Your celebrity chef this evening is Jon Stewart. And your main course is a homophobe and his tiresome, pathetic attempt to hide behind his increasingly incoherent interpretation of the Bible, or his quickly cobbled together and rigid definition of marriage — which has, in fact, been constantly evolving over the years. If you need a straw for your beverage, just wait a moment — Huckabee will be grasping for one pretty soon.
Please people — if you’re really not trying to jam your religion down the throats of the rest of us, you’re going to have to come up with a non-Biblical reason for us to discriminate against homosexuals. Otherwise, well… we’re done and you’re wrong. The biblical argument doesn’t work.
(And don’t get me started on procreation — or do you think this marriage should have been prevented?)
Others cover the segment at Pam’s House Blend and Towleroad (also here).
And check out this clip (via Joe. My. God):
Here’s what I’ve collected since the last time I did a video dump. Sorry some of it may be a bit dated. So much creativity is flowing out there these days, and I haven’t been able to do a roundup in a while!
The Daily Show: The Drill Pickle, Hannity and Palin, Bill Clinton, Around the World in a Day, McCain Suspends Campaign, Bob Schieffer, Bush & the Economy, Florida Focus Group, World War I, Kill Bill, Gams and Gammer, Bailout Bill Passes, Common Man-Off, Nate Silver, The Stupid Vote, Sarah Vowell goes back to the 30s to be reassured, World War II, Michelle Obama
Real Time: New Rules (Levi Johnston), Bush in Drag, New Rules (Ebony and Irony), New Rules (Preach Around)
The Young Turks: McCain and Spain, Debate I Wrapup
The Late Show: Bill Clinton, Chris Rock, John McCain, McCain: Take Two, Brian Williams
Sarah Silverman: The Great Schlep
The Colbert Report: Colbert Suspends His Show, Teen Talk Voter Abstinence
The campaigns, 527s, news channels, volunteers and comedians have been spewing video like an open hydrant lately and I’m going to try to round up the last week’s worth here (wish me luck!).
Obama: McCain’s Lobbyist Campaign, Community Organizing, Education, On Letterman, 1982, What is Change?, On Tax Plans, What Economy Are You Talking About?, McCain’s Fundamentals, Another four?, Equal Pay, Old Boys Network, Hope
Biden: America Needs More
McCain: Bloodthirsty Warmonger, On GOP Diversity, Bush-McCain Republicans, Hot Blooded!, The First Family of War, Going for the Pedophile Vote, Squirming, Protecting Sex Offenders, John McCain’s Lies, Recycled Bush, Lies exposed, Women’s Issues, Out of Touch, McCain’s Honor, On Palin’s Experience, Subtle Racism, Rove: McCain has gone too far, Rape Kits, Medical Records, Romney on McCain, Who’s better off?, Fall From Grace, McCain is a Republican, Carly Fiorina, Buh-Bye, Carly!, Stay the Course!, Invented the Blackberry, Lying Their Way to the White House, ABC: McCain Flip-Flops, WHAT? Spain is in Europe?!?
Palin: Forced Gestation, Pentacostal, Wolf Hunting, Sound Familiar?, Bridge to Nowhere, Palin is a Liar, Book Banning, Charging Rape Victims, Hardball: Who is She?, The Bush Doctrine, Drags Out an Old Canard, Pork is Yummy!, On Special Needs, Pray For Us, Sarah!, The Todd, Her First Ad
Rachel: Lipstick, The Fundamentals Are Strong, Commissions
Palin spoofs: Palin in Four Minutes, Vlog, Palin is a Liar, Gina Gershon, The famous SNL skit
Stewart: McCain 2008 = Bush 2000, John McCain, Reformed Maverick, McCain’s Acceptance Speech, Palin is the Bush Doctrine, McCain’s Change?, Generic Off
Colbert: Repo Man, How Dare You?, McCain Attacks Obama
Bill Maher: New Rules (Republican Convention), New Rules (Cities vs. Small Towns), With Paul Begala
Craig Ferguson: Cut to the Chase
The Young Turk: It’s Not Just George Bush
Here’s a bit of a news catchup link list:
• Dick Cheney will be visiting the Chattanooga area later this month. Hopefully, he won’t have access to any guns.
• An aide-mémoire for the poor souls who struggle to recall what happened before this week.
• Oh, the confusion! (”In Dick Morris’s defense, he is a lying sack of …” — well, just watch!)
• Sometimes Samantha Bee is funny and sometimes she makes me laugh out loud.
• Hahaha — McCain $$$ being sent to Obama campaign (maybe that will teach them not to steal?)!
• Awesome! McCain gets Rickrolled! (Ha — when are they going to drop that green screen?!?)
• Ugh. That greedy bastard.
While we here at Chez 10K have been distracted by the TV (for weeks, really — first by the Olympics and then by the Democratic and Republican conventions, respectively), the creative among us have been churning out the videos. Here’s a sampling:
Here’s a bit of what’s going on out there on the net this weekend!
- Check out the weather forecast in Crawford, TX. According to John McCain’s chief spiritual advisor, John “America is Damned” Hagee, this clearly means that God hates the Bushes.
- Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was in Chattanooga yesterday to speak at the 68th conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. Check out the comments he made regarding the use of lethal injections: [H]e suggested that the recently-euthanized Kentucky Derby horse Eight Bells had probably experienced a more humane death than those who die on death row. “I had checked the procedure they used to kill the horse,” Justice Stevens said, expressing surprise to learn it is against the law in Kentucky to kill animals using one of the drugs in a three-drug lethal injection cocktail that many believe is cruel to humans.
- Now that he’s staring down the barrel at his reelection prospects, Chattanooga’s Mayor Littlefield apparently is having second thoughts about the drastic cuts he’s made to the curbside recycling program.
- Jesus! vs Darwin!
- You gotta love those family values republicans. It seems as though every week, another one finds his way out from under his rock…
- Would you crash this poll?
- The columnists speak of the end of the primary season: Eugene Robinson and Paul Krugman on the divisions in the Democratic party
- Cindy Lou: show me the money!
I certainly get a lot more out of it than they do…If anything, it’s made me angrier… You can be for the war, against the war, but you can’t be uninformed about it. To see the human cost is part of the equation.
– Jon Stewart, who has been quietly visiting wounded soldiers since 2004
She came up the other day, and here she is again!
It was awesome! I’ll post a link as soon as I can find one! In the meantime, here’s an appetizer (with a followup). (Who is Jonah Goldberg? And what’s wrong with him?)
UPDATE:
The Daily Show, without writers, will return on Monday, January 7th, according to its website. The show will have a different format than we’re used to, consisting mostly of interviews.
I expect Jon to explain on his first night back that while he supports the writers 100%, he also supports the rest of his staff — the camera operators, etc — who need their paychecks. So, he’ll limp along without the writers as we all hope that the evil studios will crumble sometime soon.
Stewart and Colbert released a joint statement:
We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence.
