Politics : Bill O'Reilly and John Stewart - The Missing Tapes
This is fascinating - the Stewart / O'Reilly clips that Fox cut from the broadcast but graciously left on the full, uncut interview on their website. Stewart really has this whole thing down, and he describes it all SO WELL, and his theory about the Fox narrative is just so on point that I wonder if he's not being wasted at Comedy Central at this point.
Here's one example. I feel dirty linking to Fox, but here's the full interview, and it's really worth the time.
Welfare gives mothers an economic incentive to have more children Studies have not been able to find a correlation between family size and the size of welfare benefits. Welfare families are virtually the same size as nonwelfare families; indeed, both have been declining over the decades
Obama and McCain Tax Proposals - washingtonpost.com According to a new analysis by the Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are both proposing tax plans that would result in cuts for most American families.
David Mitchell on Mock The Week David tells it like it is - sums the economic woes up to "a bunch of wanker bankers making bets with each other when they're drunk"
Under Secretary of State John Bolton is to be the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. I don't really care much at this point, because it's just obvious now that they're just trying to piss off the U.N.
For instance, Bolton is quoted as saying "if the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference" and "there's no such thing as the United Nations." John Bolton also criticized the U.N. by saying that the Clinton administration had acted as if the UN "has a life or existence outside of what the U.S. wants it to do."
Of course, there might be an actual agenda to putting Bolton in this seat. I base that off of this quote by him:
First, the entire history of the United States, from the first colonists through the Revolution, and forward until today, has been infused with a distrust of government and a belief in individual liberty. The United States is a land of lower taxes, more private property, less government regulation and subsidy, greater freedom of speech and press, more toleration of diverse religious expression, and on and on. Although other individual countries may best the United States in one or another of these categories, in the aggregate, there is no real contest.
Because Americans generally are skeptical about their own government, can it be any surprise that many are less than enthusiastic about the United Nations, an organization that includes 184 other governments? Moreover, the principle business of the United Nations is governmental business, legitimately so in most cases, but it is certainly rare to find genuine capitalists walking the U.N. halls. This deep philosophical disjunction between the prevailing ethos of the United Nations and the fundamental American approach to governance is not something that will change in the foreseeable future.
Did anyone see it last night? Bush was holding a press conference with... Porter Goss I think; I was half asleep when it was on. Anyway, Bush says "he will help us in finding Osama Bin Laden" and Goss makes this face like "What? This guy's nuts... Osama?" Then they played it back again to show his face. Hilarious.
Also, Goss mentioned that "The jobs I'm being asked to do, the five hats that I wear, are too much for this mortal... I'm a little amazed at the workload."
What, exactly, was he expecting? A cakewalk? Don't worry though, Goss, the CIA doesn't get punished for providing faulty intelligence, so I wouldn't worry too much.
Go here and watch the video entitled "Headlines: Inspected General"
Oh, and you should also watch the Howard Zinn interview. I think, actually, that January 6 was the best episode of Daily Show EVER. Between that funny-ass Gonzales bit and Howard Zinn, I can't see how another episode could compare.
The Daily Show has a video clip up of a "debate" between President Bush and... drumroll... Governor Bush from 2000. The results are, to say the least, quite humorous:
