Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard was the guest Monday night on the Daily Show with John Stewart. Having just returned from an 8-day exploratory trip to Iraq, Kristol was on Comedy 
Central to report his first-hand impressions of General Petraeus’ “surge.”
Just in case any of Daily Show’s audience was unclear as to where Stewart pessimistically stands regarding the War in Iraq (and the recent reports that things are going much better over there), he sarcastically opened the exchange by asking, “Let me guess…you’re here to say that the surge is working?”
Kristol responded to each condescending question and snarky comment from Stewart with poise and an affable sense of humor. He calmly explained that the bi-partisan consensus of visitors to Iraq is that things are indeed getting better, and the question now has moved from effectiveness of the surge to how long should we sustain troops over there.
Sensing he was quickly losing his studio audience to the alluring sounds of good news from a war the liberal establishment has banked its future electoral success upon our defeat in, Stewart shrewdly changed the subject to a fail-safe topic: those mean old conservatives.
“Well, what I don’t get is the vitriol and anger your side uses to describe and condemn those of us who are against the war and want to pull out? Why all the harsh rhetoric, and terms like ‘defeatists’ and ‘cut-and-runners’?”
Are you kidding me? A man whose entire career is based upon the tearing to shreds of every minute mistake or misstep that Republicans and Conservatives make is now offended because Bill Kristol has written some “mean things” about Liberals who openly admit they want out of Iraq tomorrow regardless the obvious sanctuary for terrorism and slaughter of millions that would ensue?
Stewart has been on the cutting edge of disrespect and mockery aimed directly at President Bush for five years. His show engages nightly in over-the-top, satirical jihad against the GOP and anyone who is not hip to the Secular-Progressive, Far-Left agenda that so dominates the Democratic Party today. Anytime he crosses a line or is charged with manipulating information to advance his own ideological views on a fake-news program, Stewart cowardly plays the “Just a comedian” card and exits, stage-left.
I don’t mind what the Daily Show does as a comedy program, and I’m not suggesting any Imus-style boycott be perpetrated by Conservatives (we on the Right leave suppression of Free Speech to liberals), but it is worth noting the irony of a comic who pays his bills by ridiculing and mocking people and policies he’s grossly unqualified to comment on being offended when knowledgeable journalists like Bill Kristol accurately label Harry Reid and smug fake-news hosts who say, “The war in Iraq is already lost,” as “defeatists.”
Central to report his first-hand impressions of General Petraeus’ “surge.”Just in case any of Daily Show’s audience was unclear as to where Stewart pessimistically stands regarding the War in Iraq (and the recent reports that things are going much better over there), he sarcastically opened the exchange by asking, “Let me guess…you’re here to say that the surge is working?”
Kristol responded to each condescending question and snarky comment from Stewart with poise and an affable sense of humor. He calmly explained that the bi-partisan consensus of visitors to Iraq is that things are indeed getting better, and the question now has moved from effectiveness of the surge to how long should we sustain troops over there.
Sensing he was quickly losing his studio audience to the alluring sounds of good news from a war the liberal establishment has banked its future electoral success upon our defeat in, Stewart shrewdly changed the subject to a fail-safe topic: those mean old conservatives.
“Well, what I don’t get is the vitriol and anger your side uses to describe and condemn those of us who are against the war and want to pull out? Why all the harsh rhetoric, and terms like ‘defeatists’ and ‘cut-and-runners’?”
Are you kidding me? A man whose entire career is based upon the tearing to shreds of every minute mistake or misstep that Republicans and Conservatives make is now offended because Bill Kristol has written some “mean things” about Liberals who openly admit they want out of Iraq tomorrow regardless the obvious sanctuary for terrorism and slaughter of millions that would ensue?
Stewart has been on the cutting edge of disrespect and mockery aimed directly at President Bush for five years. His show engages nightly in over-the-top, satirical jihad against the GOP and anyone who is not hip to the Secular-Progressive, Far-Left agenda that so dominates the Democratic Party today. Anytime he crosses a line or is charged with manipulating information to advance his own ideological views on a fake-news program, Stewart cowardly plays the “Just a comedian” card and exits, stage-left.
I don’t mind what the Daily Show does as a comedy program, and I’m not suggesting any Imus-style boycott be perpetrated by Conservatives (we on the Right leave suppression of Free Speech to liberals), but it is worth noting the irony of a comic who pays his bills by ridiculing and mocking people and policies he’s grossly unqualified to comment on being offended when knowledgeable journalists like Bill Kristol accurately label Harry Reid and smug fake-news hosts who say, “The war in Iraq is already lost,” as “defeatists.”
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