Jon Stewart Scolds Media For Ignoring Rep. Ron Paul

Frances Martel
Mediaite
August 16, 2011

On Sunday morning, Jon Stewart woke up to a cornucopia of material to write into Monday’s program: Tim Pawlenty’s sad campaign goodbye, Rep. Michele Bachmann’s straw poll victory, Rick Perry’s vasectomy entry into the race. He somehow covered all his bases and then some tonight: finding plenty of time for the one thing the media didn’t cover: the fact that Rep. Ron Paul has emerged as a top-tier candidate in 2012.

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Stewart then turned to the Sunday morning talk show talking points, and found that, universally, Bachmann, Romney, and Perry were considered the “top tier.” “You’re not forgetting anyone?” Stewart asked, referring to Rep. Paul, who had come in second. Rep. Paul managed to be ignored over Rick Santorum– “he lost to the guy who lost so bad he dropped out of the race”– and Jon Huntsman, who got 69 votes. “If all of Jon Huntsman’s supporters met at the Ames, Iowa Quiznos, the fire marshal would say, ‘yeah, that’s fine, here are some more seats.’” Stewart found it bewildering that Rep. Paul had become “the 13th floor of a hotel,” culminating with a clip of a CNN anchor requesting a reporter leave out the Ron Paul reporting if they found any juicy Sarah Palin stuff– saying, in Stewart’s words, “I mean, f*ck that guy, right?”






 
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35 Responses to “Jon Stewart Scolds Media For Ignoring Rep. Ron Paul”

  1. jon takes advantage of every political situation to keep his show going. Thats all that matters to him.

  2. Do you people understand how much blood Texas has on their hands? How many millions of death has Texas Presidents and law makers caused? How many men and women have suffered horribly in Texas prisons. I think it’s time Texas rethinks their religious views. Your god is Aries, the god of war and righteousness. This world is ending and a lot of Texans with power made a deal with the devil.

    Joel Osteen is the biggest fraud I have ever seen since Jim Baker. Those voices you hear in your head telling you it’s god. Those are the dead either playing with your mind or they think they’re god. A lot of these ministers start believing they are god themselves.

    Many Texans just do not get it. This world has turned into a very serious world.

    John Stewart was in “The Adjustment Bureau” and they talk about how mind control works. This is a very cruel world. You could say America went to the very dark side because of the Bush administration and their death squads. Bush had to know about 9/11, how could he do that to America? The United States went very bad in 2005. There is no turning back.

    Just imagine the smartest people in the room and they actually got together to destroy this earth. It’s not working as well as they planned. Why? Because it turns out the smartest people in the room were not really the smartest in the room. There was another room that has the smartest minds who have ever inhabited this earth. The smartest people either say nothing or in very rare cases, hide it away.

    • Don’t forget JFK’s blood.

  3. Bumper sticker for Ron Paul – says “Vote for” and then shows picture of a paper sack with a couple of eye holes and a smile drawn on it – in the fashion of the “unknown comic” from years back. Paul’s the “unknown candidate” because nobody in the media will mention him.

    Imagine a billboard with this on it and the buzz it would draw. Who is the unknown candidate? Why is he the unknown candidate? Local news would have to cover it, which would draw the public’s attention to the fact that they’re excluding this guy.

    OK, maybe not such a great idea but the principle is sound. The public hates congress and Obama so much that if they can be made to see that Ron Paul is being screened out of their view they’ll vote for him just because he’s obviously not one of them.

  4. BEWARE WHEN THE ENEMY PRAISES YOU.. FOR THAT IS WHEN HE WOULD START PLOTTING YOUR DEMISE.

    DO NOT TRUST THIS GUY.

    • I think you’re right. Every horse John Stewart endorses loses. He supported the troops in Afghanistan and a week later the Chinook went down just before Rick Perry played god in Houston.

    • whore media motto, keep your friends close…but keep your enemies closer

  5. I GENERALLY DO NOT LIKE THIS GUY, BUT THIS CLIP WAS EXCELLENT…

  6. I saw this after doing a sampling of media reports on television and radio (NPR) in which the absence of mention of Ron Paul was so blatant as to confirm beyond any doubt that somehow a propganda “talking point” had been disseminated across all outlets to act as if Ron Paul simply did not exist.

    Stewart’s mention was in such contradistinction that I had to ask myself why he was doing it. I assure you it’s not because Stewart is some champion of democratic process and free speech.

    I think Stewart was allowed, perhaps even encouraged, to do a piece on this because of the demographic he reaches. It’s a hipper, smarter, younger audience – i.e. it’s the kind of audience that has a lot of Ron Paul supporters in it, many of whom probably noticed that the media were acting like Ron Paul had been abducted by aliens.

    The Stewart treatment “laughs it all off”. It’s just those darn conservatives in the media doing what they always do – what a yuck.

    Of course it’s actually much more serious than that. It’s those who control the media controlling the process, as they always do, not because they favor liberals over conservatives but because Ron Paul is the most dangerous candidate out there.

    He’s unbought, unowned, and like Alex Jones he has no fear. He’s on a mission. People like that can’t be controlled, and just as with Jones people sense that and connect with him. He must be stopped, and they don’t want to have to do an assassination or something rash later to accomplish it.

  7. I think was was one of the best Pro Paul messages I’ve seen in a while. Great Job!

  8. moron Steward… he cannot speak anything without his scriptwriters.

  9. I Lambasted the local newspaper for both attacking Ron Paul on Saturday and promoting Bachman and Perry, not mentioning Ron Paul’s name on a front page story on Sunday.
    The newspaper is : The St Petersburg Times. The reporter–Rebecca Bowers’ article last Saturday said Ron Paul’s statement that our country is flat broke is false. She claimed this country still has a AA+ rating and can still pay it’s bills (LOL) Yeh, with unlimited federal reserve monopoly money.
    Florida info warriors are invited to give the Times their opinion on this, and why the Times chooses to sing the praises of Bilderberg stooge Rick Perry.

  10. I don’t care WHY Steward did this….the result was POSITIVE in calling out the MSM!

    I have just come from the Yahoo boards under an article about ignoring RP…I posted and replied for a long time.

    I am HIGHLY ENCOURAGED, b/c many dem and indep’s are breaking for Ron Paul!!! Some said that they will be voting Republican for the first time ever! (Not that I care for Republicans….but they are saying they are so impressed with RP that would actually do that!)

    Which leads me to my latest point: RP, contrary to establishment talking points, is the ONLY candidate that could beat Obama! He is the only one for whom disillusioned O voters would push the button!

    Spend some time on some mainstream boards and see if you don’t experience the same thing….then report back to InfoWars!

    • Excellent point! Ron Paul is not the guy who can’t win. He’s the ONLY GUY WHO CAN WIN because he’s the only guy WHO INSPIRES PEOPLE.

      • He’s like Reagan – Democrats will cross over and vote for Ron Paul. They wouldn’t spit on Bachman or Perry if they were on fire.

        The Ron Paul campaign needs to pick up on this meme. Turn it around on the opposition. The ONLY Republican who CAN WIN. The ANTI-OBAMA

  11. Stewart is a prick.

  12. I’M NOT BUYING HIS GESTURE..

    ..AT WORSE, HE MAY JUST BE MOCKING HIM AND HIS SUPPORTERS, FUELING SOCIAL TRENDS OF SHEEPLE RIDICULING PAUL AND HIS SUPPORTERS

    ..AT BEST, HE IS A CLUELESS PAWN WHO HAS YET TO GET THE MEMO FROM HIS BOSSES TO NOT TALK ABOUT RON PAUL..

    DON’T BUY THIS. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE HE HAS WITH GLENN BECK IS THAT: BECK IS RIDICULED FOR THE SAME REASONS THAT HE IS LIONIZED..

  13. stewrat knows the msm is dying, and so is it’s message, of war and stupidity. and so, reluctantly, all the msm and all it’s spin-offs- like stewrat try to catch a ride on the wave, of “the new fad”
    instead of doing something because it’s right- it’s done to stay relavant.
    most of these talking heads are actually very mentally ill and or control freaks….”do you know who i am”??!!!!

  14. I can’t believe it, but kudos to Stewart. I think the over all majority agrees with Stewart when talking about that lame stream media mutant, “F*k That Guy!!!!”

  15. Don’t praise Jon Stewart for his mentioning of the lame stream news media’s blatant ignoring of Ron Paul. He is not doing this in Ron Paul’s defense, he is doing it to make fun of him and throw it in the faces of Ron Paul supporters.

    Jon Stewart is nothing more than a propaganda mouth piece for the powers that be. His brother is the COO of Wall Street. How quickly all of you forget that Jon Stewart calls anyone who thinks 9/11 was an inside job, a whack job and conspiracy nut.

    Veritas vos Liberabit

  16. I may not have the total faith others do regarding Ron but gawddamn the lamestream media is being absolutely screwed up with its efforts to sideline him, so bad its criminal.
    that alone is reason enough to me to give him my vote.

    they sure ran a smear campaign on Cynthia McKinney after she’d grilled rumsfeld about 2.3 trillion missing from the pentagon and no-bid contracts to child sex slave trader DYNCORP, only tells me that the pentagon military industrial complex CIA is controlling the media. I think she’s a good lady, and yeah, a bit of a hellion when she gets ticked off too. their controlled media called her crazy.

    • I agree with you, Captain. I am not a strong supporter of Ron Paul, but out of the candidates that are there, he is definitely the best and most qualified for the job. I, too, feel that because they are blocking him so much, I think that alone is enough for me to give him my vote. I also want Alex Jones and everyone to know that the more the mainstream media blocks Ron Paul, the more it will help Ron Paul to gain more votes from people who were hesitant to cast a vote for him in the first place. So I say, bring it on, media! Take your best shot. Ron Paul, his supporters and the undecideds feed on your corrupt reporting. It will only make him stronger in the long run. If something happens to Ron Paul or if he happens to lose from a series of fixed votes by the mainstream media and corporations, I fear that the protesting and rioting in Iran after Ahmadenijiad won his last rigged election will be nothing compared to the protesting and rioting that will happen in the U.S. These guys need to play fair this time around or face the consequences of THE PEOPLE!

      • And where did you see that protesting and rioting that supposedly happened in Iran after Ahmadinejad had won what you say was a “rigged election” ? CNN ? FOX ? CBS ? I think you see my point ?

        Then again, below you say “Way to go, Jon” for his comedy show coverage of Ron Paul. How naive.

        Veritas vos Liberabit

        • Its a fact that we staged the shaw in Iran.. I think what Ron was saying is that after that, along with our turning backs on them to favor Iraq in the eighties; they have come to realize that America never had their best interest at heart only our own.

  17. At least one popular news outlet has the balls to admit that Ron Paul is for real and not to be ignored by the mainstream media. Way to go, Jon!

  18. respect to Jon Steward!

  19. As an Australian I really can’t believe the bias of American media. Our main stream media ain’t the best either, but this is something beyond reason.

  20. Even “HE” ( Jon ) can see what going on . . . but he ALSO “KNOWS” what RON PAUL is “ABOUT” ( I “Think” that hes ON BOARD, with RON ) Their “STARTING” to TALK about him, even if their only saying that he can’t win, but the CLOSER the elections get, an as “HIS” support continues to GROW, their “NOT” going to be able to keep DOING THAT. The “PEOPLE” are the ones behind him, NOT the CLOWNS with the BIG MONEY, its NOT going to “SAVE THEM” . . . the “PEOPLE” are going to pick the next PRESIDENT, . . . for the “FIRST TIME”, in many years. “RON PAUL” will give us BACK . . . “OUR COUNTRY”. There’s a “LOT” riding on this one, we’ve “GOT” to STAND “WITH THIS MAN” . . . if we DON’T, I “REALLY” THINK, that a clock will be “SET IN MOTION”, to our countries “END”. . . there it is.

    • Bulldog, your posts make me feel as if I’m riding a roller coaster!

  21. The Propaganda Ministry is in full disinformation mode.

    Deviation from the republocrat party line is a thought crime.

    Oceania fakes assault and death of bin Laden in East Asia.

    2+2=5

    Big Brother is looking out for you.

    East Asia has assimilated previously disputed area of Pakistan

    East Asia is upset, ticks Oceania

  22. So what, we don’t need the mainstream media — in fact, the bigger divide between Ron Paul and the mainstream media the better. What? We need Anderson Cooper and Sean Hannity to get Paul elected? Fuck them.

  23. Well it’s about damned time someone with a decent platform exposes the msm and puts them on blast for the intentional exclusion of Dr. paul. I hope they all feel like exposed jackass’ and thier ratings drop faster than a fatman whos had his chair pulled out from underneith him!

  24. OPERATION MEDVED COMMENCING!! The INFOWAR is about to go to version 2.0 OPERATION MEDVED HAS NOW GONE ACTIVE. I REPEAT, operation medved HAS NOW GONE ACTIVE.

  25. thank you jon stewart for doing what the media has been refusing to do. with a media as inept and worthless as fox, cnn, msnbc and the rest of the dumb media i would say it is time to fire them and stop looking at them as the well of knowledge. its stupid to let these TV CHANNELS tell you what to think at all. learn about ron paul, learn about his opponents. make your decision, its easy. you will come to the same conclusion that anyone that chooses to become illuminated in the subject comes to. oh by the way we need to systematically go after the big talk shows in the country and completely discredit them one by one. this week should be go after michael medved week. next week we will select another shill, i vote hannity. go to medveds facebook or twitter or just call into the show and speak logically and dont get too worked up and remember hes a slick worm. OPERATION MEDVED COMMENCING NOW.

  26. Thanks for posting this, crew! ~ WACWichita

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