Where the F@#K is Jon Stewart?!?!

[eldeeder]

Anyone who follows politics on the internet, should agree that this is totally something Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, and Steven Colbert would be reporting daily. I know they're off air due to the writers strike, but we need to start a massive letter writing campaign to them or something. I haven't heard anything from them, and am starting to lose my faith in them as patriots...

[Matt_R]

Writer's strike, I think.

[corsairtro]

It is time for RonPaulites to become their writers! Start emailing material!

[Antonius Stone]

maher isn't off air because of writers strike... his show is just on hiatus til January/February

[RonPaulJunkie]

I know what you mean. There is no telling how many times they would have spoke about Ron Paul. Damn writers strike has horrible timing. I think a lot of his viewers are probably Paul supporters anyway. So really it would just be more of a confirmation of the things we see on a daily basis.

[Voluntaryist]

The writers strike is whats keeping the daily show from making new episodes.

[cicatrice]

I do get depressed thinking of how wonderfully timed the writers' strike is. ;_;

[shepburn]

Anyone who follows politics on the internet, should agree that this is totally something Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, and Steven Colbert would be reporting daily. I know they're off air due to the writers strike, but we need to start a massive letter writing campaign to them or something. I haven't heard anything from them, and am starting to lose my faith in them as patriots...

HAHAHA ... You counted Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, and Steven Colbert as patriots?

Admittedly they have been very friendly to Ron Paul, buy they are nothing more than cynical Jesters in my book. They make millions while laughing at our country ... has that been helpful? Maybe it has ... but patriots? Now that is setting the bar a bit low isn't it?

[Joe3113]

HAHAHA ... You counted Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, and Steven Colbert as patriots?

Admittedly they have been very friendly to Ron Paul, buy they are nothing more than cynical Jesters in my book. They make millions while laughing at our country ... has that been helpful? Maybe it has ... but patriots? Now that is setting the bar a bit low isn't it?

Jon Stewart doesn't strike me as a partisan hack the way OReily and Olbermann do. I won't say he isn't a shill, because there is not enough proof yet. Obviously if he endorsed Ron I would say he isn't a shill :D

[cicatrice]

Funnily enough, my boyfriend heard on the radio today that the Daily Show and Colbert Report will be back January 7th. Now I need to look for some sources online...

[rollingpig]

I do get depressed thinking of how wonderfully timed the writers' strike is. ;_;
+1

:o

[mmink15]

The current writer's strike is affecting Ron Paul negatively , because since the MSM is so obvious in their faults during Ron Paul interviews, it is perfect material for Stewart,Colbert,and Maher who make a living mocking the media. If they come back in time for February primaries it will make a large difference.

[garrettwombat]

Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert?

wtf dude... those guys are socialist tools

why would you even mention colbert because on his show he plays as a neocon and in real life he is a socialist democrat...

jon stewart is a pretty fair man but they are both just tools to the MSM

comedy central is rooting for mccain

[nist7]

I know what you mean. There is no telling how many times they would have spoke about Ron Paul. Damn writers strike has horrible timing. I think a lot of his viewers are probably Paul supporters anyway. So really it would just be more of a confirmation of the things we see on a daily basis.

Actually, I think the writers would be much more inclined towards a nanny state....since the free market....that of the writers and the big TV networks....has obviously failed.

So the writers and the hollywood types would probably want the government to bail them out or put in regulations to protect the writers......

[tomveil]

No, I think that they both realize that government is ridiculous. And even if they don't agree with his policies, they'll agree that the current government is awful. He can just mention airlifting in TONS of 100 bills. What the heck? How did our money get spent for THAT? Why aren't these people accountable for it?

For sure as soon as they come back, they will invite Ron Paul onto the show.

[andy mcdee]

I think you could include Stewart and Colbert in the Patriot Catagory, they expose the hypocrisy of the current administration. I'll admit that I am a follower of the shows and the wintercold absence is starting to take its toll. There isn't that much satiric humor in Sweden.

These guys would defiantly root for Ron Paul, since they regularly joke about hypocrisy both in media and politics. Jon has said something like that there is nothing he wants more than to look in todays news and say: "hmm today might be difficult, no one in the white house seems to be (misleading the public / threatening to start WWIII / handing out contracts to their pals) so I guess we will have to put some effort in this time"

[Madcat455]

Funnily enough, my boyfriend heard on the radio today that the Daily Show and Colbert Report will be back January 7th. Now I need to look for some sources online...


Here ya go...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071220/ap_en_tv/hollywood_labor_2;_ylt=Alj6djS9ELHG9PhKJhNJAYf15.h F

[Arkris]

I feel more for the writers than anybody else. When the producers union was created there were hundreds of members. The Producers union still has complete control over Hollywood, but now there are only 7 members. The consolidation of power within the media is ridiculous. The writers have been royally shafted by the producers in the past, when it comes to being paid for tapes and DVDs sold with their material on them.

Media is a business. They'll sell products and promote people who'll further their own profits. Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Bill Maher are famous for exposing hipocracy and dirty politics, so why would they REALLY want a politician who says he wants to clean up DC, and has the record to prove he means business? They'd be out of their jobs if people stopped caring about how corrupt DC is, and they'd stop watching. They want another George W Bush to rail against.

Mike Huckabee has offered Stephen Colbert the Vice Presidency, not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES! The people on his show are probably just itching to see Mike Huckabee win the nomination, just to put him on the spot. However unlikely, (that Huckabee'd win, or actually choose Colbert) Stephan Colbert as Huckabees running-mate does sound like it'd make great television. Or, Stephen Colbert could go on a tirade almost every night if Huckabee turned around and chose somebody else as his running-mate after the nomination.

I watch way too much television out of habit, and I'm trying to quit, but television is a total wasteland and, since the invention of the internet, obsolete.

[freedom-maniac]

Wait! Has Colbert endorsed anyone since he dropped out of the race?

[hamilton1049]

Can someone tell me how, anyone who would allow a "writers strike" to stand between them and the salvation of the republic, can be considered a "patriot"?

[sirachman]

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[Catatonic]

Don't expect much from Maher, he's a typical establishment hack, he's just on the 'liberal' side rather than the conservative side.

Stewart and Colbert it seems not so much but at the same time they get pretty buddy buddy with some hard core neocons on air. I don't know if thats simply the price they have to pay for being on national news, even if its really just satire, or if they just don't get it.

For example Stewart seems to really like McCain.

I like both shows, Colbert especially points things out that the media won't touch, he just does it sarcastically.

Like when that kid got tasered in Florida, so Colbert brings on Naomi Wolf to talk about her 10 steps to fascism book.

[cicatrice]

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Haha, thanks. I have a penchant for cute, kitschy things.


Can someone tell me how, anyone who would allow a "writers strike" to stand between them and the salvation of the republic, can be considered a "patriot"?

Oh, and here we go with a source (someone has already linked another one): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/20/daily-show-and-colbert_n_77784.html

"We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence."
— Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert

And honestly, we can't deem these men to be unpatriotic. How many of you would have even stood against where our country is heading without Dr. Paul's "guidance"? We don't fully know the intricacies of the strike and the correspondence between them and the writers.