Jon Stewart: Boehner's Stance On The Economy Is 'Profoundly Retarded' (VIDEO)

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Jon Stewart: Boehner's Stance On The Economy Is 'Profoundly Retarded'

(VIDEO)http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/jon-stewart-boehners-stance-on-the-economy-is-profoundly-retarded-video.php?ref=fpblg
Jillian Rayfield | August 12, 2010, 10:22AM

Jon Stewart didn't really know what to say last night about Republicans who complain about the deficit but advocate for renewing the Bush tax cuts. So he turned to House Minority Leader "and retired Syracuse mascot" John Boehner (R-OH) for a solution to the country's economic woes. Boehner has said that "the only way we're going to get our economy going again and solve our budget problems is to get the economy moving."

"The only way to get our economy going, is to get it moving?" Stewart asked. "That is either the most profound or most retarded statement I've ever heard. You know what, actually it's the most profoundly retarded statement I've ever heard.

He continued: "That is the kind of statement that you think will be followed by the phrase 'in bed.'"

Stewart, not one to pass up an opportunity to make fun of Boehner's tan, added: "Either he's getting ready to play an Indian in a 1950s Western, or John Boehner is not human but actually made entirely of cured meats."

Watch:
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/jon-stewart-boehners-stance-on-the-economy-is-profoundly-retarded-video.php?ref=fpblg

[Whisp]

1. lol. Love you Jon.

but the Rahm haters and that 'word' he used as well, will be all over your ass.

[cilla4progress]

12. Yeah - I winced when I heard him use that word perjoratively

I work with LAWYERS who use that word in the same sense. Why, WHY! It's so insensitive and ignorant.

[backscatter712]

2. AWESOME VIDEO!!!

Granted, it's extremely unfair to compare the GOP to those with mental disabilities - the key difference is that the GOP is morally and ethically retarded.

[Auggie]

3. "John Boehner is not human but actually made entirely of cured meats."

:rofl:

[backscatter712]

4. "We think he's actually jerky!"

:rofl:

[rhett o rick]

6. Good Grief!

:rofl:

[Auggie]

7. Perfect

:applause:

[TheKentuckian]

5. Stewart was lay down the facts

[Kadie]

8. LOL

Excellent video.

:rofl:


K&R

[gratuitous]

9. And we have to go to the fake news program for this

Every other popular media outlet just nods and writes it down when Boehner intones such patent nonsense. Not Wolf, not Billo, not Brian, not Katie, none of them run that kind of a statement and then say, "Erk?" They just act like it made sense in some other language and forge ahead. And it's not like the Daily Show has to hunt for this kind of thing; Boehner and his minions say something stupid like this every frickin' day in public.

[Auggie]

10. +1

[backscatter712]

11. Jon Stewart: Most Trusted Man in News!!!

Yes, the world's come to this...

[Scurrilous]

13. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Permanut]

14. Would it be correct

to refer to Boehner as a person of color?

[backscatter712]

15. Technically yes...

though he's of a color not found in nature...

[Viking12]

16. that color IS found in nature

[Permanut]

17. Okay, so Viking,

you owe me a new keyboard.

[Enthusiast]

18. Beautiful! nt