Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Talk About Politics for a Change
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert wax political to Entertainment Weekly about Sarah Palin, John McCain and Barack "Hope-ronaut" Obama…
Jon, you've had McCain on your show 14 times and have spoken fondly of him. Do you think he's changed as a candidate as the election has gotten closer?
STEWART: I think it's somewhat inevitable. The most interesting moment to me was the difference in protocol when he came on the show in May, after he was the [presumptive] Republican nominee. The minute you are your party's nominee, you are a museum piece that is shuffled around by guys in earpieces. You are spectacularly managed. And I just felt the difference. When you were walking down the hallway, you were now walking into history, as opposed to going and seeing this guy that comes on your show and is a senator and has a sharp sense of humor.
So that inevitably changes a person. Once you are surrounded by people who have sworn to take a bullet for you even though they don't know you, I think you've gotta be feeling pretty good about yourself at that moment.
COLBERT: Jon? If it comes down to it, I have a couple of interns I could toss in front of you.
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kassandra – do you understand the concept behind The Colbert Report; that it is a spoof on The O'Reilly Factor and the rest of the ultra-conservative right-wing news shows. You can't take anything Colbert says on his show at face value. Pretty sure noone else came away from that segment of the show thinking what you did – cuz we understand what the show's purpose is…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64g_g22iEe8&watch_response
Wow. This cover is amazing. I laughed out loud. Why are they so good at what they do?
This is awesome… really, media is the 4th power!
and… @ Roberto Huezo
The EU 'senate' is the parliament; chosen by universal suffrageand holds individual nations 'nutjobs' for whatever reason they might be chosen. Btw we're not the ones with the screwed up president
LOVE IT!!
I am a community organizer in Chicago, previously unknown, until John McCain started running ads a couple days ago with my name in them!
I love the EW cover, actually was a fan of the New Yorker cover, secretly, but I guess nothing I do is secret anymore.
I am the person, according to an article by anti-Obama attacker Stanley Kurtz in the New York Post (he tried to get it in the Wall Street Journal on their op ed page…they'll run pretty much anything there, but this was just too many "inaccuracies" even for them), who brought down the U.S. economy. Even worse, I knew Barack Obama, as a competitor and professional acquaintance, in Chicago.
Huh?
If John McCain is blaming me, a complete unknown and before now not viewed as powerful except on local community issues in Chicago (we are trying to get the garbage picked up on the south side!), for bringing down the financial sector, and thus implicating Senator Obama because he once knew me well enough to speak to me on the street, and he is spending precious ad dollars to talk about ME, he has a lot more problems than we originally thought.
Check out http://madelinetalbott.wordpress.com about this, and http://www.madelinetalbott.com for more about me (sorry, not that much to say…) and http://www.actionnow.org for where I work as a community organizer.
And keep up the great work. If I can end the day with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, I go to sleep laughing and am ready for the next battle…
>>I am a community organizer in Chicago, previously unknown, until John McCain started running ads a couple days ago with my name in them!<<
Why did you do it Maddy? Think of the poor poor children. Why Maddy why? It's soooooo sad… and to think that you single handedly (sp sry) brought down the biggest, most robust economy in the world… why Maddy why… You didn't even give Palin a chance to do it! Poor Sarah. Now all she has left to do is get us into WWIII. I have faith in her though. She can do it! Yes she can! Yes she can!
Colbert has got the afro working, he totally has style
MYSPACE pic. Stephen has a model-like face don't you think.
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October 22, 2008
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