OK, last night's show was so incredible, I had to do a transcript. Jon Stewart blasted the Fox News crew for attacking Obama over his "latte salute," calling them out for their utter hypocrisy. Make this video go viral. Share it on social media. That right-wing acquaintance you know who ranted about it on Facebook? Post this video on his or her wall for EVERY one of the person's friends to see.
9/24/2014:
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE: The first female pilot, piloting for the U.A.E. ... dropped the bombs on ISIS on Monday night.
ERIC BOLLING: Would that be considered "boobs on the ground" or no?
(audience groans and boos)
First of all, forget the rampant sexism in that statement. Second of all, she's a pilot, so whatever gender-specific equipment she might be carrying, it's in the fucking air! (audience laughter) And thirdly, what was the quote that someone said earlier in your program? "These people are putting their lives on the line for us. Show respect."
So fuck you and all your false patriotism. (massive audience cheering and applause)
When Bush took us to war, any criticism was shouted down as treasonous. But a president you don't like has the country poised on the same precipice? No transgression, no matter how immaterial and ridiculous, is too small to cite as evidence that this president isn't as American as you are.
Video and the full relevant part of the transcript below the fold.
Now to be fair, latte-gate wasn't all the news talked about yesterday. But where I might have given the president salutes with coffee cup story an expresso size shot of attention, the news channels went for the full double venti coverage, with one network going especially deep.
SANDRA SMITH (9/24/2014): Learn the proper respect of the salute.
KARL ROVE (9/23/2014): It's insensitive.
STUART VARNEY (9/24/2014): What's the meaning of it? That's it.
BRIAN KILMEADE (9/24/2014): It looks terrible.
DR. KEITH ABLOW (9/24/2014): It's outlandish, and it's disappointing.
STEVE DOOCY (9/24/2014): Put your coffee in the other hand.
SEAN HANNITY (9/24/2014): Our Commander-in-Chief displayed his complete disrespect for the men and women in uniform.
SHUT UP!!!! (audience cheering and applause)
You don't really care. You don't really care about this. You have no principle about this. You're just trying to score points in a game no one else is playing. Here's how we know.
ERIC BOLLING (9/24/2014): It's an arrogance that he portrays. ... These people put their lives on the line for us. Show the respect. Salute these guys.
So the principle is, show respect for the people who are putting their lives on the line for this fight. Here's Eric Bolling on that very same episode.
9/24/2014:
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE: The first female pilot, piloting for the U.A.E. ... dropped the bombs on ISIS on Monday night.
ERIC BOLLING: Would that be considered "boobs on the ground" or no?
(audience groans and boos)
First of all, forget the rampant sexism in that statement. Second of all, she's a pilot, so whatever gender-specific equipment she might be carrying, it's in the fucking air! (audience laughter) And thirdly, what was the quote that someone said earlier in your program? "These people are putting their lives on the line for us. Show respect."
So fuck you and all your false patriotism. (massive audience cheering and applause)
When Bush took us to war, any criticism was shouted down as treasonous. But a president you don't like has the country poised on the same precipice? No transgression, no matter how immaterial and ridiculous, is too small to cite as evidence that this president isn't as American as you are.
You want a hot cup of cognitive dissonance? Watch this.
9/23/2014:
SEAN HANNITY: Would President Bush ever do that?
KARL ROVE: Are we surprised? After all, we've got a chai swilling, golf playing, basketball trash talking, leading from behind, I got no strategy, Osama bin Laden is dead, GM is alive, community organizing Commander-in-Chief. How disrespectful was that?
Yeah, yeah, now while Palin in a bald cap was feeding us a steaming bowl of liberal epithets — "He drinks chai! So that means when he sucks dick in the back of a Volvo, it has that cardamom zing!" (audience laughter and applause) But in their haste, they forgot to answer the question, would President Bush ever salute the troops with a cup of coffee in his hand?
And the answer is no. Because his hands were too filled with dog.
A Scottie, out of respect. (audience applause)
So here we've got two presidents, both sending the United States to war citing the same legal authorities, both without any seeming exit strategy, and both holding shit in their hands while saluting our troops. But in their diseased minds, only one did that because he loved America; the other did it because he hated it. We'll be right back.
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