Jon Stewart took on Benjamin Netanyahu‘s victory in the Israeli
election, the U.S. media reaction to it, and the method by which the
Israeli right-wing government maintained its control of the state.
Showing
a series of clips from one particular cable news network, Stewart
demonstrated that a narrative has emerged that laments President Obama
having not called Netanyahu to congratulate him yet. “Really? You find
it interesting that a foreign country’s prime minister who came to
Congress against the White House’s wishes and shits on a nuclear deal
the president spent years working on, wouldn’t receive an immediate
post-election atta boy!” Stewart mocked. “Really?!”
Of course,
Stewart noted how many in the media never believed Netanyahu would pull
out the victory after reportedly appealing “directly to the extreme
right in the spectrum.” And in regards to Netanyahu’s public claim that
his opponents were bussing in minority Arabs to vote against the Likud
party, the Daily Show host snarked back: “How dare you! How dare you gin
up racist fears of minority turnout for short-term political gain.
That’s our thing!”
It's not just French Muslims who say that last week's terror attacks were the Jews' fault. So does Jimmy Carter. That's what he told the Daily Show's Jon Stewart. Watch this one starting from 2:15.
He's not very funny, is he? You don't think he has a personal thing about Israel, do you? Maybe he's ashamed of his own heritage.... In case you didn't notice this post's title, his real last name is Liebowitz.
In a Tuesday night interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, Hillary Clinton expressed pity for Gazans who are 'trapped by their leadership' (Hat Tip: Memeorandum).
In her first comments on the broken Gaza cease-fire, the former
secretary of state expressed sympathy for people in Gaza who are
“trapped by their leadership” but also said Israel has a right to defend
itself.
“When I negotiated the cease-fire in November of 2012, it was right on
the brink with Israel once again invading Gaza because of the rockets …
and the Israelis are absolutely right in saying that they can’t just sit
there and let rockets rain down,” Clinton told the Comedy Central host.
“They have a missile defense which is working well, but that can’t be
certain, and now there are drones, apparently, that are being launched
from Gaza.”
Clinton said the Hamas leadership is now viewed as a threat by the
Egyptian government, saying that Hamas isn’t interested in making “the
situation too much better because that gives them a lot of leverage over
the poor people in Gaza.”
“Unless we can give people enough of a sense of security on both
sides that they will be better off and their children are going to be
better off,” Clinton added, “then the guys with the guns can always
disrupt anything.”
I can guarantee you that any Gazan who wants to leave - permanently and not to Judea or Samaria - will be allowed free passage by the government of Israel. But Clinton makes it sound like Hamas is a dictatorship that no one in Gaza wants, and unfortunately that just isn't true. Were it not for the blockade, many, if not most, Gazans would be happy to live under Hamas with whom they share a hatred for Jews and Israel.
Egypt's Jon Stewart: Morsy would have purged enemies had he stayed in office
Satirist Bassem Yussuf, known as Egypt's John Stewart, says that had Egyptian President Mohammed Morsy not been replaced, he likely would have purged his enemies and opponents.
Morsi had already begun implying, days before the rallies and after a
year of Muslim Brotherhood rule, that the time to accommodate political
opponents had passed. Had the subsequent anti-government rallies
failed, Youssef envisions that the following weeks would have seen literal bloodbaths:
He said it in four words that inflamed the audiences’
fervour. He said: “A year is enough!”… The president’s supporters
clapped and cheered. Then they began screaming their favorite chants
“purge, purge.” It’s this same chant that was repeated during all of the
president’s popular conferences – “the people want to purge the media.”
I now remember the angry faces who in previous conferences requested
the president to begin flushing the “puging”. But he would signal with
his hand to calm them and say we things like how should be patient with
one another and how we should give eachother chances. But this time, “a
year is enough” meant there would be no second chances…
My dear reader, in the parallel world, you won’t read this article
because its writer will either be imprisoned or killed. You will switch
on your TV to watch Misr 25 broadcasting live footage of the burning
studios of private TV channels. The people would be chanting “it’s done,
the people have purged the media.” Protesters would be raising banners
that will immortalize the president’s famous sentence: “one year is
enough.”
"Sorry, that page doesn't exist!" reads the banner atop the
site where the @USEmbassyCairo
Twitter feed sat until this morning. A cached
version of the page shows that the last tweet was a link to the Daily Show'sJon Stewart
talking about the Egyptian government's arrest of Stewart's Egyptian
doppelganger Bassem Youssef, who was
detained and fined by the Egyptian police on the charge of insulting Islam and
President Mohamed Morsy.
"It's inappropriate for a diplomatic mission to engage in
such negative political propaganda," the official Twitter feed for the Egyptian
presidency said
on their own feed Tuesday. The Egyptian presidency tweet was directed at
the Cairo Embassy, the Daily Show, and Youssef himself.
The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political wing of
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, has been lashing out at Embassy Cairo repeatedly on
its
own Twitter feed.
"Another undiplomatic & unwise move by @USEmbassyCairo, taking sides
in an ongoing investigation & disregarding Egyptian law & culture," the
FJP tweeted Tuesday.
A State Department official told The Cable Wednesday that the decision to take down Embassy Cairo's
Twitter page was made by U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson without the consultation of the State Department in
Washington. Foggy Bottom is urging Embassy Cairo to put the page back up, lest
it appear that the United States is caving to the online pressure.
"This not a permanent shutdown. Embassy Cairo considers this
to be temporary. They want to put new procedures in place," the official said.
...
UPDATE 12:20 : The Embassy Cairo Twitter feed is back up and running, although the controversial tweet in question has been deleted.
UPDATE: 1:00 : Nuland said at Wednesday's briefing that the Embassy
viewed the tweet as a mistake but she defended the State Department's
criticism of the Egyptian government on the issue.
"We've had some glitches with the way the twitter feed has
been managed. This is regrettably not the first time. Embassy Cairo is looking
at how to manage these glitches," she said. "They came to the conclusion that the decision to tweet it
in the first place didn't accord with post management of the site."
What is wrong with the United States these days? Why does it insist on showing weakness to the Arab Muslim world? (Answer: Hussein Obama).
Awesome video: Jon Stewart destroys Egyptian President Morsi
On Monday night, Jon Stewart took to defending Bassem Youssef, who’s often known as Stewart’s Egyptian counterpart. Youssef recently spoke out to CNN about Egypt’s “fascist” regime under President Mohammed Morsi — and has faced interrogation after his comedy show criticized Morsi. After some joking around, Stewart had a message for Morsi that highlighted his hypocrisy and pettiness.
Unfortunately, this video makes such a mockery of Republicans and Jews that John Mearsheimer sent it out to his mailing list.
Even more unfortunately, many young people get their news from Jon Stewart and his ilk.
It seems funny, but if you think about what's behind it, it ought to bother you. It's not unbiased, fact-based reporting. It's a lot words taken out of context.
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