Watch Jon Stewart School Bill O’Reilly … Yet Again
Terrible Fox News person Bill O’Reilly is apparently still very upset over the White House inviting lily-white rapper Common to a poetry event and so Jon Stewart ventured into enemy territory to try and help set the record straight.
The Daily Show host argued that Bono of U2 has also sung controversial lyrics and yet no one had a problem with him visiting Pennsylvania Avenue. Of course, the key difference is, he is white.
by Bucky Turco on May 17, 2011 at 11:35 am
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USA Freedom, pull your cock out of your sister and go back back to your Neo-Nazi blog, you're the radical around here.
Nah, I think he did pretty well. Could you imagine trying to keep it together when accused of "pettyfogging" the issue? O'Reilly is possibly the most infuriating personality I can think of, and Stewart does well to try to maintain a non-smug, non-snarky dialogue. The fact is, the country is divided as hell, I can't get into the headspace of Fox's viewership, but reflecting their hateful rhetoric will only divide further. If this happens, legislation having to do with healthcare and cutting oil subsidies will be all the more difficult. Stewart is an intelligent voice in very sensitive territory, imo he came out on top hopefully without further polarizing the viewership's opinion.
I agree. Owning him too harshly would be detrimental to Stewart's goals. Much like when a child fucks up. The important thing is to show them they made a mistake without making them feel shame.
This is a very typical liberal tactic; pull out the 'rACE' card when you get into trouble, because this way no one will dare debate the real issue at hand…it's pretty sad..
And what would you say is the real issue at hand?
With the xenophobic Birther issue buried and gone, FoxNews pushers have to enrage their primarily white and conservative (read: "protect white privilege by 'taking our country back'") viewership to keep them glued to the tube and motivated for an ouster next year.
He pulled out Fox's race card. The one they don't admit they hold. Racist xenophobic morons.
the topic was Common's (sp) invite to the WH, not Bono's, not any other singer or artist..but that's precisely where Jon Stewart Leibowitz steered the conversation, turning this into a race fueled discussion..very typical tactic, it's so predictable..
Don't you get it? THe argument that FOX presented for it being an outrage evaporated when considering those other artists. He called them out on their bullshit. Also, Stewart's "tactics" can be called sense & logic. It's FOX that really uses tactics. A perfect example being presenting only part of Common's song so that is sounds like a song about killing. Had the song been quoted properly it's true meaning and theme could have been shown, but that meaning wouldn't jibe with FOX's program, hence the bullshit. Get it?
Irony: Someone dropping Jon Stewart's very Jewish-sounding real last name while bitching about someone else pulling the race card.
Sad part is he probably doesn't realize that he is racist, it being deep rooted and all.
@TOM-read this book-> Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a World View. It should help indoctrinate you into reality.
don't-cha get the irony???!!
If Bill O and J.S. met to discuss/debate Common's invitation to the WH and the reasons for/against it) Stewart cannot defend the decision simply because others who are considered confrontational have been invited in the past. He also can’t defend it by raising other unrelated historical references or by making the point that the President doesn’t personally review the honoree list. In my opinion he should have been able to defend thisdecision with strength and conviction – which he did not (or maybe he did but I missed it completely). I give him credit for trying to forge an alliance against assault weapons, but again, what does that have to do with the decision to invite Common to the WH? (wasn’t that the topic of discussion?)
Keep reaching, buddy.
I'm sorry U Never but staying focused on the issue is hardly a reach.. Whereas the smokescreen that Stewart was blowing to help justify the administration's lapse in judgement is like 'reaching for the stars'!!
Tom. Dismantling a premise and exposing a logical fallacy is hardly a smoke screen. Why do you yourself use smoke screens to avoid that fact?
"But this is not about Common, per se. This is about Fox News preying on conservative white fears of the scary black thug trope, trying to paint anyone and everyone of color as racist against whites. Because ultimately, many ultra-conservative white people simply don’t like the fact that we have a black president. By attempting to associate the Obamas with people they deem "contrary to American values," they can reaffirm their own prejudices and take comfort in their own false narratives of white victimization. And by using hip-hop as a scapegoat––a genre that, 40 years after its invention, most people in the media still don’t seem to understand–-they’re trying to paint Obama with the same racist ideas that have plagued hip-hop for years: that it is "ghetto," "unseemly," "thugged out," what have you. Fox (and Karl Rove, in particular) is very savvy about this. That’s why, practically seconds after Common’s "controversial" lyrics came out, Hannity and Rove were making note of the fact that he attended Reverend Wright’s church."
from: http://www.alternet.org/culture/150986/
Tom, you state a topic but not the issue at hand. What was the issue that made Common's invite controversial? Was that topic addressed by Jon Stewart?
Racism is everywhere. You are racist. I am racist. How can we not be given that we have been born into a country with a near-500 year history of exploiting people of color for economic gain and still living out the contemporary results? Even your highlighting Jon Stewart's original surname is a tactic that has intent to discredit based on his ethnicity and othering him while maintaining your own sense of superiority and power by doing so. Tom, did you know Irish folk were considered the "worst" race when they first emigrated to the United States? "Worse than dogs"? Racial superiority and white privilege are arbitrary, yet you use yours to continue to prop yourself up.
Which does indeed make it ironic when someone with names such as "Bill O'Reilly" or "Sean Hannity" begin to fan the false flames of controversy that stem from racial inequality and threats to white privilege status quo.