Jack Ross reports: He takes on the Israel Lobby both in his opening segment and in his interview with David Gregory. Best moment is his response to Bloomberg visit to Israel in the opening segment.
We'll get to it Jack. (Have to make a little money today.) Quick observation: all names associated with this post, Ross, Weiss, Stewart, Bloomberg, Gregory, are Jewish. Wouldn't it be nice to throw in a gentile now and then?
Stewart's cover of Gaza was welcome and refreshing, and probably did more to make people aware of the situation in Gaza than all the blogs combined.
I too was impressed by the coverage. He even asked David Gregory if the media is guilty of slanting to coverage to a completely one-sided interpretation. Gregory said he didn't think so, that everyone agrees that Hamas is bad. While Stewart didn't follow up on this, he did say that the issue was more complex than is being presented.
Yeah, all the gentiles (except for Bloomberg) are the ones cheering Israel in the first segment. What a disgrace.
Posted this last night under the Fineman section:
At last, Jon Stewart has taken on Israel and the bipartisan cowtowing to the Lobby in WashDC!
[As near as I remember it]
Jon asked David Gregory why politicians are afraid to criticize Israel, rather than why "reporters" like Gregory are. The ploy worked.
Rather than get defensive, Gregory hanged himself, responding with the usual slimy evasion that everyone dislikes Hamas.
Stewart asked about "settlements," and
David Gregory had the blasted ignorance to reply that "settlements IN ISRAEL" had increased by X percent under GW Bush.
The new host of "MtPress" doesn't even know–or want to say–that the West Bank is part of the "OCCUPIED TERRITORIES."
Jon managed to remind the audience that David Gregory is Jewish: "you're the tallest Jew I know," while accusing him of being too flexible with the truth in his answers.
Here's the address of the episode:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=213378
Jon Stewart's skewering of the Lobby's influence!:
"Obviously both sides of the complex situation are vigorously championed by American politicians," then shows all Repubs and Dems parroting each other about Israel's [NOT]righteous self-defense.
"The Mobius Strip of issues: there's only one side!"
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Jon shows Racist Michael Bloomberg, now in Sderot, defending Israel's butchery, asking what would you do if a madman were pounding on your door?
Jon Stewart:
"It depends on whether I forced that guy to live in my hallway and then forced him to go through checkpoints."
And Stewart is hilariously, tragically, right in the paradoxical sense he probably means it:
There is only one side right now and it's the Palestinians'.
–Yet the Lobby-bought Establishment has managed to choose the wrong side of a Mobius strip.
This country is realligning: Pat Buchanan Justin Raimundo,Andrew Sullivan joining Alexander Cockburn, Tom Engelhardt Juan Cole, Rashid Khalidi, Stephen Zunes.
BUT, Congressional Dems are fawningly, ridiculously, and murderously, choosing the wrong side (except for our heroic Dennis Kucinich!).
O-Obama?
S Kneedler – Thank you for the clarification. It was "politiicians" rather than media that was Stewart's opening salvo. Your other points are spot on as well.
Regards,
LT
"Quick observation: all names associated with this post, Ross, Weiss, Stewart, Bloomberg, Gregory, are Jewish. Wouldn't it be nice to throw in a gentile now and then?"
It would also be nice if Abe Foxman and the ADL didn't accuse every gentile critical of Israel's actions or the US-Israeli "special relationship" of being an anti-Semite. Decent human anti-bigotry and left-liberal political correctness are being used as cover to silence legitimate criticism and discussion.
Wouldn't it be nice to throw in a gentile now and then?
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BLG, how did you do those little musical notes?
I am stunned, BLG. Let's see what happens.
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