Last night was one of those nights where you look forward to 11pm est just to see how the Daily Show would handle a news item. It didn’t disappoint.
For instance, here’s Jon Stewart on Mitt Romney — who I’m convinced history will remember forever as “Money Boo Boo” – last night: “This is a guy whose religion forbids him from drinking alcohol. Can you imagine what he would say if he was sh*tfaced?” The Daily Show also dug up a clip of Romney’s mom explaining how his dad had once been on welfare, “so according to Mitt Romney’s own logic, Mitt Romney could not win the vote of his dad, who would be among the 47%.”
Yeah, I’m just gonna go ahead and get out of the way and let Stewart and his team take over…
Here’s part one…
Here’s part two…
Here’s part three…
And here’s part four (yes, part four)…
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While him saying this doesn’t shock me, I found the logic appalling. There are plenty of people not paying income tax who will vote for you and ones that do pay but disagree with your policies.
Pft you’re assuming logic was in play.
Seriously. The states with the highest percentages of non-income-tax-payers are Mississippi, Idaho, Utah, and Georgia. LIBERAL HOTBEDS, ALL OF THEM!
Fairly certain my 91-year-old grandmother isn’t paying taxes and she hates Obama more than cats hates baths.
“…cats *hate* baths” aughhh proofread.
I’ll make it simple. If you choose (yes, I said choose) to stay on welfare over two years you forfeit your right to vote. If you have an issue with this then take measures to get off the public dole. Remember, you have a full two years to act. Forewarned is fair-warned as far as I’m concerned.
You do realize that the biggest contributor to the rise in the percentage of people who pay no income taxes in the past thirty years are policies like the Earned Income Tax Credit, right? Policies championed by notorious socialists like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush?
No, of course you don’t know this. This is a “fact” and you’re a Republican.
You made it simple all right. Nice work, simpleton.
Here you go, Hung.
[www.businessweek.com]
Ask a grown-up to help you sound out the big words.
I love that Mitt Romney really believes his life would be so much easier if he were Latino.
I’m sure his life and career would have been just the same
Please. Look at how many chances George Lopez got to do comedy despite being Latino AND not funny.
Let us NOT forget that Carlos Mencia had his own show.
Isn’t Carlos Mencia really Polish?
He’s German. If anything we should give him a break for being German. There should be affirmative action in comedy for people of German descent. Imagine the hardships of overcoming a society wide humor handicap.
I mean that’s the gaffe by which all other gaffes should be measured. Dukakis on a tank? You are hereby relieved.
I’ll never understand why that was a gaffe. Dukakis was in the army.
By the way, someone needs to explain why John Hodgeman is funny, I don’t get it at all. Madrigal and Walters though are amazing.
I do find Hodgman occasionally funny. Not so much here though.
He’s wearing a comically fake mustache! That played well back when talkies were the bee knees.
His first book was awesome.
I’m pleasantly surprised at how funny Walters was in this one; I haven’t liked her other stuff, so far.
Because explaining comedy always makes it funnier. Anyway, I love John Hodgman, though this bit wasn’t great. (AG: the mustache is real.) Madrigal is good, though “amazing” is a little much. And I assume that by “Walters” you mean Jessica Williams (if someone’s amazing you should be able to remember their name, no?); this is the first bit in which I’ve found her funny at all.
Meh. Disappointing. I was really hoping this post would begin with the laughably insincere “I don’t like discussing politics but..”/”Whatever your political viewpoint, I think we can all agree that…” [insert Romney-bashing Hollywood viewpoint] is the MOST hilarious thing ever.
Guess we’re just in all-out F**k-The-Republicans mode now.
No, just Romney and his mandatory politcal f*ck-ups that must be manufactured or he really is just a ticking time bomb of gaffes.
Yes because the Hollywood elite put a chip in Romney’s head to say those things. Santorum was right.
When you come down off of your cross, Yukon, you might realize that insulting 47% of the American population is one of the all time political fuckups in history.
It seems that Mitt Romney is in all-out Fuck-the-Republicans mode.
Shh. Don’t anger the hipsters.
His reasoning must have been – if i focus all of my efforts on 53% and already have 20% guaranteed. What’s the worst that could happen?
Cajun Boy loves discussing politics, YC, and puts up Daily Show clips very often. I was going to say “Welcome to Uproxx, and goodbye,” but your profile says you’ve been a member for almost a year. And nearly all your comments are something along the lines of “This site is awful and run by dumb liberals LOL” … so my question is, why do you still come around here? Shouldn’t a republican have better things to do than troll an unabashedly liberal pop culture blog? Surely there’s a business out there waiting for you to build it.
It doesn’t matter how many times you say it, Verizon has the most coverage.
Can we all just admit that Mitt Romney is a caricature of Bobby Newport?
No. Newport was retarded. Romney comes off as cartoonishly arrogant.
like a young Montgomery Burns.
“Money Boo Boo”!!! Hahahaha! I heart you, Cajun Boy.
I had not seen the part of the clip where he links Latin people voting to the future woes of our country. I find that more telling than anything.
A charitable interpretation: Latino support for liberal policies are linked to our national woes. Presumably it’s not their Hispanic-ness, it’s their liberalism.
Any attempt to link our national woes to a particular party is pure partisanship and a red herring to distract us from the fact that it’s out government as a whole that is failing.
/dick joke.
Don’t blame me…I’m voting for Kodos
I’m just gonna write in South Park.
At least we know who here has one of the dumbest political affiliations in the world.
Congrats on having the brain of a child.
Congrats on not getting an inane Community reference and jumping to an insane conclusion about it.
Ass.
Sloppy detective work, Rex.
I’m going to need your gun and you’re badge Rex, your off the case.
No matter what our political affiliation, I think we all can agree that Jessica Williams is pretty hot.
Romney is a hack, he was talking to a room of rich white men, so of coarse he’s going to say things that rich white men will agree with… Minorities have it easier, remember the good ole days, etc. He just got busted talking how they do everyday… the difference is that he won’t say what they say about the Mormons, and they’ll wait until he’s left the room to laugh at that shit.