Hey there, folks!  John Henry, LowGenius.Net; you know the drill and if you don't, if you're coming here from the Daily Show site or something like that and are new to me, swing by my blog at LowGenius.Net (obviously) and feel free to get to know me, you'll figure it out pretty quick.

I'm here and I'm kind of pimping this out to some Daily Show outlets online, their Facebook page and stuff like that because this video is all about the May 31, 2011 Daily Show episode and the topics that it hits.  I watched the show - and it was a good show by the way, Jimmy Fallon was great, Stewart's monologues were great, and I really enjoyed the show, but a couple of things just really strike me about everything that Jon Stewart covered in this. 

First of all, the comment section on this episode - and I'm sure...I've noticed it before on this site, it's like two-thirds of these people are just, they're like fake Facebook accounts repeating the same, stupid right-wing talking points and trying to run the show down.  Do you really think people are so stupid they don't see through that?  Come on, give me a break.  

But that's just one little facet of things.  First and foremost, I think we can safely draw a few conclusions here from the information that Jon gave us in the show as well as the comments on the show's web page.

First of all, judging by the comments, Twitter isn't the only thing being trolled-and-or-hacked by Republican drones who think that badly-disguised and clearly organized fake "outrage" and "criticism" will somehow alleviate the pain of realizing that every single one of their potential 2012 candidates is running behind both Larry Storch AND all of the surviving members of the Bay City Rollers in the polls.

Second of all, Andrew Breitbart...jesus, this guy is such a pig...like so very many of his arch-conservative brethren, he spends more time thinking about other people's wieners than their owners do. This whole thing, it's just so obviously a setup. Whether you even agree with Tony Weiner's politics or not, the guy is clearly way too intelligent and tech-savvy to think - even stipulating the ridiculous notion that he'd WANT to - that he can go around sending pictures of his junk over Twitter. Seriously, anybody who actually believes that should do this country a favor and burn your voter registration card before you're tempted to actually use it. The future of your country depends on you: do the right thing.

(NB:  If I'm wrong on this, then the right thing for the representative to do is issue a simple statement:  "I'm an adult.  She's an adult.  This is a private matter between two adults, and unless the young lady chooses to open a civil or criminal action, it's simply nobody else's business.")

Now the second thing I really want to hit on is this whole deal with Sarah Palin bobbing and weaving and "Oh, I'm not gonna run, I'm just driving around in a big bus with my name on it!"  One of my friends pointed this out:  This is a woman who calls President Obama arrogant and then drives around the country in a friggin' bus with her face and signature painted on the side of it!  The hypocrisy!  All you can do is laugh at the whole thing anymore.

Why has it not dawned on anyone to ask why this woman, this Sarah Palin who has made a "career" out of heckling the "mainstream media," is a paid analyst...on what was once, at least, the most watched news network in the country? How much more "mainstream media" could you possibly GET without hiring Edie McClurg to be the wacky next-door neighbor for crying out loud?

I just can't do anything but laugh at this whole thing anymore.  How can ANYONE possibly gloss over this woman's relentless crusade to become an anthropomorphic symbolic representation of hypocrisy? For christ's sake, she couldn't even tell the truth to her own network co-host about the reasons she's not doing press contact. "OH THOSE GUYS CAN GO DO A LITTLE WORK FOR ONCE" give me a break you clue-resistant, veracity-allergic jackass, You're contractually forbidden to talk to anybody who isn't Fox News. It's in your contract with Fox News.  That's the reason you're not talking to them.  It's not because you're a "maverick," it's not because you're "standing up to" anybody, or trying to "make" anybody do any work, it's because you're not allowed to!  Who do you think you're bullshitting, lady?

That's one of the things that just knocks me out about Sarah Palin: she's got all these people cheering for her and she thinks you're all idiots.  She thinks you're all idiots.  It's clear, crystal clear in everything she says and does, that woman thinks you're a complete moron that'll just keep boppin' along and paying her, sending her money and telling her how great she is and eventually she'll be in the white house. 

Please.  Sarah Palin couldn't get elected to cornrow my pubes, for christ's sake.  Man oh man.  And again, it's always about what a "maverick" she is, what a rebel she is.  "Well I'm not gonna give any interviews because they're not working, they can just follow us around, blah blah blah.  What a crock.  The only reason you're not giving interviews is because you're not allowed to.  

Even Greta van Susternen, the interviewer from Fox who was allowed on her bus, points this out.  Of course she points it out on her blog, where naturally - since the average Fox News viewer is incapable of reading words of greater than one letter - they won't actually SEE it, and can thus sit around with Matt Drudge and Andrew "porn tapes have better editing" Brietbart hypothesizing about the vast left-wing conspiracy that obviously has fabricated Palin's contractual limitations to make her look bad.

There's just no possible way, under the current situation, given the field they're working with and the way they play the game, there is no possible way that the Republican party aren't going to get their asses handed to them, spiral-cut and fluffed for easy sandwich-making, in 2012.

You could produce live video of President Obama kicking a room full of kittens while masturbating to a snuff film featuring the beheading of Mother Theresa as a climax at this point and the Republicans would STILL have no chance in hell of winning any major contests in the next election.

They couldn't win a straw poll in Newt Gingrich's living room if he was the only one there.  Sure, they'll get a few votes - there's always going to be the "anybody but the black guy" contingent and the "well my mama always voted republican so I will too" brigade and the "jesus says screw the poor" militia - but actually WINNING something?

Not a snowball's chance in hell.  At this point, these clowns couldn't win a game of tic-tac-toe against a decerebrated marmoset. They have gone *completely* off the rails.  Hulk Hogan was a more credible presidential candidate than anybody in the republican field.

If I was a real, live, breathing republican right now...I would be absolutely PISSED. It's like watching a wrestling match where one guy walks out, pushes the other guy with his finger is the chest, and the other guy falls down, the first guy lays down on top of him and gets a three-count.  This isn't even a fight, it's the Republican party throwing a meat-shield up against somebody they know they can't beat.

I'm pretty sure the last time a "team" threw a game this obviously was the 1919 World Series.

And let's not forget, she's criticizing network news journalists for not doing their jobs and not "doing a little work for once"...while she's on vacation from her job as a network news journalist. Let me say that again:  she's criticizing network news journalists for not working hard enough, while she's on vacation from her job as a network news journalist.

The woman is the MC Escher of ethics.  That's all there is to it.  Her world is so warped, and the world of others like her, the Michelle Bachmanns and...whatever, Sharron Angle out there in Arizona (mea culpa:  I misspoke; Angle is in Nevada) and Ron Paul, who is absolutely no better than anybody else in the Republican party even if he does legalize pot...all of them, they're idiots.  They're idiots, it's a comedy show.

If I was a writer at the Daily Show or if I was a stand-up comedian, I would be thanking whatever god I believe in for the whole last three years of Republican politics, because it has been an absolute comedy gold-mine.  Hasn't solved any other problems, but man has it been good for comedians. 

Comedy writers haven't had it this easy since the last time Gerald Ford pratfalled off Air Force One.

Anyway, that's my rant, I just felt compelled to do it.  Usually I do my videos with a little more elaborate production, things like that, but this is kind of a time-sensitive thing and I wanted to get it out there. 

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