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Jon Stewart Makes Racially Charged Joke at Herman Cain's Expense: He Doesn't 'Like to Read'

By Geoffrey Dickens | June 10, 2011 | 17:23

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It would be unfair to call Jon Stewart a racist but when he mocked GOP presidential contender Herman Cain as essentially an illiterate, on Thursday's show, it has to be asked wouldn't Stewart and his cronies at The Daily Show have satirized any sort of conservative talk show host, like a Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, as a bigot if they had joked that President Barack Obama didn't "like to read?"

After playing a clip of Cain promising to limit congressional bills to just three pages, Stewart attempted to impersonate Cain and then threw up a mock billboard that read: "HERMAN CAIN 2012 - I DON'T LIKE TO READ"

The following excerpt was aired on the June 9 edition of Comedy Central's The Daily Show:

JON STEWART: But while Pawlenty attempts to get us to face the problem inside us, candidate Herman Cain offers real solutions to fictional issues.

(Begin clip from June 6 speech)

HERMAN CAIN: Don't try to pass a 2700 page bill. You and I didn't have time to read it. We too busy trying to live, send our kids to school. But that's why I'm going to only allow small bills. Three pages. You'll have time to read to that one over the dinner table.

(End clip)

STEWART IMPERSONATING CAIN: "Bills will be three pages! If I am president treaties will have to fit on the back of a cereal box! From now on the State of the Union Address will be delivered in the form of a fortune cookie! I am Herman Cain and I do not like to read."

(On screen a mock billboard with Cain's face on it reads: "HERMAN CAIN 2012 - I DON'T LIKE TO READ")

STEWART: We'll be right back.

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The argument could be made diametrically opposite

Submitted by Kingfish17 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 5:29pm.

Three page bill - Anyone could read it

Three-Thousand page bill - No one would read it

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"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama

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Why bother?

Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 5:37pm.

Three pages or three thousand pages.  As Nancy Pelosi said, "we have to pass it first so we can find out what's in it!"

Truth is, these morons in Congress couldn't do a grocery shopping list in less than 2000 pages.

Can't you just see what the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence would look like if this current crop of "geniuses" had written them?  It would take 20 tractor trailer loads of paper to move one copy! 

Comrade Bubba
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You mean kinda like an OSHA

Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 1:03am.

You mean kinda like an OSHA drawing of a sawhorse???? Or maybe the US tax code???? I like the way Cain thinks.............but, of course, I'm a simpleton, and I've got no 'nuance' or 'hubris' or 'gravitas'. But I DO have 'common sense'...............which is something that the majority of these idiots wouldn't know if it hit them between their beady little eyes!!!!

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That's exactly the point.

Submitted by jarand550 on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 8:52am.

That's exactly the point.

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Like the Dragon Lady said...

Submitted by bigdaddy on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 5:39pm.

..."We have to pass the bill so we can find out what's in it"...

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Herman Cain has degrees in mathematics and computer science

Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 5:37pm.

John Stewart is an idiot a-hole of the first order, and would be clobbered by the Hermanator in a one-on-one debate.

And I think limiting bills to three pages is an excellent idea, as it will be easy to spot all the extra-constitutional BS that gets tucked way in the back of those hideous two thousand page monstrosities that nobody ever reads until it's too late.

Bills like ObamaCare.

-Dave

Vote for the American in November

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Some of those bills have to

Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 10:02pm.

Some of those bills have to include language defining words and concepts so they will not be misunderstood. However, I do believe the pork and add ons should be sidelined.

Nuke em til they glow; then shoot em in the dark
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A rule of thumb...

Submitted by apf2 on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 9:59am.

If you can't say it concisely then you don't know what you're talking about.

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This wasn't racial and is reaching.

Submitted by Coderaven on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 5:49pm.

this was a response to a comment he gave about 3 page bills, which isn't true. Cain is just talking out his ass like all polticains to some of his base.

2000 is way to much and Cain is correct that they need to be shorten, but three was kinda out there and unrealistic and he got called on it.

This site does a great job of finding these libs in the media but this isn't it.

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Actually,

Submitted by retrocon on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 5:55pm.

three pages is not at all unrealistic for a federal law. The federal government has no business getting any more detailed about our lives than that.

Detail should be left to the local governments, who know us and where we live.

Look at the US Constitution, the document that established the most successful country in the world, and i can read the entire thing, plus amendments, in about 10 minutes.

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I will agree to

Submitted by Coderaven on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 6:01pm.

I will agree to disagree.

this seems a bit subjective, but I am sure there are several needed federal bills that can't fit on three pages.

The truth is we need pork removed from these bills and we need them as simple as they can be, but declaring they be three pages is a lot lik giving a time line on a war.

Things need to be as long as the need to be to get it right. Setting a limit is silly and pandering to ones base.

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Coderaven.

Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 6:54pm.

Think of each of the Bill of Rights  amendments as a "federal bill."  They all seem to get it pretty well said in less than three sentences each!

If the federal government would get out of the business of micro-managing the lesser jurisdictions, they could get it done in less than three pages.

Comrade Bubba
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This country was founded on a document that was only 6 pages...

Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 6:02pm.

...long.

As such, three pages for a federal law should be a snap, as federal laws aren't supposed to be the complex monstrosities dripping with legalese they have become in the first place.

-Dave

Vote for the American in November

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Agree, and consider this...

Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 8:35pm.

Once a bill is passed it becomes necessary for the various Departments to implement it. I think it’s reasonable to assume that each sentence of every bill requires at least ten pages of Departmental regulatory language to explain and enforce (and that’s being generous).

Now if you buy into that basic premise. A two-thousand page bill (at 10 pages per every page – not sentence) will require two-hundred thousand pages of bureaucratese to explain… I honestly don’t have the time to go though that much.

- Grump :o)

"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question." - Yogi Berra, (Baseball Great and Philosopher)
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"they need to be shorten"

Submitted by hbnolikeee on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 10:00pm.

The word is shortened. Cain's argument is called reductio ad absurdum. Look it up.

Example follows:

Proposition: "Raising taxation rates always results in increased tax revenue."

Reductio ad absurdum argument: "If taxes were raised to 100% of income, individuals would not work, and companies would not operate, resulting in zero income, and thus zero tax. That is considerably less than current tax income, thus the proposition is false."

hbnolikeee
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Actually, ad absurdum is a logical fallacy...

Submitted by apf2 on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 10:16am.

Meaning it is not a valid way to undermine the validity of another statement.

I will say that while 3 may be too small a limit and 2700 is OBVIOUSLY too big. I think a limit is a very good idea and I would support having one decidedly closer to three pages than to 2700!

If you can't be concise then you either don't know what you are saying or don't want anyone else to know!

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@raven

Submitted by Samshile on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 1:11am.

It was an illustrative point Mr Literate!

Samshile
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Racist?

Submitted by retrocon on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 5:48pm.

Stewart?

Never!

Just because they treat Obama as if he really came from the seed of anyone who was ever oppressed in this country (which he didn't), it doesn't mean that they aren't bigoted, just that they found an African-American without the slave roots, so it's ok to worship him. Heck, he's just another politician with family roots from another continent.

No, i'm not kidding, i really believe that the elitists on the left have NO respect for African Americans with slave roots. They can't, look at how they hate Clarence Thomas, Cain, and just about any politically successful black American (all the conservatives, anyway, but there are far more successful black conservatives than liberals). And, they really do an embarrassing job of putting Sharpton and Jackson out there, knowing they come off as clowns.

No, the elitist left are the most racist individuals in this country, after all, they are the party of the KKK, the architects of the inner city slums, and the engineers of welfare dependency.

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Exactly!

Submitted by apf2 on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 10:25am.

Truth be told, the vast majority of blacks and other minorities at liberal social events are servers. And in liberal politics most serve the same roll.

It's time to take race out of politics. No more liberal "protected groups". No more pandering for votes using Government give-a-ways to special interest groups (racial, perversion, and ideology). It's time to shine a bright light on the dark practices of the left and bring real equality into practice.

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Sorry, but Cain made the

Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 5:52pm.

Sorry, but Cain made the statement that bills shouldn't be more than three pages long cause he doesn't like to read them. If you have a problem it should be with a candidate who makes such inane statements not for a comic for whom this is comic gold. It's one thing for Cain to rightfully say a 2700 bill that no one's read would never be presented to the Congress for passage; nor would such a bill be signed by him. But for Cain to go to the exact opposite extreme and say he wouldn't support a bill longer than three pages cause he won't read it, is just as crazy.

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eaglewingz

Submitted by Hoosier Conservative on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 5:58pm.

ahem

Marxists can't be good scientists? -troglodyte
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Hoosier---

Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 6:12pm.

Very nice!   :o)

MD

"The credibility of the story is undermined by the selection of sources." - (h/t Jer)
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Nice shot.

Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 6:56pm.

Hoosier Daddy?

Comrade Bubba
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I also heard Cain give a VERY

Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 1:05am.

I also heard Cain give a VERY easy-to-understand answer to a typical dumb-ass PC question about whether he would appoint any Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooslems to the courts.
His answer is guaranteed to make the PC libs and apologists apoplectic!!!! Which, of course, is wny I enjoyed it so much!!!

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Yeah, Killa.

Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 10:59am.

I'm a simple minded dolt like you, so Herman Cain makes perfect sense to me.

I spent my working life watching "intelligent" people study the living shiite out of the simplest problems in the name of "efficiency."  Not once did I hear one of these geniuses say anything about "effectiveness."

Truth is, most of them, including Obama, ain't that bright.  They just seem bright to the morons who swoon at their "thoughtfulness."  Fact is they drag things out until everyone forgets about it, or someone else (like a SEAL team commander) just goes ahead and does the job.  That way, if it's a success, Bambi gets the credit, but if it goes to hell guess who gets blamed?

Yeah, I like simple, effective, and too the frigging point.  "Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way."  That's as "nuanced" as I get.

Herman may be the man.

Comrade Bubba
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Why

Submitted by retrocon on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 6:01pm.

Why are folks on this blog, who i would consider conservatives, so quick to dismiss 3 page limits on laws.

It's exactly what we need, it's not only possible but desirable.

As i stated earlier, the federal government has NO business putting more than three pages of detail into any law, that's for local governments. Even the tax law shouldn't be any more than 3 pages, neither should the entire charter and laws establishing the EPA. Heck, it would only take 1 page to dissolve departments like education, labor, HUD, etc. And one sentence for congress to correct the false claim that congress can "delegate" printing money to the federal reserve, which is not something allowed in the Constitution, BTW.

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Well as we have seen over and over again

Submitted by gmaniac1 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 9:36pm.

a lot of posters here aren't truly conservative. They act conservative to throw out their liberal ideas.

Cain can read better than Obama can lead!

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He can also TALK better than

Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 1:11am.

He can also TALK better than Boy O'Blunder, as well as make MORE SENSE, and be MORE UNDERSTANDABLE!!! And, of course, he's a REAL 'black guy'.........with legitimate history in the American experience..............which is something that FUBO can't even approach, even WITH all of his phony-ass made-up stories and lies.

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Try again. Cain said, "You

Submitted by HockeyKid on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 8:24am.

Try again. Cain said, "You and I didn't have time to read it." Lack of opportunity has nothing to do with lack of desire.

Clearly, though, you don't like to read; otherwise you wouldn't have tried to make that point.  See how this works now?

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

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What the heck is the problem with being

Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 8:35am.

Concise and precise?

Seek Truth, Defend Liberty
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Jeez, Boudin, you dont' get

Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 2:24pm.

Jeez, Boudin, you dont' get it, do you??? The LAST thing these libs want to be able to do is to make any sense.............how can they be 'nuanced' and have 'gravitas' and sound 'important' if they give a straight answer??? It would blow their cover to bits!!! When's the last time you ever heard Boy O'Barry give a straight answer to anything???

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John Stewart

Submitted by Hausmaus on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 12:44pm.

John Stewart is not a comedian, he is an "Specialist in Insults". His pseudo-expertise evolved out of his enourmous desire for fecal matter. I don't watch John Stewart because I don't like him, I don't watch him for fear that my screen would turn to human excrement. A pile of horse manure would be more appealing, and perhaps desirable than to watch John Stewart open his pie hole, and start sounding like he belongs on planet Earth.

Hausmaus
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Yes, but how do you feel

Submitted by balboa on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 4:10pm.

Yes, but how do you feel about him?

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Prolly about the same that people feel about cop killer lovers.

Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 4:28pm.

Ring Ring.

 Who's there?

Asata.

Asata who?

It's me, Asata. You know, the one that spewed her propaganda all over the web. The propaganda you slopped up with a baby spoon? You know, Asata the cop killer that to this day you will not provide the tiniest bit of evidence after saying you believed I was innocent.

Oh, that Asata. Hang on, I am on the other line with by good buddy Mumia.

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Cheap shot.

Submitted by Phryj1 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 6:08pm.

Herman Cain makes a valid point about congressional bills being too big and the need to avoid thousand page behemoths that no one reads before they pass it, and partisan-hack Stewart twists it into Cain saying "I don't like to read."

First of all, isn't that RACIST? As frequently as remarks from conservatives are claimed to be racist, with certain leftist talking heads considering even completely innocuous statements some kind of 'coded racism', it shows a pretty glaring double-standard when something that would get a conservative fired is A-OK when it comes from Jon Stewart.

Second, the main reason we need shorter bills is because of DEMOCRATS who don't bother to read encyclopedia sized messes like Obamacare and the stimulus before they vote for them. In other words, it's the Dems that don't like to read. Particularly, they seem to have a problem with the Constitution.

Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.

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→ Jon Stewart

Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 6:12pm.

I think the message Stewart is trying to put forth is that only a totally confusing bill is worthy of publication.

I haven't noticed, but has Balboa been in here yet to say "It's comedy!!!"

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This article about Stewart is

Submitted by balboa on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 6:54pm.

This article about Stewart is too dumb for words.

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Gee.

Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 6:56pm.

That puts it right up there with Obamacare!

Comrade Bubba
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I agree, Bal

Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 7:04pm.

It's true that Liberals will reach for any possible comment to construe as racist in order to show themselves as champions of those they consider helpless and incompetent.

I say we move on to Barbara Walters' absolute worship of Anthony Weiner's member on The View.

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balboa

Submitted by well99 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 7:49pm.

Do I think Stewie is a racist no.Do I think he would call a conservative one for saying the same thing.In a heart beat.Because that is how he rolls.Actually 3 pages is a good idea.The only reason they have long bills is to sneak thru stuff that would possibly be voted down.

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According to the liberal dolts' definition of racism

Submitted by gmaniac1 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 9:43pm.

Jon Stewage is very racist. There's one problem though, Cain is a black conservative;)

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gman

Submitted by well99 on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 4:08am.

That is why I don't pay attention to most liberals.There are some who have no values.Well there is a hell of a lot.Anyhow Stewie is a hypocrite but don't believe he is a racist.

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I agree but he'd be one of the first to point out

Submitted by gmaniac1 on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 6:18am.

a conservative is a racist for a similar charge. The problem with these cry wolf tactics by the left is that when real racism happens people are going to be desensitized to it. The same goes with rape. As always the left does more harm than good; Tawanna Brawley comes to mind on both.

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gmaniaci

Submitted by well99 on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 7:44pm.

Exactly.They have cheapened the meaning behind the word.Now it is used to try to stop others from voicing a different opinion.

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Zydokomuno.

Submitted by Xpat48 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 6:51pm.

Stewart is the liberal Zydokomuno.

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Go for it!

Submitted by Kingfish17 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 7:04pm.

I'd love to see the conservative media go after Stewart the same way all media went after Imas.  Is it fair?  Is it right?

I don't care. 

Hoisted on their own petard of race card playing.

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"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama

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this is a reach

Submitted by OffTheLows on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 7:19pm.

I don't think it's very funny for Stewart to mock the idea of keeping bills simple, especially with regulatory measures. Shorter the bill, the less costly the compliance. It also would be a good idea to condition politicians, so maybe they can exercise that simplicity with the tax code. But the racist implication is sort of a stretch we'd often see with Olbermann, so it's best not to give guys like KO an excuse on that front.

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OffTheLows---

Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 7:36pm.

You make decent points.

I think, though, that the "racist implication",  while a stretch,  is a good way of bending the liberal wrist backwards so the inanity of the race baiting finger pointing is turned back onto them.

If conservatives had started doing that thirty years ago, the tactic of using race as a bludgeon would likely have been eradicated by now.

MD

"The credibility of the story is undermined by the selection of sources." - (h/t Jer)
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No race

Submitted by GregE on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 8:34pm.

It had nothing to do with race. Yes, the leftist media would have said that if it was a conservative saying it about Obama or another black politician, but that's how they roll as often as they can.

Cain should not have any absolute number, much less something so small as "3 pages."

I know this topic is about what Stewart said, but as a Cain supporter, I don't know why he would put an absolute number out there. Simply say those 2700 page bills are ridiculous and say something like even 5-10% of that is high enough. Stay away from gotcha statements like "3 pages." Number 1, it won't happen, period. Number 2, it's a sound bite to be used to ridicule him, and its one he could have easily avoided and missed the boat.

Sorry to say, but this is going to get used against him bigger than it really should.

Aside from that, and speaking strictly to the comedy of Stewart's response..........that was pretty funny!

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Moronic

Submitted by bob loblaw on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 8:45pm.

Plain and simple, there is no racial connotations in what Stewart said. And he didn't call him illiterate, if so he would have said "Herman Cain 2012- I can't read" Now if Stewart starts calling Herman Cain, "an angry black man", or plays, Herman the magic negro, than by all means call Stewart a racist.

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→ Thanks for your input lowblow

Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 10:03pm.

You're right. The LA Times columnist who called Barack Obama a "magic negro" shouldn't have made a buffoon out of him.

And liberals should have complained vociferously when the LA Times columnist called Barack Obama a "magic negro"

But liberals didn't, and you didn't.  Now, you take umbrage?  Two-faced.

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Gee, all I had to do was ask who Obama is and where he came

Submitted by hbnolikeee on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 10:07pm.

from to be labelled a racist. So your suggestion of when to call someone a racist, based on my experience and that of most Americans that don't have their heads up their colons is nonsense.

hbnolikeee
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What Jon Stewart did was in

Submitted by bob loblaw on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 11:50pm.

What Jon Stewart did was in no way, shape, or form racist. People can be critical and make fun of Obama, without being racist. Some of the things that have been label racist by some, I didn't think was, but there were also things that did seem racial. I think a lot of the 'birther' issue had to do with Obama's race, and background.

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Whoops.

Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 12:14am.

Forgot to fill in the subject line again Dead Zippers.

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Of course you do....

Submitted by ckc1227 on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 12:44pm.

" I think a lot of the 'birther' issue had to do with Obama's race, and background."

You're an idiot, lol.

As for it being based on his background, I have one word for you: DUH!


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Off the hook

Submitted by nkviking75 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 10:43pm.

Stewart is off the hook for two reasons:

1) Cain is conservative and therefore not really black.

2) Cain is conservative and therefore stupid. (See "Sarah Palin")

From the Liberal Rulebook

“Always love your country — but never trust your government!" -- Bob Novak (1931-2009)

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

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what is more racist

Submitted by dmaley1714 on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 11:52pm.

Rush Limbaugh doing a chinese imitation or Jon Stewart using his pretend black voice. If this was a conservative he would be done.

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Jon Stewart has made a fool out of himself for the 2700th time!

Submitted by freedomguardian on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 12:52am.

Who can't read?

Herman Cain has read more in his life than you ever will Mr. Stewart.

He graduated from Morehouse College in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and received a Master of Science degree in computer science from Purdue University in 1971, while he was also working full-time in ballistics for the U.S. Department of the Navy. Cain has authored four books: Leadership is Common Sense (1997), Speak as a Leader (1999), CEO of SELF (October 2001), and They Think You're Stupid (May 2005).

-- from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Cain

Ready for a laugh!!! Let's see how John Steward compares:

Stewart graduated in 1984 from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, where he majored in psychology and played on the soccer team. While at W&M, Stewart became a brother of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. After college, Stewart held numerous jobs. He was a contingency planner for the New Jersey Department of Human Services, a contract administrator for the City University of New York, a puppeteer for children with disabilities, a caterer, a busboy, a shelf stocker at Woolworth's, and a bartender at the Franklin Corner Tavern, a local blue-collar bar. In college, Stewart was friends with future Congressman Anthony Weiner, who is the only politician to have received campaign donations from Stewart.

-- from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stewart

Did Weiner send you a signed picture for your donation?

 

 

 

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freedomguardian, Congratulati

Submitted by big.league.slider on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 1:43am.

freedomguardian,

Congratulations. In one blog post, you have done more investigative reporting on this issue of racism in the American media than the entire collective resources of CBS, NBC, ABC, NPR, PBS, NYT, WP, and CNN combined.

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Edit

Submitted by Jseitler on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 10:05am.

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I have two left feet.  It's not bad enough that I can't dance; now I have to wear flip-flips.
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I called it when I watched the show...

Submitted by Jseitler on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 2:26am.

This is EXACTLY what I said to my wife when I saw the show last night. I paused the DVR and said to her, "If this was a conservative program and Cain was a black liberal, you better believe that airwaves from coast to coast, news and entertainment shows alike, would be railing against the "horribly racist" comment made by a "horribly racist conservative". Anymore, I throw my hands up. I'm still only in my mid 20's, and I just have my mind blown at the fact that adult professionals across the country cannot admit to such an obvious bias and double-standard when it comes to politics. Either they have convinced themselves that the hypocrisy doesn't exist, or they just believe that they have the rest of us convinced.

I have two left feet.  It's not bad enough that I can't dance; now I have to wear flip-flips.
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Racially charged? I don't think so.

Submitted by Superman on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 3:38am.

I don't see anything racial about what Jon Stewart said about Herman Cain.

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I think you missed the point

Submitted by sentry_99 on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 6:16am.

Maybe reading past the headline would have helped.

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It was a straight forward

Submitted by tombaker on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 5:21am.

It was a straight forward joke about 3 pages....like a joke one would make about a boss that just wants to see the Executive Summary. Dilbert stuff. If you want to view it as if you are a card carrying member of DailyKos....you choose to not see Dilbert, you want to see the race card. Yawn.

Nothing racist about it, calling racist is just another liberal technique, why Newsbusters is stooping over to match the quality of critique by Media Matters is beyond me.

I have long thought that the best way to doing bills is by splitting them up into reasonable chunks and voting them in or not. Somehow DC thinks they can do a single giant bill.

So I agree with Cain. I don't think he is so thin skinned as Palin to need a gaggle of cheerleaders to defend him. I trust that Cain will modify his message to not fall in to such a simplistic angle as was Stewarts. Palin needs supporters to all agree to put her in a glass case, so as no reporters can ask a "gotcha" question.

I think a Max of 20 Pages could work, with anything larger needing to be broken down into groups. Nothing wrong with doing a set of 5 bills together.

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Palin thinned skinned?

Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 11:51am.

The libtards move in next door, sift through her garbage, make lewd jokes about her Daughters, make up quotes to get folks to hate her. But she has thin skin.

You may as well jump on the libtard bandwagon, you sound just like em!

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Indeed

Submitted by Free Stinker on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 11:58am.

And allow me to add, thin skinned people don't go on Saturday Night Live. That's why Obama didn't appear, but Palin did.

 

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Tom Parrot, now in 3rd place

Submitted by Free Stinker on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 11:59am.

Tom Parrot, you should be aware that a new PDS Troll has taken your spot as the 2nd worst PDS case after PoopTech.

 

   /// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 ///    خال

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Free---

Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 9:10pm.

If the thread subject was hummingbirds, making ice cubes, or changing the oil in your car, this pos would find a reason to somehow disrespect Sarah Palin, regardless of the theme.

Thing is, the dumb ass just can't admit to having AMBPDS.*

MD

* Acute Mind Blowing Palin Derangement Syndrome

"The credibility of the story is undermined by the selection of sources." - (h/t Jer)
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MD

Submitted by Free Stinker on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 9:32pm.

ROFL! Nice acronym

 

   /// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 ///    خال

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I'm beginning to think that...

Submitted by Rukus on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 10:49pm.

PT is paying him to do his bidding. He is a misogynist, PDS ridden, Pop Tech wannabe, Palin troll. Makes me wanna puke, what a frellin' tool! Disgusting doesn't do him right. I'm beginning to miss PT, and that is sad... sigh.

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Take 2

Submitted by sentry_99 on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 6:15am.

I believe you also missed the point.

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Eventually

Submitted by HockeyKid on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 8:34am.

the whole point of this article might start to sink in for some of the posters here. But maybe not. In the meantime, let's sit back and see how many more clueless participants offer the opinion that there's nothing racist in Stewart's comments. (or argue with me because they think I'm saying there IS...)

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I agree, they don't like to read

Submitted by sentry_99 on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 8:38am.

At least past the headline. I thought the point was apparent in the first paragraph. That's lots o words though.

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Stewart

Submitted by jessieH on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 9:32am.

Hey, cut the guy some slack. He's trying to be funny. He's failing but he's trying. If this is the best they can come up with, Cain's a shoe-in.

                                                                                                                                                                    

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It didn't seem racially

Submitted by wiwf on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 11:28am.

It didn't seem racially charged to me. Anyone could have made the comment that they don't like to read. I found it to be very funny!

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I like Stewart

Submitted by Conservator on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 2:14pm.

But if any conservative used an African American accent to imply a black man was illiterate, I'm certain the lefties would immediately accuse him/her of being a racist.

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→ Maybe not, wiwf

Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 2:18pm.

But couple it with Maher's observation that "Gingrich couldn't even beat a black guy" (or words to that effect), and you have a growing mosaic of a racist.

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Say what, Cool?

Submitted by Jer on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 11:15pm.

Two different comments uttered by different persons meld together to create "a growing mosaic of a racist".

You've lost me.

Jer

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Submitted by Jer on Sat, 06/11/2011 - 11:13pm.

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