Jon Stewart deconstructs Romney’s promises/lies–Journalists no longer serve their purpose (VIDEO)

[egbertowillies]

I am convinced we no longer need the journalists from CNN, FOX NEWS, ABC, CBS, or NBC. After all we have Jon Stewart. Jon Stewart in his funny way deconstructs Mitt Romney’s promises and lies in a very straight forward manner. Mitt Romney is promising to keep all the great things people want in Obamacare, lower taxes than the working person on all capital gains, mortgage deductions, charitable contributions, building a new navy, increasing the military, and at the same time balance the budget and reduce the deficit.

There are two things. Bush said most of that and did most of those things, sans the paid for Obamacare and crashed our economy with hardly any job growth and huge deficits. The final video is great as FDR talks about guys like Romney and Bush. His words of years past us still so prescient and representative of what the Republican Party continues to be.

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[fugop]

1. Is Jon willing to rally the troops to vote?

Because if it's just snarking and false equivalencies. then it's not worth a damn. I remember being incredibly disappointed in the Rally for Sanity because other than ripping the insanity of politics and journalism, there was absolutely nothing there. No call to action. No push to vote (and I don't mean a push to vote for liberal causes, but at least a push to VOTE! for whatever you believe!). It felt like such a waste of getting a quarter to a half million people together.

And I love when he points out hypocrisies, but he's guilty of the false equivalency memo himself way to often.

So nice to know Jon was deconstructing Mitt in a way others have failed to do. But I sure wish he'd stress the importance of trying to change things. (And maybe he does that more now. If so, I apologise. I've just never gotten over my disappointment at a rally that I went to with such high hopes.)