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I was discouraged from finishing former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty’s interview with The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart because for the first 10 minutes of the video Stewart does 80 percent of the talking while trying to get Pawlenty to agree with him that Tea Partiers are hypocrites.
The Weekly Standard’s Jay Cost, however, powered on through to the end of the interview, and gleaned a worthwhile observation from the experience:
So, Stewart comes across as quite pompous, but what is really interesting is that Pawlenty gives him nothing on this front. They talk for twenty minutes and Pawlenty doesn’t say a bad word about the base. And even though he doesn’t cede an inch, at the end Stewart still says, “You know what’s crazy? I don’t think you and I disagree that much…” Ha!
Maybe T-Paw is the GOP’s secret weapon. He really isn’t a RINO, but the media thinks he is!
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Jack Bauer| 1.14.11 @ 6:03PM
Unless conservatives are going to go on these shows and AGGRESSIVELY SMACK DOWN FOOLS like Stewart, what exactly is the point?
He has an audience about a third of O'Reilly... and that's BOR on a BAD night. 1.2 million.
And they are all certifiable loons. Don't believe me, listen to the nutjobs in studio eating up Stewart's asinine shtick, which consists of two things:
1. TALKING VERY LOUDLY
2. And saying FUCK every third word.
Hilfuckinarious.
John Carnal| 1.17.11 @ 10:37AM
Exactly. The goal of a conservative on a pot-shot lib-a-thon such as Stewart's is to say nothing their producers want to air. Every last word should be seen to be needing serious consideration for being edited out. Most of all I would like to see every conservative "guest" say after the umpty-umpt interruption while trying to make a point "the next interruption means I am walking off the set."
Clint| 1.14.11 @ 6:42PM
Stewart's just one more Liberal Mainstream Media Act.
If he motormouths & speed talks long enough & loud enough he gets a segment of the attention he craves.
eddie333| 1.14.11 @ 8:45PM
Picture Allen West or Herman Cain in this interview instead of Pawlenty. Now tell me, who you would want for president? (Hint: not TP)
Steve-O| 1.14.11 @ 9:18PM
T-Paw is running for President of the United States of America, not to be the guest host on some cable show. I think that his approach will appeal to the middle. His politics will appeal to the right.
bubba16123| 1.14.11 @ 9:32PM
I'm in Minnesota I'm well over to the Right and his politics do not appeal to me at all. If you liked W's spending and McCain's man made globlal warming view then he's your guy
Wayne | 1.15.11 @ 12:38AM
Pawlenty in my opinion would wimp out in any man-to-man debate with Obama. He just doesn't strike me as a fighter. He doesn't seem like the guy I would trust to have my back.
West to the West Wing 2012 | 1.15.11 @ 1:45AM
Well, I'll tell you who DOES have your back, and that's Allen West. And you want a fighter? He's not caving to the Left and backing down from his "fiery rhetoric" in the wake of Tucson, either.
http://tinyurl.com/4h3d6vm
Wayne | 1.16.11 @ 1:53PM
It is the women candidates and minority candidates that interest me for 2012. They seem more in tune with Main Street. Of course I could see a Christie or even a Trump. I want a fighter, unlike Mc Cain. Palin, Bachmann, West, Christie and Trump will call a spade a spade. I don't trust Romney, Pawlenty, Gingrich, Bush or Huckelby. They seem like establishment republicans and opportunists.
wodiej| 1.16.11 @ 4:18PM
Agree.
West to the West Wing 2012 | 1.15.11 @ 1:56AM
eddie333,
Hope you've seen this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....u8dRfgNxGM
West has the character AND the knowledge.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 1.15.11 @ 6:46AM
Stewart is a fake journalist bringing you fake news and fake commentary. The only people who give him any credibility are ... fakes.
CT| 1.15.11 @ 10:15AM
Why cant Pawlenty just say the Obamacare scam was the eye-opener? The way the Democrats rammed this through without a SINGLE republican senate vote. That was the most corrupt congress in history! If they cant get Snowe and Collins to vote for the bill it Must Be Really Bad. If this guy cannot articulate the message better he doesnt stand a chance as a presidential contender.
DL| 1.15.11 @ 5:03PM
Obamacare, which I prefer to say as a good thing, was never going to get any support from the repubs. The repubs' main goal since Obama took office was to not work with him or give him any success and to make him a one term president, and that silly ol' coot Mitch McConnell said so publicly. The health care bill has many bipartisan ideas in it, but the repubs stood together and decided to put politics anead of country, and they've been doing it since day one of this administration. Filibustering the crap out of everything, no matter how small. As far as Jon Stewart, he was only trying to see if Pawlenty agreed that what some of the tea party folks were angry about did not not match what was actually happening - Obama is actually further in the center than what the tea people are angry about. Obama is not a socialist, son of Hitler antiChrist, by a long shot. He is a good, smart, caring man who uses logic and reason in his decisions, and he does listen to ideas from all sides. Stewart was trying to make the point that all the anger was disproportionate to what has actually happened so far, and I agree with him.
Jack Bauer| 1.15.11 @ 8:07PM
Were you bored writing this mindless drivel? Because I'm yawning reading it.
I don't what makes you think you have anything revelatory or even mildly interesting to convey to say -- but whatever it is, you are incorrect.
You mistakenly say Obama is NOT a socialist, but just for the sake of argument, accept that he IS.
On a scale of zero to 10 how opposed would YOU personally be to him being a 'socialist.' ?
Zero being not at all, 10 being 'where do I sign up for the Tea Party.'
Come on, what's your Obama number. Now be honest, admit that even if he was a socialist you're not that bothered. Correct?
Wayne | 1.16.11 @ 1:58PM
The Left are doing their best to portray Obama as a moderate. So the far left goes over-board so that Obama seems less radical. The GOP then in their infinite mercy buy into the tactic and rave about Obamas intelligence and great speech at Tucson.
Apparently not all of us are fooled. In the Fox pole Obama's Speech has 53 percent D's and F's. The people saw it for what it is. The Elite Republicans seem more interested in "getting along" with Obama.
PattyMor| 1.15.11 @ 4:07PM
Anyone who has remotely promoted Global Warming legislation is off the Prez. list; so no TPaw and no Gingerich. No big spenders as in Romney and Huckabee.
The country is in dire shape; we need a true conservative to clean up the mess. Sorry guys, but you can't out shine Sarah, who has lived her
conservative values; not just talked about them.
wodiej| 1.16.11 @ 4:20PM
Well said.
DL| 1.15.11 @ 5:09PM
Sarah Palin is not smart enough to be President. She doesn't know the history of other countries, or even our country, for that matter. You need to know this stuff in order to do the foreign affairs side of being president. She just rattles of talking points all day long with hardly any realistic ideas of her own on how to deal with the big problems. She is a joke. She is a good mom, though. Going too conservative will hurt our country, not help it.
Rich Fisher| 1.15.11 @ 6:22PM
DL, what's your idea of "too conservative"? Expecting to see the Constitution actually heeded? Caring for the unborn? Not wanting to spend our great grandchildren into oblivion? Agreeing that if you work your butt off and become rich you shouldn't have to give it all to neer do wells who would rather protest than work? Appointing CZARS to circumvent the approval process of the Senate? Not wanting queers in the military to be able to ply their trade? Not agreeing that marriage is between anybody and anything? Not bowing and scraping to foreign leaders who only wish us ill? Believing that the United States IS special? Believing that judges at all levels should interpret the law, not make it? Not allowing Secretary's of Cabinet Departments to illegally regulate what they can't get Constitutionally? Gee, wouldn't it be terrible if we got so conservative that these ideas became reality. What an awful country we would have.
Wayne | 1.16.11 @ 2:03PM
Obama thinks we have 57 states. That Georgians speak Georgian, that France is our top ally, that Cinco de Quatro means 4th of May. He can't put a sentence together without mangling the English language and must rely on the TOTUS to speak with hemming and hawing, and you think Palin is not smart enough to be President. Think again.
wodiej| 1.16.11 @ 4:21PM
Well I'm pretty sure she knows how many states we have, what the Constitution means, that the object of the game is to be personally responsible for your own life and how to balance a budget.
How many past presidents had foreign policy experience? Very few. That is why they have a cabinet.
e cowan| 1.15.11 @ 8:15PM
'He really isn't a RINO, but the media thinks he is!'
One of the "Ethanol Four" isn't a RINO? HAH! You can have him.
http://www.nationalreview.com/.....nko?page=2
'.....the Minnesota Corn Growers Association (MCGA). The group had been hoping that John McCain would pick Pawlenty, according to the trade magazine Ethanol Producer. Pawlenty, the MCGA said, had “more moderate views towards ethanol” than most Republicans.......'
Brad9883| 1.16.11 @ 3:42AM
Go Pawlenty! More job-killing energy regulation done in the name of a hoax is just what this country wants and just what the conservative movement needs!