You know what's telling? How many liberals get the bulk of their news from a comedian.
as opposed to how many right-wingers voted for a former actor?
You know you've lost the point when you seriously try comparing Jon Stewart to Ronald Reagan.
Jon Stewart is far brighter than Reagan ever was. Reagan was propped up and controlled by Donald Regan, the ex-CEO of Merrill Lynch, and thus the downward spiral began.
Ah...there are 14 writers for the Jon Stewart show. You mistake the collective "brightness" of all those people for the brightness of the star of a television show. I'm not saying that Stewart is an idiot...but you need to understand that he's NOT as funny nor as intelligent as you seem to think.
Think of it along the lines with how bright Barry is when he's not
reading off a teleprompter and you get the gist of what I'm saying.
RWNJs say:
Reality looks different than they think:
(Eisenhower)
and:
(Kennedy)
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(Johnson)
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(Nixon)
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(Ford - and Reagan)
(Carter)
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(Reagan)
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(Bush 41)
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(Clinton)
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(Bush 43)
(McCain)
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(Palin)
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(Romney)
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(Paul Ryan)
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Yepp. All those pols with teleprompters.
But whacked out Righties only see this:
Poor whacked-out Righties. So out of touch with reality. Really.
I never said that other Presidents didn't use teleprompters, Stats...my point was that
Presidents reading the words of someone else off of a teleprompter make themselves appear more intelligent than they really are...just as Jon Stewart reading the lines given to him by the 14 staff writers from the Daily Show is going to appear funnier and more intelligent than he really is.
But thanks for all the photos...


Strong disagreement from me. A president reading from a teleprompter in the age of Television is no different than presidents who used to read from their own typed notes. It makes them neither more intelligent nor less intelligent than they are, imo, but it does help them to organize their thoughts.
I'm not quite sure what difference it makes if they are reading from a teleprompter or from typed notes, Stats...the point remains the same! Is someone REALLY that intelligent if they need to be constantly fed lines from someone else? Barack Obama actually seems to think that he's the smartest man in the room wherever he goes and yet when he's not reading from a script he doesn't come across as even remotely intelligent. That isn't "organizing your thoughts"...that's being a talking head!
My point was that if you put Barack Obama and Paul Ryan on a stage sans teleprompters and typed notes...and then had them take questions about complex economic issues, Ryan would excel and Obama would bomb. Quite frankly, I don't find Barack Obama to be very well versed in general economic fundamentals. It's obvious that is a subject that he never took in school and one that he has little interest in because it's confusing to him.