Following up on “the Mike Huckabee” (be genial and friendly, present absolutely psychotic ideas as reasonable, and be polite to people you slandered last week) and “the Bill Kristol” (endlessly assert the moral superiority of the military over the general public in all instances regardless of circumstance or relevance), I believe we can now add “the Betsy Mccaughey,” which would be “continue to parrot the same damn lie over and over again, regardless of how many times Jon Stewart points out that your reading is not grounded in any sense of the law or for that matter the English language, and then assert that he is wrong without providing any evidence.”
(There are times when I wish I was female, simply because it feels wrong for me, as a dude, to wish that somebody would smack her with a 2×4 in the face really, really hard.)
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My rationale is that it would only be wrong to do that because she was female.
Since I’d want to smack a man saying something that stupid with a 2×4 as well, I don’t see any issue with doing it to her, too. Support gender equality in your violence!
I understand the Daily Show wanting to put someone of that ideology on, if for nothing else but a weird sense of parity, but isn’t there a whole line of rational individuals before you get to her?
Or is this just a way of having a laugh?
Then instead of smacking her with a 2×4, you can just use the word ‘bludgeoning’.
That’s a nice masculine sounding word.
MGK- You forgot the “bring large, wordy reference that you awkwardly flip through trying to find proof like an underprepared student in a discussion group.”
Seriously. The most hilarious part of the entire damn interview was her failing SPECTACULARLY to find a sequentially numbered page. Failing so hard that Jon actually started providing a soundtrack of cliche comedy music.
Zenrage- But then the Mayor of Milwaukee will walk by, and stop the beating!
You do know you only have to be gentlemanly or chivalrous to women, and not cave trolls, right?
When Comedy Central did the pre-show bump, advertising her as the woman behind the “death panel” movement, as much as I wanted to see Stewart tear here a new one, I had to change the channel. There is only so much stupid I can handle.
The Mayor of Milwaukee would have used his superhuman strength to find that page for The Betsy McCaw… McCaun… Uh, The Crazy Chick.
I was wondering why 20 minutes of the Daily Show was taken up with a Crazy Chick in the interview seat. The first moment I saw her I was thinking “Samantha Bee?” But then realized the show was playing it straight.
As far as I can tell, she’s been right about exactly one thing in her entire career.
Generally speaking. I believe in non violence. What this woman needs is to be shamed out of existence.
Shame. Shame. Liar Liar Liar. Shame.
The problem of course is that when the discourse as fallen to ‘Obama’s a Nazi Hitler Communist’, you actually start to run out of things to call people.
What drives me nuts is that she’s not actually crazy. She’s a highly paid liar.
If you turned the channel you missed a serious butt whoopin. Stewart is no hack. He knows the minutia of which these goonybirds speak well enough to turn their words against them effectively. It always throws them off their game when they underestimate him. Kristol will NEVER be the same after his depantsing. I imagine him sucking his thumb in the corner repeating his ‘Regan mantra’ over and over again…’greed is good…greed is good’. If only he could have had his shot at Novak before that demon went to Hell. Well someone has to keep Cheney’s seat warm for him. Oh and as for that sock puppet Stewart beat up last night…pass on the 2×4..much better to use that binder she brought with her…sans post it notes.
Stewart destroyed her so bad… when he started humming Yakkety Sax, I almost – ALMOST – felt a twinge of compassion for her.
It was odd because she was so bright and cheerful and kept appealing to the audience. YOu got the feeling she’d never really been around someone who disagreed with her. Kristol and Huckabee were armored with their beliefs, she wasn’t.
Her constant and desperate appeals to the audience (and trying to show concern on things that are an afterthought to her) was waaay beyond creepy.
An aside that I found notable in the interview was the number of times she interrupted Stewart or otherwise cut him off. He’d ask that she read the actual words, and (after she supposedly managed to find the right page (finally)) she’d start telling him what it meant, but wouldn’t read the actual text.
It’s not just the rudeness of interrupting. In my experience, when one person in a debate consistently cuts the other side off it’s because the first person doesn’t have a solid argument. It’s much of what we’ve seen playing out at town halls.
You do have a solid argument, supported points to make? Fine. Then let me have a turn to make my points and ask my questions, and then respond to them. Don’t keep up with the “Just a minute, just a minute. Let me finish.” interruptions.
Also, she’s on the board of the Cantel Medical Corporation. They make and sell medical equipment, so controlling growing medical costs isn’t really in her interest.
Actually, she just resigned. Like, today.
I just went to the Daily Show website and watched this. That woman didn’t come ready to debate, she brought talking points, and when John Stewart pointed out the logical holes in them, all she could was say “No, they’re going to kill old people.” She really didn’t have any logic to support her position.
Do they not watch previous performances on The Daily Show and realize that playing to the audience always makes you look like a condescending rube? “I know, I’ll bust out a big aw-shucks, arms-wide shrug and hang my teeth out of my gaping mouth — that’ll distract them from the fact that I have no logic.” I’m torn between hoping that nobody ever tries that again, and hoping that they never learn.
God, what does it say about contemporary interviewing practice that she was seriously out there unprepared for, oh, followup questions? Are those so wildly unexpected these days? Is a comedy show the only place in the media where interviewing rises above the level of an Entertainment Tonight fluffer?
They don’t really do follow up questions on the Fox “News” Channel. They just use talking points as excuses to rant and go off on tangents.
When you go on Fox, the hosts probably won’t let you talk much but if you’re a conservative they’ll agree with most of what you have to say. You’re just there to make it seem like other people came up with this stuff before O’Reilly or Hannity or Glenn Beck said it on TV.
Every time I watch Jon interview some scumbag I wonder how he can go so easy on them. Even Cramer – and general consensus is that Jon tore him a new one – got treated with kid gloves compared to what he should have gotten. This is the first time I remember seeing him so completely dismissive* of a guest that I’d have felt sorry for her if she wasn’t lying, insane, rude, two-faced**, or some combination of the above.
*The “soundtrack”. Mocking her lack of preparation (“you know what might help? Color-coded post-its as bookmarks”). Ouch.
**I particularly loved her declaration that Jon was “such a nice guy” when you KNOW she’ll be on Faux News the next day sobbing about how she was ambushed on the Daily Show.
John Stewart needs an old-fashioned biplane, so that on the side of it he can paint the silhouettes of people he’s dismantled on the Daily Show.
“D-4!”
“Bingo! Wait, no, you’ve sunk my Jim Cramer.”
Having trashed the mainstream press by implication, I return to report that some of them do still challenge their honoured guests, as this collection of clips demonstrates.
I have to disagree with the people who think Jon Stewart took her apart. Aside from the quiz show music bit, he was far more polite than she deserved. He should have called her out on her evasion tactics, stated exactly what she was doing, and asked why she was doing it when she supposedly had facts to back up her claims right there in front of her.