Dissonance
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One must always examine what is not talked about rather than what is. Just because a person publicly crosses some social boundaries doesn't mean he or she is crossing the most important ones. What's not said that almost always more important than what is said.

Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Keith Olbermann, Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky, Bill Maher etc etc etc. These are all Left Gatekeepers, those guardians of the public myth who protect the all important left flank of the BIG LIES, all the while leading us to believe they're exposing some truths while they are in fact burying others.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:04 | 635141 sethco
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Bombs and Jesus are the big lies. And American Exceptionalism.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:13 | 635186 Buzz Fuzzel
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KABOOOOM!!!!!  Thunder after the lightening. It really must be painful to belive so many lies.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:16 | 635202 sethco
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3 things which people believe will protect them, but won't.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 13:17 | 635663 Buzz Fuzzel
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Read the first chapter of "The 5000 Year Leap"  then come talk to me.  Clueless!

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:18 | 635225 Mercury
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Over a substantial period of time (depending on where you want to place the brackets) but certainly including a century that was probably more important to the human race than any other, American Exceptionalism is a historical fact, not a myth.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:08 | 635461 Sabibaby
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More important to the human race?

I think you mean more distructive to the human race. At no point in history have we been closer to extinct'ing ourselves than the past 100 years.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:34 | 635547 A Nanny Moose
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But there was promise in the previous 150. It has been either usurped, or we are just another bump in the road of progress. 99% of all species to inhabit this planet have gone extinct. What makes us thing we are so special? The idea that we can use reason? Yeah, that's been working out.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 19:18 | 636854 Mercury
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...No points for "close" or "almost" I'm afraid. Look at the history of human life expectancy and socio/economic mobility and dig into the details from there.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:05 | 635144 Bob
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  leading us to believe they're exposing some truths while they are in fact burying others.

This seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater, CD.  Clearly we would be fools to view anyone's perspective as the end-all and be-all, but their failure to illuminate the whole universe of truths does not mean that they are not performing a vital service in exposing those that they do. 

 

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:11 | 635178 Cognitive Dissonance
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I never said they weren't providing a service in exposing certain lies. Of course they do. But by doing so, they build a false credibility that infers that if it isn't discussed by them, or worse if they demean or brush off other subjects, those subjects must not have merit and thus are not important or credible.

Psyops and propaganda 101. Play both sides of the equation.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:16 | 635207 Bob
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Thanks for the clarification, CD.  Problem is, imo, that in a primitive "bipolar" society where people's very identities seem so often founded on the "left-right" paradigm, it's gotta be pretty damn hard to find an audience.  Shit, look at this thread--the guy says some good shit and discussion degenerates into "left-right" warfare.  

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:25 | 635250 Cognitive Dissonance
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Shit, look at this thread--the guy says some good shit and discussion degenerates into "left-right" warfare.  

I always find it interesting who drives the left-right paradigm here on ZH. Certain subjects bring out this dynamic, which to me is the tell that these "subjects" are sensitive and must be protected at all costs.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:33 | 635293 gmrpeabody
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Spot on.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:39 | 635300 Mercury
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During sweeps week ZH should post a traffic-driving article titled... The Back of Your Mama's Neck Looks Like a Pack of Hotdogs: Why You're Wrong About Bush, Israel, Goldman, Guns, Class-Warfare and Gold.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 14:09 | 635838 Nostradumbass
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Bob,

Your comment in this thread is far too reasonable and fair. You are spoiling all the xenophobia!

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:04 | 635147 Wynn
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Are you fucking serious? You must be lost in your own mind.

I guess you prefer the Other Big Lies from Dick Cheney, Phil Gramm, Art Laffer.

What a dolt. Re-watch the clip. Blue vaseline or red vaseline, doesn't matter, we're all getting fucked one way or another.

 

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:16 | 635204 Cognitive Dissonance
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I guess you prefer the Other Big Liesfrom Dick Cheney, Phil Gramm, Art Laffer.

Oh, you mean the right gatekeepers? Would you also like that list? I'm all for equal opportunity bashing. Just because I named left gatekeepers (because this article is highlighting one of them) doesn't mean there aren't right gatekeepers.

Try reading some of my articles. I bash all keepers of the public myths. 

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/end-empire-%E2%80%93-propaganda-and-american-myth

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/welcome-insane-asylum-or-how-we-learned-stop-worrying-and-love-big-lie-chapter-3

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:25 | 635256 Wynn
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my aplologies CD

got caught up in the left/right whirlwind which this thread dissolved into

 

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:30 | 635281 Cognitive Dissonance
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Me as well. This is part of our life long conditioning. Like Pavlov's dogs, we are conditioned to drool when prodded. It takes a great deal of (self) deprogramming to break this cycle. I'm a work in progress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Pavlov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 14:45 | 636019 cossack55
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The EXIT door is labeled "Anarchists Only". I hear thre may be another door marked "Cynics and Iconoclasts Only" but I don't know where it leads.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:48 | 635584 A Nanny Moose
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Yes, but guys like Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz tend to posit that it's all the right's fault. Corruption is a problem, and it will never go away. The best we can ever hope for is to minimize it's impact by applying the principles of the distributed system of governance which we were give. That or a benevolent dictator.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:05 | 635148 Agent P
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I don't watch Stewart and Colbert to gain breaking insight on the truths & lies of this world...I watch them because they're funny. 

I enjoy laughing a little at the end of the day...probably more so because of today's truths & lies.  Anything wrong with that?

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:19 | 635234 Cognitive Dissonance
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Anything wrong with that?

Not at all. I wasn't commenting on their humor. I also find them funny. But that doesn't change the subliminal messages they promote. There are lines they simply don't, won't or can't cross.

Why?

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:16 | 635489 fearsomepirate
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I, too, fear the subliminal messages that come to me via comedians on the teevee.  Word is that they're all under the control of an alien wizard that lives in Independence Hall.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:18 | 635496 Max Hunter
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Every comment you have made on this subject has been SPOT ON!!.. That doesn't change the fact that the majority will not accept or even contemplate your well-read view.  That's too bad..

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:22 | 635511 iDealMeat
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Simply because they would lose they're job and audience.. Annoy your boss and advertisers you're out..

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:56 | 635603 Cognitive Dissonance
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On the surface, your answer makes sense.

So why are some subjects OK and some not to the boss, the audience and their advertisers? There is no hard and fast line that's drawn in the sand. Or should I say no public line that is drawn because to make that line public would prompt questions as to "why can't we talk about this or that."

This is where the very special art of psyops and propaganda is used to define without actually defining. This is why humor and sarcasm is so very important to the control system. It allows the keepers of the public myth is draw lines without real examination. It's a way to talk about Crazy Aunt Alice who's been locked away in the attic for the last 30 years without actually talking about her nor why she's really locked up. 

Fri, 10/15/2010 - 00:24 | 651883 iDealMeat
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CD. I'm catchin some of your thoughts.. But here, and sometimes you go

to the junk bin...

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 19:42 | 636905 StychoKiller
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Which is why "Max Headroom" is no longer on Television.

Mon, 10/11/2010 - 00:38 | 640294 MontgomeryScott
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OH, Max headroom!

The rant about the rhinoceros was a CLASSIC!

'Have you ever heard a Rhinoceros say, "I.m sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry? I'm just a victim of my ENVIRONMENT? T? T?'

'Of course you haven't. Rhinoceroses can't talk!'

That is the way that 'Jon Stewart' promotes the global cabal...because the people that watch the DAILY SHOW are much like the Rhinoceros, too dumbed down to SPEAK, much less form 'OPINIONS'...lest they be labeled as 'controversial', conspiracy loons', or some other such tripe...

Ah, yes, the 1980's...

 

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:23 | 635514 downrodeo
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VIACOM! That is one reason. You may not bite the hand that feeds and live to see another day.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 15:29 | 636204 Al Gorerhythm
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Do you mean; lines like this American journalist won't cross when reporting live about the 30,000 strong housing applicants in Georgia!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9q36UFzx70

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:10 | 635175 SheepDog-One
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Theres something distinctly missing with the 'flag as junk' only forum, can we get a 'flag as good' button up in here?

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:19 | 635228 Bob
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People have been pleading for a "thumbs up/down" feature forever.  Doesn't look like it's coming. 

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:19 | 635238 Eureka Springs
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+9.37

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:21 | 635244 thesapein
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You are a very keen observer, and that is a fantastic lineup of annoying talking heads. I agree, except I would add that these chatter boxes are not self-aware about their roles. They actually believe their own spin.

These people are wrong, but not lying.

Goodman, bless her heart, is just a little slow, mentally. Chomsky dried up a long time ago. Maher... wait, he might be lying.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:35 | 635297 Cognitive Dissonance
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The most effective tool is one who is self motivated and cleans and feeds him/herself.

There is nothing quite like the self deluded weapon of mass distraction.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 13:13 | 635652 thesapein
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How's about a counter example?

Tom Woods is often witty and funny in his lectures, too, but here he is shining.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8DnPUi3IWU

To really step back and ask hard questions is... hard.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 13:18 | 635667 Cognitive Dissonance
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I shall spend some time over the weekend listening to, and possibly reading, him. Thanks.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 14:48 | 636035 cossack55
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CD, you may wish to start with Nullification.  IMHO, the only way out for the states and liberty.  It does, however, require a set and a spine.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:48 | 635361 aerojet
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Dennis Miller still stands out as the biggest war propagandist--he went on the Tonight Show and pushed the neocon agenda.  I wonder how much that twit got paid to do that? 

 

 

 

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:06 | 635453 GoinFawr
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You might think Amy is slow, but please, when has she ever pulled a punch?

At the very least all mentioned try to point you in the correct direction; you have to expect to do some work yourself to get to the next level.

Regards

 

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:55 | 635602 A Nanny Moose
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and what direction is that? Who are you, or they to say what is right? What is right for them is not necessarily right for you or I

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 13:08 | 635637 thesapein
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There's something wrong when Gore and Goodman are steering us in the same direction. One is like the evil genius, the other is a naive lamb. 

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 14:23 | 635817 GoinFawr
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"...and what direction is that?"

Why quaecumque vera, of course.

And if you don't agree that's 'right', Nanny Moose; well, my condolences...

Also, nobody has answered my question about Ms.Goodman yet.

@ thesapein:

'Naive'? Amy? Compared to whom?

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:58 | 635611 thesapein
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911

Mon, 10/11/2010 - 00:49 | 640301 MontgomeryScott
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Um,

BUILDING 7?

The Solomon Brothers Building?

5:20 in the afternoon of 9/11?

'I made the decision to PULL IT...'?

'Freefall Speed'?

'...Into their own footprints'?

NAW, you CAN't be referring to this, as this would constitute, in the eyes of the SPLC and the DHS, a 'conspiracy theory'.

LOVE that 'nano-thermitic evidence', and the 'Thermal Expansion' thing...

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:37 | 635314 aerojet
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While I tend to agree, I think you are overstating this.  Chomsky stands out as one who has tried to expose a lot of the  big lies--he wrote "Manufacturing Consent" in order to do just that.  His character flaw is that he  cannot be completely objective due to his left-leaning academic background.  But I don't see him as a shill. 

 

If, on the other hand, John Stewart is a shill, then why even  bring up the mortgage thing at all?  Does it give those who are angry a chance to vent, laugh it off, so to speak?  Maybe.  On the other hand, that video I just watched was a very accessible synopsis of all that has taken place over the past few days, an explanation I have struggled with when talking to various co-workers and such.  

 

 

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:46 | 635348 Cognitive Dissonance
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I never called any of these people "shills".

In my mind shills are very different than left or right gatekeepers. Shills perform a very different and highly specialized function. Gatekeepers on the other hand are generalists as all gatekeepers must be.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:53 | 635390 thesapein
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Being one with various interests, I've often studied Chomsky in other topics, such as philosophy and linguistics. One thing I've never quite understood; how the heck did this guy get popular? And there's the rub. Only a dumbed down academic can ever be popular.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:00 | 635416 Cognitive Dissonance
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Operation Mockingbird doesn't just apply to mainstream media. Academics are an integral part of the psyops. A deal with the devil has certain....how do you say it.....benefits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:11 | 635478 Treeplanter
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Chomsky is very articulate, or used to be.  Trouble is his facts are fiction.  Meanwhile he had a nice visit with Hezbollah leader Nasrullah a couple years ago.  How low can you go?

Mon, 10/11/2010 - 00:56 | 640306 MontgomeryScott
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AHEM.

Noam Chomsky gives a few grains of truth in order to legitimize his agenda, which is much the same as the NWO Globalist one.

If you salt the lies with a pepper of truth, the masses will, by-and-large, believe the rest of the talk that is NOT the truth, to which you are dedicated to.

OR,

'If you tell a lie often enough, soon it will be accepted as truth.'

Try studying 'PROAGANDA', before speaking about the likes of the athiest evolutionist Railean Chomsky.

As to the media schill 'Jon Stewart', i say this:

WHO writes his paycheck?

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:07 | 635458 Treeplanter
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Well put, CD.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:25 | 635521 Andrew G
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CD, I don't know how the fuck you can put Noam Chomsky in the same category as the others. For decades he's been consistently anti-statist and anti-establishment. You can disagree with some of his anarcho-leftist views, but to say that he's "a guardian of the public myth" is utterly wrong.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 13:09 | 635636 Cognitive Dissonance
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There are some things Chomsky just won't discuss publicly or privately. Period. When someone won't discuss certain subjects I want to know why.

He even admits he won't, then uses silly reasons and circular logic to explain why he won't discuss those subjects. When confronted on this inconsistency, he takes his toys and goes home. He has often used the corporate press, who he says is corrupt beyond belief but who just loves him, to shield himself from sharp questions.

Here is a person who says the mainstream media is an organ and tool of the powers that be. In fact, he spends a great deal of time pointing this out. Yet he uses garbage "news and information" promoted by this very same extremely captured mainstream media to deflect and discredit those who wish to discuss subjects he will not discuss. Intellectually, in certain areas, he is so beyond conflicted as to leave me speechless. 

But one must never question the mighty OZ, right?

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 14:22 | 635894 Nostradumbass
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And just what subjects/topics will Noam Chomsky not touch?

There are few if any I have heard that work as hard at pulling the curtain back.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:41 | 635535 Blindweb
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CD

"One must always examine what is not talked about rather than what is." "Noam Chomsky...Left Gatekeepers...guardians of the public myth"

It's funny that Noam Chomsky is the only other person I've heard talking about the narrowing of the debate.   I've heard him talk about it over and over.

 

And you CD are the guardian of  Western pseudo-science phychology babble.  You have no concept of the nature of the flow of information, and the systems and symbols we use to process it .  There will always be lies and ignorance, absolutely.  If you can't figure that out you are lost.

As a professional philosopher I generally don't respond to your psychological based comments, because I don't want to waste my time correcting your simplistic world view.  I understand there will always be different levels of education.  I don't attack you for it either, unless you attack first.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 13:12 | 635640 Cognitive Dissonance
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I am honored that a "professional philosopher" would be so tolerant of my abject stupidity.

Thank you for being so kind.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 13:13 | 635649 Rotwang
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"As a professional philosopher"

Almost as good as a JS or SC line on MSM

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 13:23 | 635683 JR
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“Antipolitics in America,” Chomsky says, is a “scary phenomenon,” and can take the form of blaming the government for everything that’s wrong. It’s a propaganda achievement, he said, by keeping people not focused on what’s doing it--capitalism.

Chomsky, in the video below, considers government the answer for America’s “devastated peasant society”—because, says Chomsky, government, unlike corporate power, is the one thing that people can influence.  And he separates out the Federal Reserve and the United Nations as “government that you can influence.”  IOW, his idea is communism, take from the rich, divide up the corporations and let the workers run GM.  He's a Marxist.  As a result, he won't draw the connnection that it's the Federal Reserve running the country.

Chomsky says the American people are worried about and fighting against—taxes, the devil, the UN forces, the Federal Reserve--everything except what’s real, namely private tyranny from private corporate power, “the guys who are listed in the Fortune 500…”

Cults, too, i.e., man's moral values, must be wiped out:  “Cults are all over the place,” Chomsky says, “on a scale unknown to any other society...”

America’s “level of religious fundamentalism alone is probably the highest in the world. I’m almost certain,” says Chomsky, "higher than Iran’s.”


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OA-KgruEEg

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 13:44 | 635728 Cognitive Dissonance
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LOL

Cults, too, i.e., man's moral values, must be wiped out:  “Cults are all over the place,” Chomsky says, “on a scale unknown to any other society...”

I assume he was thinking specifically about the Chomsky cult? After all, being a revered and honored academic is the highest accession man can hope for with his (or her) clothes on.

Don't get me wrong. He's a powerful thinker. I just measure a person by the roads s/he won't walk rather than the ones s/he will.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 14:35 | 635932 JR
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A good measure.

IMO, to deny property rights, as many in the “Chomsky cult” advocate, is to turn men into property owned by the state. Accordingly, the Fed, IMO, is denying men their property. It is only right that the Chomsky cult be clear about its romance with the Fed—even if to them it is only  “for the good of mankind,” i.e., the state.

For those who straddle the fence on this issue, Ayn Rand said: “Like a mixed economy, men of mixed premises may be called ‘gray’; but, in both cases, the mixture does not remain ‘gray’ for long.  ‘Gray,’ in this context, is merely a prelude to ‘black.’  There may be ‘gray’ men, but there can be no ‘gray’ moral principles.  Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

“Such are the reasons why—when one is asked: ‘Surely you don’t think in terms of black-and-white, do you?’—the proper answer (in essence, if not in form) should be:

“’You’re damned right I do!'”

No one, CD, no matter what side a struggle he may favor, can ever accuse you of failing to speak up--always eloquently and often with a dollop of witticisms, I might add--when to remain silent often means “agreement with or sanction of evil”—evil being that which, according to Rand, negates, opposes or destroys that which is required for man's survial, qua man."                                        

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 15:48 | 636300 Cognitive Dissonance
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Regarding your last paragraph, thank you for your kind words.

I suspect this is the reason why I have picked up some truly vicious and virulent critics here on ZH. Of course, they mostly follow the same MO, that of personal attack and defamation.

I don't have the answers nor do I even have all the questions. But that won't stop me from asking them anyway, no matter how foolish I may look at times.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 15:57 | 636349 His Dudeness
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Have you read: Socratic Logic 3.1e: Socratic Method Platonic Questions by Peter Kreeft?

Or any other Kreeft books?

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:04 | 635142 goldsaver
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He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations

 

Wow, whats the point of having a super sikrit club if they let anyone in. I'm complaining to the membership department. I want my $9.95 back. It was in FRNs, so no big loss.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:21 | 635242 tmosley
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It's not a secret club.  It's a public one that happens to promote TERRIBLE policy.  In general, if someone is on the CFR, they can be said to promote bad policy in every way.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:27 | 635270 thesapein
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That is just true with any organization. CFR is lead by idiots because the world is made up of mostly idiots. But they are not all bad. One member is super hot, at least, and I totally loved her in the movie about Illuminati. You know who I'm talking about. She's an atheist, too. Who's her daddy?

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:40 | 635324 williambanzai7
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Its a shill game!

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:29 | 635034 Babalooee
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You're the one who's the funny shill Oddball

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:34 | 635044 Bob
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I missed the humor, but I didn't junk him--some people just have no sense of humor.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:31 | 635039 Wynn
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you're right (asshole), he's no where near as funny as your boy beck

and you're right too (other asshole) he is a jew

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:52 | 635057 GoinFawr
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The Daily Show deffo has writers that can shine at times and JS delivers a decent monologue, but c'mon, you've all seen his interviews, they're generally like watching a spotty 13 year old boy coming on to a 25 year old supermodel....painful.

I prefer the Colbert Report for funnies.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:58 | 635115 EscapeKey
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I find him amusing, though Stephen Colbert outshines JS any day of the week. Colbert's O'Reilly interview was pure gold, Stewart never really hit the high note.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:34 | 635296 thesapein
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Keep fear alive!

Colbert is the next level up from Stewart, but there are higher levels still.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:44 | 635071 SheepDog-One
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Beck is about as funny as a colonoscopy, and Stewart is a tool with 'great comedy' from writers. Remember the writers strike? He had nothing to say, shows cancelled till the writers came back. Its all pre-packaged Pravda approved attention-diverting bullshit.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:57 | 635109 sethco
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What, do you think he writes a nightly 1/2 hour show by himself? That's he's up there ad-libbing?

And if the show is diverting attention away from anything, it's what you might hear EVERYWHERE ELSE. The corporate line. That's why young people love it.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:13 | 635190 SheepDog-One
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People do write their own stuff, Stewart is not one of them. 'Young people love it' LOL yea because the young people of todays USA are a bunch of retarded XBox pop music Lady Gaga dumbed down morons who never had an original thought process of their own. I wouldnt be looking to what the kids of today like to find any salvation.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:29 | 635279 sethco
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No, he is one of the writers, as much as Conan or Letterman is/was. Maybe not so much Leno.

I think shows like his (and there aren't many) do provide a compelling reason for 'young people' to think about things other than FBook, XBox, etc. etc, all of which I agree are a waste of time, and to consider that there are things going on in the otherwise boring areas of politics and economics which will affect them.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:17 | 635219 goldsaver
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I don't know. Have you watched Beck the last couple of nights? He sounds more and more like Alex Jones. He had a two part episode talking about the Fabian Socialists and the London School of Economics and how the whole financial system debacle is manipulated by design. Breaks it down to J6P level. OK, let the junking begin....

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:20 | 635503 Treeplanter
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Beck has fun, he's not playing for laughs or ratings.  He drives the socialists crazy exposing all the idiots in the Loser administration and shines light on a great deal of history that has been covered up by the ruling class media and the education as indoctrination industry.  The Rodeo Clown is a national treasure.  My only beef is his preaching, gets tiresome. I change channels and come back later.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 12:33 | 635538 iDealMeat
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+1

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 14:30 | 635937 Nostradumbass
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-1

 

(let's keep Beck to what he is - a zero)

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:45 | 635075 gmrpeabody
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TD..., check your CAPTCHA program. Must not be working.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:46 | 635079 Agent P
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I couldn't disagree more.  While I do NOT at all agree with his politics, I think Jon Stewart is very funny...same with Colbert.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:02 | 635131 thesapein
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Yes, he's a lucky card holder and proud member of the club now. He's also a lot more entertaining than Obama, though Bush could be pretty funny, too.

But on a serious note, he's not exactly a shill. He's playing to the crowd more than any other group. His audience is the bigger problem. Why do they love him? Same reason I once did; because they're clueless and it's easier to laugh and feel smug than it is to turn off the tv and do some research.

Also, his jokes have to be of an average quality and not too deep because then who would get it, aside from a few of us. Actually, then Stewart would probably not get his own jokes.

He's just a guy who has done very well for himself under the status qo. Why would he challenge a system that benefits him?

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:18 | 634988 snowball777
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Not everyone is unhappy to see lower home prices.

And if it makes it impossible for the "cat on a frozen pond" that are the Big 5 to keep the plates spinning, so much the better.

The tricky part will be timing my purchase such that I can minimize the principal, keep the low interest rates, and still pay off the mort with the contents of my garage when hyperinflation hits.

Thanks to congress for extending the FHA limits until the end of 2011...that widens my window.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:27 | 635023 kaiserhoff
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Agreed.  For the first time in 20 years, real estate is getting interesting.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:46 | 635081 SheepDog-One
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WTF would you even be considering buying a house today when prices are going to have to drop at LEAST 20%, if not far more? Hell wait a few months, youll be able to just pick your house and move in free, in a Road Warrior USA who is checking mortgage documents?? Move into whatever you want, pick whatever car you want from the side of the road, prepare to fight to the death for gasoline to drive it, good luck.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:04 | 635140 FEDbuster
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Rule of Gun replaces Rule of Law?  Timeline and scenario would be nice to have.  I agree Rule of Law is slipping away into the abyss.   We must remember, "You can run, but you cannot hide!"

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:26 | 635265 snowball777
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My time horizon is infinite; I could rent in perpetuity happily as I'm perfectly happy safe-guarding my nest egg in more liquid vehicles than RE (else I'd be in this poop too).

Good point; better steal a Tesla and a gang of solar panels (hi Leo!) ;)

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:19 | 634993 Gromit
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Stewart is the most influential financial journalist of our time.

No-one tells the truth to so many people about complicated financial topics in such a lucid and intellectually honest manner. 

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:24 | 635014 tmosley
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Amazing that he can talk at all, what with his lips so firmly pressed around the base of Obama's penis.

He was great when Bush was president, but he became Bill O'Reily to the left the second the results came in.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:31 | 635037 Gromit
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Really not sure where this partisan stuff comes from.

The demographic for an irreverent comedy show tends to be young and liberal rather than old and conservative, and he cares about his ratings like any other commercial broadcaster, he's not PBS you know.

But I reckon he's done more than PBS news and business shows to educate the public about the great economic issues of our age.

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:50 | 635092 gmrpeabody
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It is just that he deflects the blame in only one direction. To review from the lessons we've learned here at ZH...,

It ain't dems or repubs, it's all of them. (with just a few exceptions)

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:26 | 635263 PlausibleDenial
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Agreed. I find the following John Taylor to be my position.

The feeling that the government will ride in on a white horse to rescue the world is widely held. The vast majority believe that the government can control the economy, and the reason that they are so vociferous – or should I say violent – is that they really believe that if their party or ‘concept’ were in total control then everything would be fixed up and we all would be paying our bills and living the good life.  John Taylor F/X Concepts

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:02 | 635101 SheepDog-One
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Tmosley LMAO! WAY funnier than anything the CFR shill Stewart ever said!

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:15 | 635198 SheepDog-One
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Yes he's the most influential journalist for the 5 minute max attention span Generation XBox morons.

Mon, 10/11/2010 - 01:15 | 640323 MontgomeryScott
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The reviews are IN:

Siskel and Eibert call Jon Stewart 'one of the most refreshing financial faces since Jim Kramer!...a witty and learned honorary PHD in economics...one of the most enlightened voices of our time, or any other!'

 

Steven Colbert calls Jon 'a wonderful, magnificent man, one who I am proud to have as an adversary for the Ratings Wars!'

 

Adolf Hitler calls Stewart 'second only to Goerbels in his mastery of propaganda...a true genius!'

 

Obama the King calls Jon Stewart '...a valuable ally in the financial system...along with Rachel Mad-cow, and Kieth olbermann, I could not have achieved my goals without him!'

 

VIACOM calls him '...a valuable asset in the media war-chest.'

 

OH, and GROMIT thinks that he is a TRUTH-TELLER! '...Honest..., lucid...INTELLECTUAL!'

Oh, what would I do without the Jon Stewart show, beaming into my home?

Uh-oh, I forgot that i don't have AOL-Time-warner-Viacom cable, or the Digital transition, at my house.

ALAS, I will have to settle for the likes of Peter Schiff, Ron Paul, Max Keizer, or Tyler Durden (and of COURSE the Mogambu Guru), to inform me of the state of the economic collapse (BLOG)...

'FINANCIAL JOURNALIST...'

What a MAROON!

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:23 | 635002 Goldenballs
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We own your house we just can,t prove it.We lent other peoples money to buy overpriced worthless assets we just can,t prove it.We are a highly proffessional,modern,highly efficient banking organisation we just cant prove it.We are very solvent and profitable we just can,t prove it.Your savings and financial assets are safe and will grow under our control we just can,t prove it.We are highly trustworthy,honest and uphold all current legal practices in our dealings we just can,t prove it.Our accounts are an honest overview of all the assets under our control which value all our assets as to the current marketplace values showing how profitable we are we just can,t prove it.

  What can these tricksters/conmen  prove to anyone anymore ............

 

Fri, 10/08/2010 - 10:54 | 635100 gmrpeabody
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And the bonuses better keep coming, or they will lose their best to overseas banks. I heard that on CNBC. (seriously, they had a straight face when they said it)

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