Jon Stewart mocks how O’Reilly’s opinion on teen pregnancy ‘gestated over a period of months.’
By on Sep 4th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Jon Stewart mocks how O’Reilly’s opinion on teen pregnancy ‘gestated over a period of months.’
Last night on the Daily Show, host Jon Stewart skewered Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly for claiming Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is “a personal matter,” when last year he pointed the finger of blame at Jamie-Lynn Spears’ parents — “who obviously have little control over her” — and called Spears an “incredible pinhead” when she revealed she was expecting. Stewart joked, “You see what happens with opinions over teen pregnancy is that they gestate over a period of months.” Watch it:
Stewart also pointed out Karl Rove’s radical inconsistency when he mocked Gov. Tim Kaine (D-VA) for being mayor of Richmond: “It’s not a big town.” Rove has since praised Palin’s executive experience as Mayor of Wasilla, population 9,700.
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The Splotchy One is held up to the light and is found to be a hypocrite — AGAIN.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:27 amWhy can’t we get Jon to write the speeches for the Dems so they could really skewer the rethugs with facts, but also get everyone to laugh at mccain/palin?
September 4th, 2008 at 10:27 amFrist,
The hypocrites are comin out big time for Palin.
The National Enquirer article on her affair should make sure the spot light is on the hypocrites big time.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:27 amI saw it and just loved it! The Daily Show is so good for taking their words and throwing them back in their face. Can you imagine if the Obama children were older and one of them was pregnant and unmarried? The Repugs would have a field day!
September 4th, 2008 at 10:28 amThe natural audience for O’Reilly and his ilk is a type that simply makes no effort to connect present reality with anything that happened more than 24 hours ago. To them it means nothing that O’Reilly has contradicted himself, nothing at all. Their reptile brains simply can’t process that much information simultaneously.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:30 amWasilla has 9700 people? The census must have added caribou, moose, and wolves. Maybe even Rocky and Bullwinkle, too. Even with the added numbers, it would be considered a village anywhere else. In Alaska everything is seen as larger, I guess. Sort of looking in your outside rearview mirror.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:31 amCareful, larkinohio…
I can just see some righty whackjob running w/ your comment…
FLASH: New internet rumor!!!
Obama’s children possibly older than admitted, also pregnant and unmarried?
Drudge will be covering by noon…
Thanks a lot… you’ve just handed the WH to the GOOPers…
Snark/off…
September 4th, 2008 at 10:32 amLast night’s show was a howler. To show how sinister Repugnicants are, Newt Gingrich came on and said he agreed with Karl 100%.
My favorite was Tuesday night’s send up of Repugs trapped at the Excel Center (a la the Superdome).
September 4th, 2008 at 10:33 amAs of 2007, the city’s estimated population is 200,123, with a metropolitan area population of 1.1 million, making the Richmond Metropolitan Area the third largest metropolitan area in Virginia.
when did rove get out of jail?
September 4th, 2008 at 10:37 amI am at my wits end with all of this. It’s surreal. There is something terribly wrong with this country. 20 years ago the McCain campaign would be the laughing stock; they would be publicly shamed, denounced, and called out for their obvious lies and BS.
Today, they can lie with impunity, and the MSM and the pundits repeat these lies like loyal stenographers.
I’m just done with all this. I can’t read another article detailing the obvious lies and spin. It sickens me. I’m ashamed about the state of ignorance and greed in this country.
America is not going to last. It’s the 21st century and we haven’t evolved since 1825.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:44 amPailin must be exposed for what she is and how poor her qualifications are. There need to be a series of commercials direct at each of these weaknesses. This I would suggest as the first commercial:
Ms. Pailin was the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska for the period of 6 years. When Ms. Pailin became mayor there was no debt by the city. When Ms. Pailin left, the city was indebted to the amount of $22 million dollars. Ms. Pailin hired a Jack Abramoff connected lobbyist and procured more than $27 million in earmarks for her CITY OF 8490 (actual population at the time she was mayor.) She left the city without a properly working sewer system. Executive experience you can believe in.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:46 amjon stewart,
the anti-backup.
:)
good luck.
*
September 4th, 2008 at 10:46 amDevastating - Amazing how humor cuts through the BS like a warm knife through butter.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:47 amI can’t read another article detailing the obvious lies and spin. It sickens me. I’m ashamed about the state of ignorance and greed in this country.
Here’s an uplifting thought, though. The republican party right now is a little uppity pit bull that is unwittingly chewing on its own tail and will shortly devour itself. All of the unsuspecting people at the funeral — er, convention — this week are totally clueless about this. They have been sitting in the proverbial echo chamber for three days now.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:51 amThe sences was taken before palen had the bounty and arial shooting of wolve’s and bear’s in effect…It’s realy only 5,000 human type’s…..Blessings
September 4th, 2008 at 10:52 amIt’s the Harriet Miers effect all over again…
“She may not have the experience, but people will fall in love with her story”
September 4th, 2008 at 10:53 am> Why can’t we get Jon to write the speeches for the Dems
> so they could really skewer the rethugs with facts,
> but also get everyone to laugh at mccain/palin?
I really think most people giving Dems their ideas for ads are secretly working against them. I think its going to be hard as heck to get any traction until ALOT of old business contacts are purged. In my mind, 1/3 of dems are as corrupt as the bush mafia, 1/3 have no spine, and the other 1/3 are trying to do the right thing but are outnumbered about 6 to 1 and probably outmonied by ALOT greater ratio… the only big money people on the left are trial lawyers, unions and hollywood types…not exactly the most powerful opposing force against the military/industrial/media complex, huh?
September 4th, 2008 at 10:53 amMr Republic, I didn’t mean to, I swear I didn’t! No rumors about the Obama girls! They are so cute! But you are correct, good old Drudge would love it!
September 4th, 2008 at 10:54 amSarah Palin was Mayor of Wasilla from 1996 to 2001. The census of 2000 says Wasilla had a population of 5469.
Not that saying she ruled a village of 9700 is much of a bump in the resume, but just sayin…
September 4th, 2008 at 10:56 amOuch! I have whiplash. I’m off to the Chiropractor….
September 4th, 2008 at 10:57 amAnother thought:
“Executive experience” is a red herring in this election.
The real issue is leadership which is something entirely different. It is a unique combination of several qualities that have been sorely lacking in the Oval Office for the past eight years and neither McNumbNuts nor Failin’ Palin possess it.
Leadership is (1) openness to differing opinions; (2) ability to communicate and act upon a unifying vision; (3) absence of guile and selfishness; (4) a long-term perspective and collaborative spirit.
Frankly, there is only one person on both tickets who possess these qualities and that is Obama.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:58 am>The National Enquirer article on her affair
>should make sure the spot light is on the
> hypocrites big time.
Anyone know when this is hitting the stands? Isn’t the National Enquirer more widely read in the red states than Newsweek?
September 4th, 2008 at 11:00 amIOKIYAR, no? Of course.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:00 amThere is another commercial that needs to be done outside of the Obama campaign. It is a commercial set in the near future after Governor Pailin became VP and got her wish to outlaw all abortion even in the case of rape and incest.
A thirteen year old girl walks home after school in a quiet residential neighborhood. A car pulls up and a man asks for directions. The girl is kidnapped at knife point.
The next scene shows a distraught mother and father at a crime scene investigation in a rural area. A police officer assures them that their daughter is still alive although injured and dehydrated having been found two days after her kidnapping.
The next scene in a doctors office several weeks later. The daughter sits next to her mother looking bruised and extremely distraught. The doctor speaks:
“Your daughter was extremely lucky. She lost a fair amount of blood. There should be a few scars but she should fully recover. We checked and can confirm that there are no sexually transmitted diseases, although it will take longer to rule out AIDS. However, there is one other issue . . . Your daughter is pregnant.”
The daughter breaks down crying uncontrollably, her small body shaking uncontrollably. The mother speaks: “But of course we have to terminate this pregnancy. She is only 13 years old. You have seen how much the rape damaged her:
The doctor: “I am sorry but your daughter will have to bear this child. Obviously it will be hard on her at her age and may affect her future health. However, she would not be at risk of death. We can get her counseling to deal with the emotional impact, the recurring nightmares and the expected problems with what her classmates and strangers may think. However, the law is clear, NO ABORTION. You should be reminded that her failure to care for herself and fully nurture the fetus would be considered child endangerment.”
The girl loses all control a with the camera fading out focused on the child screaming at the to of her lungs: No, No, No,…
This is the future that candidate Pailin envisions for your children. The Republicans praise the choice that her daughter made. We respect that. However, candidate Pailin wants to take all choice away from all women no matter what the circumstances. Listen to her own words: Play bit where she states that she would not permit an abortion even if her own child were raped.
Pailin, just too extreme for America.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:03 amThe right wing is the master of situational ethics. If Sarah Palin was a Democrat, the right would be screaming bloody murder. At least Dr. Laura was true to form.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:07 amFractured Fairy Tales, featuring Senator Songbird & the Yukon Yuckster, now showing at your local RNC headquarters!
Folks, if you thought Rocky & Bullwinkle were a hoot, wait until you see these two! A laugh or a lie a minute will keep you in rapture until the real rapture comes.
Tune in tonight to see Senator Songbird’s new hit song, ‘I DON’T GET IT’, sure to be in the top 100 of all time lies.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:10 amNo one exposes GOP hypocrisy like Stewart and company.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:11 amTonyC Says
September 4th, 2008 at 10:53 am
It’s the Harriet Miers effect all over again…
“She may not have the experience, but people will fall in love with her story”
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Proving that the GOP marketers have all the grasp of reality that Ed Wood had when he saw his movie “Plan 9 From Outer Space” as his Citizen Kane masterpiece.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:17 amChocolate Jesus Says
September 4th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Isn’t the National Enquirer more widely read in the red states than Newsweek?
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Well yes — when they are exposing the sex life of a Democrat. Not only is it more widely read in the red states, it’s actually considered a legitimate news medium.
But I’m sure that when it begins picking on Palin, it will be back to being a supermarket rag.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:20 amJMOHR Says:
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September 4th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Believe JMOHR and VP Palin ( a VP is not a law maker, BTW ) have a basis for a compromise.
Based on the following numbers:
http://www.tnrtl.org/ human_life_issues/ human_life_issues_abortion_statistics.htm
bit would surmise the JMOHR and many ProLifers, including VP Palin, could also reach a compromise.
If JMOHR will give up the 93% then the ProLifers might just agree to the 1%.
Further, not all rape victims are thirteen-year-olds, and your scenario fails to consider the additional violence done to a woman by the abortion. This additional violence would be both physical and emotional. Either with the abortion or without the victim has to live with the results of what an irresponsible man did to her.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:24 amget over it bit bit, forcing a female to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term is FASCISM, period.
if you don’t want an abortion, don’t have one
stop trying to control other womens’ uteri
September 4th, 2008 at 11:35 amwhy would anyone assume the Tennessee Right to Lifers have defined the reasons for abortions in an inbiased manner?
September 4th, 2008 at 11:46 amSo bitblt offers a link to “Tennessee Right to Life” as support for his obsessive Christianist moralizing?
Is bitblt really trying to make a convincing argument, or is he just racking up McSame ‘08 points?
Looks like the latter to me.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:52 amdbadass, once again, you have beaten me to the punch with a pithier expression of a similar sentiment.
Drat.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:53 amdbadass Says:
why would anyone assume the Tennessee Right to Lifers have defined the reasons for abortions in an inbiased manner?
September 4th, 2008 at 11:46 am
bit wasn’t aware that anyone read TP for its “inbiased” views.
But, here’s the reference for the previously posted stat that 1% of abortions are for rape. Link actually puts the number of abortions due to rape at <0.5%.
Link has additional surveys on the 93% numbers.
http://www.nrlc.org/ abortion/ facts/ reasonsabortions.html
*Source: Lawrence Finer, et. al, “Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives” Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 37 No. 3 (Sept., 2005) p. 110.
Like bit said elsewhere on TP, people are going to believe what they want to believe. And, all behavior is based on belief.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:56 amThe idea that anyone that is anti-choice can also be called ‘pro-life’ is absurd.
They want to PUNISH the EXISTING life for having sex. They have no feeling of care for actual babies, only a pre-life fetus.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:57 amo, and btw, bit, 76% of abortions are NATURALLY CAUSED BY THE WOMAN’s OWN BODY
please TRY to get your facts correct
September 4th, 2008 at 11:58 amWhen it comes to spouting absolute bullshit Karl Rove has
September 4th, 2008 at 11:58 amachieved the modern day equivalancy of Baron Munchhausen.
If bitblt feels comfortable quoting anti-abortion organizations, I think it’s fair to balance that with the viewpoint of pro-choice organizations. I’m sure bitblt will give this the consideration it deserves.
bitblt’s link to the reasons why women have abortions may be good information; what’s not good is redefining those reasons as “birth control.”
September 4th, 2008 at 12:00 pmbit is on a roll here. He defends his use of an article from “Tennessee Right to Life” because TP is biased, and presumably, we should find all biased sources of information credible. is that how the thinking goes, bit?
But just for good measure, bit backs up his TRTL link with its source: National Right to Life.
There’s a diversity of opinion for ya.
ralph wonders if bit has fallen on hard times in the Bush economy, and now must depend on the McCain ‘08 “Spread the Word” campaign to furnish him with the mouse pads and beer cozies that bit used to pick up the 99 cents only store.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:02 pmbitblt Says:
Flagged for refering to itself in the third person.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:03 pmkrdaddy Says:
When it comes to spouting absolute bullshit Karl Rove has
achieved the modern day equivalancy of Baron Munchhausen.
Hey man, there’s really no need to insult the Good Baron like that, is there?
September 4th, 2008 at 12:04 pmralph wonders if bit has fallen on hard times in the Bush economy, and now must depend on the McCain ‘08 “Spread the Word” campaign to furnish him with the mouse pads and beer cozies that bit used to pick up the 99 cents only store.
Watch it Ralph! I may have to flag you for the same offense that I got bit for. I know you’re being sarcastic, but that is one of the WORST qualities of this troll - one of it’s ONLY distinguishing qualities, but a pile of dung nonetheless…
September 4th, 2008 at 12:06 pmI know, Tweedster, I know. It’s annoying, and one might say “elitist”.
But I choose to find it ridiculous and amusing when bit’s pomposity swamps his arguments. Which is almost all the time.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:09 pm“all behavior is based on belief.”
dbadass absolutely refutes this untrue statement and notices that when dbadass yawns while doing so others yawn as well. dbadass also knows that he is incapable of forming the number s in the air with his finger while rotating his foot in a clockwise manner no matter if he believe he can or can not
September 4th, 2008 at 12:10 pmdbadass believe that s should be 6
September 4th, 2008 at 12:15 pmralph hereby moves that we declare dbadass the official bitblt-eviscerator of TP.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:17 pmSeptember 4th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Let’s try this again, shall we?
I O C I Y R
… anyone?
.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:19 pmQUESTION:
September 4th, 2008 at 12:22 pmWhat does bitblt stand for…
(buti’mthebootlickingtroll)?
Her speech was totally without substance…a bunch of BS.
And she pointed out that all Americans are making more than 250K a year, seems how Obama is going to make those Americans pitch in a little bit more.
Liars and scum.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:38 pmToo bad Jon Stewart has more balls than the Democratic leadership.
September 4th, 2008 at 1:31 pmLast night on the Daily Show, host Jon Stewart skewered Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly for claiming Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is “a personal matter,” when last year he pointed the finger of blame at Jamie-Lynn Spears’ parents — “who obviously have little control over her”
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Stewart also pointed out Karl Rove’s radical inconsistency when he mocked Gov. Tim Kaine (D-VA) for being mayor of Richmond: “It’s not a big town.” Rove has since praised Palin’s executive experience as Mayor of Wasilla, population 9,700.
So then, apparently Republicans are hypocrites. Who knew?
http://progressiveworldreview.com
September 4th, 2008 at 1:56 pmBless you, Jon Stewart!! THIS should be the Obama/Biden ad…hands down.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:45 pmOceana has always been at war with Eurasia!
Oceana has always been at war with Eastasia!
Back and forth, the GOPers believe the statements as they occur without any remembrance of the previous statements.
Rove or O’Reilly, etc, could say exactly the opposite things in the very same viewing and the GOPer listeners (and journalists) would not blink and eye or detect the contradiction. Only the very latest item out of their mouths is heard and processed…and then only until the next item falls out.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pmYes..Obama’s daughter’s are adorable, seem respectful and kind.However, that didn’t stop McCain from calling them “little brats”. Yup, yup.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pmI’ve said of years that Karl Rove was a moron and this proves it. He will do or say anything to keep the GOP (Grandpa Oldfart’s Party)in power. I’m sure if elected McCain will bring Rove back to run the day to day operations for him. This man is lower than a snakes belly and beneath contempt. He has no morals and never has had any. He laughed when Sadam was hung, but he’ll find himself sitting right next to him in hell one day. Then Rove and Sadama will both look over at Dubya and say “Who woulda thonk it, old friends back together again”.
September 4th, 2008 at 3:47 pmBrilliant segment! MP3s are going up here.
September 4th, 2008 at 4:09 pmJMOHR Says:
Pailin must be exposed for what she is and how poor her qualifications are. There need to be a series of commercials direct at each of these weaknesses. This I would suggest as the first commercial:
Ms. Pailin was the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska for the period of 6 years. When Ms. Pailin became mayor there was no debt by the city. When Ms. Pailin left, the city was indebted to the amount of $22 million dollars. Ms. Pailin hired a Jack Abramoff connected lobbyist and procured more than $27 million in earmarks for her CITY OF 8490 (actual population at the time she was mayor.) She left the city without a properly working sewer system. Executive experience you can believe in.
Why, she’s GWB in a skirt!
September 4th, 2008 at 4:09 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
But I’m sure that when it begins picking on Palin, it will be back to being a supermarket rag.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Heck, the National Inquirer is the only paper that does actual investigative journalism anymore.
September 4th, 2008 at 4:18 pm