Jon Stewart returned from vacation and interviewed Barack Obama for the last time. Even without much of Jon’s usual comedy, the interview was worth watching. One reason is that Jon has a depth od understanding most professional news reporters seem to lack. The other is Obama’s candor.
Two titans of the establishment left facing their twilight, President Obama and Daily Show Host Jon Stewart, sat down on Tuesday night for an extended interview on topics ranging from ISIS to the media to Iran to the crumbling VA system.
It was a relatively friendly interview, with Stewart asking open-ended questions and more or less letting the President take the floor. The one exception would be when Stewart addressed the failures of veteran care in recent years.
"Boy, rough ride for the veterans recently. First the attack in Tennessee, and then this systematic issue with the VA and healthcare", Stewart said. Veteran care has always been something of a personal issue with the Daily Show host; one of his segments on the topic even led to some reforms earlier this year…
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I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did, and I hope that is not the last time those two share a stage.
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"Because government is a human animal, at any given moment, somebody, somewhere, is going to be screwing up." Not an exact quote, but I believe I grasped the sense of it. So true – and so different from the whole system being screwed up, which we also have. And too easy to use to distract the sheep from actual systemic changes which can be made and which would be better.
Giants is not at all too strong a word to use.
And the longer the agency top official position is vacant and the lower the benefits or pay compared to comparable positions in the private sector, the greater the odds of screw ups IMO…
Both spot-on
Yup–it fits:
"gi·ant (jī′ənt) n.
1.
a. A person or thing of great size.
b. A person or thing of extraordinary power, significance, or importance: a giant in the field of physics; automotive industry giants.
2.
a. Greek Mythology One of a race of humanlike beings of enormous strength and stature who were destroyed in battle with the Olympians.
b. A being in folklore or myth similar to one of these beings.
3. A gymnastic maneuver in which the body is swung, fully extended, around a horizontal bar.
adj.
Marked by exceptionally great size, magnitude, or power: a giant wave; a giant impact."
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/giant
thanks, wonderful video
YVW! 🙂
That was THE BEST SHOW that Jon Stewart has done! I had mentioned it in earlier posts, not seeing this story before.
I loved the part when Pres. Obama said he was doing an executive order that Jon would not be able to leave until the end of the Pres’s term! That was so FANTASTIC! I sure wish he could do that, LOL!
It was a great interview and I am going to have to go to Comedy Central.com to see the rest of the interview. I am so proud of our president! He is one COOL DUDE!
Well, little Marco Rubio has a MAJOR disagreement with characterizing Pres. Obama as a "Giant". But I think calling Pres. Obama "NO CLASS" will come back to bite Rubio in his ASS!
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/07/22/verbatim-marco-rubio-says-the-president-has-no-class/?_r=0
Well, Marco – I gotta admit you have a point. I mean, if you want to find REAL CLASS, you need look no further than your last Rethuglican president – FART-LOVING FRATBOY FUHRER, Dubya:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2006/10/bushs_fartjoke_legacy.html
http://www.alternet.org/story/40661/bush_%22can't_get_enough_of_fart_jokes%22
No doubt about it – now THAT is CLASS!
Says a lot about Rubio, doesn't it?
Obama is one of the classiest Americans I know, and of course Rubio know that, but this statement is all he could get away with. What he would have liked to have said, and in fact is implying, is that black people have no class. And believe me, his rabid base heard this undertone loud and clear.
Not infrequently Rethuglican dog whistles are so loud, even we normal humans can hear them.
He's alot classier than I am. It amazes me that he does not unload on the Republican Party with every profanoty known to man. That would be far less than they deserve,l
The only person in history who liked fart jokes and also had (some) class was Ben Franklin.
I have been corrected – hubby pointed out I forgot about Mozart.
Government is better, the economy is better. Yet ,the Tea Party and Right Wing continue to say degrading things about him. What part of better don't they understand?
Probably the "b" – they see it and the rest of the word just looks like 'lack."
Joanne, you are probably right.
Excellent video. Obama thinks things are better than when he came into office. But imagine just how better they'd be now had the Republicanus/Teabaggerum not obstructed Obama since 2009.
It was the best! Two Giants is spot on! I did like the idea of an Executive Order compelling Jon to stay on the air.
Yes, you're right, TomCat, two giants who will be missed. Obama isn't perfect, but he's accomplished so much more than anyone expected given the Republican circumstances. We can only hope that he continues to do so until his very last day in office, because America is in need of more of his executive decisions and vetoes. I shudder to think what the GOP/TP is cooking up right now to put church above state.
Jon's sharp wit and critique will be sorely missed too. His influence may have been less direct, but he definitely had it. As you say, let's hope we'll see them together (often) on the same stage in the future, we can rest assured that the reason they are there together will be a good and worthy one.
Thanks and kudos to all. Obama has accomplished more than any President since LBJ, a historic feat, considering that he has faced a continuous level of obstruction and sabotage so extreme that it qualifies as sedition.