The American Spectator : Jon Stewart Flunks His Spartacus Test

Kitty| 4.27.10 @ 6:40AM

Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz will always be an infidel to the Islamic terrorists and nothing more than a useful idiot to this anti-Semitic administration. You'd think such a person would be fighting to preserve his freedoms instead of acting as their court jester.
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Anthony| 4.27.10 @ 9:34AM

Quite right Kitty, Jon Stuart Leibowitz and his craven fellow leftists will be the first to suffer under the sword of the Islamic fanatics.
Gee, maybe FOX will air the video of Jon boy's head rolling on the ground amidst the shouts of "Allah Akkba".
Liebowitz is a leftist troll that reality will treat as road kill.

loulou| 4.27.10 @ 10:02AM

Maybe Jon Leibowitz, the useful idiot, would let loose his trademark cackle as the Muslims bring down the sword down on his neck.

Groggin| 4.27.10 @ 11:26PM

Luv 2 watch that.

deb| 4.28.10 @ 12:11PM

no you wouldn't. and be nice. no one with true humanity would 'luv to 2 watch that.' take it back and play nice. be a healthy conservative. or are you just a dishonest troll stirring the pot here?

jeff| 4.28.10 @ 4:05PM

Thanks for saying that deb.
Let's all have a little more dignity and maturity than the posters at DailyKos.
Please.

jeff| 4.28.10 @ 4:06PM

BTW: Forgot to mention.
Jon Stewart is an ass

Gerald| 4.30.10 @ 2:56AM

John is a typtical liberal Chicken Shit.

Andy| 4.28.10 @ 9:39PM

Good for you, Deb!

old white guy| 4.29.10 @ 3:12PM

unless you are willing to take delight in the defeat of your enemy you will be unable to muster the courage to fight your enemy.

REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 4.29.10 @ 4:09PM

True enough, OWG--stupid repubs always bring a knife to a gunfight. That's the reason Obumbler is in office.

Stephen J.| 4.30.10 @ 12:48AM

Finding the defeat of your enemies satisfying and desireable is one thing. Taking gleeful delight in another human's suffering and loss is another.

We rightly glorify the courage it takes to pay the cost of fighting; we don't and shouldn't glorify the cost itself.

Brian M.| 9.22.10 @ 3:34PM

Stewart is a sell-out. I remember when the show was funny he used to say things like, "Why don't you meet us in the middle?" to left wing guests. He would ask them why they were so radical. This is all on tape. then in 2004 he got a new contract and a shot at hostinghte Oscars and suddenly he's mister leftist. Sold out!

DanMingo| 4.27.10 @ 3:27PM

Quite right Kitty, Jon Stuart Leibowitz and his craven fellow leftists will be the first to suffer under the sword of the Islamic fanatics

Maybe because they are out in public saying the things they say, while you will be cowering in your locked bathroom.

Kishego| 4.27.10 @ 4:25PM

So in essence, what the braveheart Jon is telling us is "criticizing islam is above my pay grade". This admin and the useful idiots like the "braveheart", would rather meet, and bow and, kiss the arse of every dictator and thug around the world than sit down and actualy talk honestly with their political opponents. COWARDS ALL !!

Marc| 4.27.10 @ 10:28PM

Did any of you actually see this episode or merely once again suck down the cool aid fed to you. Seriously people, enlighten yourselves before spouting off. Did Stewart not go after Comedy Central...absolutely...and for that reason he has less spine than I originally believed, but to see he didn't go after an condem this muslim group who made the threat...absolutely false. When was the last time O'reily told muslim extremists to F&*K off. Watch the episode and make your determination but don't just swallow what the writer of this article spouts. It's you job to be FULLY informed.

Janie| 4.28.10 @ 12:41AM

More Jon Stewart butt-boys.

Henrik| 4.28.10 @ 5:33AM

Laughed at this. But no. Did you not watch the DS episode? I actually thought John did a fun mockery of CC in hiw segment. So, what the h*** is this Spartacus s*** Lord is talking about? What did he expect? A declaration of a mediawar on terrorism against some marginal group's website's comment on the issue. Gimme a break. It's their right too you know.

Janie| 4.28.10 @ 2:05PM

Yup, another JS butt-boy!

JR| 4.28.10 @ 3:04PM

Janie the only thing between your ears is what comes out of JS's butt. What a right wing village idiot you are!!

Sam| 4.28.10 @ 5:13PM

Looks like Janie got under a JS butt-boy's skin!
JR's got his adoring nose so far up the cowardly comedian's butt his eyes are brown! How's the air up there, JR, Jon Stewart butt-boy extraordinaire? Haha

Good call, Janie.

JR| 4.28.10 @ 7:53PM

Hey Sam ...you're a real genius. I'm sorry you're too stupid to know the joke is on you and all the wack-jobs on this site. You fools had power for 8 years and you completely screwed the pooch. You keep backing the likes of Palin and Rubio and trust me.... you will lose!

REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 4.29.10 @ 4:07PM

Sure, freak--keep up your dope addiction; you'll need it when we kick your sorry @sses in 2010 and 2012. You're delusional.

Rubio's going to walk all over the loser Meeks.

Jarrod| 4.28.10 @ 4:07PM

I did see the whole episode and doing a song and dance routine to "F*%k off" is hardly a courageous stand against anyone. What about 5 dancing Mohammads or maybe drawing a batch of Mohammad cartoons furiously? Everyone knows what sets them off. This is just like the "draw Mohammad" cartoonist who denied suggesting it a day later. Come on, Stewart did nothing of note and you know it.....

...and believe it or not it breaks my heart. He's funny, talented and insightful (when he chooses to be) and I am always disappointed when he suddenly stiffens and remembers the left-wing lease looped tight around his neck.

Too bad....

Libs R Losers| 4.28.10 @ 5:57PM

Liberal cowards like Jon Stewart die a death by a thousand cuts--slowly.

ETM| 4.28.10 @ 9:29PM

Marc, Stewart did not really tell the Muslim extremists to f&ck; off. What he did amounts to telling a joke about them. If he had really wanted to tell them to eff off he would have asked Matt and Trey for a life-size cutout of the South Park Muhammad character. Then you would have danced with it on live TV while singing the ‘Go Eff Yourself Now’ song. That I would have cheered for.

benindel| 4.29.10 @ 3:26PM

Right on!

Jwoo| 4.29.10 @ 4:26PM

Everyone here is taking this too far. You people act like you have to take a hard side either way.

Almost every criticism of Jon Stewart on here has been acknowledged by Stewart himself before any of this garbage started being written about him. You think his "Go f%ck yourself" dance was trying to be edgy? He's a troll. He's trying to incite a response from you morons, and you're all falling for it magnificently.

The argument made in this article is purely semantics anyway. It isn't based in reality whatsoever. It takes a misrepresented set of actions from Stewart's show and attempts to illustrate a loosely defined preconception of liberals. The EXACT same thing be done using the actions of so many conservatives and other liberals that the whole thing is not even worth mentioning, unless you're just a bottomfeeding idiot that sucks the life out of the wit and opinions of others (in this case, MOST of the people that have commented so far; I won't name names).

So all of you people accusing fans of the Daily Show as being "butt-boys," please take a step back and realize that you nimrods are IDENTICAL, just for a different set of pundits, comedians, and newscasters. Now kindly go f%ck yourselves.

FJ| 4.29.10 @ 9:42PM

Exactly what I was thinking...the author of the article is not fully informed and has missed the point of the joke completely. I also must add that everyone neglects to acknowledge the obvious. Fox News are the ones who claim to be "fair and balanced" while Comedy Central are just what they advertise themselves to be. Bernard Goldberg is a great and well respected sportswriter but needs to stop watching the Daily Show every night just hoping that he and/or FN gets attacked so he has something to go on and talk about with O'Reilly. Fox News is technically Comedy Central for the right disguised as a news source...they are the ones that legally don't have to tell the truth. At least Stewart will not get fired for his more truthful reporting, like the Monsanto reporters from FN. Stewart just reminds us that every so often... Somebody's gotta do it.

ZerObama| 4.29.10 @ 11:49PM

Spoken by another Jon Stewart butt-boy. Does it feel good to bend waaay over, Jwoo, the JS butt-boy?

Nobammy Bin Lyin| 4.30.10 @ 10:37PM

Yeah? So what? It's fun to make fun of them and they (libs) so richly deserve it. By the way, we're making fun of you too. I won't even say 'Go fuck yourself' because I won't stoop to your closet lib, wannabe above the fray, holier than thou fake ass level which incidently, I would have to walk up three flights of stairs just to get to it's sewer. Ah what the hell, Go fuck yourself. (With dance)

old white guy| 4.29.10 @ 3:14PM

kishego. is that how we now spell fool?

Renee| 4.27.10 @ 5:13PM

No, Jon Stewart would suffer under the sword of the Islamic fanatics because he is a Jew, and a prominent one. And based on his pathetic defense of Comedy Central's censorship, he already IS cowering in the locked bathroom. You and your conspiracy-theorist buddy Johnson don't attempt any defense of Stewart's statement. But fear not, I'm sure the comedian will take another swing at Fox News presently, and as anyone can tell you, Fox is the REAL enemy -- not those poor, disrespected and misunderstood Islamic extremists.

Kevin_THompson| 4.27.10 @ 9:24PM

I disagree, Dan. They will be the last...but suffer they will.

jimmy| 4.27.10 @ 11:23PM

We can only hope

Jimmie| 4.27.10 @ 11:25PM

Right On!

Scottsdale Jonathan| 4.29.10 @ 12:59PM

Amen, Anthony! The myopia of the left's hypocrisy is an hamartia of Shakespearean proportion.

Stewart Johnson| 4.27.10 @ 1:21PM

When you begin an article with a false assumption, that it was the brave action of passengers on United 93 which brought the plane down, then it's hard to take seriously the rest of this biased piece of faux journalism.
As admitted by SECDEF Rumsfeld at the time "I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon"
http://www.wnd.com/news/articl.....E_ID=42112
Numerous eyewitness accounts reported another plane near United 93, and Cheney admitted the order was given to take down civilian aircraft.
"Yes. The president made the decision ... that if the plane would not divert ... as a last resort, our pilots were authorized to take them out. Now, people say, you know, that's a horrendous decision to make. Well, it is. You've got an airplane full of American citizens, civilians, captured by ... terrorists, headed and are you going to, in fact, shoot it down, obviously, and kill all those Americans on board?

"... It's a presidential-level decision, and the president made, I think, exactly the right call in this case, to say, I wished we'd had combat air patrol up over New York.'"

And one other thing.
Jon Stewart (so he's Jewish, he does not hide it!)Leibowitz is a COMEDIAN.
Unfortunately for those of you on the right, he is America's most trusted news source, and he's a comedian. A COMEDIAN.
Sure, he has a liberal bias, but he is also the most fair minded interviewer on TV. He is unafraid to have on guests with a different point of view or philosophy, and allows them to make their points in a free discussion, without the usual name-calling you find on such biased programs as Faux news.
So go ahead and make fun of Mr. Stewart, and call him a coward.
Meanwhile, you of the 105th keyboard division are showing your courage by agreeing with the slanted screed of this cowardly author, a political insider in the Reagan Administration, and probably an evader of the military during the Vietnam era (if he was not, my apologies. If he was, then, there you go)

Don Cope| 4.27.10 @ 1:40PM

Thank you Mr. Johnson for your permission to call Mr. Leibowitz a coward and to make fun of him. I dont think he is a coward but he is a Useful Idiot, for liberals like Mr. Johnson. Morons seem to attract each others company.

Stewart Johnson| 4.27.10 @ 2:09PM

Morons seem to attract each others company.

That would explain the plethora of 'conservative thinkers' posting here.

Jeremiah| 4.27.10 @ 2:59PM

Stewart Johnson, another wide-eyed conspiracy theorist playing at being an intellectual. Sorry to tell you, Stewie, but when the wolf comes, he won't care that you consider yourself a fellow traveler. You can spin out all the feverish faux history and it won't save you if you get your way.

Ain't it funny folks? In defending freedom, we also defend Mr. Johnson as he screams bloody murder about it. And should we fail, he won't have much longer to scream bloody murder - he'll experience it.

Here's to your long life, Mr. Johnson!

DanMingo| 4.27.10 @ 3:32PM

I noticed you too could not address the issue that the article is based on a false premise; that flight 93 was taken down by brave passengers when it actually was shot down.
"another wide-eyed conspiracy theorist"
You forgot to mention the conspiracy theorists he quoted and which you cannot refute; Rumsfeld and Cheney"
Nice try, though, at an attempt to smear rather than debate.

"In defending freedom, we also defend Mr. Johnson as he screams bloody murder about it."
That does not even make sense.

Jeremiah| 4.27.10 @ 3:58PM

I didn't address it because there is no issue except in fevered minds like yours. Cheney and Rumsfeld authorized defensive measures, but they did not involve Flight 93. That is well-attested. Your ridiculous notion that because they put military interceptor jets on standby must mean they shot down Flight 93 is an absurdity from the fever swamps.

The problem with Flight 93 was that no one could find it until after it crasehd. The cell phone records well attest what happened on that flight. So why don't you go haunt a bloody house instead of trying to talk with grown-ups.

Eric Cartman| 4.27.10 @ 7:01PM

Dan Mingo is an asshole. He should be saying "I am Asshole!" like all the truthers. Assholes.

Tom in Michigan| 4.28.10 @ 1:20PM

Riddle me this; on how many other points do you hold Rumsfelds and Cheney's veracity in such high regard?

Anthony| 4.27.10 @ 4:20PM

You are a disgrace Mr. Johnson. A complete, total leftist disgrace. I'm wondering why those brave people on Flight 93 did not observe your wide-eyed theory and report seeing military jets in attack mode, to the love ones they were in communication with just prior to the storming of the cockpit?
Yes, there were contingent plans to take down planes headed to vital areas that were not responsive to further communication, that is indeed true. However, your shameless desire to denegrate these heros for your desire to "blame Bush" on a completely unsupported theory, is low rent, and what we've come to expect from loser leftists like you.
Unfortunately for jerks like you, and the ones who think Bush had the World Trade towers exploded to start a war, there is video and scientific proof. In the case of Flight 93, we have the recorded phone calls of these brave souls who gave their lives to save other Americans.
I suspect you would have done nothing.

Brian S| 4.28.10 @ 1:53PM

Those last seven words hit the mark. "I suspect you would have done nothing." Bravo... These leftist pukes would be shi**ing his pants stricken with fear because all they know how to fight back with is words and their words mean nothing to people who seek to kill and disgrace you in the name of Allah. True patriots and hero's stood up that day and fought back. Give credit where credit is due you liberal piece of dog shi*

JR| 4.28.10 @ 7:59PM

As one who is left of center I resent being lumped in with truthers who are obviously out of their minds. I disagree with most of the folks on this site but I regard these truthers as treasonous. And to call into question the courage of those on flt. 93 is truly evil.

REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 4.28.10 @ 10:21PM

Incredible! Sanity on the left--who'd have thunk it?!

JR| 4.29.10 @ 10:33AM

Now if we could only get sanity on the right. But as long as you idiots on the right insist on devouring your own its OK with me. Go Sarah Palin. The Democrat's best friend!!!

TXCinservative| 4.29.10 @ 3:22PM

My God JR. You are given a compliment and in less than 3 hours you discredit yourself by your snide reply REM NOV. And the Liberal/Marxists wonder why Conservatives have such a hard time believing anything any of you say. You have just shown us. Thank you for outwardly proving our point.

REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 4.29.10 @ 4:12PM

JR's just another liberal bottom-feeder. Slime like him don't know a thing about decency--his stupid post proves it.

Jwoo| 4.29.10 @ 4:42PM

This whole string of posts just reminds me of another Stewart bit. You know, the one about Fox News and generalizations.

I was raised in a fairly center-right environment, my dad is a self-described moderate who usually votes Republican, and my mother is very conservative. Over the years I have become a sort of mish-mash independent, with probably more leftish tendencies (although I remain very conservative on issues such as 2nd amendment rights).

The only point I want to make is that all of this generalization is useless and only serves to make you all look less intelligent and more easily manipulated. The people of this country run the gamut of the political spectrum, from left to right and top to bottom. Coming on to a website like The Spectator or Daily Kos and commenting as if you live in some fantasy world where it's the heroic and patriotic conservatives' duty to take out the overbearing socialist Nazi liberal menace (or vice-versa) is not only childish; it's delusional.

Sage| 4.29.10 @ 4:53PM

Your mother must be so proud that she raised a chicken sh!t, Jwoo.
Only an ignorant dirtbag would compare AmSpec to Daily Kos; but it's already obvious you're just another yellow-bellied useful idiot like your hero, Jon Stewart.

JohnR22| 4.27.10 @ 5:35PM

Maybe the "plethora of conservative posters" here is due to the fact that American Spectator is a conservative mag. Ya think? Duh! And btw...your assinine description of what happened to United 93 puts you in the "Truther" camp; just another tin-foil hatted conspiracy theorist who cobbles together disparate bits of data to support his ideological mindset. Blow back to HuffPo where you belong.

Grzmlyk| 4.27.10 @ 5:46PM

Hey dipstick #314678,411:

Why don't you settle once and for all the other hoaxes of our time? You know, the TRUTH about the moon landings, JFK's assassination, RFK's assassination, MLK's assassination, Area 51, the alien autopsy, and, my personal favorite, the irrefutable fact that Joan Rivers is an alien.

Since morons attract each other's company, that might explain your fascination with mirrors.

No doubt you'll want to gives us all the URL to your web site, from which you - fearless pursuer of truth that you are - disabuse we credulous fools of the myths that have woven a false tapestry of American history in our minds.

BTW, the choice of going by the WASPish-sounding "Stuart" instead of the very Jewish sounding "Liebowitz" IS, ipso facto hiding his Jewish identy, you shallow twit.

My god, isn't there a Star Trek convention someplace you should be attending?

DanMingo| 4.27.10 @ 2:21PM

I noticed you did not attempt to dispute his allegation that the premise of the entire article about United 93 was a false one.
You must agree with him there, because your dispute was with how he characterized Jon Stewart, not how the author mis-characterized what occurred on flight 93.

Jamie| 4.27.10 @ 8:30PM

Nice thread hijack attempt, DanMango! It didn't work, you know--John Stuart is still a useless coward and everybody, including you, knows it!

Not more 9/11 conspiracies| 4.28.10 @ 1:56AM

Hmm...let's see. What's more likely? That the President ordered flight 93 shot down and then there was a massive conspiracy to cover it up? Or that a small group of passengers, who knew from cell phone conversations what was going on, stormed the cockpit and in the ensuing struggle were unable to gain control of the plane, causing it to crash? Keep in mind that we have cell phone records clearly documenting that the passengers undertook this action, while we have nothing but the accusations of wild eyed conspiracists supporting the "shoot down" theory.

Given how incompetent and indiscreet our government is at the best of times, I'm always amazed how people like DanMingo here can give so much credibility to outlandish theories requiring perfect government cover-ups over long periods of time. News flash DanMingo: you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Put the bong down, find two brain cells to rub together and try to use logic and reason for once. I'm sure you learned about them in that philosophy class you slept through.

Kevin Fodor| 4.27.10 @ 3:51PM

Stuart:

You certainly have the right to your beliefs and as far as that goes, I'll will respect them. While I won't disagree that Jon Stewart can conduct an entertaining interview (just as people such as Johnny Carson and Dave Letterman could and can), he is that...an "entertainer". For you, or for anyone to consider him a "newsman" shows your complete and utter lack of understanding of what goes into being a journalist.

I am a radio newsman. Been one for over 30 years. I'll be the first to admit Fox News's opinion programs are right slanted. However, the news reporting they do on their radio network (and, frankly...on hard news shows on the TV net) compares favorably and not all that differently from the reporting I hear on ABC, NBC, CNN or any other radio news service.

I realize this might be a bitter pill for someone whose views skew left to take, but it's true. The radio net, for example, offers interviews from both Democrats and Republicans on many topics, and the radio news copy offered is largely straight down the middle.

Sorry, but that's what I see from over 30 plus years of doing the job day in and day out.

Jeremiah| 4.27.10 @ 4:07PM

Kevin, don't be so easy on Stewart Johnson. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. I, too, was once in radio - and I turned down such idiot groups as holocaust deniers, whether of the Arab or Nazi variety. They would say I ought to let the other side speak - and I would tell them I was not interested in anyone who was trying to revise well-attested history. That is not a sign of intolerance of different opinions...let me cite you a simple example:

Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. You can legitimately argue that it was a good thing or a bad thing (I come down on the side of good, I might note.) Your argument may be strong or weak, but either way it is grounded in historical fact and so is a legitimate avenue of inquiry. But if you argue favorably or unfavorably because Lincoln did NOT sign the Proclamation, you are just an ignorant boob from the fever swamps who is prima facie not worthy of time or attention.

fbanta| 4.27.10 @ 5:25PM

To note that Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation without noting that he knew he was violating Constitutional authority to do so; and without noting that he emancipated no one by that act; and without noting his motivation in issuing this War Powers Act is to assign to it significance that it has never deserved.

To use this example in a discussion of moral courage is an absurdity of olympic proportions. Lincoln's intention by issuing the Proclamation was that defenseless women and children in the South would be subjected to murderous slave uprisings reminiscent of those in Haiti many years before; forcing their men to leave the war to return home to protect them. That no such insurrections occurred speaks more highly of Southern slaves than Northern politicians.

Poor Lincoln finally had to resort to sicking his war hardened armies on the unarmed women and children of the South to rob, rape, pillage, burn and starve them into defenseless submission.

None of us know if we have the courage to face our Sparticus moment, but given liberal disdain of the true glory that is America, each succeeding generation is less likely to even understand the honor required to take such a stand. Flight 93 gives us all hope that a spark of honor still lives in America; and serves as a proud example of American courage that we each should revere.

As a Jew, Stewart should understand better than most that life without honor and courage is no life at all; and that evil unchallenged will prevail. But then again, if Liberals understood history and human nature, they wouldn't be Liberals.

Jeremiah| 4.27.10 @ 5:38PM

Oh for God's sake! How many people are there on these boards who get the sum of their historical 'knowledge' from Amway pamphlets?

A few years ago I had to prove to a nimrod (who. at least, was an admirer of Lincoln) that the Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately free all the slaves. Its justification was as a war measure and applied only to most of the states in rebellion. Nonetheless, everyone except some of the more dogmatic abolitionists of the time understood quickly that its issuance was a fatal blow to the institution of slavery - IF the north prevailed in the war.

You might try reading participants descriptions of the reaction in both the cabinet and the Congress. Everyone understood that, if the North prevailed after this point, the South would return to the Union minus the institution of slavery. That was not the case prior to that fateful New Year's Day in 1863.

aragorn| 4.27.10 @ 9:50PM

Since Frederick Douglas was willing to call the Emancipation Proclamation the death knell of slavery in the US, and since the abolitionists said so too; I'd have to agree with them. Are all you historically ignorant people, and truthers, paid to act so dumb, or is it a God-given skill that you just exercise?

fbanta| 4.28.10 @ 7:28AM

The ends justify the means, eh?

axbucxdu| 4.28.10 @ 12:41PM

Touche', fbanta...those pesky European bondholders were getting skittish...ergo, trot out "The Proclamation" to steady their nerves and keep their governments neutral. Quite brilliant, actually.

axbucxdu| 4.28.10 @ 12:44PM

Quite brilliant(and cynical), actually.

Bartho| 4.28.10 @ 12:27PM

Not commenting on the accuracy of what you wrote, but you definitely have a gift for writing. That post was the stuff that great speeches are made of. You a speech writer or blogger or even an author?
Now, nobody go after me. I wasn't commenting on the Emancipation Proclamation content - just on fbanta's writing skills.

pete66| 4.27.10 @ 4:20PM

Been digging through Rosie O's garbage can Stewie?

Jon Stewert is America's most trusted news source?....for who? Journalism Majors in the North East?

Geechee| 4.27.10 @ 5:08PM

No need to suggest that the author was "...probably an evader of the military during the Vietnam era..." You can invoke Bill "I'm Reneging On My Contract With ROTC" Clinton's name and have a real example. (By the way, was YOUR combat experience in the 'Nam firsthand, or did you earn most of it playing "Vietnam - Tour of Duty" on the X-Box mommy and daddy bought you?)

The only thing I find really disturbing about this arrogant, condescending comedian is that his highest academic achievement is a BA in some Humanities major from William & Mary, and yet his audience is comprised primarily of college students and "Still Living With Mom & Dad" nose pickers. Is it any wonder that half of the young folks out there can't find their butts with both hands?

Stewie Smaljonson| 4.27.10 @ 7:47PM

Hey Stewart, if you honestly believe this drivel you are writing - that a giant conspiracy has been executed against the people of the United States by one of their leaders and still you chose to do nothing but whine, then you have become the definition of a coward. Which raises the spectre that you don't really believe what you write, in which case, why bother?

Thomas Paine| 4.27.10 @ 7:47PM

Uhh ... so the brave Americans on the cell-phone, saying "Let's go!" ... and all the noises of struggle ... all that was done ...

... AT THE EXACT SAME TIME THE PLANE WAS "SHOT DOWN" ....???????????????

THAT'S your theory???

Set and match....

BTW just to clarify for stegosaurus-brained liberals, Chaney/Rumsfeld said they WOULD HAVE been forced to shoot it down, not that they did....

Dean| 4.27.10 @ 8:36PM

Libersl drivel

tina| 4.28.10 @ 11:19AM

Well don't forget it was CNN that picked apart a Saturday Night Live skit about Obama!! That was AMAZINGGGGGG!!!!!

Red Yankee| 4.29.10 @ 12:50PM

I never considered the "Daily Show" legit news and information. Consider the source a career comedian, consider the media outlet "Comedy Central". Even in my young liberal years before I grew up I understood this. I stopped watching his show years ago when it stopped being funny.

hoppy| 4.29.10 @ 2:24PM

Be sure to wear your tin foil hat, that "other plane" might be coming for you.

Matt| 4.29.10 @ 4:42PM

"cowardly author" for using free speech? Mr. Johnson you're an appeaser. You pick easy targets for your sermons, and avoid confrontation with Muslim fanatics that want you dead. They'll wait patiently for their opportunity to behead you, as free speech is compromised, and political correctness keeps us from seeing them for what they are. women-hating Muslim fanatics and hypocrits. You wait patiently for the Gestapo to round up the 'dissidents', as long as you are not on the list. As the list grows, so does your cowardice. In the end, your turn will come. We need to stop the stupidity now.

Nobammy Bin Lyin| 4.30.10 @ 11:21PM

Um, exactly what name calling on Fox are you referring to? I follow several programs on the network and have yet to see them 'name calling'. I thought you might enlighten me so that I may witness this for myself. You do actually watch for yourself right? Ok good, because I wouldn't want to think that you are just saying things about them with absolutely no proof just so you can slander them to try to make them look bad. Oh, and the conspiracy angle? I'm with you all the way! Hell yeah! Ever since the government allowed the Pearl Harbor raid to happen, I find it impossible to believe them about anything. The Gulf of Tonkin? Lies. Landing on the moon? Oh please! Reagan shutting down the USSR? Are you INSANE??? Katrina was a 'natural' disaster? Somebody just shoot me now!! Every idiot knows about Bush's hurricane machine that Cindy Sheehan discovered in that barn down in Crawford. 9-11? Yeah, steel melts. Right. My GAWD! Even Rosie O knows better than that!

James| 4.27.10 @ 8:14PM

What a sad little group of people I've stumbled upon. Thankfully your numbers are very small, fits with your minds.

Nobama| 4.27.10 @ 8:58PM

Unlike your liberal mind that is closed tight!

Americans are 40% Conservative and 20% Liberal--nice try, though, loser.

Ralph Novy| 4.29.10 @ 3:17PM

Know the feeling, James. But I reckon there's hope for SOME here -- with extensive "education therapy."

REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 4.29.10 @ 4:15PM

We'll death panel you first, braindead liberal.

Purpleguy| 4.27.10 @ 11:36PM

And, this from a right wing shill who would cringe at the very mention of Rush Loudmouth, the drug addict,calling you out if you dared disagree with his hateful, vile diatribe against American Progressive values. The conservative movement has it's own jihadist, Rushbow. Bow down and pray to the altar of the Rush. In any case, no one on this site can even touch the creative, articulate and insightful intellectual giant of a moderator, Jon Stewart.

Red Eye| 4.28.10 @ 12:38AM

Purple Balls Guy is just another chicken-sh!t braindead brown-noser for the brown guy in the White House--just like dickless Stewart.

Thanks, Purple Balls Guy!

Purhpleguy| 4.28.10 @ 8:21AM

Really bothers you that Barack Obama is your President, eh? I didn't say anything about the President, you did. One day you will be glad that little black boy grew up to be your President. Y'all will be ashamed then.

tina| 4.28.10 @ 11:22AM

He is a WHITE guy to...Purpleball guy...or do we "forget" the white part. It seems to be very unpopular to be white these days...who is the racist??? Jezzzz!!!!

Red Eye| 4.28.10 @ 5:18PM

Purhpleguy the Purple Balls guy--the loser can't spell, either! Obama's not black, he's brown, moron.

You should be ashamed for lying about Obummer.

hoppy| 4.29.10 @ 2:30PM

Wanna bet Stewart doesn't do drugs?

matt| 4.28.10 @ 12:06AM

you're an idiot

Paul| 4.28.10 @ 11:36AM

You do know that the intellectually bankrupt Mr. Lord left more of Stewart's words on his cutting room floor than those few he left in, don't you?

Stewart made it quite clear that he objected to the censorship and that he thought that his employer did the wrong thing.

However, you won't learn that from the liars at the American Spectator; "epistomiscitc whatever," striking again.

And anything short of outright quitting the job is "cowardice?"

Bwahahahahahahaha.

Sam| 4.28.10 @ 5:20PM

Another Jon Stewart butt-boy; whiners and criers just like their cowardly hero, chicken sh!t Stewart.

JR| 4.28.10 @ 8:09PM

Hey Sam you bring new meaning to the concept of stupid. And this preoccupation with butts can only lead me to believe that this is where you prefer it! You give well-meaning people on the right a bad name. I would simply shut your hole... both of them!

Libs R Dumb| 4.28.10 @ 10:19PM

Butt lovers like you and NAMBLA are on the left--nice try, though, pervo.

Ralph Novy| 4.29.10 @ 3:24PM

Paul:

You went a little easy on Lord, methinks. You emphasized Lord's omissions. I'm inclined to go a little further and say to Lord about what he does quote from Stewart: "He was being sarcastic, moron!" Went right over Lord's head.

REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 4.29.10 @ 4:17PM

What would a braindead liberal like you know about intelligence?

ChicagoTim| 4.28.10 @ 5:57PM

When Jeffrey Lord posts the Danish cartoons or writes a published article ridiculing The American Spectator for not publishing the Danish Cartoons he can talk smack. Until then, I think I hear the choir "Go F#@% yourself!"

REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 4.28.10 @ 10:17PM

Jeffrey Lord posted those photos years ago when it mattered, loser.
What's with the choir? Another gutless idiot on the left--your numbers are legion.

ChicagoTim| 4.29.10 @ 2:53PM

1. I don't think he did post those pictures. Please provide a link if you have it. I googled it and could not find anything.

2. The choir is a reference to the Daily Show. On his show in which this article said he had no spine Jon Stewert danced around with a choir singing, "Go F#@% yourself" to the muslim group who made death threats to the South Park guys.
3. You called me a loser, and a gutless idiot on the left. Is that really necessary?

REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 4.29.10 @ 4:20PM

TAS posted the photos years ago; convenient that you can't find them.

I speak the truth--you liberals are gutless losers. Everyone knows it's true, just admit it.

old white guy| 4.29.10 @ 3:21PM

kitty. for all of the intellecutal giants out there i would suggest a reading of the quran, hadiths and other islamic teachings that say they will kill you morons unless you kill them first. by the way you are right stewart is an infidel as are you and i.

Drew| 4.29.10 @ 10:54PM

Court jester is right. All he's missing is a belled dunce cap.

What's depressing is the number of people in the young adult demographic much sought after by advertisers who get their always biased leftist "news" from this entertainer. He's not an irreverent equal opportunity slagger by any means. Obama and the Dems keep lobbing big puffballs of criminal idiocy and Stewart keeps studiously looking the other way, curling his sneering lip only at conservatives.

Instead of "I am Spartacus", the liberal cry is "I am Smug".

drudge ette obama| 4.27.10 @ 6:54AM

Jon Stewart is no Daniel Pearl.

It always takes walking in another man's shoes to appreciate what you've taken for granted.

That goes for me, too. Muslim terrorists scare me. I am so grateful to our armed forces who stand between them and me. Even with little Jon Stewart and his childish show playing in the background in someone else's house, not mine.

I can only hope if there is ever a point where I must stand that I have the strength and integrity to take the honorable road and not cower.

fbanta| 4.27.10 @ 5:29PM

Amen!

Purpleguy| 4.27.10 @ 11:39PM

"It always takes walking in another man's shoes to appreciate what you've taken for granted. " Couldn't agree more, but probably not for the same reasons. Instead of denigrating the progressive nature of America, be patriotic and be glad that the Founders were liberal and progressive. If they weren't you would not be blogging today. Think about that and progressive shoes before you denigrate the very people that gave you this glorious country. And, remember, the armed forces are not right or left, but American. Support the troops!

Lonnie| 4.28.10 @ 12:35AM

Well, looky here--Purple Balls Guy is back. Where ya been, troll? Did you get tired of the fetid space under the slimy rock you call home?

Progressive is just another word for Commie, Leftard; as our next POTUS, Sarah Palin stated, "thanks but no thanks."

Purpleguy| 4.28.10 @ 8:18AM

Ahhh, so you show yourself to be an America-hating right wing nut job. You disagree with what? Thomas Jefferson was Progressive, Abraham Lincoln was Progressive, Teddy Roosevelt was Progressive, Richard Nixon was Progressive, and you want to put who on the reactionary right? Sarah "I can see Russia from my house" Palin for President? In the words of Albert Einstein, "the difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits".

wbheff| 4.28.10 @ 12:23PM

Sarah Palin never said, "I can see Russia from my house." That was said by a fourth rate commedienne, Tina Fey. Intelligent people know that.

Lonnie| 4.28.10 @ 5:27PM

Purhple Balls Guy wouldn't know intelligence if it bit him on his purhple b@lls.

The magnificent George Washington and Ronald Reagan WERE NOT Progressives, leftard; and none of the presidents you mentioned were radical Marxists like Obumbler and his hero, Woodrow Wilson.

You're just another lying fascist liberal--Goebbels would be so proud of you, moron.

JR| 4.28.10 @ 8:12PM

Yea.... you poor fools on the right who see Palin as your savior..... Thank you. She will bring all of you down. You deserve her!

REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 4.28.10 @ 10:13PM

Up yours, clown. We'll see who's going down.

See you in November.

JR| 4.29.10 @ 10:36AM

Brilliant retort! Is it tough going through life as a complete idiot?? At least you have plenty of company on the right. I'd hate to see you plagued by loneliness wacko!

REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 4.29.10 @ 4:22PM

Screw you and your unhinged Palin hatred. Loser.

Melvin| 4.27.10 @ 7:42AM

"Jon Stewart, you are a low down rotten filthy bottom feeding Coward. " Jon Stewart is a Coward as all at in the Liberal Main Stream media.
Why can't these bunch of Cowards go after Muslims the way they attack Christians, Jews and members of the Tea Party?
An Islamic thug goes Boo, and Jon Stewart goes running with his tail between his legs like the Comedy Central Suits cowering in their offices piddling all over themselves with fear.
You call your selves Americans, you call yourselves men? There are women serving in the military that have more heart an courage than the entire staff at Comedy Central.
"Jon Steward your a stinking disgrace to everything that is American, and lastly. Just walk in shame with your head bowed because you and those at Comedy Central aren't even fit to hold the title of American.

Sam| 4.27.10 @ 12:38PM

Melvin- I don't think you're the brightest lightbulb in the set.

Jon Stewart is an intelligent show host who, while liberal, makes humor and fun out of politics today. And no, they don't attack Jews (Stewart is Jewish) or Christians- merely intollerance.

And your line about women serving in the military proves your backward views. Obviously there are brave women in the military- your line makes it seem like somehow women are less brave than men.

And don't whine about the liberal media when your idea of "telling it straight" is Fox News and conservative talk radio. Both sides are equally guilty of slanting their news coverage and anyone who says otherwise is deluded.

Artattack61| 4.27.10 @ 1:21PM

If you had seen the show, you would have seen how he showcases how the Daily show attacks Christians and Jews as well as a whole host of other religions. Somehow Islam gets a pass. Mainly because he is a coward. Stewart should really get edgy and tell the Comedy Central suits to "F***" themselves and feel free to terminate my contract in the name of freedom of speak. So please next time watch the show before commenting on the content of the show.

JS| 4.27.10 @ 1:32PM

Sam - you made mention in the last paragraph about bias on both sides. Here's the difference.

People and groups on the right have no problem saying they are conservative. Fox News, Rush, Hannity, PJ TV, etc. all acknowlege their conservative bent.

The groups on the left (there are too many to name) try to portray themselves as 'unbiased'. This portrayal is dishonest. Having a particular political bent is not the problem, trying to hide it is.

Stewart Johnson| 4.27.10 @ 2:11PM

Fox News, Rush, Hannity
Well maybe Rush.
Fox is fair and balanced, remember?

FRISCODB| 4.27.10 @ 5:19PM

Are you referring to the most trusted name in news. Please see
http://publicpolicypolling.blo.....trust.html

When you grew up in a culture that gave you Murrow, Cronkite, Rather, Brokaw, Jennings, the NYT, AP, and Big Hollywood as lead arbiters and promoters of American values and thought, you came to believe that your own leftwing ideology was simply universally-shared common sense. Fox News gives voice to ideas that you'd rather silence than compete against. You are blinded by your ideological bias. No matter----the monopoly is gone. The market place of ideas thrives, and the merits of your opinions will have to stand to scrutiny (at Fox News of all places since that's where folks get their news).

kric| 4.27.10 @ 8:34PM

the most trusted name in news quote that you are referring to is highly questionable.

you forget to mention, for instance, that fox is the least trusted news among moderates.

and that while fox is the only real conservative news program, there are a slew of liberal news channels for liberal viewers to divide their loyalties among.

also, it's important to note that conservatives are significatly more likely to believe the news as it's told at them compared to liberals who are (rightly) more skeptical television programming.

for the record, i do disagree strongly with stewart's decision on this issue but am far more disgusted by this pathetic and unseemly article which unabashedly latches onto the tragedy of 9/11 in order to promote it's ignorant, warmonging anti-liberalism propaganda.

Jamie| 4.27.10 @ 8:50PM

Care to cite the poll that shows Fox News is least trusted by moderates, or are your 'facts' just more liberal BS?

"Told AT them?" Nice slaughter of the English language, moron.

Liberal Publik Skool Edycation System strikes again!

tina| 4.28.10 @ 11:30AM

It's ok..."RightNetwork Channel" is coming. google it. (rightnetwork.com)By this summer, FINALLY, the country will have a network that actually LOVES it's country! I can't wait!

Deb| 4.28.10 @ 12:35PM

Right on JS! Well said!

DanMingo| 4.27.10 @ 2:50PM

You apparently have not watched his show, yet feel free to criticize based on this biased article.

"An Islamic thug goes Boo, and Jon Stewart goes running with his tail between his legs "

Even the weak argument by the author does not show this to be true.
Please indicate the words or actions by Mr. Stewart that demonstrate that "Jon Stewart, you are a low down rotten filthy bottom feeding Coward"
Thanks.

Jamie| 4.27.10 @ 8:55PM

C'mon, Mango; everyone knows you liberal Beta males are cowards. Liberal women have bigger nads than you balless wonders could ever dream of.

The yellow streak running down your Beta male backs is long, deep and wide.

Groggin| 4.27.10 @ 11:29PM

Jon Lebowitz is a disgrace to Judaism. He is a douche bag of the highest order. Someone needs to issue a Fatwa against him.

Minki| 4.28.10 @ 3:10PM

Groggin - you are a FAKE! Get off here and quit trying to smear conservatives with your troll in conservative clothing schtick. Your slip is showing.

Jamie| 4.28.10 @ 5:29PM

You can always tell it's a liberal; their hatred and violence give them away.

JR| 4.29.10 @ 10:43AM

You can always tell its a conservative because they never allow facts to get in the way of their idiotic views. To be conservative has come to mean that if you repeat a lie often enough it will somehow become true. Tell me more about the "death panels" jackass!

Jamie| 4.29.10 @ 4:24PM

Try to come up with something original next time, moron.
Yellow-bellied loser.

Ret. Marine| 4.27.10 @ 7:47AM

Poor little chicken's, the lemmings of their p/c world. Stewart reminds me of a Lt. I once knew who would rather not "rock the boat" so to speak, instead he'd rather go with the book. Taking the easy way out of a predictament is not always the best way to solve a problem nor is it an admireable position to be in but, nonetheless, even if you chose to not make a decision, you've still made a choice.
I see a day in our near future when this Nation will have to choose a life for a life. When this day comes I feel comfortable knowing that I do not stand alone with these choices. I have a family who either fear me, or respect me, for who I am because of the fact that someone is always going to have to make the hard decisions and I'd rather it be me more than them. The underlining of this moral choice is that Men are a different breed than those who claim to be such. Those of us who have worn the uniforms of various types, LEO's, military, etc. have not so much the desire to do battle but we do understand that it takes men of courage to keep the rest of our fellow men safe and secure in their homes, business's and yes sometimes even in our houses of worship.
The next time the "fear factor" is elevated in your life make a deliberated attempt to place fear at the back burner and courage to the forefront of what needs to be done. Don't think about it, just do it and by all means slap the jon stewarts of this world back to reality by your actions. I have never been shot at by a word and I have never returned fire with a pen.

Forever Marine| 4.27.10 @ 10:42AM

Isn't it so telling that the jon stewarts of the world are so feisty when they kick the shins of Bill O'Reilly or Berni Goldberg. One always knows that these little guys are all bluff and buster and empty show. I content myself with "it's just their gig. They are entertainers making a living". But when they come up against a real moment, they are revealed. We knew it all along.

You are right. The day is going to come.
"This is my rifle, there are many like it, but this one is mine"

AmenBro| 4.27.10 @ 12:04PM

Startin at the Rio "GD" Grande River

Improvise and Overcome

Nick Dixon| 4.27.10 @ 1:25PM

One always knows that these little guys are all bluff and buster and empty show

Yeah, like that GW Bush guy with his "bring em on"

Bartho| 4.28.10 @ 12:43PM

At least Bush really meant what he said, and stood behind his words.
When push comes to shove, the liberals really are all bluff and bluster. They would sell out any woman, child, granny, handicapped or gypsy before they would stand up to bullies and tyrants. Yeah, they have balls alright - balls named bluff and bluster or cut and run or cowardly and censor. Give us 'bring it on' any day over 'they cut our checks.'

Kohl| 4.27.10 @ 1:27PM

You Marines are who I look up to in this strange world we're presently in. My father was a SeaBee in WW2 and he was every bit the sort of 'real man' who could be compassionate and yet make some really hard decisions and not care what anyone might think. I believe he passed some of that on to me. I want to say, "I'm Sparticus" too!

megapotamus | 4.27.10 @ 8:07AM

Jews are under a two-pronged assault. The anti-semetic Left including many, many Jews despises them for secular reasons well demonstrated in Obama's national security advisor's "joke" about a poor Taliban (shwuh?) subject to Jewish greed and self-dealing. Then of course the muslims... NOT simply "radical" muslims but muslims generally, preach and practice Jewish exterminationism for vile religious reasons. How any Jew, here, in Israel or abroad can deny this is baffling unless you ascribe it to mere ideological purity. Does Jewry at large have a death wish? Stewart is just about the nation's most prominent Jew and is typical of the attitudes: smirking dismissal of ACTUAL violence and anti-semetism paced with contrived outrage at "rightwing extremists" who barely exist by their definitions. But living in a fantasy world is always a luxury. As times economic and political get more difficult there will be more reaction to the ongoing Reality Therapy. I won't use the tired old cliche that Stewart is, at the end of the day, a Smart Guy. I do not think he is but he is not ineducable. Not quite. Watch Stewart. When enough shite hits the ventilator he will wise up if only a bit.

Stewart Johnson| 4.27.10 @ 1:29PM

Do you just make things up as you type?
Like this "NOT simply "radical" muslims but muslims generally, preach and practice Jewish exterminationism for vile religious reasons.
Wow, that's some leap there.
But there's more fantasy "Stewart is just about the nation's most prominent Jew and is typical of the attitudes: smirking dismissal of ACTUAL violence and anti-semetism paced with contrived outrage at "rightwing extremists" who barely exist by their definitions"
Not only made up, but nonsensical.
You got one thing right though: living in a fantasy world is always a luxury.
Enjoy your luxurious life.

Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 4.27.10 @ 8:18AM

You're asking for Jon Stewart, a "pussy" to act like a Man? It'll never happen, because you can't fake it. You either are one, or you're not!! As an example of the dangerous road we're traveling down now, check this out (especially the second video, it goes downhill fast!!):

http://europenews.dk/en/node/31656

And this is England today (Europe's done, if they don't respond to this problem soon). This Islamic War, has been going on for 1,400 years, and it's not ending. So you can close your eyes to it, and pretend it's not happening, or you can open them, and recognize the enemy of freedom, and stand for it. You have to pick sides on this, and Stewart has picked his, Chicken Shit!!

Stewart Johnson| 4.27.10 @ 1:32PM

You're asking for Jon Stewart, a "pussy" to act like a Man? It'll never happen, because you can't fake it.

More imaginary meanderings from another warped mind.
Jon Stewart makes no special claim to bravery, quite the contrary, he is an admitted physical coward.
What branch of the service do you represent?

Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 4.27.10 @ 6:33PM

Stew: What branch do I represent? Well that would be the U.S. Army. Why? Are you thinking about signing up? We still need a few "Good Men". So what exactly would you expect from my, as you have so wonderfully diagnosed it here, meandering warped mind? To have clear, logical, systematic thinking? Sorry Pal!! But I've spent too many summers melting in the Iraq heat, to be that clear headed anymore. But I didn't know Jon Stewart was an "admitted coward", as you say he is, I just assumed he was a tough guy from the way he talks. And you know what happens when you assume? Yep!! I mean come on now, he seems to have no problems picking fights with the GOP, or Conservatives in general, FOX News, Bernie Goldberg, Sarah Palin, and their like. So excuse me, if I didn't know, that he's an "admitted coward", I really thought he was a tough guy, who stands up for what he believes. Who knew? I guess I shouldn't have expected anything more from him, being that he's a coward. So thanks for the info!!

tina| 4.28.10 @ 12:03PM

that second video is scary! America better wake up and wake up soon! Or we're finished

J| 4.27.10 @ 8:29AM

Comes as no surprise. Stewart is a Hollywood comedian...and I use the term comedian loosely. His comedy routine is written by others, all he does is read a prompter. When will we learn to just "tune out" the Hollywood Entertainment crowd? They spend their whole life pretending to be someone else, making outragious money for it. The early years of Hollywood had real heroes. Many that actually volunteered and served in harm's way during WWII. Today's stars are wimpy, chickens$#@ drug addicts and sell-outs. Hey Stewart, just because you portrayed a person with wit and intelligence in a movie doesn't make you a witty and intelligent person. Remember your place - mindless, nonhumourous entertainer like say - Captain Kangaroo!

PastorJack| 4.27.10 @ 3:06PM

J - Good comments; let's try using another mindless, non-humorous entertainer; like say - Al Franken.
Bob Keeshan, aka Captain Kangaroo served his country honorably in the USMC. Semper Fi

loulou| 4.27.10 @ 4:23PM

Or Jeanine Garafalo. Dumb as a post and homely to boot.

DanMingo| 4.27.10 @ 3:34PM

They spend their whole life pretending to be someone else, making outragious money for it

What have Beck and Palin got to do with this.

Nobama| 4.28.10 @ 1:15AM

What DO Beck and Palin have to do with it, moron?

Louis Jenkins| 4.27.10 @ 8:34AM

I am disappointed by Stewart. But then again I am disappointed by almost all of Hollyweed. All the good guys died off a long time ago.

SpiralArchitect| 4.27.10 @ 1:21PM

Unfortunately, this is the current time we are dealing with. Living through memories of 'better days' and yesteryear are not going to yeild any positive outcome.

The 'Young Republican' is more of a song today than ever before. The nation is leaning Liberal and more to the left all the time.

People are all for a gimmie gimmie hand out system that is perfect for anyone with a silver tongue to lead - no pied piper required.

No, the youth of today is not lost, but it sure is misguided...

Kitty| 4.27.10 @ 8:35AM

The blogger ShrinkWrapped wrote a post 4 years ago entitled:
DO WE NOW RETURN TO THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS?
'In 1971, the great Italian film maker, Vittorio De Sica directed The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, and won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival that same year. The movie was a character study of a wealthy Italian Jewish family in the town Ferrara in 1938. The Finzi-Contini family is already destroyed but do not realize it yet. The fascist government of Mussolini was not particularly energetic in their persecution of Jews but their much more powerful ally demanded that Italy at least make some attempts to aid in the "final solution."... The Finzi-Continis were insulated by their wealth from the realities of the world that was crashing down around them; it seems today that our liberal elites, equally insulated from the world by their wealth and success, believe if they continue to behave as if time has stopped, then they need do nothing to prevent the coming disaster. However, we are clearly approaching a pivotal moment.'

http://shrinkwrapped.blogs.com......html#more
...

Eric Rasmusen| 4.27.10 @ 8:41AM

Stewart is right. It's not his show--it's his bosses'. He serves at their pleasure. We conservatives should know how to respect property rights. If Stewart wants to be brave on his own time, sure, but it's not his call when he's on the job. He's hired to make money for his boss, not to protect free speech.

Of course, journalists should in general acknowledge that awkward fact: that they are not crusaders for liberty, but employees of big corporations that sometimes crusade for liberty and sometimes crusade against it.

Gill O’Teen ✝✡| 4.27.10 @ 10:39AM

I disagree. This article is about how people respond when faced with a difficult choice, sometimes between life and death. Unlike the Soldiers of Spartacus and the Flight 93 Heroes, Stewart’s choice was between adhering his lips to the posteriors of his employers or standing up in defense of OUR BILL OF RIGHTS. More concerned with protecting his income and lifestyle than defending the very LIBERTIES which make that income and lifestyle possible, he chose the money. I did not know that he is Jewish. Never cared enough about him to learn that. To me it does not matter, other than that as a Jew he might not be familiar with The New Testament. This is too bad, because we do not have to accept Jesus as OUR Messiah to understand that He was a very wise Teacher and there is much wisdom in His words.

Consider:
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can not serve both God and Mammon.”
—Matthew 6:19-21,24

And:
“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”
—Matthew 16:26

There are several versions of a well-known statement attributed to the German anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemoeller. Here is one:

“In Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.”

“Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.”

“Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.”

“Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.”

“Then they came for me —
and by that time no one was left to speak up.”

Gill O’Teen ✝✡
gill.Oteen07041776@gmail.com
Now is the time for all to go Galt!
The current fiscal Armageddon projected date is this Saturday!

Stewart Johnson| 4.27.10 @ 1:34PM

I'll believe all of your nonsense the day American Spectator publishes its' cartoon of Mohammed.
Until such time, they are as cowardly as the people you impugn.
Hey, why don't YOU, put up a cartoon of Mohammed on YOUR website brave boy.

Jonah| 4.27.10 @ 10:18PM

He already did, stupid.

ssmokehouse| 4.28.10 @ 6:15AM

My God, I didn't think you were this much of a coward.

Kissufim| 4.27.10 @ 8:42AM

John Stewart. So edgy. So 1969. Such a coward.

Tim*| 4.27.10 @ 8:46AM

Stewart's , one more of The Lib Agendists , who relentlessly attack The Catholics Church with their mouths & keyboards , but run for the tall grass from Muslims .

Barthos| 4.28.10 @ 12:53PM

Zing! Good one Tim. Hypocrisy is high crime and treason in liberal land. Unless they are the ones doing it that is.

Brian Mc| 4.27.10 @ 8:50AM

The date, 9/11 is one of paramount importance in World History. It is the date, if memory serves me, where the Muslim Armies were halted at the gates of Vienna. So, in essence, our 9/11 is an end to the respit we have enjoyed for the past five or six hundred years. They are coming and it's for the throat and there is NO placating them Mr. Stewart.

Submission is the only thing they will accept.

You, go ahead...I refuse.

NavyBrat | 4.27.10 @ 8:56AM

John Stewart & ALL liberal Jews who carry water for this admin. disgust me. As a Jew myself, I'll NEVER understand the love affair with the same sort of ideology that has killed so many Jews throughout history. The old adage that "ignorance is bliss" seems to be in full effect amongst most of the American Jewish community. It saddens me to NO END!

A HILLARIOUS article from Mike Adams about the "South Park" debacle:

http://townhall.com/columnists....._diversity

Kohl| 4.27.10 @ 1:50PM

My thoughts, exactly. Israel has existed only as long as it has because the loopy-liberal, suicidal 'beliefs' have not yet penetrated deeper than simple, basic human preservation. Jews in the diaspora took their anti-Semitism with them: there's two sides to this, the oppressed and the oppressor. Jews for th most part distain the natural right to self defense and a tradition of the use and ownership of arms. They set the stage for pogroms, because Jews historically have been 'a victim looking for a victor'. I'm not such a Jew. I'll pull the trigger instintly. I'm probably one of the exceptions in Jewry. Most have had coward branded into their minds and will be easy for the next purge to 'round up' and exterminate. I'll be in the woods shooting back , with Sparticus!

NavyBrat | 4.27.10 @ 2:40PM

Kohl. Nice to meet another like minded soul. Lord knows there aren't too many of us. Sparticus, Masada, no matter the example, I too, will make my stand. And try to bring some enlightenment to my wayward borthers & sisters in the process.

loulou| 4.27.10 @ 4:26PM

Read the book "Rather Die Fighting" by a young Jew who refused to submit to the Nazis and Judenrats. That man is still alive today.

NavyBrat | 4.27.10 @ 4:54PM

loulou. Thanks for the tip. I'll order it on payday (is it here yet?). It sounds a little bit like "Defiance." Not the movie, but the book, about the Bielski partisans.

Kohl| 4.28.10 @ 10:38AM

@ NavyBrat: Likewise, good to meet another Jew who hasn't been poisoned by the Loopy-Liberal Jewish 'leadership'. Some good news: My relatives in Israel are very militant about Jewish survival with two 'lifers' in the IDF. One is my kind of soldier: Force-Recon! He gets to go inside enemy lines and kill the bastards or capture high-value targets. Graduated from OCS with high honors. Got to see him and about a thousand other young men and women in a 'statium' somewhere in southern Israel' take their oaths. Outstanding. Wouldn't you like to see Israel in its fullest potential: Rule the entire Middle East.

Steve Real| 4.27.10 @ 9:00AM

Jon Stewart is God.

NavyBrat | 4.27.10 @ 9:11AM

And you're an idiot. What's your point?

NavyBrat | 4.27.10 @ 9:12AM

Apologies if you were mak'n a funny. You WERE, weren't you?

HoweeCarr| 4.27.10 @ 9:15AM

Stewart is just a smug little liberal pr*ck. Nothing more.

Dave| 4.27.10 @ 10:42AM

We have seen Jon Stewart before. Go back to Nazi Germany. Remember the coward jews who helped the other jews off the trains and pointed them to the showers. They should now be referred as Jon Stewarts.

DanMingo| 4.27.10 @ 2:55PM

Go back to Nazi Germany

Pretty ironic, isn't it, to say to a Jew go back to Nazi Germany. Why should he when there are Nazis like you right here in America.

Jeremiah| 4.27.10 @ 10:16PM

You should talk, fascist liberal Mango.

dave| 4.29.10 @ 5:53PM

Dan, Read the post ass. It comments on the Jews who in Nazi Germany volunteered to shepherd the other jews in the concentration camp to the showers so they could live another day. Says nothing about sending Jon to Nazi Germany. Sorry you are too stupid to comprehend.

loulou| 4.27.10 @ 4:28PM

Can't call them "Jon Stewarts" because George Soros has the honor. He was a Judenrat. If Jon Stewart had been alive at the time, he would most certainly have been a Judenrat. As would Spielberg and Streisand, etc.

Kohl| 4.28.10 @ 10:41AM

Soros is scum. A Jew turned Gentile to save his neck and profit from the murder of Jews. How do garbage like Soros escape G-d's wrath?

Kohl| 4.27.10 @ 1:53PM

Jon Stewart is Cowardace! You, too!

Tim*| 4.27.10 @ 6:06PM

Jon Stewart is Dog .

Bill| 4.27.10 @ 9:20AM

The reason why we celebrate courage is that it's not all that common most of the time. So why should anyone be surprised when a person knuckles under to Muslim pressure.

Personally, I've always been perplexed by the Muslim insistence that they're warriors waging jihad and at the same time so fussily demanding that non-Muslims observe all these prissy-ass restrictions that they claim they have to have.

Richard Baker| 4.27.10 @ 9:24AM

This guy is an American? He's also a man? Does he sit to pee and have laced panties under his suit? Like so many liberals, it's all street theater just like in the '60s anti-war movement. What a stud Stewart is, eh?

Dixie Pixie| 4.27.10 @ 1:18PM

Richard, I think the term you are looking for is “Girly Man”.

Howie B| 4.27.10 @ 1:36PM

What branch of the service are you in?

wbheff| 4.28.10 @ 12:30PM

What is the relevance of this question?

DanMingo| 4.27.10 @ 2:56PM

it's all street theater just like in the '60s anti-war movement.
Or the current teabagger movement?

Nobama| 4.27.10 @ 9:02PM

Better than the criminal Leftists in Arizona who threw rocks and bottles at the riot police and smeared refried bean swastikas all over public buildings.

VIOLENT street theater is what you vicious liberals are all about.

Eric F.| 4.27.10 @ 9:40AM

John Stuart has no obligation to take on any particular group or subject -- he's an entertainer pure and simple. What bothers those of us who pay attention is that he adopts a 'bad boy', 'truth telling' intellectual pose that has all the substance of a moist doily.

benindel| 4.28.10 @ 12:58PM

LOL!

davelnaf| 4.27.10 @ 9:45AM

The author is exactly right about Islam and liberals’ moral cowardice. The religion is all about intimidation and forced conversion. Of course, its adherents here have the right to perform this symbolic ritual as long it is done peacefully and behind closed doors. But the problem, as many Muslims see it, is that relatively few people in this country find their religion worth the trouble and refuse to follow suit. This will not stop its most fanatical devotees from believing the impossible is yet possible and the little bomb throwers are always looking for ways to bring on the Caliphate or at least get back at American society for the awful slight of monumental indifference. It all boils down to this: some Muslims are always looking for soft targets to intimidate and the liberal media has so far shown itself to be the softest of soft targets for their intimidation tactics. Ironically, the liberal media goes after the Tea Party people with a similar motivation and expectation of result as do Muslims whenever they target the liberal media.

Crusader| 4.27.10 @ 9:52AM

And everytime an alleged "conservative" website runs a story about "radical" islam or "radical" jihadists you are missing your Spartacus moment as well. Stewart is just a symptom of the West's bigger disease, that is a politically correct aversion to the Truth about islam. Most in the West view islam through Western, Judeo-Christian eyes. We IGNORE "the prophet's" own words. We IGNORE the attacks, murders, rapes, etc etc. We call islam a "religion of peace." We say "most muslims are just like us." And most distressingly we call ourselves Christians but IGNORE and DENY the words of Christ Himself, who said,

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so, every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth bad fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth bad fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore, by their fruits ye shall know them."

By their fruits I know muslims. They are ravening wolves bringing hatred, destruction, and evil in their path.

WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

Buck Batard| 4.27.10 @ 9:57AM

The cast iron pot is calling the stainless steel coffee urn black:
Scott Horton speaks to this kind of article in National Review, but it equally applies here:
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William F. Buckley, Jr.’s National Review was the intellectual bastion of Catholic-leaning conservatism in America, filled with well-written prose, a love of literature, and a critical take on G.O.P. politics. Today’s publication is pretty pale by comparison. It reminds one of the inside score-settling of the Bolsheviks, especially in the period after Fanya Kaplan shot Lenin and the Red Terror was let loose. A number of bloggers, notably Andrew Sullivan, have been following the intellectual disintegration with detached amusement or dismay, but I’m convinced there is no better narrator of it than David Frum, who demonstrates again why he was consistently recognized as the best stylist of the NRO crew—before he parted company with them:

How wonderful to return to a free country, I thought as I stepped off the plane from Beijing at Washington Dulles. No more censorship, no more official lies, no more kowtowing to high officials who gained power by their mindless repetition of party dogma… Then alas I opened my browser and read the dump-on-Manzi comments on NRO’s The Corner. Manzi had deviated from the One Correct Way of Mark Levin Thought, and all his former colleagues had been summoned together to Denounce and Struggle Against Him. Not one stood up to be counted in Manzi’s defense, not even colleagues whom Manzi might have had reason to regard as close personal friends. (Take a second to notice whose bylines are missing from yesterday’s discussions.) What makes this episode all the more remarkable is that Manzi is actually a member of NR’s board of trustees—i.e., somebody who might claim a little more scope to speak his mind. But even for trustees, there are limits, and Manzi crossed them.
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http://harpers.org/archive/2010/04/hbc-90006950

Of course, Mr. Lord has no intention of violating the rules and will be a good little goblin, following the party line all the rest of his days.

Jane| 4.27.10 @ 11:03AM

Harpers?? You're citing that?? Ridiculous.

Stewart Johnson| 4.27.10 @ 1:40PM

Because American Spectator is where you go to find the truth, right? And Faux news, right.

Jeremiah| 4.27.10 @ 10:15PM

Like the dead NYSlimes? Yeah sure.

Jeffrey Lord| 4.27.10 @ 11:24AM

Buck.......

"Of course, Mr. Lord has no intention of violating the rules and will be a good little goblin, following the party line all the rest of his days. "

OK. You got me. What does anything in my piece have to do with Manzi/Levin/Frum? I'll bite.

Warrior | 4.27.10 @ 11:28AM

Mr. Bastard:

You might be onto something. I also read in Vogue that the economy is doing very well because of the stimulus.

Loulou| 4.27.10 @ 4:31PM

Andrew Sullivan?? He has syphilitic dementia. He's become a blithering idiot. That plus the steroids...

And Harpers?? Does it still exist?

Sam| 4.28.10 @ 5:33PM

I think that's AIDS related dementia--but I guess the source doesn't matter because Sullivan's obviously lost his mind.

crookedwren| 4.27.10 @ 10:00AM

I'm not sure that I care whether Stewart is a coward or not. I'm not sure that I'm not.

But the thing that is significant in this article to me is that Western Civilization is under attack, with the assistance of this Administration and much of Congress, and I wonder how many of them actually realize that their lives, their liberty, and their individual pursuit of happiness is on the chopping block.

My ex-husband is a New-Agey, "hippie-esque" Obamaite. His mother was a non-practicing Jew -- making him, in the eyes of the world, a Jew. Yet I have heard him sympathize so with the so-called Palestinians. How does he ignore the obvious? That there were no "Palestinians" until the Arabic tribes decided they wanted to blow Israel off the map. That Islamic Jihad, if successful, will impose Sharia Law upon his hippie lifestyle. (I, too, in sympathy with a reader above, don't understand the Jewish love of Progressivism.)

My best friend from college is gay man living in Manhattan. He, too, scoffed (gently, though, in my presence) when I suggested that Islamic "extremists" were hoping to put Sharia Law in place in the US. No, he contended, they're not interested in taking over the world. As if the "Palestinians" just wanted a little more fair play in Jerusalem, as if THAT was their only "beef" with Israel and the US.

How does he -- who stood screaming alongside everyone else in his skyscraper office and watched as the second plane plowed into the World Trade Center -- How does he ignore the fact that these folks have declared war on us, on our valued personal liberty?

What will happen to him and his partner if Islam succeeds?

Naivete. The "that-can't-happen-here" mentality.

Melvin| 4.27.10 @ 10:44AM

I don't know Crookedwren I find it hard to look at them as being naive. I think they know, and they would rather not face the music so to speak. Because if they did they would have to acknowledge to themselves that the very essence of their liberal belief system is wrong.
Look at history for the most part. Neville Chamberlain came back to England, "We have peace in our time." Jimmy Carter handed Iran to the Mullahs on a golden platter in hoping that they would like us and how generations have passed and Iran's hate has grown to the point of nuclear weapons. Carter could have supported the Shah who wasn't perfect but damn sight better than what we have now.
Iran will use nuclear weapons period. And their are those Liberals, "No he won't he's just bluffing."
These are the same Liberals who knew Saddam was feeding his people through wood chippers but didn't say anything out of fear of not being invited to his birthday party, is CNN in the house.
Liberalism visive cowardice is getting us killed and murdered.
If we helped the students in Iran overthrow those barbaric throwbacks of the 12th Century we would remove a very large contributor to terrorism. "Well.. that would mean going to war with Iran." !!! Liberal Idoiots we have been at war with Iran since 1979 you just haven't acknowledged that point yet."
That horses ass in the White House is going to get us into a shooting war that will be more bigger than anything we have ever faced and our government is worried about the people in the Tea Party.

Stewart Johnson| 4.27.10 @ 1:44PM

That there were no "Palestinians" until the Arabic tribes decided they wanted to blow Israel off the map.

Haha. Read some history. Palestinians were occupying the land now ruled by Israel when the victors in WW II decided to take it away, and give it to European Jews.

Yes there are radical Islamists who want Sharia law everywhere.
Just like we have Christians who want this Country, long a bastion of religious freedom, to be a Christian nation.
Both groups are to be shunned.

GW| 4.27.10 @ 3:07PM

"Just like we have Christians who want this country, long a bastion of religious freedom, to be a Christian nation."

Name one.

Stewart Johnson| 4.27.10 @ 4:33PM

The teabagger movement, Faux news, Sarah Palin who said, misinterpreting a remark by the President: " And then, hearing any leader declare that America isn't a Christian nation and poking an ally like Israel in the eye"
this website:
http://www.whateveristrue.com/heritage/

David Barton (The Myth of Separation, pp. 47-51) and others of the Religious right claim that the Supreme Court determined that the United States was a Christian nation in the 1892 case, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 U.S. 226 (1892)
http://candst.tripod.com/tnppage/arg7.htm

What we need is a Christian nation....What I mean by a Christian nation is a nation whose laws are self-consciously built on the laws and principles of the Bible.
Recently, many authors have debated whether or not the United States of America was founded as a Christian nation. I wish to provide a few historical quotes from our Founding Era that lend credence to the supposition that we indeed were founded as a Christian nation.

There you go.

Nobama| 4.27.10 @ 9:06PM

We are a Christian nation, troll!

Typical fascist liberal--always trying to rewrite history. Goebbels would approve, moron.

Nobody| 5.17.10 @ 7:14PM

To say that we are a Christian nation completely contradicts the very reason this country was founded. You moronic troll, you.

Gmason| 4.27.10 @ 4:15PM

"Yes there are radical Islamists who want Sharia law everywhere.
"Just like we have Christians who want this Country, long a bastion of religious freedom, to be a Christian nation.
Both groups are to be shunned. "

This type of comments is why liberals can't be taken seriously.

Stewart Johnson| 4.27.10 @ 4:34PM

Very insightful.

Jamie| 4.27.10 @ 9:07PM

Liberals should be put away in mental institutions where they belong.

Liberalism is a mental illness.

Nobody| 5.15.10 @ 7:25PM

I think lunatics who want to lock away people he or she disagrees with in mental institutions are the ones who should be locked away.
It's a shame Stupid-Arrogance doesn't qualify as a mental illness.... oh well.

TNSURFER| 4.27.10 @ 5:54PM

"Palestinians" as in "refugees" were not talked about until the folks who were indistinguishable by race, religion, color or creed decided that it would be useful to have a refugee population. They could have easily been assimilated into Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt... take your pick. But it was far more useful to keep them in refugee camps and try to keep pressure on Israel thereby.

If you look at history, you will see that the neighboring states issued direction to the non-Jewish residents - suggesting that if they would simply move out of the area for a few days, they could return once the Jewish presence had been dealt with. So by the thousands they packed lightly and evacuated. The Jewish folk did not expell them. The irony of ironies is that the "Palestinians" who stayed became Israeli citizens. But those who left, who were by their actions complicit with the attack being waged against the new State of Israel, were not allowed to return.

The more incredible part of the story, however, is that the language of the situtation morphed once the PLO visited North Vietnam and learned the art of media manipulation. You can read about it in THE HIGH COST OF PEACE: How Washington's Middle East Policy Left America Vulnerable to Terrorism, by Yossef Bodansky.

Kohl| 4.28.10 @ 10:48AM

Well it's a sure thing that Islam doesn't encourage 'outreach' or 'rainbow coalitions' to homosexuals. In Saudi Arabia, the proscribed penalty would be his head chopped off by a large, curved sword.

merlin| 4.27.10 @ 10:09AM

If/when my Sparticus moment comes, I pray I don't jonstewart.

Dixie Pixie| 4.27.10 @ 3:23PM

A even better question is when the Muslims round up the Jews for execution, who will stand up and say “ I Am Jon Stewart” ?

Le Cracquere| 4.27.10 @ 6:33PM

Standing up would pretty much give the game away. If you wish to impersonate that munchkin effectively, try standing on your knees and slipping some empty shoes under them.

Dixie Pixie| 4.27.10 @ 8:53PM

Jon Steward is a self admitted moral and physical coward. A drunken chipmunk could exceed his moral stature. If you wanted to match his intellect, I suggest mercury poisoning. R.E Mad as a Hatter.

Janice| 4.27.10 @ 9:08PM

DP--you've just described a typical liberal.

Majito| 4.27.10 @ 10:16AM

Grit, valor and courage from the male perspective can't be faked...either you carry weight between your legs or not...these little american hating jews in the entertainment industry (sadly appear to be the whole lot) are more at home apeasing america's enemies and tyrants. Don't expect these wussies to be men with intestinal fortitude and guts...they're not...they're just dummy card readers. but looking into it, maybe america will need a dose of islamic intolerance and sharia...the first to be shut will be the leftist witches, then the heads of the so called 'alternate lifestyles' will roll, next all these israel hating jews and by the time, we the real deal will take care of allowing all these disciples of muhamad to go and sample their 70+ virgins...it'll be a nice cleansing...the only thing is what do muslim women will do? their studs get blown up and acquire a harem, are they going to have their own 70+ chippendale looking pros?

Jim| 4.27.10 @ 9:10PM

Good post!

Ken (Old Texican)| 4.27.10 @ 10:18AM

Mr. Lord,

Once again, you have passed YOUR "Spartacus test". Thank you, and may the Lord bless and keep you and yours.

I just finished a well researched novel that tied in the history of the United States and muslims.
Turns out that both before Thomas Jefferson as President .....and after Thomas Jefferson as President, the US paid LOTS of tribute to the muslim Barbary Pirates.
While Thomas was President... the Marine Hymn got it's first verse in lyrics instead.
Boy,
Some of those guys met lots of Spartacus moments didn't they?

In my small ways, in my writings here and about, and in my alertness out and about, I have tried to fill my small role in the war.

I do so again: Sir, I am an Islamaphobe.

I do fear Islam, and I believe rightfully so. It is the only rational response I can figure out.

I must also admit that my fears have been ratcheted up several notches due to the occupant of 1600. He seems to be purposely dropping our guard in his role as Commander in Chief, but also in his role as the executive in charge of our entire foreign and homeland security policy.

Mr. Lord,
I honestly believe November 2nd. is America's definitive "Spartacus moment". I can only hope that we pass that test.
Question:
Can Congress declare war on it's own?

Gill O’Teen ✝✡| 4.27.10 @ 11:06AM

Ken, Article. I: Section 8 of OUR CONSTITUTION, specifies the Powers of Congress. It includes the following: “The Congress shall have Power
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy ...”

So the answer to your question appears to be a resounding “Yes!” However, considering that a huge majority of OUR present Congress is comprised of folks considerably less brave than those aboard Flight 93, I seriously doubt it will ever happen. However, since the President is the Commander-in-Chief of OUR Military, it is probably a good idea, though not required, that he be down for the struggle.

Gill O’Teen ✝✡
gill.Oteen07041776@gmail.com
Now is the time for all to go Galt!
Last night about 4:35 ET, OUR Debt:GDP ratio was 89.79%.
90% is considered the point of fiscal non-sustainability!

Majito| 4.27.10 @ 11:11AM

Ken, take a look at the muslims in Spain...Columbus got his funding in 1492 thanks to the Spanish Crown repeal of them throwing them back into north Africa after 4 centuries of occupation...and they have neven come back...it was this riddance that allowed Spain to focus on the new world...

JmsA| 4.27.10 @ 11:38AM

Majito,

Don't mean to offend, but the muslim moors ruled most, though not all of Spain for over 700 years, since the founding of the Umayyad dynasty in Spain by Tarik ibn Ziyad and Abd-al-Rahman I, in 756.

Jonah| 4.27.10 @ 9:11PM

Spain sucks to this day because of the Moors.

Stewart Johnson| 4.27.10 @ 1:47PM

Mr. Lord,

Once again, you have passed YOUR "Spartacus test".

Yes, your brave stroking of your keyboard shows without question your bravery.
Why not include a cartoon of Mohammed with your article, Mr. brave guy?

In my small ways, in my writings here and about, and in my alertness out and about, I have tried to fill my small role in the war.
Another brave member of the fighting 105th keyboardists.

Ken (Old Texican)| 4.27.10 @ 2:01PM

Mr. Johnson,
Thank you for the compliment. I think Mr. Lord would thank you too.

Yes, I am on ALL the lists our communist muslim, (pardon the shorthand), gubmint operatives compile. So is Mr. Lord with honest articles like this one.
So,
Yessir, Mr. Johnson, more people read Mr. Lord than watch south park. He has hung his arse out for principle.
Heh,
I notice that you do not.

Do you have any principles worth dying for if necessary?
Boy, we would sure like to hear them.
(wimp)

Stewart Johnson| 4.27.10 @ 3:07PM

more people read Mr. Lord than watch south park. He has hung his arse out for principle.

Haha, by falsely criticizing a comedian on a cable comedy channel, he is hanging his ass out for principle.
Again, where's the bravery in that?
I would have been impressed had he shown true bravery by publishing his own cartoon image of Mohammed. Still waiting for that one.
And you claim to be in this same brave company as the author because;
In my small ways, in my writings here and about, and in my alertness out and about, I have tried to fill my small role in the war. "

Onward keyboard soldiers.
I make no false claims to bravery, unlike you, and only hope I have the courage to face a true threat.
I won't know until it happens how I will respond.
You probably are so 'brave' that you keep a loaded gun next to your bed.
Just in case the "gubmint operatives" come for you.
Hey Tex, do you have a website?
If so, let's see your brave depiction of Mohammed.
I'll check back later for that link.
Until then, you are considered a coward too, typing bravely from Mom's basement.

haha. that's really putting your life on the line to defend your principles.

Ken (Old Texican)| 4.27.10 @ 6:21PM

Oh...Mr. Johnson...You are a new troll here.

HAVEN'T YOU SEEN MR. LORD'S CARTOON YET?

MR. LORD WOULD YOU PLEASE RE-PRINT YOUR HILARIOUS CARTOON?

We have a new Soros troll here, and heh, he needs edifying.
Uh Yeah, Mr. Johnson I have my cartoon.
see www.myteamusa.org.

Where is your cartoon? smart guy?

Ken (Old Texican)| 4.27.10 @ 6:30PM

OOPS, a period on the end screwed up the link.

SHOVE THIS Mr. Johnson.

www.myteamusa.org

Jim| 4.27.10 @ 9:14PM

The arse Johnson sounds like a Liberal Reader clone.

That you, LR?

smokehouse| 4.28.10 @ 6:30AM

Still a coward. Scared as hell.

LarryK| 4.27.10 @ 10:43AM

I suggest that people buy a set of jacks and mail the two little rubber balls to Jon Stewart since he is missing a "pair".

Albert| 4.27.10 @ 10:59AM

I've seen Jon Stewart's shtick on TV once or twice. This guy is a witless drone. That he can routinely ridicule American citizens, but cower in the face of Muslim threats is not surprising. If I could delete Comedy Central from my channel lineup I would.

Stan| 4.27.10 @ 7:36PM

I don't suppose anybody bothered to actually watch that particular Stewart episode in its entirety. But he ended his show by giving the same treatment to the Muslims who threatened the South Park guys as he gave the Fox boys the day before.

Since this entire thread was precipitated out of an article purporting that Stewart didn't stand up to Muslim extremist in the same way that he stood up to Fox (a lie if you watched the show) then all of the faux or real outrage being used up here is a great waste of time.

Like him or don't like him, but no matter what side of the Conservative/Liberal fault line you are on, basing your criticism or anger on an incomplete telling of his response is akin to an anti-gun person jumping on the unsuspecting back of a responsibly armed citizen and beating him with a pipe because "he had a gun, he must have been about to commit a crime."

Stuart Koehl| 4.27.10 @ 11:15AM

I'm not sure that Jeffrey Lord actually SAW the John Stewart clip, which was thoughtfully posted on the Weekly Standard blog. If he had, he merely showed that he, like far too many columnists, is seriously humor impaired.

Now, I don't like Stewart, and I don't watch his show, but I watched this clip, and in it, Steward cleverly skewers the cowardice and double standard applied by his bosses at Comedy Central.

In short, he says, yeah, hey, it's their network, and we have to do what they say--but look how brave they were taking on the Jews, the Catholics, the Hindus, the Atheists, and even Fox News Network (herein followed clips of Stewart sendups of each of these groups).

And then he said something rather remarkable--first, that he has to acknowledge to all of those groups and individuals how well they took their skewering, and then acknowledges that they are not the enemy--just people with whom he disagrees. The real enemy, he says, is Revolution Muslim and its ilk.

So, just what more did you want him to say?

I'm a bit confused by all this.

Jeffrey Lord| 4.27.10 @ 12:00PM

Stuart...

I did indeed see the Stewart clip. The whole thing. Hence the column. Was Jon Stewart being funny? I guess I missed it. If he were really being funny he would have run the South Park clip bleeped by Comedy Central. Now THAT would have been funny. And a Spartacus moment. You can do both...Jon Stewart delicately chose otherwise.

Stewart Johnson| 4.27.10 @ 1:50PM

If he were really being funny he would have run the South Park clip bleeped by Comedy Central.
Oh yeah, the station he is on, Comedy Central, bleeped a clip, and you want Jon to show it on Comedy Central, the network that bleeped it.
You can't be that obtuse, can you?
By the way, show your bravery; publish your own cartoon of Mohammed so we can all have a big laugh.

Jeffrey Lord| 4.27.10 @ 4:09PM

Stuart...

I can't draw. But I can link. Enjoy! The First Amendment lives.

http://zombietime.com/mohammed....._cartoons/

Stewart Johnson| 4.27.10 @ 4:47PM

First, it's Stewart, not Stuart.
Second; you linked to cartoons, a cowardly "I'm not Sparticus" act. The brave thing would be to include a cartoon or two (from the link) with your article to show your defiance.
Pot, meet kettle.

Jeffrey Lord| 4.27.10 @ 5:48PM

Stewart...

Sorry about the name. A world of Stu's here.

The American Spectator was one of a handful of publications in America who ran the Danish cartoons when the issue was hot.

http://www.objectivistcenter.o.....lists.aspx

I don't select the art work...and the subject of the piece is Jon Stewart, so obviously a photo of Jon Stewart was selected. But we are on record here running the Danish cartoons when most papers refused. We are consistent and so am I. I have provided a link which is what I can do, and I do it happily. We are not about to be intimidated here in the fashion of Comedy Central. By the way, you might notice the New York Times refused to run the Danish cartoons. Enough said.

Jamie| 4.27.10 @ 9:16PM

C'mon big balls Stewie--cat got your tongue?

Useless leftists are a dime a dozen and the cowards never disappoint.

Reardon| 4.27.10 @ 2:10PM

Mr. Lord Please read this article:

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/0.....-patriot-o’reilly-pinhead/

I read this article and I've watched the entire clip in question and I also would like to know what exactly you thought Mr. Stewart should have said or done? The only people who have access to the Uncensored South Park Clip are the South Park Creators and Comedy Central Execs. There is no way that Mr. Stewart could have played it. The entire segment was a defence of South Park and free speech and an attack on Islamic fundimentalists. He praised the USA for all its freedoms and clearly stated that islamic Fundementalists are "the enemy." and then he told the Islamic groups "to go f*ck themselves!". He then sung a two minute song about how they should all "Go F*ck Yourselves!" So could you please clearly state what you thought Mr. Stewart should have said?

Stewart Johnson| 4.27.10 @ 3:09PM

Reardon, please stop confusing these people with facts, their heads may explode.

Jeffrey Lord| 4.27.10 @ 4:19PM

He had a number of options.

Show the censored clip, let Comedy Central censor him, and underline the problem.

Have the cartoonists on the show to discuss.

Show the Danish cartoons.

Interview the Danish cartoonist.

Quit in protest.

What seems to be missed between his jokes is what his actual attitude was.."they sign the checks." Does he need the check? Could he take the show elsewhere? Could he raise unshirted hell? Apparently. He surely could. Yes, but he was, I guess, concerned he would get fired.

One last suggestion: ask everybody in video media to run the censored clip at the same time everywhere. Hold a press conference and run it on a DVD. He's a comedian. He'd make it funny.

Janice| 4.27.10 @ 9:19PM

Stewie Johnson is Liberal Reader the useless troll.

Stuart Koehl| 4.27.10 @ 9:36PM

Since Stewart doesn't hold rights to the clip, just how could he do this if the network won't let him?

By they way, your Flight 93 analogy was flawed. A "Spartacus moment" implies that there is a choice between living by betraying someone, or dying by maintaining solidarity. On flight 93, there was no such choice. A better analogy might have the rebellion in Sobibor Concentration Camp in World War II.

mejamom| 4.27.10 @ 11:24AM

If one searches the web for info about Islam, there are literally thousands of sites, more than I have time to read comprehensively. Some paint the religion as peaceful, some do not. The Old Testament is full of violence in the name of God and there is history of violence in the early Christian Church in regards to conversion. We 21st Century Christians wouldn't want to be lumped in with those lot. So, why should we not believe the Islam that is being preached today as peaceful? Aren't there fanatic Christians as well? Also, there are American converts to Islam. Does that mean we have to automatically believe they are anti American terrorists?
I'm not trying to be confrontational here, I just want some answers.

Ken (Old Texican)| 4.27.10 @ 1:20PM

mejamom,
Fair question/s.

I genuinely believe we are engaged in "holy war", though most Americans have not acknowledged that reality yet.

Quite simply, choose sides, for there is no middle ground in these days.

Do you want to live under the US constitution, or Sharia law?
Do you quite understand what Sharia law would mean to you...personally?

A significant group within Islam want you in a burkha with your mouth shut. You could not even ask your questions above without being stoned to death.
Clear enough?
Now...what Christian group wants to stone you for asking your questions above?

Crusader| 4.27.10 @ 1:32PM

Mejamom, the only website you need is amazon.com. Go there and buy yourself a koran. Then buy the sira and hadiths. READ them. You don't have to go to "thousands of websites." READ mohammed's own words, then decide for yourself. He is pretty clear to me.

Stuart Koehl| 4.27.10 @ 9:47PM

The answer to that is simple and straightforward: violent Christian and Jewish militarism is today rare exception to the rule, whereas violent, militant Islam is, if not normal, certainly not rare.

Moreover, such violence in the name of God is explicitly contrary to Christian doctrine; Christ teaches us to love our enemies and to turn the other cheek. Deviations from that rule are betrayals of Christian belief.

Judaism long ago ceased to be a militant religion, and became almost excessively pietist in nature.

Finally, Christianity teaches that Christ's kingdom is "not of this world". Judaism teaches that God promised the Children of Israel one small piece of land to be theirs forever.

Islam, however, is the only religion that promises its adherents temporal supremacy over all the world--this world, in which we live. The followers of Allah are to rule over the world and bring it all into the Dar al-Islam, the World of Submission, in which all are subject to Sharia. Outside the Dar al-Islam is the Dar al-Harb, the World of War, in which unbelievers still rule. Islam differs from Judaism, which does not proselytize; and from Christianity, which seeks to convert the hearts of all men by preaching the Gospel everywhere. Islam does not care if we, as People of the Book, convert to Islam, so long as we submit to it and become "tributaries" (Dhimmis). Of course, idolators get no such option--for them, it is conversion or death.

Islam teaches that all means are permitted to bring the Dar al-Harb into the Dar al-Islam. The Quran is, in many respects, a military manual that lays out the organization, training, discipline and tactics for an army of the faithful to wage jihad.

For better or for worse (probably the latter), Islam is a religion that preaches expansion at the point of the sword, if necessary--and the history of Islam, from the 7th century through the 17th century, is a continuous record of expansion through religious warfare.

Until that changes, the very nature of Islam will incline it to violence, and those who engage in violence in the name of Islam cannot be accused of violating its tenets.

Jeremiah| 4.28.10 @ 3:06AM

There is a lot of violence in the Old Testament - and a brutality that modern sensibilities recoil from - and rightly so. But it is profoundly and qualitatively different from the brutality commanded by the Koran.

Old Testament violence was for the normal reasons of war in more brutal times. Violence came in territorial conflicts and wars over supplies. But the violence was not over the issue of forced conversion or directed at a people just because they existed.

In the Koran, all the citations Hollywood actors and scriptwriters use to defend Islam as a religion of peace are those instructions Mohammed gives concerning conflicts between fellow Muslims. The rules for dealing with infidels are quite different. If infidels refuse to convert, then torture, rape and murder of them is considered a blessed thing and a religious duty.

Simply put, if you are a Christian and you commit violence against innocents of another faith you are violating your founders command. If you are Muslim and fail to commit violence against innocents of another faith who refuse to convert, you are violating your founders command.

Richard| 4.27.10 @ 11:49AM

What a great conversation! Folks, we have seen such cowardice before: the period between WWI and WWII in France and England. A few stood proud and knowledgeable of the Evil but most were craven apologists and excusers of the Evil, and still others aided and abetted it.
Stewart is a fool who should be dismissed from polite consideration--but Stewart still has a chance to redeem himself.

Guy| 4.27.10 @ 11:51AM

Stewart is the poster boy for the typical American leftist. Mouthy and gutless.

I came to this understanding decades ago after a 4-year stint in the service where I observed that leftists are the first in line when it comes to government handouts but wouldn't be caught dead in a military uniform even if their mother's life depended on it.

The fact that the majority of them are unable to exist without government assistance in the most stable and prosperous society that has ever existed in the history of Man proves to me that they are nothing more than miserable diaper wearing thumb suckers.

In a way it's kinda too bad that they weren't the victims of one of their own favourite causes, abortion.

Stewart Johnson| 4.27.10 @ 1:56PM

I came to this understanding decades ago after a 4-year stint in the service where I observed that leftists are the first in line when it comes to government handouts but wouldn't be caught dead in a military uniform even if their mother's life depended on it.

A recent poll shows more service members claiming to be democrats than those claiming to be republican.
Ah, those brave conservatives like Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Cheney etc. were the first to enlist during the Vietnam era.

Doorgunner| 4.27.10 @ 2:11PM

Bulls**t.

Stewart Johnson| 4.27.10 @ 3:11PM

According to a new Military Times survey of 1,800 troops released on Monday, the number of active service members identifying themselves as Republicans has dropped by one-third since 2004, with 9% of that decrease happening in the last year.

Military Times reporter Brendan McGarry pens that “These career-oriented officers and mid-grade and senior enlisted members are still far more conservative than liberal, but they are less likely today to identify with the GOP, the survey shows.”

The change in party affiliation among active-duty troops comes on the heels of similar findings from a survey that the Military Times released in 2008. Infantry Officer Jason Dempsey pens on a similar change observed among troops from 2004 to 2006:

“These Military Times survey results show that support for the Republican Party among senior members of the Army, the group most likely to identify as Republican, declined significantly between 2004 and 2006 before leveling off at about 49% in 2007. Also interesting is that the data show no corresponding change in support for the Democratic Party.”
http://www.allvoices.com/contr.....epublicans

DanMingo| 4.27.10 @ 3:21PM

It seems Stewart's a bit off here.
The TREND is towards more democratic support, and less republican, but there are still more republican/conservatives serving, at least if the poll is accurate.
And the poll measures party affiliation, not necessarily conservative or liberal, as shown in the last paragraph.
Whatever, it's a dumb argument; to suggest that liberals are cowards and conservatives are brave is misleading, inaccurate, and overly simplistic.

Doorgunner| 4.27.10 @ 4:11PM

Johnson:
I serve. I haven't met a single convert to the Democratic party since the '08 election, especially after the bonuses were cut. And senior officers go with the prevailing wind publicly; what they say in-theater, say, over a Blackhawk ICS, is something different altogether. Yes, the Bush adminstration was rightly second-guessed; no, the Democrats (especially those like Harkin, Reid, McDermott et al. actively working against us) did not look any better by comparison. And the Military Times is not an authoritative publication; their reporters are as distrusted as any other.

Mingo:
I've known several Liberal pilots whose bravery is beyond question. I don't know what makes those boys tick other than a typical big-ego drive. All the same, I'll keep crewing with them.

Jamie| 4.27.10 @ 9:26PM

LibReader/Johnson; they've become Independents, moron. Nice try, though. Our military will never be liberal--we might as well hang it up if that happens.

CHummel| 4.27.10 @ 12:28PM

Stewart is greed covered in a chicken suit. Maybe Colbert will illustrate for liebrals that Moslems in bear suits "might be" as terrifying as grizzly bears. But, I doubt Colbert has any guts either...

Jonah| 4.27.10 @ 9:31PM

Colbert? You're kidding right? He's an even bigger pvssy than Stewart--if that's possible!

Jim Wilson | 4.27.10 @ 1:13PM

While I like the concept of a 'Spartacus moment' that Mr. Lord puts forth, I don't think that Stewart faced such a moment. Declining to stand up for free speech by one who lives only by the continuation of free speech while facing little or no danger doesn't quite rise to the level of declaring 'I am Spartacus!' and facing crucifixion. The increased danger of Comedy Central letting Parker & Stone do their thing is minimal; it's not like the Jihadis would let them live anyway if they get the upper hand. Every single person working at Comedy Central will get the axe if the Jihadis were to take control. The danger to Stewart if he did as Mr. Lord suggested he should, would also be minimal. His career would hardly be over. He would probably be snapped up as a host at Fox News before he got a full day off. He's wealthy enough to afford bodyguards etc, and probably already has them to protect him from fans who have gone overboard. He faced almost no danger, and even so couldn't bring himself to really kick his corporate paymasters in the teeth.

It's not at all surprising that Comedy Central made this move; the primary motivating factor of all large corporations and middle-managers and above is terror. Young and hungry corporations take risks; old and fat companies protect their assets. Middle management lives in constant dread that somebody will blame them for losing money, and there you have your motivations for avoiding the minimal risk to Parker & Stone and the network itself. I'm sure Parker & Stone get death threats all the time. I think they've offended just about anybody it's possible to offend, and in a group that large there are bound to be whackos who think murder is the only answer. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to discover that they're already named in a fatwa somewhere around the world for many of the stories in South Park. This whole episode is just a demonstration of the extreme cowardice of Stewart and the bosses at CC. It's one thing to back down and be a nice little slave when crucifixion is the other option; it might not be courageous but it's understandable. It's quite another to back down and accept dhimmitude when the possibility of assassination goes from .008% to .014%.

'Spartacus moment' it's not. Mr. Lord, you give them too much credit.

Kevin| 4.27.10 @ 1:22PM

So somewhere in this myriad of fearmongering yet still fearFUL comments is a note by Mr. Lord claiming that he watched the whole clip, and that he didn't find it funny. That's too bad. The "Spartacus moment" concept is interesting, but trying to put it on Jon Stewart (oh and for the racists who insist on the 3 name thing, we get it, you're racist. You can stop now. We know he's Jewish. He's mentioned it once or twice) is asinine, to the point of actual mental retardation. The network is called COMEDY CENTRAL. Our "enemies" on the Islamic fringe are taking shots at COMEDY CENTRAL. Isn't that enough to show they are a bunch of pussies? Isn't that enough to show that when he gets up to sing and dance that "Revolution Muslim" or whatever they're called, can "GO F*CK YOURSELF" and gets the whole crowd singing, that intelligent people aren't taking this group seriously? Does it NEED a Spartacus moment? And if so, what about telling them to "GO F*CK YOURSELF" isn't strong enough for you? He clearly disagrees with his check writers' decision to censor the South Park clip, and he's cool with calling out ANYONE on their ridiculousness. He sent Rob Riggle to IRAN for Christ's sake (where one of the interviewees was arrested, but that's another story). Your readership in these comments shows where your real loyalty lies - cowardice and assumed superiority. You reference the Flight 93 heroes like you were there. You weren't. They would have appreciated Jon's clip here. You're apparently too caught up in your own lack of humor to realize that.

Good luck though. I'm sure your next article will be much more balanced and journalistic.

JP| 4.27.10 @ 2:31PM

Kevin,
It sure sounds like a)you didn't read the entire article, or b)the main thesis ran right over your head.

To make things easier for you, imagine if Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh gave a well publicized call for censorship of South Park because they were visciously lampooned? Do you think for a moment Comedy Central and Stewart wouldn't go into over-drive with thier ridicule?

These so-called "brave" comedians and entertainment producers know who thier masters are. It's much more fun (and safer to ridicule The Holy Mother or Bhudda) when you know they will not "fight back". No, this time the joke is on Comedy Central and Stewart. We all know how far thier edginess goes. As it turns out, it is nothing more than epater le bourgoeois -a childish mood put on juevinilles. Everyone knows that they only now do "safe humor"; therefore, they are not funny at all.

And the Muslims? They know exactly what buttons to push to make thier puppets dance.

DanMingo| 4.27.10 @ 3:23PM

It sure sounds like a)you didn't read the entire article, or b)the main thesis ran right over your head.

Well JP, it seems like you did not see the Jon Stewart show, because telling Muslims to go fuck themselves does not seem cowardly to me.

To make things easier for you, imagine if Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh gave a well publicized call for censorship of South Park because they were visciously lampooned? Do you think for a moment Comedy Central and Stewart wouldn't go into over-drive with thier ridicule?
I'm pretty sure he'd tell them to go fuck themselves too, again.

Nobama| 4.27.10 @ 9:33PM

Mango sounds like the foul-mouthed Liberal Screeder. That you, Screeder?

casey| 4.27.10 @ 1:25PM

Jon Stewart is a leftie coward, foolish beyond belief and a total hypocrite like so many other liberals. It is much easier to bash Fox, Palin, tea party folks and Republicans who pose no real threat.

Stewart Johnson| 4.27.10 @ 1:59PM

You forgot to finish your last sentence so let me help.
It is much easier to bash Fox, Palin, tea party folks and Republicans who pose no real threat to Islam.
There, fixed.

Kevin| 4.27.10 @ 2:16PM

Nicely stated Mr. Johnson, nicely stated (or should I say fixed).

Jonah| 4.27.10 @ 9:35PM

Chicken-shit Liberal stooges always pacify the real threat. Balless wonders, all.

Ragnar| 4.27.10 @ 1:26PM

Stewart's lack of testicular mass is typical of most male Lefties I have met in my life. Both Howard Fast and Dalton Trumbo(both talented writers) were both communists and traitors who whined their way to their graves although academia and the media collective glorified them as martyred defenders of the down trodden proletariat.

Jonah| 4.27.10 @ 9:36PM

Leftist males--oxymoron.

Nobody| 5.15.10 @ 7:32PM

How many Leftist male testicular masses have you seen in your life? Obviously plenty since you're able to supply us with such a clearly well-informed argument.

Tom in Michigan| 4.27.10 @ 1:45PM

The town where I grew up was a collecting point for many so-called “displaced persons” after World War II mainly Jews and many non-Jews from Germany and parts of Eastern Europe . Later, our town served as a major collecting point for Hungarian refugees after the failed 1956 revolution and subsequent Soviet Communist invasion. I came to know many who had escaped or survived the Holocaust. I had the extreme good fortune to work on my first job (when I was just 15 but old enough to get a work permit – a mere 20 years after the end of WWII) for two Jewish brothers who had survived the Nazi death camps named "Abe" and "Herman." They took me under their wing and taught me many things about their business; what used to be called a "haberdashery.”

Over the course of our association, they occasionally let slip some of their experiences. They showed me their tattoos. I worked for them for a period of time before going off to school, returning to work for them later when I was in college. As I was now a man, they were willing to be much more open about their harrowing experiences and the means by which they had survived the Nazis (their parents and “baby” brother did not).

One thing they told me was they simply never expected the Nazis under Hitler to perpetrate such horrendous crimes. They knew it was going to be a difficult time for them and all Jews under the Nazis but, they had experienced tough times before; the Pogrom was a popular pastime for the Europeans the Left would have us emulate, after all. Additionally, their father had been a veteran of the German Army in WWI, decorated for bravery. What did they have to fear? In other words, they did not understand the nature of their enemy.

We in this country now know about and, at least in terms of the enormity of the crimes understand the Holocaust. We have no excuse for not understanding the nature of the Islamofascist threat today except for the tools, fools, weak traitors and useful idiots who make out as if WE who would oppose it are the enemy.

While I think it’s a bit much to expect too much courage from somebody like Jon Stewart, he’s merely a comedian, a play – actor, a paid clown. He is no soldier. He is no journalist either and, it is a sad commentary on the people of this nation particularly her youth who claim to get so much of their news from Jon’s show. However, as “Abe” and “Herman” told me, it was a failure (or perhaps a refusal – as is the case in the West today) to understand the enemy as well as passivity in the face of that enemy that led to the deaths of their parents and “baby” brother, along with millions of others as well as the torture they endured as captives and later as survivors.

Melvin| 4.27.10 @ 1:58PM

In the beginning the Jews used to call Hitler, "The Crazy Little Austrian," as they drank coffee and read the morning paper.
Just as many in this Country dissuade Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the, "Crazy Little Iranian."

Sheila| 4.27.10 @ 9:38PM

And Obama is the "Crazy Little Marxist."

I trust that bastard about as far as I can throw him.

Reardon| 4.27.10 @ 2:32PM

Mr. Lord Please read this article:

http://frontpagemag.com/2010/0.....-patriot-o’reilly-pinhead/

I read this article and I've watched the entire clip in question and I also would like to know what exactly you thought Mr. Stewart should have said or done? The only people who have access to the Uncensored South Park Clip are the South Park Creators and Comedy Central Execs. There is no way that Mr. Stewart could have played it.

Still the entire segment was a defence of South Park and free speech and an attack on Islamic fundimentalists. In it he praised the USA for all its freedoms and then attacked the Islamic group for trying to threaten our freedom while living in NYC. In the end he clearly stated that islamic Fundementalists are "the enemy." and then he told all Islamic groups "to go f*ck themselves!". He then sung a two minute song telling them to "Go F*ck Yourselves!"

I think its clear that if the Nazi's, terrorists or any other evil group knocked on his door looking to take away his freedom, his answer would be...."Go F*ck Yourself" Isn't that the same as "I am Sparticus"? So could you please clearly state what you thought Mr. Stewart should have said? '

P.S.
Everyone here should watch the entire clip from the show, I only saw the show because I was angry after the Goldberg incident on the O'Reilly Factor's Wed's show , but for once Stewart did good:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/wa.....th-threats

Jeffrey Lord| 4.27.10 @ 11:40PM

Reardon...

I disagree with O'Reilly. If a topical show that specializes in the news of the day finds the Mohammed issue in the news...than go with it. The real problem here is letting our society be intimidated in some fashion, and once we head down that road we are in the land of cultural rot, and fear will reign. I do not suggest opposing this is always easy, but it is necessary.

IamVarinia| 4.28.10 @ 10:41AM

Mr. Lord,
I have seen the entire clip and while I agree with you that Jon Stewart's go F*CK YOURSELVES song and dance doesn't rise to the occasion of "I am Spartacus" still, it was a response. The more chilling response is the young artist (I won't mention her name) who posted the 'May 20th is draw Mohammad Day' on her website, then took it down. She has stated that she wants her 'quiet life back' but her very real fear of becoming the next Theo Van Gogh is palpable.
She doesn't have Comedy Central to hide behind; she's a young woman with a website: it really has come to this.

Occam's Tool| 9.22.10 @ 12:52PM

Stewart didn't have to resort to vulgarity: he simply needed to state that he would not be intimidated by fanatical religionists of any stripe.

He is a comedian, and a coward. That is all that need be said.

George S| 4.27.10 @ 2:41PM

I'm sure Comedy Central was also cutting Stewart's checks when he took Brit Hume to ridicule for offering Tiger Woods the way of Jesus as an option. Now that took bravery to another level, with all those right wing Christian militia jihadists -- who are so deceptive they're practically invisible -- ready to pounce with their trademark beheadings.

People like Stewart (and those with the variation of the name) think it is perfectly honorable to avoid confrontation and despise those who stand up to evil and challenge it head on. The creators of South Park took a page out of Alinsky and applied ridicule to a sacred cow (oops!) of Islam to do... what? To insult the prophet? Hardly. It was to expose what is becoming a disturbingly legitimate excuse for violence. That's why the Left is maligning or failing to embrace South Park -- for the Left itself seeks to legitimize state sanctioned violence against the governed, whether is calling the Tea Party racists or gathering pitchforks in front of banker's houses.

Make no mistake... the Left views the violence of Islam as the means to an end. Just like the twisted view of Charles Manson, radical Islam will win the apocalyptic war with the West, but the victors will be too backwards to govern in the aftermath. Enter John Stewart and his ilk to offer the guidance in the new utopia.

viktor| 4.27.10 @ 3:26PM

Let's juxtapose.

Jeremy Lott:

"The alternative weekly's former owner and columnist Russ Smith had written about the Danish Mohammad cartoon brouhaha. The editors wanted to reprint said cartoons to show readers what Smith was talking about. The editors wanted to reprint said cartoons to show readers what Smith was talking about. The new owners of the paper wouldn't allow that, so the entire editorial team, led by editor Harry Siegel, resigned."

Jon Stewart:

""It's their right," he said of Comedy Central in a verbal shrug of indifference. "We all serve at their pleasure." In a monologue punctuated by yuks, he defended the network by saying, "The censorship was a decision Comedy Central made, I think as a way to protect our employees from what they believe was any harmful repercussions to them….but again they sign the checks."

Parker and Stone:

"We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central and they made a determination to alter the episode. It wasn't some meta-joke on our part. Comedy Central added the bleeps. In fact, Kyle's customary final speech was about intimidation and fear. It didn't mention Muhammad at all but it got bleeped too. We'll be back next week with a whole new show about something completely different and we'll see what happens to it. "

Somebody didn't cave in. Somebody else did without protest and others did with only mild protest.

Le Cracquere| 4.27.10 @ 6:39PM

Parker & Stone are no doubt under contract with Comedy Central at the moment, under legal constraints that are known only to them and their lawyers. Wait and see whether they bother to renew that contract, and what they say afterwards.

barrgg| 4.27.10 @ 3:36PM

I will re-iterate what another commenter said. American Spectator, go ahead and post your own comic of Mohammed. Let's see how brave you are. That's what I thought.

Jeffrey Lord| 4.27.10 @ 9:02PM

barrgg...

Done. Four years ago when it counted. The American Spectator, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Rocky Mountain News, the New York Sun and Human Events. Where were you when these 5 did this (plus Fox News.) Hiding under the bed with the New York Times...which begged off on grounds of sensitivity? If you came here more often you would know this.

Nobama| 4.27.10 @ 9:40PM

Stupid, lazy liberals never learn. They are truly chickensh!t cowards.

Someone| 5.16.10 @ 9:01AM

Yes, truly they are chickenish cowards. That's why instead of voicing their opinions in public or standing up for what they believe in they come to sites like this to bitch and moan about comedians who disagree with them politically for not having enough balls or for being a pussy.
Oh, those stupid, lazy, chickenish cowards. poor bastards.

Someone| 5.16.10 @ 9:01AM

Yes, truly they are chickenish cowards. That's why instead of voicing their opinions in public or standing up for what they believe in they come to sites like this to bitch and moan about comedians who disagree with them politically for not having enough balls or for being a pussy.
Oh, those stupid, lazy, chickenish cowards. poor bastards.

Occam's Tool| 9.22.10 @ 12:54PM

Why I subscribe.

Occam's Tool| 9.22.10 @ 12:56PM

Correction: Jeffrey Lord's courage is why I subscribe to TAS. It would be nice if some supposedly "Conservative" publications, like Taki's Mag, had TAS' guts. Probably drowned in cocaine.

Nick Stuart| 4.27.10 @ 3:47PM

I'm looking forward to viewing American Spectator's "Cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed" issue.

William 5| 4.27.10 @ 7:17PM

Indeed, no one at the Faux News side of Fox News is going to do anything to offend Muslim extremists...Hannity, O'Reilly, Beck? Making far too much money.

Maybe Larry the Cable Guy will have a comedy show with biting social commentary (how many times can he get 'poo' into the discourse?).

Stuart Koehl| 4.27.10 @ 9:53PM

Only if they hire some decent cartoonist to draw some cartoons that are both irreverent and witty. Most of the Danish cartoons were utterly lame, in that peculiarly lame European way.

casey| 4.27.10 @ 3:48PM

this is a pretty stupid article

NavyBrat | 4.27.10 @ 4:16PM

This coming from a guy who posted a 6 word response. Please, mental giant, continue to dazzle us with MORE of your incredible mental acumen. Chump.

barrgg| 4.27.10 @ 5:08PM

Yes, because number of words is a clear indication of an intelligent or a stupid argument. Moron.

NavyBrat | 4.27.10 @ 9:14PM

No, the number of words isn't indicative of the intelligence of the writer. But when everyone else who disagrees with this piece offers more than the token "this is stupid" comment, he/she looks like a fool. Kinda like you.

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."...Thomas Brackett Reed

This exemplifies you 2 idiots to a tee.

casey| 4.27.10 @ 5:28PM

you honestly think this guy made a logical and reasoned argument? seriously, I'm curious

NavyBrat | 4.27.10 @ 9:09PM

No I don't. I was being sarcastic.

Jman| 4.27.10 @ 3:53PM

John Stewart, American pansy.

Jonah| 4.27.10 @ 9:42PM

John Stewart, Liberal pvssy.

Someone| 5.16.10 @ 9:04AM

Jman and Jonah, two tough American son of bitches for calling a comedian a pussy and pansy on a website.

Occam's Tool| 9.22.10 @ 12:58PM

Don't want to get past the bodyguards to say it to his face. Willing too, though, if you set up the appointment.

Occam's Tool| 9.22.10 @ 12:59PM

Sorry, "Willing to."

Nathan McKnight| 4.27.10 @ 4:00PM

Sorry, but the writer clearly doesn't know sh*t from Sh*nola. Stewart's response to the threats was to stand up and dance the "go f*ck yourself" dance with a full on gospel choir, singing "go f*ck yourself" to the Revolution Muslims. That's relatively brave in my book.

Grant Hottle| 4.27.10 @ 4:13PM

This is one of the most poorly written columns I've ever read. It is at least three pages too long, and completely misrepresents Jon Stewart's position on the entire issue. It only writes about the first part of Mr. Stewart's dialogue and doesn't mention his ribbing of Comedy Central or his disgust with Revolution Muslim in NYC. It was a funny piece. How the hell is Spartacus even a cogent metaphor?

CK Spade| 4.27.10 @ 4:34PM

The great thing about Jon Stewart is there is no equal on the right. He, and his show, have some of the best political comedy out there. It helps shape the common narrative, along with SNL, among the average American that probably does not watch FOX or go to this dimwitted site.

Fox tried to counter it so it clearly matters. Remember? The half hour news hour? Oh, you don't. Don't worry. Nobody else did either. It bombed as hard as any other right wing comedian or such. It clearly matters because guys at FOX, like O'reilly, has bemoaned that there is no right wing political comedy to counter Stewart.

Now, I realize that comedy is not akin to serious policy discussion. But it can make and ruin pols.

Just ask Sarah Palin. She will never hold office ever again.

Thank you Tina Fey.
Horrible article BTW. Congrats on that.

Slammin Sammy| 4.27.10 @ 4:39PM

X2

Jonah| 4.27.10 @ 9:46PM

Of course there's no John Stewart on the right--we wouldn't tolerate a pvssy like him!

Don't worry about Palin--she's doing just fine hammering Obama and you corrupt and incompetent liberal idiots from the sidelines. GO SARAH!

pete66| 4.27.10 @ 4:39PM

look...Stewert took the easy way out. He hid behind the "Comedy Central sgns the checks" paper wall. He said that for the same reason Comedy Central did what they did. Ther're scared to death to walk out of their Apartment in the morning and straight into a gun barrel or knife. You know it ....I know it and so do they. If something ever does happen in this country, Does Stewert realize that being a Jew and carrying a degree of influance probably moves him to the top of the hit list. They will thank him for his support right before they throw him into the back seat....and his head in the trunk.... of a differnet vehicle.

Louis Jenkins| 4.27.10 @ 4:42PM

I'm Spartacus. No I'm Spartacus. No, dear friend, I'm Spartacus. Let's be honest. Regardless of who Spartacus is, or was, the vermillion blanket of Islam is trying to cover the world. I only hope that all free men and women will resist this every threatening danger. Sounds awfully drastic, but that's what its boiling down to. Get a life-not Comedy Central.

DanMingo| 4.27.10 @ 4:43PM

Another parrot who did not see the whole show, or when Jon told them to go fuck themselves.
He lives and works whee the tragedy of 9/11 happened. He is not running or hiding from anything.
Your parroting of this articles' talking point marks you as clueless (like the author) and as just having an agenda; to ridicule a liberal who's smarter (and undoubtedly funnier) than either of you.

Lonnie| 4.28.10 @ 12:06AM

JS lives and works in New York--that takes courage? Just like the other millions of Americans who live and work there, right?

You set a low bar; Jon Stewart breathes--he's courageous! Turd.

Sara Qualey| 4.27.10 @ 4:58PM

Why are these demented right wingers so threatened by Jon Stewart? Is it because he has had no problem appearing face to face with their exalted ruler on Fox, Bill O'Reilly. I just love Jon. I love his humor. Not one of those Foxy boys, Hannity, O'Reilly, Beck even Sarah would appear on MSNBC face to face with any one of their show hosts. Now that's "pussy" as one comment said. I have seen many liberals with the onions to appear face to face with those Foxy boys but I honestly have NEVER seen one of them appear one on one on MSNBC. What's up this that you "wingers"? Explain that before you call Jon Stewart a coward.

Le Cracquere| 4.27.10 @ 6:49PM

First, I'm interested in hearing something from you.

Can you recall a moment in Jon Stewart's life when he skewered someone whose good will he actually cared about or depended on? "Ooh, he took on Bill O'Reilly!" "Yikes--he told Fox News where to get off!" "He challenged Palin!" Yeah, I'm sure he spent a year weeping over the fallout of all that: the personal friends he must've lost, the media figures and A-list actors he offended, the Manhattan hostesses who barred the door to him...

Please. Just please. Get back to me on the day Stewart's "courage" costs him in some coin he actually values.

?| 5.16.10 @ 9:10AM

To be fair, I've seen him do quite a few clips taking on Obama and MSNBC.

Lonnie| 4.28.10 @ 12:07AM

How do you know MESSNBC invited them, moron?

Tom in Michigan| 4.27.10 @ 5:12PM

Thanks to Reardon for posting the link to the clip. Wow!

It's a rare occasion when I read something from the Conservative side with which I don’t have at least some sympathy (except perhaps the AZ immigration law about which I’m still forming my opinion, particularly in Constitutional terms and anything written or said by Pat Buchanan) but, this article is wrong.

I expect dissembling, falsehoods, abused “statistics,” prevarication, deception of the weak and misguided, distortion and fabrication of the facts and just plain, old flat-out lies from the Left but; this kind of inaccuracy on the part of a Conservative writer is unforgivable, as far as I’m concerned. Shame on TAS for publishing it. I also did something I almost never do, taking the article on face value alone so, shame on me as well.

Stewart showed real courage - much more than many people in this country (his bosses at Comedy Central should be excused for their censorship if their motivation was protecting their employees, however as this is a wholly justifiable reason) have in confronting not only the repugnant, reptilian nature of Revolution Muslim and all other terrorist-sympathizing subspecies of 12th Century fixated sewer-dwellers but also the sheer absurdity of the fact these threats are emanating from within, not only our own nation but from the very (former) "shadows of the World Trade Center” itself, as Jon said.

That doesn't change either the intent or substance of my earlier post (which was to criticize those in this nation, especially those in positions of wealth and power who are too cowardly, foolish or deluded to recognize who our real enemies are thus endangering us all - even knowing heartrending tales like those of my old mentors, “Abe” and “Herman” and other survivors of former monstrous creeds - until it’s too late) though except to say that, while I still don't think Jon's a journalist; I have a new-found respect for his comedic ability and his chutzpah. Far from being a coward, he has beytsim (balls) of steel. Instead of a “paid clown,” I apologize and will now call him a choshever mentsh (a man of courage and integrity) who recognizes the enemy for what they are and, I have to say: I’m with ya Jon!

From here in Michigan, to all Muslim and other extremists who threaten others because of their twisted beliefs and make a mockery of this nation’s guarantee of the freedoms of religion and speech – All together now! Go F**K yourselves!

Stan| 4.27.10 @ 8:00PM

Well said. And it is good to see someone that holds himself accountable for his opinions and has the guts to revise them based on more complete information.

God forbid more people might do the same. We might actually solve some real problems and protect ourselves against real threats.

Tom in Michigan| 4.27.10 @ 9:59PM

Thanks, Stan. I hope I won't make the same mistake again but, if I do I promise to invoke what I will henceforth call the "Brian Davis Principle" and call my own penalty.

Crafty Bernardo| 4.27.10 @ 5:26PM

OK Then, Jefferey Lord, where's your mockingly crude depiction of Muhammad in cartoon?

I mean, you talk a big game about "courage", but aren't you doing exactly the same thing Jon Stewart does that you find so cowardly? (However with less hilarity). Aren't you standing up like a big tough guy to mock a public commentator on a cable network for HIS lack of courage? It's a cowardly circle-jerk... Cartoon Network to Fox to NY Times to Fox to Cartoon Network to American Spectator and so on, the pansies engage in a wristy slap-fest over who's the most cowardly! Meanwhile, not a single one seems to actually put their non-cowardly cajones on the line and test the extremists by publishing a simle cartoon. Woohoo!! Aren't you all tough!

Oooohhh.. big, strong, courageous guy there, Jeffery Lord. Being not the courage you expect of others, but doing exactly the cowardly crap you point your finger at and mock.

Wow... that makes you a coward's coward, I guess.

This piece would've had some bite if YOU had stood up and said "I Am Spartacus! Here's my personally-draw cartoon of Muhammad in a sun dress pubished in American Spectator!"

But alas, you hide behind your skirt and point at Jon Stewart. Skinny finger wagging pathetically as your voice crackles "Coward!" before you duck and cover your weasely head behind your copy editor.

Wow. Your a real tough-guy there. Friggin' pansy.

Jonah| 4.27.10 @ 9:47PM

Lord posted a cartoon years ago when it mattered, moron.

Stewart's a pvssy.

Nobody| 5.15.10 @ 7:35PM

A pussy is someone who doesn't have the balls to spell out the insult they're calling someone, you pussy.

Stuart Koehl| 4.27.10 @ 9:56PM

May 21 is "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day". You are welcome to join in. Inspired by the famous Ricky Bobby "How do you imagine Jesus" bit, I have decided that I like cute little Baby Mohammed, 6-lb 8-oz Baby Mohammed--with a beard and a turban, of course.

KP| 4.27.10 @ 5:27PM

Jon Stewart is an apt representative of his constituents - young, superficial, untested and in the eternal quest of "what's in it for me".

JohnR22| 4.27.10 @ 5:31PM

If Stewart had lived in Europe during WWII he would certainly have been a member of the Judenrat; the nazi appointed jewish council that ran the ghettos on a day-to-day basis. The council that coordinated the daily turnout so the trains to Auschwitz could be loaded to capacity, etc. But, in Stewart's case I'm sure he would have gone about his duties with hip irony, a snarky/smarmy putdown on his lips, while viewing himself as one of the "great defenders".

Tom in Michigan| 4.27.10 @ 10:55PM

Please watch the clip presented by Reardon. I, myself have been confused by those who seem to relentlessly support their oppressors and march November-after-November to forge one more link in their chains but, I don’t think Steward belongs among the ranks of the Judenrat and Sonderkommando.

As I mentioned in my previous post, I am in Detroit where we have one of the most diverse (in a good way not in the politically-correct, all-cultures-are-equal way) cultures in the nation. I have known many friends and acquaintances who are Cuban, Russian, Hungarian, Poles, Jews and other religions, nationalities and cultures who have been the victims of the totalitarian regimes which seem to be so palatable to the current Administration

I am well-acquainted with many survivors of the Holocaust as well as survivors of the Communist regimes and other real victims of real oppression – not the Liberal “victims” we see trotted out by the Left on a daily basis to advance their insidious “cause” which is mere anti-Americanism but, real victims. I have a friend who was taken by the Nazis as a 13-year old boy( A 13-YEAR OLD BOY!) in Ukraine (we have one of the largest Ukrainian populations in the United States) and enslaved in Germany until, finally the American Army captured the town where he was held in bondage. He told me that one of the “Yankees,” by the grace of God, a Ukrainian from Hamtramck, MI told him, “Walk west not east so the Russians don’t take you back. You will be imprisoned if not executed by the Stalinists as they consider any Soviet citizen captured by the Nazis to be a traitor.” He did as told and had a very happy career in our auto industry. His son was a United States Navy F-14 pilot.

I have more than one acquaintance among the scions of the Vietnamese who fled the Communist regime after the Democrat Congress betrayed not only our valiant ally but my friends who served nobly in that war against Communist aggression. Of course, like most Americans today I imagine you’ve been taught we “lost” that war. We did not. The valiant allies in that war, including American, South Korean, Australian, Thai and Vietnamese, not to mention the brave and resourceful Hmong and Degar (aka, Montagnard) minorities who fought alongside our troops won not only every major engagement with the Communist Vietcong and much-vaunted North Vietnamese Army, culminating in one of the greatest yet least-acknowledged military victories in American history, the Tet Offensive of 1968, decried by the Left as proof the war was “unwinnable” according to the iconic but ultimately traitorous Walter Cronkite but, they also won the war. After Tet, the Vietcong ceased to exist as an effective fighting force; the North Vietnamese were on the verge of suing for peace (until the pompous ass, Cronkite got on his high horse reassuring the North Vietnamese leadership of the fecklessness not only of the American Press but also of the Democrats then running the nation) and, the American exit was begun

The Army of the Republic of Vietnam was holding its own quite handily after our departure before the Democrats in Congress de-funded our support of their valiant effort at ensuring liberty for that hauntingly beautiful land, despite Gerald Ford’s pleas to the contrary.

Most despicable though was the fact Democrat President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who ran in 1964 as a “Peace Candidate” dragged us more deeply into that war, citing the dubious “Gulf of Tonkin Incident” in which North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly attacked American war ships (do you remember all the references to the “Reichstag fire” the Left used to criticize the Bush Administration for supposedly “lying” us into Iraq? There is nothing new about this tactic. Just Google “Manchurian Incident” to get another example) before losing his nerve following Tet, perhaps egged on by Cronkite.

I think if you watch the clip you’ll see Stewart does not belong among these miscreants.

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The Globalizer| 4.27.10 @ 5:34PM

Strange article. I'm not really sure why anyone (this author) thinks that Jon Stewart would even want to take on militant fundamentalist Islam.

Let's face facts -- Jon Stewart is a comedian and an entertainer. Yes, he is political. But I'd suggest people (this author) adjust expectations and treat Mr. Stewart as he is -- a left-leaning political satirist, comedian, entertainer, who plays to his crowd (left-leaning young people) and steers clear of weighty issues.

The Globalizer| 4.27.10 @ 5:37PM

I'll also say this -- arguing with militant fundamentalist Islamists is, as Barney Frank famously put it, like arguing with a dining room table. (Which was pretty funny, too, even though I agree with Tea Partiers 100000x more often than Barney Frank.)

Groggin| 4.27.10 @ 11:32PM

Bawney Fwank sux dix and cox like Jon Lebowitz Steward licks Oduma's anus

Minki| 4.28.10 @ 2:10PM

Man somebody flag this guy!
You can pretend to hate Obama and Frank so your post will reflect that a conservative poster at a conservative site was a meany pants to the president and a senator. We see through your crap.
And if you are an actual conservative - beat it - no group needs pukes like you.

fred james| 4.27.10 @ 5:39PM

This blah blah ran next to an ad for scammer Ben Stein. Says it all.

thisiswhatIthink| 4.27.10 @ 5:45PM

Seems Jeffrey Lord and many of the posters here are not regular viewers of The Daily Show. Stewart didn't need to stand up to Comedy Central because he did the Spartacus thing when he called out the Revolution Muslim, which was the group threatening the South Park guys, and Stewart performed his famous song for their benefit.

Sorry Jeffrey Lord, Stewart really did pass your inane Spartacus test, but you did not.

Johnnie| 4.27.10 @ 11:58PM

Lots of John Stewart butt-boys here.

Bill| 4.27.10 @ 5:52PM

Just watch the damn clip and see if you can find any "cowardice" or coddling of Muslim extremists.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes......outh-park/

bernardo| 4.27.10 @ 6:19PM

have no comment on Mr. Stewart because I didn't watch the episodes in question. However I do have a simple suggestion for any network that really cares about freedom of expression. Present a performance of Voltaire's Mahomet the Prophet (subtitled Fanaticism) and dedicate it to all artists everywhere who have been threatened by Moslem fanatics. It is not a great play, but it comes to the point and would show the scum making the threats what Americans think they can do with those threats and, for that matter, with their oh so delicate feelings.
Besides anything that exposes a larger audience to Voltaire is a good idea in and of itself.

Stuart Koehl| 4.27.10 @ 9:57PM

Ah, but that turgid bit of dramaturgy would probably constitute a form of torture under the definitions used by the Obama Administration, so let's give it a pass, shall we?

seraxmd| 4.27.10 @ 6:32PM

Maybe when Parker & Stone are beheaded in the streets of Manhattan, the liberals will understand that this is no game between left and right. It is a game between America and the jihadists, and to the Jihadists it is an end-game.

Stuart Koehl| 4.27.10 @ 9:57PM

Islamists don't do well against people who pack heat.

Jeremiah| 4.27.10 @ 10:10PM

So true, Stuart; they are cowards just like liberals.

Tim*| 4.27.10 @ 6:40PM

" Stewart has said that he was subjected to bullying for being a Jewish child.He describes himself in high school as "very into Eugene Debs and a bit of a leftist."
In 2000, he described his political affiliation as socialist or independent."

Kabak| 4.27.10 @ 6:42PM

jon stewart is a coward

RRDRRD| 4.27.10 @ 6:48PM

It really disturbs me that this many people give a rat's @#$ about Stewart. I was never counting on courage from America's sidestream media to defeat Islamic terrorism.

William 5| 4.27.10 @ 6:54PM

Mr. Lord, I've read quite a few of your articles in the past and have found many of them to be thought provoking. Tho I'm sure your readers would certainly consider my views lefty, I do like well thought out articles which give me something different to chew on.

I'm rather surprised you used a lengthy article to call out John Stewart. And even used 9/11 (the far-right calling card for sympathetic conservative voices) in making an arugment against him.

Let me dumb down my response to this level...COME ON MAN?! Really? 9/11 and John Stewart? Ugh.

Now that I've gotten that out of the way, you, and obviously just about everyone on here commenting, didn't catch the "go f%ck yourself" response from the other day. Yes, it was directed at the extremist website. Yes, it was very funny. It ran about 10 minutes and made fun of The John Stewart Show, Comedy Central, and the idiots with the veiled threats.

You really ought to check it out.

Now Mr. Lord, please enjoy your readers calling me every derogatory "lefty" name in the book.

PCP Smoker| 4.27.10 @ 7:00PM

Good piece. However, if you EVER believed that Stewart and all other liberals would rise up to the challenge of Wahabi ideology, you were high on something.
The one thing they are good at is deconstructing institutions and processes in order to hollow them out and push them over.

Bill| 4.27.10 @ 7:10PM

You still haven't watched the the actual clip from "The Daily Show," have you, guys? Otherwise, the troublesome facts about what Jon Stewart really said might derail this whole, increasingly nasty, and--as watching the clip would show--entirely pointless argument.

JohnBoy1| 4.27.10 @ 7:11PM

Maybe if Bush wasn't sleeping in Crawford or riding his ponies, and reading his CIA updates instead, 911 would've never happened on his watch. So for all the "security" that the neocons threaten us with - we sure have been insecure under them including 3000 dead on 911, 2ooo dead during Katrina, 6000 dead following the invasion of a country that had done us no harm..etc. Over 10,000 Americans dead during the neocons...thanks

Bydand76| 4.27.10 @ 7:27PM

AAAANNNNND!
Johnboy you silly liberal pole smoker!

You forgot to add in the part where Bill Clinton ENTIRELY missed his chance to stop the thing before it ever happened you moron!

Do me a favor and do your part to stop global warming and quit breathing!
Worthless idiot!

Go play with your boyfriend George S before you make yourself look even dumber than you already are, progressive dip-shit!

?| 5.16.10 @ 9:14AM

Both Bill Clinton and Bush were at fault. All politicians are morons.

Jonah| 4.27.10 @ 9:52PM

Hahaha! More liberal BS trying to protect the Pervert in Chief, Willy Nilly Clinton.

Too bad the old slimeball rejected Sudan's numerous attempts to give us Bin Laden in the 90s while we were repeatedly attacked by Muslim terrorists. Dereliction of duty POS.

Billy boy lied--3000 Americans died.

William 6| 4.27.10 @ 7:13PM

Gee whiz Pop ,you're such a Freakin' dweeb.
Mom said to come up outta the basement and take the garbage out .

William 7| 4.27.10 @ 7:20PM

My name is William 6 and I'm afraid of EVERYTHING. I don't have any real policies to put forth, I can only tell you to be afraid, VERY afraid, of everything.

I can also only argue with cliches handed to me from the talking heads on Fox News.

William 6| 4.27.10 @ 7:34PM

Now, Willie 7 ,don't annoy the adults .

Go back in your room and watch your Jonny Stewart Show.

Nobama| 4.27.10 @ 9:54PM

I bet Willy 7 is scared to death of the Tea Partiers!

Boo!

Granma Walton| 4.27.10 @ 7:24PM

Why didn't Bubba Clinton from Arkansas grab that thar Benny Laden guy when them's from Sudan offered him ?
Now git the hell outta my kitchen ya little wippersnapper.

Jonah| 4.27.10 @ 9:55PM

Billy boy lied--3000 Americans died.

William 5| 4.27.10 @ 7:24PM

Fellas fellas fellas, to Mr. 6 and 7, there is only one William 5.

That's me.

It can't be that hard to come up with something different, can it?

William 5| 4.27.10 @ 7:43PM

Mom , Poindexter is tellin' everybody on AS that he's William 5 .

Dan| 4.27.10 @ 7:27PM

Mr. Stewart is a cowardly rat of course.

Then again, I dont see the chest thumping author of this article posting the Mohammed cartoon on his website.

Nor do I see the American Spectator posting that cartoon in this article?

Put up or shutup.

Until then you are as big a pos as Jon Stewart.

Larry| 4.27.10 @ 9:58PM

TAS posted a cartoon years ago--when it mattered, lazy A-Hole. Stewart is still a cowardly, scum sucking liberal Beta male--like you.

JohnBoy1| 4.27.10 @ 7:28PM

We're all still waiting for Moron Bush to catch Bin Laden - I guess after he let him escape in Bora Bora. Obama has caught more Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives than Moron Bush did his entire "administration". I guess he was to busy spending Clinton's $1 Trillion surplus on his rich buddies, and preparing us for the worst recession since that other great Republican-caused depression in 1930. Thanks Neocons..

Grampa Walton| 4.27.10 @ 7:52PM

Twernt nary a surplus ya little runt.
Looky thar at them Nasheeno Det Ciphers when Arkansas Bubba done left Worsheentun.
Ya ainta lerned a Budget Surplus from a Nasheeno Det , Boy.
You be dummer than a fencepost , Boy.

Knee-Slapper| 4.27.10 @ 11:55PM

JohnBoy is a brown-noser for the brown Marxist in the Oval office.

John 2| 4.28.10 @ 2:16PM

And not half as useful!

JohnBoy1| 4.27.10 @ 7:30PM

again, I know you neocons want to use 911 to scare everyone with, but what in the world does 911 have to do with the very funny and accurate Jon Stuart? Are you all anti-semitic or something?

Pa Walton| 4.27.10 @ 7:57PM

Now , don't ya go sassin' your elders, boy .

We like them Semis aplenty.

Uncle Bo drives his to Charlotte every day.

Earl| 4.27.10 @ 8:01PM

Is Sarah Palin on here posing as the Waltons again? I sho do luv thems folksey wisdoms.

Erin Walton| 4.27.10 @ 8:21PM

Why Cousin Earl ,ain't Y'all the one to be talkin' .

Ya married your own sista Bessie and your kid played his banjo in that thar Picture Show "Deliveyranch "

Jonah| 4.27.10 @ 10:01PM

Seems to me that all that B-Hole nonsense is happening on your side of the aisle, leftie perverts.

You know how all you pvssy liberal boys like it!
Bend over and grab your ankles--you know the 'drill' by now!

JohnBoy1| 4.27.10 @ 7:34PM

haha...Neocons lecturing grown ups on "security"...and lecturing grown ups on the "economy" and now they're lecturing us on Wall Street. I am trully surprised and amazed that neocons dare say a thing after what they have saddled our nation with after their decade of incompetence under their Moron Bush. We will never forget that incompetance, and the American people will vote appropriately in November. It will be an easy choice...do you vote for Negative 5.9% growth under Bush, or for positive 4.5% growth under Obama. Do you vote for a 750,000 a month LOSS of jobs under Bush, or do you vote for positive job growth under Obama. Do you vote for continuing dumping $2 Trillion into Iraq, or do you vote for capturing Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders? Do you vote for the regulation of Wall Street or for the party of Fillibuster? It's a relatively easy choice really

Deborah| 4.28.10 @ 2:26PM

Listen, you guys lost any moral high ground when you sold your souls to protect the right to kill unborn babies.
You don't get to lecture anyone on anything until you stop endorsing genocide, mass murder, killing fields, whatever you are calling it these days.
Shut up and stop lecturing us on ANYTHING until you renounce your lust for the death of helpless babies. Until then, anything and everything you say or endorse is meaningless and hypocritical. We can't hear you over the chorus singing 'hypocrisy'.
And since you love choice so much, how about giving the babies a choice. You choicers.
Oh, and speaking of cowardly. Liberals are so brave. They hail as heroes those who would trade what is natural - a mother laying down her life for her child, for that which is unnatural - a mother making her child lay down her life for the mother. This is who wants to run the country? Sick twists.

Missy| 4.28.10 @ 5:38PM

Good post, Deborah! Thank you.

Bydand76| 4.27.10 @ 7:35PM

Well I see the trolls are out in force tonight.

Look I think this argument is really much ado about nothing.

Also, I fail to see how Mr Stewart's religion is relevant and from what I saw the clip was pretty funny AND Mr Stewart pretty much told them to "f" off. He has done the same thing to a lot of ppl and organizations both left AND right!

I fail to see how this is a topic when we have Liberal douche-bags making a mockery of everything they touch or set their disgusting eyes on but whatever.

All of you liberal trolls can go f**k yourself with a chainsaw too.! Just like the Islamic Terrorists!

Progressive scum!

Pro Libertate!

(Isn't Stewart a Scottish surname?)
Scottish Jews? Hmmmmmmm..........who knew?

William 5| 4.27.10 @ 7:41PM

Dadgum Bydand76...Islamic Terrorists AND liberal trolls?

You live in a certain Idaho compound or something? Nah, you mentioned Mr. Stewart's religion is irrelevant.

Hmmmm, Kansas maybe?

Bydand76| 4.27.10 @ 9:03PM

Will someone please call whom-ever let out the dang robots from the I Robot movies please.
Once was more than enough thank you.

(Scots-Irish Wisconsin)

Pro Libertate!

JohnBoy1| 4.27.10 @ 8:00PM

Since neocons allowed 9/11 to happen under their watch (let's not forget how the Congress's national security committees were busy investigating semen on dresses in the late 90s, and spending $200 Million doing it, rather than terrorism threats), and since 9/11 happend 9 months into Bush's reign (he was too busy sunning himself during that one-month vacation in Crawford that August of 2001 - to read CIA updates) - now the neocons are lecturing grown-ups on terrorism? LOL...shut up neocons...adults are in charge now...

Jim Bob| 4.27.10 @ 8:09PM

Not Fer Long , big brother !

We be whippin' up on yo arses come Novembee.

Margie| 4.27.10 @ 8:13PM

Oooooo! Better watch out! Those Neo-cons are coming to take you away..heehee haha hoho!

Hey, ever notice how militant these accusers are? As in, "shut up neocons..the adults are in charge now!"

Actually JohnBoy~ The adults have been in charge all along and you're late to the game. You lame brains aren't taking over anything, as long as the "adults are in charge."

Bydand76| 4.27.10 @ 8:58PM

Blah blah blah...

BOOOR-IING.

Isn't it time for your Listerine enema John Boy?

Yawn.

You should really hit your mom for smoking all that rock when you were a fetus BTW.

Nick| 4.27.10 @ 11:45PM

JohnBoy1,

Yes, those "Congress's [SIC!]" were really terrible, weren't they?

The attacks of Septembeer 11th, 2001, "happend [SIC!]" 7 months into President Bush's administration, Einstein. Can't you count?

He was still trying to get lower level cabinet officials confirmed in the senate when the attacks occured. Not to mention trying to fix all that Bubba the pervert had broken, after 8 years of wrecking our defenses.

Who made it okay for people to board planes with boxcutters? Bubba's FAA, that's who.

Wolverine!| 4.27.10 @ 11:52PM

If old Bubba had paid just a fraction of the attention to Bin Laden that he paid to tart interns during his scandal plagued tenure--those 3000 innocent Americans would be alive today.

9/11 was the slimeball Clinton's fault.

cindy| 4.27.10 @ 8:02PM

Who cares about this 4-foot-jew Jon Leibowitz. He's a jester.

Mary Ellen Walton| 4.27.10 @ 8:14PM

That sure be one runty twerpy lil jew boy from up thar in New York.

Thems mussent feed em much up thar.

William 5| 4.27.10 @ 8:04PM

I live At Bellevue Hospital.

Can you help me escape ?

Bill A | 4.27.10 @ 8:15PM

Jon Stewarts shows both on MTV and the Comedy Central have both been political satire. Satiracal shows have a long history in television. The sad part of this discussion is that people take Mr. Stewart seriously. He is not Edward R. murrow or Walter Cronkite and has never purported to be. News stations each have their own points of view which is fine. I don't know about you, but I learned to read between the lines a long time ago.

Stuart Koehl| 4.27.10 @ 10:00PM

I always thought Murrow and Cronkite were satirists. You mean they were serious?

Bill A | 4.27.10 @ 10:46PM

Touche!
It is hard to type when laughing so hard.

Michaelp0429| 4.27.10 @ 8:22PM

What's really amazing is Jon Stewart wouldn't have to quit. He's money for Comedy Central. Huge money. He can say whatever he wants against them and they will not get rid of him.

We need a coordinated response from every single Western media outlet to on the same day publish / display images of the prophet Mohammed. Every single one of them at the same time.

Nobody should have to go first. KUDOS to the South Park guys for stepping up to the plate, but this particular game of complying with lunatic demands to honor their religion is BS and must be stopped.

Sylvester| 4.27.10 @ 8:51PM

So, Jeffrey Lord, as long as we are on the topic of Sparticus Moments, where is the accompanying graphic of Mohamed to go along with your article? I'd be more willing to embrace your criticism if you were actually following your own advice. Stewart showed cowardice, how about you show some courage?

Jeremiah| 4.27.10 @ 10:03PM

If you'd bothered to read the article, moron--you'd know that TAS published the cartoon years ago when it mattered,

Stupid sh!t.

Sylvester| 4.28.10 @ 3:18PM

The issue is not what was done years ago, but what is being done now. If Mr. Lord wants Stewart to stand up beside the creators of South Park, then he should lead by example. The fact that TAS published the images years ago does not matter at the present.

And Jeremiah, your immediate response of stooping to personal attacks is an embarrassment to conservatism.

Jeremiah| 4.28.10 @ 5:43PM

You didn't mention anything about timing in your first post, moron--so your after-the-fact qualifier is moot. Sorry.

Stewart is still a cowardly balless wonder liberal (like you!) and you're still an embarrassment to mankind.

Sylvester| 4.30.10 @ 11:24AM

I think most moderately educated people would have been able to glean what I meant from my statement "accompanying this article." I am sorry that I did not speak plainly enough for you to understand.

And actually, I am myself far more conservative than I am liberal. What evidence do you have that I am a liberal? The fact that I criticized someone who self identifies as conservative? That does not seem like a very sound argument. Is it the fact that I do not heap derogatory names upon John Stewart (with whose viewpoints I usually disagree) or upon you? That is called civility, not liberalism, and whenever conservatives stop being civil we start losing arguments.

I'm sorry to say that your apparent need to engage in fruitless name calling has caused me to lose faith that you are capable of engaging in rational discourse, so I will not be responding to you anymore. I will allow whatever feverishly angry statement you choose to post in response to this to be the end of our discourse. Best of luck in your future endeavors!

Speedypete| 4.27.10 @ 9:15PM

If Jon Stewart were really Spartacus, or just a man, like he did with Fox News? The security needed around him would make the cartoonist in Denmark freedom look like a walk in the park. It is all a great acting job, nothing more.

DVG| 4.27.10 @ 9:28PM

L,L, &L...The link you had about the call to jihad is spot on. There are too many who do not recoqnize the depth of the issue.

Islam, not radical, Islam itself is the problem.

Not really a Spartucus moment, but...

In Amsterdam Oct 2002, ( before Van Gogh's killer was caught ) I was confronted by three muslims. I was alone.

They proceeded to give me grief.

I was polite in responding, but firm. ( I had not yet formed my opinion re Islam yet. )

I said the US will take SH down, and leave.
I questioned their unwillingness to recoqnize the right of Israel to exist.
I pointed out that many wondered if muslims were willing to get along with others of different beliefs.
Lastly, I said if anything like 9/11 happens to the USA again, they haven't seen pissed off.

The three became very agitated, conversed in arabic amongst themselves, and left without speaking to me further.

Until we face the reality of Islam as it truly is, not as how we want to believe it to be, we cannot win.

On the up side, if you are a Christian, the time of His return may not be far off.

Ben| 4.27.10 @ 9:33PM

Jon Stewart was spot-on here as always is. This author has taken what some isolated group of people have done and hung it around the neck of every single Muslim on this planet. I saw that show and Stewart, along with one of his Muslim co-hosts, tore the group up.

This is the most spectacularly misleading piece of writing I have seen in a long time. And to think, some Muslims think that people like you speak for anywhere close to the majority of the American people, who are thankfully much more tolerant than this crowd...

Stuart Koehl| 4.27.10 @ 10:04PM

" I saw that show and Stewart, along with one of his Muslim co-hosts, tore the group up."

He has more than one? Who knew.

"This author has taken what some isolated group of people have done and hung it around the neck of every single Muslim on this planet. "

This is largely the fault of the vast majority of Muslims who, while disavowing religious violence, refuse to do anything about it.

Where even the most enlightened Muslims stand can be determined by asking them one single questions: "Should a Muslim who wishes to convert to another religion be free to do so?"

Overwhelmingly, regardless of origin, background, education, age and any other imaginable demographic category, the answer in poll after poll has been a resounding "NO!"

Until Islam allows freedom of conscience, the rest of the conversation if pointless.

Jeremiah| 4.27.10 @ 10:05PM

Muslims probably think that wussy wimps like you and Stewart speak for all Americans and that will get us all killed. Weenie.

aragorn| 4.27.10 @ 9:51PM

And, back on the subject, Stewart flunked the test.

commonsense247| 4.27.10 @ 9:52PM

Jon Stewart would have been one of the first to climb into the oven while blaming others and backing away from pointed accusations to his captors.

Jeremiah| 4.27.10 @ 10:08PM

Or Stewart would have been the one betraying the rest of his people in order to stay out of the ovens.

Gutless bastard is a typical liberal.

Roman Melnyk| 4.27.10 @ 10:06PM

KOWTOW Stewart. A very appropriate name from now on.

Donovan Payton| 4.27.10 @ 10:18PM

Jon Stewart is a poser -- a cable TV hack who wouldn't know reality if it jumped up and bit him on his tokhes.

jschmidt| 4.27.10 @ 10:19PM

So liberals do give in to terrorists.

jamal| 4.27.10 @ 11:03PM

i don't think the author of his article actually saw Stewart's segment.

Charles| 4.27.10 @ 11:12PM

You repubs are all the same. Stewart took a "leave business alone" attitude to Comedy Central, and yet stood up on the air and openly mocked a radical Islamic group that could kill him. And you call him cowardly. He put his ass on the line to speak up for freedom of speech - I'd like to see one of you do it like that, where the chips are down, where you open yourself for the next 10 years to some nut-job gunning you down.

But because he said a business has a right to run itself as it wishes, he's bad, and cowardly.

You hypocrites. You are the cowards. Every last one of you.

Nick| 4.27.10 @ 11:30PM

Charles,

I spent four years in the U.S. Army.

2 years in Germany ('88-'90), south of the Fulda Gap. 6 months in Southwest Asia ('90-'91), for Operation Desert Shield/Storm.

I wasn't in actual combat, but I think I did more than shrimpo Stewart. So, watch who you call a coward, okay?

Many others who post here at TAS are vets also, including some who are currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. You owe them an apology.

Studley| 4.27.10 @ 11:32PM

Sorry, Charlie, ain't buying it! You liberals are cowards and Stewart's wimp-out is just the latest example. Go contemplate your navel some more, moron--it's what you leftards do best.

Irish45| 4.27.10 @ 11:18PM

I thought I'd never get to the end of the comments to add these few words. There is little "courage" left in the U.S. and that is why so many voted for Obama and "change". They just didn't know what change they would get. It takes courage to stick with our freedoms no matter what. I am Spartacus.

DVG| 4.27.10 @ 11:20PM

Hey Chuck. If you want to give me a label, drop repub and call me a free man.

I want to stay that way.

former dem| 4.27.10 @ 11:25PM

Response to you Stewart defenders:
He's a coward.
And Charles, now business is more important than principle? Sure, when it fits your agenda. The only good that will come from the mess you idiots have created is we'll have to wait another thirty or so years until people as ignorant as Carter, then Obama occupy the White House.

Wolverine!| 4.27.10 @ 11:35PM

Stewart is just another dickless money grubbing liberal; morals and ethics mean nothing to leftist losers like him.

Independent Pragmatist| 4.28.10 @ 12:04AM

I agreed entirely with the writer of this piece until I actually viewed the episode. Sure Jon defended the right of a corporation to make a decision about what it chooses to air, but he also told revolution muslim on several occasions to go have carnal knowledge of itself. I dislike Comedy Central's decision. They let South Park skewer all other faiths, but are intimidated by violent extremists into backing away from SP's skewering of Islam. I'd prefer if Jon had said that clearly, but he did go out of his way to insult Revolution Islam, so calling him a coward doesn't fit. J. Lord's piece is dishonest.

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…Started « Deficit Addiction or Entitlement Addiction? “I am Ann Frank” This, one of the powerful ending lines in Jeffrey Lord’s American Spectator article, Jon Stewart Flunks His Spartacus Test, in which Stewart’s position on Comedy Central’s censorship of South Park’s episode on Islamic fanatics. Lord sets the courage test in terms of Kubrick’s…

Sam H| 4.28.10 @ 12:52AM

Stewart Johnson,

The Arab countries surrounding Israel comprise 5 million square miles. Israel proper comprises 10 thousand square miles. And you think the "Palestinian" grievances are about land? Surely their Arab brothers are more than willing to open their borders and create a new Utopian Palestinian "homeland", are they not?

The people of Israel have as much of a historical claim to the land as anyone, especially "Palestinians" who, until recently, did not even exist.

I am Spartacus.

Yosemeti Sam| 4.28.10 @ 1:10AM

Um - that Mao Zedong White House Christmas tree ornament!

Overdue - a Spartacus test to its' whereabouts.

This is an exasperating Chinese puzzle!

Dennis| 4.28.10 @ 1:16AM

I'm totally fed up with hipocirts like you that criticize Jon Stuwart and other people in the mainstream media (yes, and that includes Fox news) for not standing up to the Islamic terrorists in our midst. Is your life (and the life of your family) on the line? No! Until it is, just shut up. What would you do if you had to confront your "Spartacus Moment". I can tell you what I would do. I'm a complete coward, and I would wimp out. My guess is that you would too. Until you can admit that, you have no credibility whatsoever.

Janie| 4.28.10 @ 1:58PM

LMAO!

Good post, Dennis; it's refreshing to see a liberal tell the truth for a change. It's so rare!
Good thing our conservative boys have some balls, or we'd all be dead.

Brian | 4.28.10 @ 1:18AM

"Yet precisely because Stewart is viewed as the Lion of the Liberal Media, his wimpy response to an actual threat from a group presenting itself as just one more face of Islamic terror serves as a reminder of exactly why so many millions of Americans have come to mistrust President Obama or in fact any liberal when it comes to responding to America's enemies."

Wow. The author is insane.

Goldberg's little comments about Stewart were also insane. I have yet to encounter a commentator more infused with irony than Goldberg.

Rapchat| 4.28.10 @ 1:40AM

Wow what a bunch of whiny faux conservative idiots post here. Nothing says I'm a loser more than tough talking through your keyboard. Jon Steward is hilarious and has more guts than most. And it is very telling that according to Nielsen Media Research, his audience constantly is the best informed and most factually correct of any major TV broadcaster - FOX viewers? Dead last - most likely to get facts wrong, most likely to confuse political positions. This was hardly his finest hour, but it was also not his decision to make. It is almost impressive that Jeffery Lord managed to milk this inane and obviously idiotic "Spartacus" theme for 3 vapid pages.

Robert M| 4.28.10 @ 2:28AM

How many politicians that start these wars would be willing to share that Spartacus moment. The senators and congressman of both parties would run over an old lady in a wheelchair to save their butts.

Bravery, courage and valor are outdated foolish ideals according to these bureaucrats including in all probability the author of this piece.

The only people with those qualities practice non-violence which is also a foreign concept to this country who keep getting sucked into a state of perpetual war. We just need to find an enemy weak enough so we can say we won, but these days we can't even find leadership to do what it takes to win and get out. Bush II, Bush III (Obama) and anyone who follows.

Peace, man ( and women)

Synesius | 4.28.10 @ 2:32AM

Stewart is a garden variety Leftist: astoundingly brave at confronting imaginary evils like global warming, GM foods, George Bush, the Patriot Act, or any other warm and fuzzy fashionable danger, but who wets himself when confronted with the real thing -- truly bad people who might actually hurt him. Screw him and the horse he rode in on. Boycott Cowardly Central! These pathetic wimps deserve to go out of business.

ben| 4.28.10 @ 1:36PM

I love you Synesius!

Aleph| 4.28.10 @ 3:18AM

Trey Parker and Matt Stone must denounce not only the blasphemes cartoons that hurt the feelings of all good Muslims everywhere, but they must also denounce all disbeliever attacks on the Prophet, Peace be upon Him.They must also throw their full personal support as well as that of all America behind the U.N. resolution passed in December prohibiting defamation of Islam including making such defamation a crime under international law and turn over to us themselves and any other such criminals that are within their jurisdiction to us for punishment.They must also call for the expulsion of all Jews from Palestine so that Muslims can once again return to their rightful homeland there. They must also denounce all of the Crusades and demand that reparations be paid to Muslims and all the land in Europe that was stolen from them be returned. They must also agree to meet all of the demands that Muslims may make in the future. Allah willing.

Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 4.28.10 @ 6:23PM

Eat me!!

SoCon| 4.28.10 @ 10:09PM

LOL! Tell us how you really feel, LLL.

FeralCat| 4.28.10 @ 3:24AM

Spartacus, Jon Stewart
Would never okay the way you do your cowardly thing
Ding ding ding, ding ding ding
And you’ll get yours eventually, Jon Stewart
Cowering from that Islam stuff like you do
Boo hoo hoo, boo hoo hoo

Where are you, Geert Wilders?
Our nation turns its longing eyes to you
What’s that you say, Jon Stewart?
You want to keep Mr. Freedom far away
Hey hey hey, hey hey hey

Coo coo ca-choo, Jon Stewart
Mohammad appreciates you more than you will know
Woo woo woo, woo woo woo
Allah blesses you, yes, Jon Stewart
He may grant some small temporary mercy to those who cower and freedom betray
Hey hey hey, hey hey hey

FeralCat| 4.28.10 @ 3:36AM

Jon Stewart: If you persist you will be in great peril.
Jeffrey Lord: I don’t think so.
Jon Stewart: Yes, you will be. You will be in terrible peril.
Jeffrey Lord: Look, let us all go back in there and face the peril together.
Jon Stewart: No, it’s too perilous.
Jeffrey Lord: Look, it’s our duty as members of the free press to sample as much peril as we can.
Jon Stewart: No, we’ve got to find a way to be more realistic and accommodate Islam.
Jeffrey Lord: Oh, let us have just a little bit of peril?
Jon Stewart: No. It’s unhealthy.
Jeffrey Lord: Are you Gay?

FeralCat| 4.28.10 @ 3:39AM

Brave Jon Stewart ran away… bravely ran away
When danger reared its ugly head, Jon Stewart bravely turned his tail and fled. Yes, brave Jon Stewart turned about, and valiantly, he chickened out. Bravely taking to his feet, he beat a very brave retreat. A brave retreat by brave Jon Stewart.

Øystein Lemvik| 4.28.10 @ 3:44AM

Hmmmm... Firstly, and least importantly: the author missed completely the scolding of Comedy Central. That it was done ironically passed him by. No matter. I guess it's about a sense of humor.

The bigger problem is that the author goes to comedy - comedy! - to look for someone doing his job. Now, I don't know this authors record, but Jon Stewart has become big, not because he does news, but because his comedy does news better than news networks. Which really just says something about news networks.

So berating Jon Stewart for being limp (big miss of humour there) and not doing a news job (which he did, but not the way the author wanted) when he is a comedian..

One word - also a movie - Clueless!

jpeditor| 4.28.10 @ 5:03AM

"...precisely because Stewart is viewed as the Lion of the Liberal Media..."

More like the "Whinin' of the Liberal Media..."

Kyle Broflovski| 4.28.10 @ 8:02AM

Moment Magazine :
"As his star has risen, Stewart, born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, has also become an ambassador of Jewishness. Dispensing Jewish humor like a tic, Stewart’s impish grin, self-deprecating punch lines and jokey cultural references are a staple of the show. He has referred to himself as 'Jewey Von Jewstein' and cracked wise on Jewish noses, circumcision, anti-Semites, Jews who play baseball (a short list), Israel as 'Heebie Land' ."
Other :
" My appreciation of Stewart disappeared during the Jeremiah Wright controversy. Wright spoke at the National Press Club and was his usual offensive, anti-semitic and racist self. Rather than express dismay, disgust, or any sort of disapproval of Wright's antics, Stewart - blindly eager to support Obama - showed a clip of Wright and then said that if the rabbi that presided over Stewart's temple when he was growing up had been half as charismatic as Wright, then Stewart would not have spent Passover stuffing his face with Burger King Croissanwiches. "

FUKFAUXNEWS| 4.28.10 @ 8:50AM

You are all a bunch of kool aid drinking, self serving, wrong wing, republcan't, tea baggers. Go and listen to Rush and Hannity and then hang yourselves because honestly you are all a waste of air.

Nick| 4.28.10 @ 8:55AM

Shouldn't you be in homeroom at this time of the morning?

minki| 4.28.10 @ 12:02PM

Jon, shouldn't you be working on your script for today's show?

Janie| 4.28.10 @ 2:00PM

LOL! Jon's hiding in his closet again.

Amad Shiam| 4.28.10 @ 8:56AM

Stewart is viewed as the Lion of the Liberal Media, his wimpy response to an actual threat from a group presenting itself as just one more face of Islamic terror serves as a reminder of exactly why so many millions of Americans have come to mistrust President Obama or in fact any liberal when it comes to responding to America's enemies.

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…and even, occasionally, Democrats. But when faced with the chance to take a strong stand against censorship, Stewart slinks away and hope the moment passes. Source: http://spectator.org/archives/2010/04/27/jon-stewart-flunks-his-spartac/ Posted by Mike Devlino at 07:32 Labels: censorship, conservatives, cowers, democrats, fox news, jon stewart, muslim, tea party 0 comments: Post a Comment Older Post…

Just Wondering| 4.28.10 @ 10:51AM

I don't watch The Daily Show every night, but I believe, literally the night before the episode in question by the author, Stewart delivered a monologue berating the Islamist group. In fact, I think, he even said the exact words the author was looking for... (paraphrasing) "It is this exact kind of hate that perpetuates the evils of the world, etc." Now, wimpy response to Comedy Central censoring Matt and Trey of South Park? Maybe. However, given the author failed to do his homework (if I'm correct, I honestly could have dreamt this) I would say the entire premise to his article is false leading his conclusions to be even worse.

Øystein Lemvik| 4.28.10 @ 11:01AM

I think you're wrong - I think it's the same episode!

And then he ended with the same gospel choir as the night before (or night before that), doing the "go f@ck yourself"-choir. He also (just so there's no misunderstanding here) said - before the choir - that he was unsure wether to do the choir or not, as he had already done it with Bernie Goldberg, and he did not want to lump Goldberg together with islamists (and no, he did not think Goldberg was worse)

gareeth| 4.28.10 @ 12:01PM

He conveniently hid behind the veil of 'safety for his comrades'. Same way he hides behind the veil of 'I'm just a comedian, but I want you to take my commentary as true journalism when it doesn't cost me anything. When it does, then I'm a comedian again.' Shrug.
What he really did was whore himself out for what motivates all humans - money - and the power that his level of money buys. It is always about money and power - even with liberals. He sleeps well at night because nothing in his world view really changed. There wasn't some blip on the radar of his journalistic or even comedic conscience. This is the essence of who he already is. We just got to see it on film - captured forever - well, until Comrade Central decides to censor it that is. Nothing shocking about what Stewart did. It was just another day at work for this shill. Another day another dollar. Coward indeed. True colors. We ought to be glad we got to see him expose himself for the fake that we always suspected he really is. If he didn't have the money or audience or collusion of the incurious media he wouldn't do this even as a cause and certainly not for free of in obscurity. If there isn't money to be made or fame to be had, he wouldn't do it. He was being who he and his ilk truly are. He was caving to his salary. Easy to see.

John| 4.28.10 @ 1:24PM

If you watched the rest of the episode, while he defended CC for censoring the episode, he then begain criticizing the Islamic group and how stupid it is that an organization based in NYC could threaten the freedom of speech of South park. Then he tells the group to F-off using the same choir he had used to redicule Bernie Goldberg,
So to say that he didn't stand up to the Islamic group is just plain wrong.

Marsh| 4.28.10 @ 1:52PM

For those of you carrying Jon Stewart's water. He sold out the First Amendment and then he used it to sing 'go fuck yourselves' to some Muslims. Yeah, he's so brave.

Janie| 4.28.10 @ 2:02PM

Stewart's a weiner; it's a no-brainer.

JamesJ| 4.28.10 @ 2:51PM

Liberals are abject cowards

Gr0w1er| 4.28.10 @ 3:51PM

Jon Stewart just doesn't feel like springing for an armed bodyguard and a civilian MRAP!

Steve Mashni | 4.28.10 @ 5:23PM

Thank you for this. This really exposes liberal arrogence and weakness in one powerful swipe. What's really powerful about it is that you were using their tools against them in a way so as to get them to take a stand (don't count on it). Stewart is too safe and secure in front of his applauding seals to care what's happening in the real world. But what you wrote helps me too. I have to be Matt Stone in some way. I have to be Trey in some way. As an ex-Muslim and current Christian, I have often been afraid to speak my mind because Islam's "holy" book requires that I be killed for my "apostasy." But I am Stephen. God help me to live up to that. God bless you. Give them hell.

Missy| 4.28.10 @ 5:47PM

God bless you, Stephen--stay strong, you've got LOTS of friends!!

Barry Sullivan| 4.28.10 @ 5:58PM

Jon Stewart possesses a noticeable habit of taking "bold" stands with his stacked audience applauding his every utterance but then retreating behind the excuse that he's "just" a comedian when a guest beats him in a debate. In other words it is always "clown nose off, clown nose on" with him dependent upon the circumstances.

ChicagoTim| 4.28.10 @ 6:06PM

None of the major newpapers, magazines or websites re-published the Danish Cartoons as a sign of solidarity to our fellow westerners. FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, NY POST, NY TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR... none of them posted the cartoons. A true Spartacus moment would have been if every single one of these outlets posted the cartoons. Don't single out my guy Beef Stew, there's blood on everyone's hands... At least he told them to F#@% themselves... I think I hear the choir... "Go F#@% yourselves"

ZerObama| 4.28.10 @ 10:06PM

Spoken like another true piece of sh!t Chicago thug.
Up yours, a-hole.

ChicagoTim| 4.29.10 @ 2:37PM

Most Chicagoans are not thugs... I promise you. We have some wheeler dealer politicians who give us a bad name... which we probably deserve for voting them in! Anyways, come visit and see for yourself, the people of Chicago are some of the most friendly down to earth people in the country. Come in summer when you can enjoy the lakefront you'll love it.

ZerObama| 4.29.10 @ 4:34PM

No thanks--I'll never visit that sh!thole of a city again. "Wheeler Dealers" --is that what you call them?! Yeah, okay; I've got other names for Obama and his nasty thugs. America haters comes to mind.

contrastatist| 4.28.10 @ 6:22PM

Steward may not have been super strong in his support, but O'Reilly said that it was right to buckle under. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.....eward.html

ZerObama| 4.28.10 @ 10:07PM

Who cares what the old phone sex pervert says?

trapped in NYC| 4.28.10 @ 6:32PM

Why should I stand up for the Jews when their own people don't stand up for the Jews.

Jews were pushed into the ovens, pushed out of ever neighborhood in Boston before settling in Brookline and now are being pushed out of Isreal.

It is no wonder Stewart caved to the Muslims.

Lunatic liberal east coast Jews like Stewart and Schumer hate themselves.

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Tyler S.| 4.29.10 @ 1:46AM

It's not liberalism, its fear, which knows no political party. I am a liberal and I was hugely disapointed in Comedy Central's decision to censor the episode, mush as I was disappointed in the network's decsion to pull the episode where the Virgin Mary statue bleeds out her ass. Free speech protects our right to offend. Fear is what held comedy central back.

REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 4.29.10 @ 4:42PM

Sorry, Tyler, but you liberals are a gutless bunch. You have no problem shredding Christians because we pose no threat. But you can see what you balless wonders do when you're faced with blowback: You run and hide like all cowards.

You liberals have a deep yellow streak running down your backs.

Alex| 4.29.10 @ 3:23AM

I remember after 9/11 the first instinct of the film industry seemed to be make a reference to it in their award winning 'documentry' that had made up statistics about violent deaths in the country, then threw in something about 9/11. I realized then, they'd rather criticize each and everyone one of us rather than show one bit of bravery or criticize certain people in other countries.

I used to love going to the movies and watching this stuff on television, made by some of the same people. But I look around, not only do I not find their material interesting or amusing, it's just sad and has nothing to do with what's going on in the country.

Brian| 4.29.10 @ 9:09AM

UPDATE: JR is still an Jon Stewart butt boy.... that is all.

Martha| 4.29.10 @ 11:38AM

Mr. Lord, did you watch the rest of the Daily Show segment after the "write the checks' line?

Stewart goes on to say Revolution Muslim spews their hatred out of an apartment on the Upper East Side of New York, calling for censorship while simultaneously enjoying our nation's freedom of speech. Plus, at the end of the segment, Jon tells Revolution Muslim to go f*@k themselves. After Matt Stone and Trey Parker received thinly veiled death threats, I don't know how you can call that cowardly.

Plus, your analogizing to United 93 and saying Stewart would rat out other Jews to the SS is really tasteless.

Yes, Jon Stewart's real name is Leibowitz. What is he hiding? Perhaps Leibowitz is a terrible stage name. Many entertainers change their name. That's such a lame argument on this comment thread

ZerObama| 4.29.10 @ 4:36PM

Sometimes the truth is tasteless, Martha--get over it.

Adele in Texas| 4.29.10 @ 12:14PM

What's in a name? That which we call a coward
by any other name would stink as badly.

No, Martha... It's not a lame argument when you consider who and what Mr. Leibowitz has condoned by his tacit acceptance of Comedy Central's insertion of gutless bleeps at the end of the South Park episode that so offended the delicate sensibilities of Muslim extremists. When one considers the suffering Jews have endured as a result of this insane Islamic terrorism, he truly stands out as an anomaly. Whatever he chooses to call himself, he is unquestionably the rarest of the rare - a pusillanimous, spineless Jew and what makes it more distasteful is masquerading on the air as an albeit humorous commentator, one of courage and conviction.

Mama Mitzvah| 4.29.10 @ 1:42PM

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WOW!!! What a fantastic article! I actually have tears in my eyes. Thank you mr. Lord for expressing what so many of us feel, but are not articulate enough to say.

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Deborah| 4.29.10 @ 3:50PM

The entire premise of South Park is equal opportunity bashing. No one is out of bounds and no one gets special treatment. But this recent censorship flies in the face of that. South Park is now officially neutered. They have lost the essence of what makes them unique and exceptional. The cojones that make them chief hoss are gone. It isn't like they can go back and become men again. You can't undo the damage.
This was the final nail in the coffin and Stewart was the undertaker. He sealed the deal when he played chief apologist for Comedy Central. They lost any artistic authority they ever had in one fell swoop. First with blatant censorship, and then Stewart himself when he had the chance to, but didn't hold their feet to the fire. And then he lamely tries convince us he's still hip and relevant by spewing out the same tired old irreverence with a dirty gospel choir - trying to cling to the meme that he is still so brave and edgy by angrily calling out the 3 whole members of Revolution Islam - as if he were calling out the entire cabal of terrorists worldwide. Impotent outrage is all it is.
And I think the timing of the recent airing of the Jew bashing episode was deliberate. It seems like an attempt to actually highlight how tolerant and peaceful EVERY OTHER group is in contrast to the islamist muslims.
It's probably Comrade Central's way of offering some libation for their obvious betrayal of the First Amendment. It was a pathetic sop at best.
Can't wait to see what Stone and Parker come up with next.
But they can't really undo the damage done to their image and philosophy. South Park got tea bagged by Comedy Central and no follow up episode can undo that.

bruce| 4.29.10 @ 6:31PM

jews!these people are not jews they are jinos,that is jew in name only.any one of them would kiss the rag heads ass and spit on israel because they are afraid muslims.i think it is time that muslims take a loyalty oath and denounce jihad if they won't do it send them back to jihad land.

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Tucci78 | 4.29.10 @ 11:49PM

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Folks, never - and I mean NEVER - expect "Liberals" to defend individual rights in general, or anyone like Trey Parker and Matt Stone in particular.

Neither Mr. Parker nor Mr. Stone do.

Bear in mind that in a recent interview, Trey Parker (speaking for himself and Mr. Stone) said:

"We hate liberals, worse than we hate conservatives - and we really hate THEM."

You really anticipated any different kind of conduct from the "Liberals" in this situation?
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BozObama| 4.30.10 @ 12:02AM

The democrat party is the home of abortion, treason and NAMBLA; so, no, I will never trust them on ANYTHING!

Dirtbags.

John| 4.30.10 @ 1:29AM

stewart is the typical cowardly liberal that will talk crap about people he knows won't hurt him but backs away with his tail between his legs from the real problem islamic phsychos. The idiot sees himself as edgy, he's stupid. His fans only think he's funny because with the short attention span that they have as young, ignorant hollywood celebrity worshipers they don't really hear what he says, but think it's gotta be good.

MattZ| 4.30.10 @ 8:24AM

Lame article. Pointless even. Less teeth than the author claims Stewart's remark had.

It's people who advocate against torture, unjust detention and for the continuation civil liberties in threatening times that are the brave ones. The spineless cowards wrap themselves in a flag and say that we're at war.
MZ

Jeremiah| 4.30.10 @ 3:01PM

Typical liberal wussie. Just how were you punished for your 'bravery', slacker?

You're as yellow as your stinkin' hero, Stewart.

jovian francey| 4.30.10 @ 10:10PM

I'm a huge Daily Show fan and unrepentant leftist and while I believe this article traffics in, oh, just the teensiest bit of hyperbole, you make some very good points.

Stewart cuts through the swath of bull-sh*t left behind by the brain parasites at Fox News elegantly, but he did cower a bit when something that might personally threaten his welfare (and salary).

On the other hand. He does occasionally point out that he is still just a comedian. It's only because news coverage (across the political spectrum) is so wretchedly bad that he's been lionized and his audience turns to the Daily Show and Colbert as their primary news source.

Nonetheless, this is a cogent, lucid and intelligent commentary (that I don't entirely agree with) from the right. I thought that died out with the dodo (or maybe William Buckley). Oh, there's always David Frum... what's that, he's been disowned? Never mind then. :)

I tip my liberal fascist progressive commie nazi hat to you!

Steve| 5.3.10 @ 5:44PM

I'm sure I will get the very intelligent response of "butt boy". Lets see I have seen liberals assiciated with NAMBLA, baby killers, terrorists, communists, Nazi's, to many to list. Its Jon's show he can sit there making faces if he wants but, he has a big following because he is funny, and we liberals elites are smart enough to know when he is being sarcastic or not. So why is it his responsibility to say what the people who only watch FOX? We actually are informed before watching the show, if you dont know whats going on you would miss most of the jokes. FYI the opinion shows on FOX are not real news I can understand how many of you dont get it, you can level the same thing at JS when:
1. He is a channel that is xxx news
2. While on TV there is a logo on the bottom saying xxx news
3. There is a promo saying "fair and balanced" while showing his picture
4. There is a promo saying "the most trusted name in news" while showing his picture
Anyway enjoy FOX with its constant fear mongering of how we are becoming nazi socialist communist fascist (whatever other words you want to use while having no facts to back it up) America

Pasu| 5.6.10 @ 8:25AM

Wow. This article is non-sensical. What's your point? Is Jon Stewart funny? That is all that matters. Are you jealous of Stewart? That seems the only reason you would write a juvenile article like this. Are you trying to get website hits by coat-tailing on Stewart's popularity? That's the reason, isn't it? Well, maybe one dat you will be relevant. You will be Spartacus. Not today though, this is a terrible article with no point and I have wasted my time reading it.

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SomeGuy| 5.15.10 @ 7:16PM

This site and article is ridiculous. The arguments posted by this author are uninformed and stupid. Everyone bitching and posting on this site is retarded (Including me, but at least I can admit it.), especially you cocksuckers accusing others of being Jon Stewart butt-boys.
GO JON STEWART!!!

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