It appears the good folks at Comedy Central noticed the same thing that many on the right have been saying for many months: Barack Obama's vision of hope and change when distilled down is actually nothing new.
In fact, according to "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, parts of Obama's inaugural address Tuesday sounded like what George W. Bush has been telling the nation for eight years.
Strap yourselves in tightly, for Stewart in the video embedded below the fold went where no Obama-loving media member would dare (h/t our dear friend MsUnderestimated):
So much for hope and change, huh?
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Saw this last night. Very
January 21, 2009 - 10:27 ET by balboaSaw this last night. Very funny stuff!
Chris Rock said in an interview that there's not much comedians can make fun of about Obama...yet. He made a good point, I thought, that it's such a moment in history right now, but that as all politicians do, he'll make some mistake that comedians will climb all over.
Well they'll basically have
January 21, 2009 - 10:39 ET by taterWell they'll basically have to, or else be out of a job.
It may be sad to say but comedians are probably way more objective than "journalists".
www.theholyrosary.org
"There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we can not resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary." -Sister Lucia
Are you really saying ..
January 21, 2009 - 10:46 ET by legacyrepublicanTater,
Are you really saying that comedians who don't make the cut become journalists? Hmmm ;)
Pretty much sums it up
January 21, 2009 - 10:49 ET by bpjamThe Messiah said it so now liberals can finally agree with terrorism is bad and freedom is good.
(of course, they know He really doesn't believe it either so it's okay)
Not even liberals really believe that The One believes any of that stuff about 'change' or 'tax cuts'. The point was just to get the power and then america could just learn to deal with its disappointment afterwards.
We shall see
January 21, 2009 - 11:49 ET by kdizzydazeI, for one, am not holding my breath. Personally, I believe that the fun poking will be rather vanilla (no pun intended).
Not to mention that I will be shocked if any comedian makes fun of Obama without reverting back to some joke that makes former President Bush look worse. Just watch.
God made man, but he used a monkey to do it -- DEVO
There is PLENTY to make fun of
January 21, 2009 - 12:46 ET by Guy Arthur ThomasBalbozo, Balbozo
There is PLENTY to make fun of. Spineless types like you of course baaaaa like a good sheep and go along with anything people like Chris Rock claim since you've never bothered to develop your own thoughts. Nothing new, you're another "useful idiot".
The fact is people like Chris Rock and most comedians don't WANT to make fun and won't. They are prejudiced by their politics which makes them pretty much like you, someone who wants to have one part of their ass on one side of the fence and the other half on the other side while claiming some intellectual virture as the fence post goes further up their ass to their brain.
Now at some point they will be forced to mock Obama's idiocy but the excuse that there is "nothing" to make fun of...is just a joke on "useful idiots" like you.
Reality is the good friend of the strong and perception is the cruel master of the weak.
Next Please!
Another out of work comedian
January 21, 2009 - 14:57 ET by mvfreemanSince you seem to think there is PLENTY to make fun of why don't you give us a few things that the right comedian could turn into comedy gold.
Right now "O" has higher poll numbers than either Bush or Clinton did.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123196999580982953.html
So cracking wise on a president who has been in office for all of 24 hrs is not exactly a great career move for any comedian.
At the moment anything classless, peurile, or sophomoric isn't going to go over reall well with anything less than a highly partisan conservative crowd. So any comedian playing to a national audience could try to make fun but it probably wouldn't go over too well.
And lobbing personal insults at some one because they have a different opinion isn't exactly being a class act.
Everyone is prejudiced by their politics, including you. If you think you aren't you might want to try pulling something out of your ass.
See, you think you
January 21, 2009 - 16:15 ET by balboaSee, you think you understand how comedy works, but you'd be -- once again -- mistaken.
Poor fella.
I don't think BARRKY means it either ...
January 21, 2009 - 10:44 ET by Jayke... God, peace, freedom, prosperity -- WHO NEEDS THEM? Libs just want POWER!
How do you say ...
January 21, 2009 - 10:44 ET by legacyrepublicanHow do you say a McBush speech in Kenyian?
Funneeeeee!
January 21, 2009 - 10:45 ET by heldmyw"Hope, Day One", and Hopey McChangeyPants gets his rhetoric stuck in the wringer!
It's all downhill from here, folks!
Credit where credit is due
January 21, 2009 - 10:54 ET by KC MulvilleMy thanks to Jon Stewart and his show ... he's right. It's what we've been saying for a while, but at least he had the guts to air it.
Meet the new boss; Same as the old boss
I am certain
January 21, 2009 - 11:53 ET by kdizzydazethat script was pre-approved by the Soros foundation (aka the democrat party).
Much like verything else about this scripted savior.
God made man, but he used a monkey to do it -- DEVO
Unfortunately, I don't
January 21, 2009 - 11:18 ET by lotrUnfortunately, I don't think Jon-boy was meaning to exonerate Bush on this comparison; on the contrary, I think he was poking a jab at Obama, for the Pop-Left's hatred of Bush waxes hotter than their love of Barack.
And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Nope
January 21, 2009 - 11:20 ET by 10ksnookerThat Obummer clinker of a speech was nowhere hear as good as Bush's.
I like how the usually
January 21, 2009 - 11:43 ET by eugeneromeroI like how the usually jubilant and oft-approving Stewart crowd went silent once they figured out it was a jab at their king. Jon better not keep this up or he'll soon be alienating his followers and advertisers ($$$). Maybe he'll do an about-face ala Dennis miller.
I think it's funny
January 21, 2009 - 11:48 ET by dammitIf any of the worshipers were actualy listening to his words, there must have been a giant (WTF). I was hearing some of the words of Ronald Reagan and W. Even George Washington. Very little new material.
If It Is To Be, It Is Up To Me
I may not be that old, but
January 22, 2009 - 12:24 ET by Lord ElicaniI may not be that old, but I am a student of history. I heard echos of Reagan, Kennedy and a bit of Dubya in the speech. Mostly sounded like he was trying to be both Reagan and JFK, and came off worse than either.
I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
- Queensrÿche, "Revolution Calling"
"Barack Obama's vision of
January 21, 2009 - 11:59 ET by Chris Norman"Barack Obama's vision of hope and change when distilled down is actually nothing new."
It's not like everyone else (with the exception of Jimmy Carter maybe) has promised us despair and stagnation.
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
You want some "malaise" on
January 21, 2009 - 16:05 ET by ahusserthat dispair and stagnation.
Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster
Stewart has nothing to
January 21, 2009 - 12:04 ET by ckc1227Stewart has nothing to worry about. It's not what he says that matters, it's what he does. I suspect the Stewarts of the left will be pleased once Obama starts doing instead of talking.
"Libs never let you down. You don't have to talk to one very long before the stupid comes out."
Cheese on Chinese food =
January 21, 2009 - 12:11 ET by SickofLibsCheese on Chinese food = disgusting.
Now that was funny.
At least he had the stones to say what we saw. . .
January 21, 2009 - 12:14 ET by CKA in Red State USAAnd that was a creation of the advocacy/adversary media who's speech was derivative.
But it was POTUSBO first official flip-flop. He acknowledged things that President Bush as been saying but that he, Obama, had criticized.
America's in for more that it can possibly imagine with the socialist/Marxists aboritonist-in-chief who is in water way over his head.
But we all know he believes his rhetoric and ability to read a teleprompter will save the day.
No! No! No!
January 21, 2009 - 13:22 ET by okiehawk44President Obama has nothing to fear from those he assumed to be his adversaries. He will relish assistance from those few Republicans who will remain in the House & Senate after the 2010 elections in his battles with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid et al.
Everyone thinks they are owed a piece of this President -- not enough to go around and he is already disappointing some.
This is day 2!
Well, well. well
January 21, 2009 - 13:27 ET by jdubyaGosh, now that Johnny JohnJohn S got his beloved one into office, it is pretty funny to see how the glow has left so quickly.
It is as if the golden colonic he so depserately desired came to fruition only the water was frigid, and it wasn't a colonic it was a firehose, and it wasn't his fantasy teenage enema nurse in bondage, it was a fat lady singing her favorite Hitler youth song as she administered his "justice".
The next four years will be a laugh riot, while we're standing in line waiting for shoes or toilet paper or, or whatever the national redistribution party is passing out.
To jdubya
January 21, 2009 - 13:55 ET by ekslibwho wrote; "while we're standing in line waiting for shoes or toilet paper or, or whatever the national redistribution party is passing out."
I hope they let us keep our cell phones, so we can keep in touch with our family members while we spend so much time away from home.
This video is helpful
January 21, 2009 - 13:53 ET by ekslibA few open-minded libs might realize that Obama's speeches are a mishmash.
Bush's speeches had a core message.
Stewart
January 21, 2009 - 15:28 ET by slickwillie2001I'm sure Stewart will correct course shortly. His audience is mostly ignorant liberals and he will lose them if he treats Obammy as he has Republicans in general. Perhaps all his regular jokewriters were at the immaculation and unavailable for work, and the one conservative writer got his material on the air for the first time. It won't happen again.