Jon Stewart and Bill Maher Prefer John McCain Because He Was in a War… or at Least They Did Nine Years Ago
Bill Maher is gonna be talking with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show tonight.
I wonder if they'll both, once again, reach the consensus that John McCain is preferable to the other guy because he was in a war (and, apparently, drank his own urine) and the other guy wasn't?
Like at the 1:00 minute mark of this Daily Show clip from 1999…
Goes to show you how much the world has changed in nine years. If you notice, Bill and Jon aren't just saying they choose McCain over George W. Bush.
They're saying they choose him over George W. Bush, and the two Democrats: Bill Bradley and Al Gore.
To be fair, though, the late '90s were the days of McCain 1.0.
UPDATE: No surprise, no endorsement for McCain from either Jon or Bill last night. They didn't talk much election politics but Bill Maher does refer to Obama as "our boy." Stewart remains uncommitted.
Part 2 after the jump…
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The Politically Incorrect episode they talk about is here
http://www.jhoard.com/2008/09/bill-maher-on-tds-tomorrow.html
Maher and Stewart together… God, the poor audience will be smothered by the smarm and self-righteous air of superiority they emit.
Change you can believe in: 1) Bill Maher put on some weight and is greyer. 2) Jon Stewart put on some weight and is greyer. 3) John McCain was preferable to Bush in 1999, but McCain spent the next 9 years becoming Bush.
OMG, neither of them has any gray hair!!
Seriously, though, in 1999, I liked McCain a lot more than I do now, certainly a lot more than Bush – not that it mattered, since I was 16 and couldn't vote.
What really shocked me, though, was when Maher called Anne Cuulter his good friend. Seriously? I guess she's less grating in person…
To reach a consensus, doesn't that require more than two people?
Can't you smell the sarcasm?
Bill Maher! Please send Naomi my love and tell Ralph Nader that I have a parrot too. Mine says, "No Biden, No Biden."
But Bill Maher, since you're such a genius. I wonder if you can interpret for me this quote from "Uncle Murray" (Social Ecologist Murray Bookchin):
What the ecological ceremonial does, in effect, is socialize the natural world and complete the involvement of society with nature…the ceremonial validates nature as kin, a blooded, all- important estate that words like citizen can never attain. Nature is named before it is deified; it is personified as art of the community before it is raised above it as “supernature.”
wow, 9 years? really…? Jon was so Harry Connick at the time.
Last week I heard an economist say that just as there are no atheists in fox holes, there are no libertarians in an economic crisis. And now Bill Mahr is religulous. I can't imagine what more cannot be imagined.
i just have to say that i'm tired of people saying, as bill maher does, that most of the wars in history have some religious element to them. that is simply not the case. most wars are fought over territory. even many religious wars could hardly be truly caused by religion. if a person takes religious beliefs and twists them so that they no longer echo the original practitioners of a faith, one can not blame the religion for the war. religion was just a vehicle. the war was caused by greed, pride, etc.
in the end, the vast majority of wars in our history were caused by imperialism and expansion, nothing more. religion doesn't hold a candle to the number of deaths caused by land-grabbing.