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Recent Daily Show Clips

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First up in a wonderful report from John Oliver, covering the recent Republican retreat in Hawaii. The angle is that the Republicans made a lot of hey about Obama being from Hawaii and continuing to vacation there, claiming it made him out-of-touch with the American people (it being taken for granted that Obama is to blame for his place of birth). Hawaii is, in general, one of the more expensive places to live in America, so the claim is not wholly without worth. However, watching the Republicans completely ignore their previous position vis-a-vis Hawaii in order to justify a convention there is a thing of beauty. As if that irony wasn’t big enough, Hawaii actually has socialized health care for all of its citizens. The people interviewed were either unaware of this, or just didn’t see it as a conflict with their pre-packaged worldview. As one interviewee is explaining that “appearances are so important” and that the Democrats are not seeing the “consequences of their actions”, Oliver turns to the camera as she’s speaking and first mouths, then just says “wow” before asking her to confirm that those silly Democrats “just aren’t getting it”.

RNC Meeting in Hawaii on February 9, 2010 (Comedy Central)

This next video is a long one in support of the lifting of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy in the U.S. military. After spending some time showing the military’s top leaders—including the Commander-in-Chief and the Secretary of Defense—come out against the policy, the clip shows the expected handful of Republican senators explaining how essential the policy is for keeping the gay off of everybody, finishing up with that disgusting waste-of-Oxygen John McCain, who’s really just moving from one craven, politically-driven position to another, flip-flopping with the best of them. Once again, it’s John Oliver who points out the real problem:

“I think he may have simply forgotten what he said three years ago. Remember, John McCain is seventy-three years old and old people—as we all know—are prone to memory lapses. Which actually brings me to my much larger point: These are difficult times […] I think it’s time that we stop letting old people serve in the Senate.

A Few Gay Men & Women on February 13, 2010 (Comedy Central)

Last up is a great piece by Samantha Bee about the whining from men about the so-called “he-cession” (playing off the word “recession” to indicate that it’s supposedly affecting men more than women[1]). As with the Republican piece above, the men are very earnest about their plight and don’t see the irony at all. It’s a similar play to the droves of whites who claimed themselves to be in a sort of minority now that a black man was elected to office. Samantha Bee at her sardonic best.

Male Inequality on February 13, 2010 (Comedy Central)


[1] As if. There may be just as many women as men in the economy now, but it stands to reason that companies will retain workers that they pay, on average, 25% less than their male counterparts.