Showing posts with label Daily Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daily Show. Show all posts
Friday, August 19, 2011
The Daily Show wonders if perhaps we should NOT do away with the Bush tax cuts to the rich, but instead just take everything away from the poor to balance the country's budget?
Is Fox News not even pretending they are not working for the corporations in this country anymore? Some of that footage was absolutely brutal.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
I know I promised this yesterday but I done runned out of time. So let me present the Daily Show's Iowa Candidate Tent coverage.
Personally I think it is still funny even on a Saturday morning.
(If the video won't play just click here.)
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Jon Stewart points out that the Teabaggers are unhappy with the debt deal because "government still exists."
Yeah I guess these so-called "patriots" simply will not be happy until there is nothing left of the country but a smoldering crater.
You know like the one that sits between their ears where their brains are supposed to be located.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Jon Stewart pokes fun at the hypocrisy of the Fox News channel becoming defensive over the Oslo terrorist being labeled a "Christian."
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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I LOVED this segment last night, and thought that Stewart did an amazing job of mocking the Fox News talking heads. So of course I felt I needed to share it with you.
I actually almost forgot about it because there was so much going on today.
However perhaps saving it for last is not so bad as it is a great way to end our day, don't you think?
Oh, and there is SO much more coming tomorrow. Stay tuned!
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Jon Stewart fights the urge to mock Michele Bachmann's husband.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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I thought this segment was FABULOUS!
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Investigative reporter visits Bachmann and Associates, to determine if their "therapeutic" interventions to rid clients of their "gayness" were legal. Wanna guess what he found?
Here are the highlights that John Becker reported back after attending several sessions to expunge his "gayness.".
- I was advised to find a heterosexual “accountability buddy” as I struggled to increase my attraction to women and decrease my attraction to men. I was to confide in, pray with, and be held accountable to this person.
- Bachmann & Associates sells a book written by Twin Cities minister and self-proclaimed “ex-lesbian” Janet Boynes. This book chronicles her supposed journey “out of the lesbian lifestyle.” Next to the stack of books was a prominently-displayed, typewritten note that read, “Janet is a friend. I recommend this book as she speaks to the heart of the matter and gives practical insights of truth to set people free. – Marcus Bachmann, PhD.”
- I pretended to have just told my brother that I was seeking counseling to help me deal with homosexuality. My brother’s (fictitious) response was that I should just come out, because a person can be happy and gay and still go to heaven. My therapist said that my brother “didn’t choose his words wisely.”
- I mentioned Marcus Bachmann’s by then well-publicized remarks calling gays “barbarians” who “need to be educated.” “Am I a barbarian?” I said through tears. Rather than contradict his boss’ words, Wiertzema opted to doubt the authenticity of the recording I had heard: “It sounds like… something that someone just did. It doesn’t sound accurate.”
- Several sessions after asking for information about “ex-gay”-friendly churches, programs, and support groups, Wiertzema passed along a colleague’s referral to Outpost Ministries, a Robbinsdale, MN-based “founding member ministry” of the discredited “ex-gay” group Exodus International.
- I mentioned the marriage equality ruling in New York and the possibility that some of my close gay friends might now get married. When I asked him for advice on whether or not I should attend any future same-sex weddings, he acknowledged that it was a tough and highly personal decision, but if he were in my situation he wouldn’t go – at least not without a heterosexual accountability buddy in tow. When I expressed concern for the well-being of my gay, soon-to-be-married friends’ eternal souls and asked if they could go to heaven, Wiertzema reassured me that indeed they could, “if they repent before the Lord and are right with God, later on.” When I sought clarification as to whether or not he meant they would need to turn away from homosexuality first, he responded in the affirmative.
Becker is right, Bachmann and Associates have received over $137,000 in Medicaid payments to their clinic since 2005. If they are receiving this money while providing widely discredited therapy, they are in fact defrauding the government. Which they must be since homosexuality is NOT defined as a mental illness. And isn't THIS guy married to the batshit crazy GOP Presidential candidate who is constantly badmouthing government spending?
And it is not like the fact that these homosexual to heterosexual therapy sessions not working is anything NEW. Hell the Daily Show was openly mocking them ten years ago.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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That is exactly how this "therapy" should be treated, as a joke. However, sadly, it is a joke which can do real, permanent harm to those who have been subjected to it.
