Jon Stewart Confirms His Radical Sympathies in Obama Interview
By Lachlan Markay | October 28, 2010 | 16:41
Last night's interview between Jon Stewart and President Obama was a far cry from their jovial encounter two years ago almost to the day. Instead of sounding like two kindred spirits yucking it up, there was quite a bit of tension between the two.
The interview certainly cemented Stewart's role as the nation's most popular liberal kool-aid sipper. Reality may have turned the post-partisan Obama into a political attack dog, but Stewart remains as naively liberal as ever.
An exchange towards the end of the segment captures the general attitude of the interview. Stewart pressed the president on why he hadn't worked harder to ram a lefty agenda into law - why he hand't been more audacious.
Obama's response: "My attitude is if we're making progress, step by step, inch by inch, day by day that we are being true to the spirit of that campaign."
Stewart was having none of it. He spent most of the interview wondering why Obama hadn't been able to implement all the joyously liberal legislation he discussed on the campaign trail. He bemoaned "the distance between what you ran on and what you delivered," and claimed that the agenda the administration has managed to get through "has felt timid at times."
Under "timid," read "not liberal enough." Stewart's complaint was that the Obama agenda has not come to completely dominate the national political scene. He's not concerned that perhaps the president has overreached. No, to the extent that there are problems with Obama's policies, they are due only to the fact that those policies are not far enough to the left.
Obama defended his record - though he admitted at times that it had been tainted by political forces - and laid the blame for his failures where he always does: Republican obstructionists, an impatient electorate, and George W. Bush.
Here's video of the full interview. Let us know what you think in the comments.
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Comments
Cowards on the far left.
Submitted by Phryj1 on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 6:46pm.
They can't admit that they are radical leftists. They have to lie and pass themselves off as moderate or centrist, because they know most people don't want radical leftists running this country. The lies are so pervasive at this point, many leftist have actually deluded themselves into believing they really are at the center. There have been a number of other stories on NB just today with hardline lefties trumpeting how moderate Obama is (and even complaining he's not enough of a leftist) and how the majority of Americans actually have progressive views, both outright lies.
As long as the left has a stranglehold on the media, they will be able to perpetuate this lie and present radical leftism as mainstream.
And Obama's comment: "My attitude is if we're making progress, step by step, inch by inch, day by day that we are being true to the spirit of that campaign." just shows how committed he is to the progressives' pursuit of slowly but surely pulling this country towards statist/socialism at any cost.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
It ain't working
Submitted by KC Mulville on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 6:09pm.
The ultimate dispute is that Stewart is asking Obama why it isn't working, and Obama claims that it is, just not fast enough. But the stimulus already came and went.
It's like the Fed ... they've already played every trick, and made every move they know how to do. What else can they do?
The economy's stuck because no one wants to make a move for fear of inevitable taxes, and Obama absolutely refuses to cut them for the very people who are holding back all the money. He refuses a tax cut, and reality promises a lot more taxes, for the one class of people who can unleash the economy. But Obama can't do it because he's spent his career arguing against tax cuts for the rich. It's a Mexican standoff, and Obama won't budge. Giving a tax cut to the people who are holding back for fear of higher taxes would offend Obama's egalitarianism to the bone. But he's got to prove to them that they can afford to invest the money and that Obama won't saw off the branch behind them.
The problem is that compounded by the fact that all of his spending has exacerbated the deficit, and he's going to need to raise taxes to repair the breach. He's damned if he does, and he's damned if he don't. So he's stuck there with no tools, no leverage, no mechanism to do anything. He went all-in and went bust, so he just sits at the table.
Jon Stewart may be radical
Submitted by Vonu on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 11:03pm.
but the signs being assembled for Saturday's Teabaggee Rally are shaping up to be rather tame. Look for these signs at the Million Mouth March:
"lets come together"
"Come together"
"Let's Come Together Now"
"Come Together, Now!"
Pretty good
Submitted by Mudkips on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 12:58am.
I thought it was a good interview. Showed you that Obama still doesn't get what he was elected to do. Explain to me what is so radical about Stewart's views? He's right, our health care and financial systems are broken and Obama's "bestest reform ever" was like putting band-aids on a gaping infected wound. And hell, I haven't heard ANYONE bring up Larry Summers to the president. Jon's right, Summers was pretty much THE WORST person they could have chosen for the job. Same with Geitner.
Rolling Stone, The View, Jon
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 7:24am.
Rolling Stone, The View, Jon Liebowitz, MTV -
But remember it's crazy to refer to Obama as a shallow, pop-culture president.
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Chris Matthews: The Joy Behar of MSNBC.
Bill Maher: The Joy Behar of HBO.
Paul Krugman: The Joy Behar of The New York Times.
I think he goes by the name
Submitted by arkansaszippers on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 8:59am.
I think he goes by the name "Jon Stewart." But I'm pretty sure everybody knows his given name. Can anybody tell me the point of calling him Liebowitz?
Weren't you going to take a few days off?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 9:06am.
That would be the prudent thing to do.
~....
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 9:40am.
Nope, I don't know what I'm talkin' 'bout. Nuh uh.
I've outed more retread ID's than I have fingers and toes, but I don't know WTF I'm talking about this time. Right.
AZ and Ted are NOT THE SAME PERSON.
Wait, did I miss something?
Submitted by arkansaszippers on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 9:59am.
Wait, did I miss something? It's really hard to keep up with what's going on without the tracking system anymore. Does anybody know if they're going to bring that back?
~Short and sweet
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 10:29am.
1. To put it mildly.
2. Yes, it is.
3. We haven't been given a definitive answer on that.
No. They are not bringing it back.
Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 11:40am.
So you might as well stick whatever libby.com website that birthed you Dead Zippers.
HA
Submitted by 76United on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 8:32am.
Best part was the audience laughing AT Obama when he said Summers did well. They laughed AT him, not with him.
Obama interview
Submitted by Airforce_5_O on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 9:39am.
Obama will not go and face the hard question right now before the mid-terms. In fact he hates going over to Fox and facing them at all.
Overall the interview was quite tame. Nothing hardball about it. Jon is a frustrated liberal and expressing that in his interview, that was about it.
This was not a funny Daily
Submitted by wiwf on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 10:37am.
This was not a funny Daily Show, and it left me disappointed.