44 thoughts on “Jon Stewart On Clint’s RNC Speech”

  1. Eeyore,

    The church already had its own channels, at each king’s counsel meeting, private sessions of discussion, weekly confessionals, etc. Since Constantine they’ve been IN.

    Why in the world would they wish to participate in open debate and expose their privileged position to rebuttal, for all to tell of???

  2. That long list of smoking actors includes many who croaked from cancer or other smoking illnesses. They got paid and the studios got paid, by tobacco companies to promote the product. John Wayne in the Green Berets was a classic. The troops are pushing through the jungle in Nam and stop for a breather. No pun intended. Wayne says: Smoke em if ya gottem. The Vietnamese on the other side will tell you today that this is often how they locate the position of our troops. Smell em a mile away.
    The Clinster did his fair share of promotion in those so called spaghetti westerns. Lots of kids caught on. The other aspect of the western is that guns are quicker. If you want to commit suicide then smoking is a tortuous route. My ma and her two sisters all bought into that Betty Grable crap in the movies and started smoking when they were 12. They all three died of it at age 63. That was my mom from a prior incarnation as a human. Us dogs arent dumb enough to smoke.

  3. Picking on old men, shame on you all. Not only do they smell bad (if they forget to wash), are impotent, and have troubles with all parts including the brain, they are also greeted with “C’mon grandpa, STFU!

    How nice is that to a creature who will not be around next week. Without him you would not be here. Usch.

    Some onther time I will tell you of my idea of heaven, soon technically possible, but wait awhile. Might not get around to it and where will mankind be then?

    CLINT, on the other hand can go phuck himself, with a razor wire dildo. Then they can have a camera going, I hope.

    Now, some a’hole here will not understand the humor. It’ll be a guy. They are so humorless. And this time I won’t pick up the phone, and will cancel his voice message too.

  5. Malisha, I have no beef w/ anyones criticsm of Clint’s performance the other night. I thought it was a little creepy. I respect Clint as a director and actors who differ w/ Clint politically all say he’s one of the best to work with. My beef w/ itchinbaydog was his ludicrous smoking attack, it’s intellectually dishonest and patently unfair.

  6. Z—–ka
    Thanks, much more satisfying. Answered why it was one of his best one. Not witty, just get the message out man…..and he did.

    C’mon guys, even a poor boy from NC knows the other three. We had them here in Swedish parliament until G the third became an autocrat who got assassinated.

    Doctor, lawyer and indian chief?
    Nope: aristocrats, bourgeois (merchants) and farm owners. Les trois.

    And I only got an injenyeers education. You CAN, you know.

  7. Nick S, Tony Award Winner Tonya Pinkins starred in a show on Broadway named “Caroline, or Change.” In that show, Caroline smokes one cigarette, on stage; it is lit for her by a young boy, the son of the family where she is a maid. It is a bonding ritual between the two of them. The play was written by Tony Kushner. There is probably no small act that could convey to the audience the same “dramatic moment” as young Noah lighting Caroline’s cigarette in the basement of the family’s house.

    Tonya Pinkins doesn’t smoke and never has.

    Recently, I saw Tonya Pinkins do an Ethel Waters musical review in a nightclub in NY. At one point, after a part of the narrative (you had to be there), one of the musicians places a cigarette in her hand. The entire audience breaks into a group belly laugh. The symbolism is unmistakable (“The only thing new under the sun is a cigarette for after…”)

    Cigarettes are part of our culture and they have meaning. Unfortunately, real cigarettes destroy real human bodies. Clint Eastwood’s not responsible for any of that, in my opinion. But his buffoonery and that ill-advised temper tantrum aimed at an empty chair (which didn’t even look like it had supported presidential assets) are plenty fair game for mockery from now until the time he makes his obituaries into news.

  9. itchinbaydog, “That dog won’t hunt” as stated yesterday. Here is a partial list of actors who smoke[d] on and off screen. Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Joan Crawford, Johnny Depp, Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Bette Davis, Sean Penn, Billy Bob Thornton, Jack Nicholson, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemon, Mae West, Al Pacino, James Dean. I stop here only for brevity. Others could easily add to this list. If one is to intellectually honest, you need to separate actors prior to the 1970’s, when smoking was socially acceptable, from 1970-present. Actually, besides the Spaghetti Westerns, I don’t remember Clint smoking in films.. He did smoke in Gran Torino and that was part of the plot. My wife and I are former smokers and love to play the game, “Are they real smokers” when we see them on the screen. If you watch the flick, Gran Torino, any smoker or former smoker will tell you Clint is not a smoker. As I said yesterday, you don’t like Clint..fine! But if you want to maintain integrity you need to fair.

  12. Frankly,

    I don’t give a gilbert….. If you say that the fourth estate is commonly known… I’m going to play like I’m from Missouri and show me…. I’ll give you that within the educated folks… School learning and book learning….. It’s not so much in common usage…..Btw….. What are the other three since I’m from Missouri today….

  13. Clint smoked all those cigarettes during all of his early movies because he was paid by the tobacco companies to promote tobacco to little boys and girls so that they would grow up and be addicted to cancer. The empty chair represents all of his millions of victims. Clint is another RepubliCon loser who is owned by big business. He was perfect for The Willard and Big Ears Ryan. Willard and Ryan, sittin in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g, first came Tampa then came Isaac, then came Eastwood with his baby carriage.
    Smoke em if ya gottem Clint. You too Big Ears.

  14. Z “fourth estate” is a common term here also.

    Jon is the kid who announces that the emperor has no clothes. Sadly the media here has decided its better to be invited to all the right partys and treated as friendly lapdogs instead of their correct role of delivering the truth. America is much poorer for it.

  15. Z,

    I knew that…. But not all that Americans are familiar…… You know what you call a person that speaks three languages….. Trilingual…… You know what you call a person that speaks two languages…. Bilingual….. You know what you call a person that speaks one language…. American……sad but true…..

  19. It is quite rare when Jon Stewart is upstaged, but it has happened:

    I have to concur with Bill Maher that there should be some new rules concerning presidential campaigning by presidential candidates who may want to later make rules for planet Earth:

    (NeoCon Planet: The Presidents of Kolob, w/ video of New Rules).

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