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From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE...
The final installment of Daily Show host Jon Stewart's interview with Entertainment Weekly...
Will you get Bush on the show? I highly doubt it. If I do, then I'd call into question his judgment. Unless he doesn't have access to bite-size chocolate bars. We have basketfuls here.
How hard is it to make fun of somebody and then interview them on the show? I don't think we're mean-spirited. There's anger in some of what we do, but I don't feel like we're just firing flames into the bushes.
Into the Bushes? I didn't mean it like that.
Lowercase b? Exactly. That's why I'm really happy with the book. So much of what is out there is polemics. Once you write your diatribe about how liberal America is ruining the country, or how conservative America is turning us into a theocracy, where do you go from there? The next book has to be that Joe McCarthy was a decent guy or that George Bush is a Saudi operative. How much crazier can this shit get? So we wanted to write something that got back to the basics. That's where the idea of a textbook came from.
What other Daily Show tie-ins can we expect? Our own line of sportswear and cookware. Like Oprah, there's a lifestyle to be had here.
"America (The Book)" comes out September 20th: http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/book.jhtml
Cheers and Jeers starts in the Extended Copy section... [Swooosh!] RIGHTNOW! [Gong!]
Cheers and Jeers for Wednesday, September 15, 2004
By the Numbers:
Days `til the First Debate: 15
Days 'til General Election: 48
Percent of clothing women buy for their men now: 34
Percent of clothing women bought for their men in 1985: 70
(Source: BusinessWeek)
http://www.electoral-vote.com/ : Kerry 238 Bush 296
CHEERS to positioning the candidates. C&J reader Dabize alerted us yesterday to Bill Maher's appearance on Larry King Live. We've located the transcript: http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0409/13/lkl.00.html. Best line: "John Kerry isn't the best candidate I've seen, but macaroni and cheese is better than sand and spit. And that's pretty much to me the choice that we have." Unless you include Nader, who would be macaroni and spit. Anyway, Bon Appetit!
JEERS to the Iraq quagmire. We won't be putting this pic on our refrigerator: http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/002773.html. But Republicans who think things are just dandy over there should.
CHEERS to noble troublemakers. On September 15, 1971, twelve members of the Don't Make a Wave Committee founded the environmental group Greenpeace. C&J salutes their noble mission: http://membres.lycos.fr/delirant/jpeg/greenpeace.jpg. Dammit--that got in my eye.
JEERS to the Stepford Wife. Laura Bush (seen here plotting to kill her husband: http://www.bongonews.com/StoryImages/laura_bush.jpg) believes the National Guard documents unearthed by CBS "probably are forgeries, and I think that's terrible, really." I'd pay good money to have someone click her `off' button.
CHEERS to liberals in conservatives' clothing. Not sure how me missed this excellent essay by Michael Moore, but here's his fantastic journey into the schlumpnutty mind of Joe Middle Class Republican: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=144. C&J adds: "Back home, Joe falls asleep in front of the TV, his lit cigarette tumbling from his lips to his lap. Thanks to safety regulations passed by liberals, his Rush Limbaugh jammies are fireproof. Nighty Night."
CHEERS to switch-hitters. 70 members of the Nader 2000 Citizens Committee---including Naom Chomsky, Jim Hightower, Studs Terkel and Tom Tomorrow---come out publicly for Kerry-Edwards. http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091504V.shtml. That leaves him with only one supporter: the Republican National Committee.
JEERS to Matt Lauer. Photographic evidence shows him golfing with the George Bush I: http://www.fieldturf.com/index.cfm?pageView=readFeature&featureID=11. But, when pressed by Kitty Kelley on the `Today' show, he flat-out lies: "I've never played golf with him." Now that takes balls.
CHEERS to News McNuggets. On this date in 1982, `USA Today' was published for the first time. Critics called it "The Nation's Comic Book" and the winner of the "Pulitzer Prize for Best Investigative Paragraph." And, as usual, today the critics are eating Gannett's dust. Story on 6A.
JEERS to brain farts. John Kerry the hunter admits to Time Magazine that, "I once had an incredible encounter with the most enormous buck. 16 points or something. And I failed to pull the trigger at the right moment." Translation: his advisors were still in the bushes conducting a focus group.
CHEERS to Activist Republicans. Arnie just signed a big gay rights measure, which requires insurance companies to cover domestic partners in California: http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/09/091404CalPart.htm. And the silence from the rabid right is deafening. (C'mon, Falwell...stick a crowbar in your PC and at least dash off a press release.)
CHEERS to BIG leaders. Happy 147th birthday, William Howard Taft! At 300 pounds, the 27th U.S. President was also our heaviest. Pay your respects here: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1014&pt=William%20Taft. And he wouldn't exactly complain if you left behind a bucket of ribs.
JEERS to "Hurry Sickness." 62% of American employees say their workload has increased over the past 6 months, says human resource company Kronos. The added stress will end up costing employers $300 billion per year in health care expenses and missed work. And don't think for a second that it won't affect their golf game.
CHEERS to fearless filmmakers. Oliver Stone turns 58 today. If I were stranded on a deserted island with nothing but nachos, Bacardi `n Coke and the movies he's written or directed (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000231/), I could die a happy man. In the DVD player tonight: `JFK.' No, wait! `Platoon.' No, wait! `Conan.' Argh...tough call.
JEERS to phony baloney. At a self-help seminar in Australia, seven people were taught how to walk over a bed of red-hot coals. According to `The Week' magazine, the seminar leader told them, "If you can walk over hot coals, you can do anything!" All seven were later taken to the hospital with severe burns on their feet. And that, my friends, is your "Why America Should Not Re-elect Bush" parable for the day.
CHEERS to the new National Anthem. Yesterday C&J reader Zeitshabba posted this in tribute to the 190th anniversary of the Star Spangled Banner. Please rise: http://evolution-control.com/sounds/The%20ECC%20-%20Star%20Spangled%20Bologna.mp3. For the first time, we're the ones cleaning milk off our keyboard.
Cheers and Jeers 6-month Flashback: March 15, 2004...
JEERS to Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell. On Sunday morning talk shows, the Three Stooges half-heartedly defend Iraq war despite lack of WMDs and 7 new GI deaths over weekend. When asked if 564 American casualties were worth it, Rummy chirps, "Oh my goodness, yes." Condi's whopper: Iraq was the "most dangerous regime on earth." And Powell...he just looks tired. The $87 billion question: will 1st anniversary coverage this week tear Bush a new one?
Floor's open. What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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