Jon Stewart had a perfect take on Joe Biden and his idiotic “back in chains” comment. What Biden said was incredibly stupid and reprehensible. But even more ridiculous is the faux outrage from the right, who are suddenly shocked — shocked! — that anyone would engage in divisive rhetoric during a campaign.
Aug 21 2012
Jon Stewart on Faux Republican Outrage
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Jordan Genso
August 21, 2012 at 9:42 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Unfortunately, the video is only the first two minutes of the segment, so it doesn’t include the faux outrage from the right.
If you go to http://www.thedailyshow.com and go to the ‘Full Episodes’ tab, the segment is from the 8/15 show.
ricko
August 21, 2012 at 9:49 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Joe Biden, can you BELIEVE he said that?
Well, yeah, I can.
I can’t believe at this late date Ed finds anything to complain about except the GOP reaction.
Zeno
August 21, 2012 at 9:54 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“Stupid and reprehensible”? Not even. Merely off-key and exaggerated, y’all. Letting banks write their own rules is an excellent way to allow them to run riot and destroy the independence and freedom of their client/victims. Again.
d cwilson
August 21, 2012 at 9:58 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Biden’s comment was, well, vintage Biden. He used the first image that popped into his head. I wouldn’t call it “reprenhensible”, just a bad word choice to describe the inevitable result of the GOP’s plans.
But of course, the media has to play the false equivalency game. If a republican says something that’s truly reprehensible, we have to pretend that something a democrat said was just as bad.
Chiroptera
August 21, 2012 at 10:02 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I was only able to do a quick Google on Biden and his remarks since I’m at work right now.
Can someone explain what is so offensive about Biden’s remarks? The few hits I looked at suggests mostly because Republicans are outraged. I can see this as potentially offensive to African-Americans, but the few hits I looked at didn’t mention the response from the African-American community.
Modusoperandi
August 21, 2012 at 10:14 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Chiroptera “I can see this as potentially offensive to African-Americans, but the few hits I looked at didn’t mention the response from the African-American community.”
The Right is being offended for them, since African-Americans can’t outwardly be offended at Biden (and the Democrats) terrible remarks, since they have to keep their heads down while they’re on the democrat plantation.
democommie
August 21, 2012 at 10:17 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
When Joe Biden says something “reprehensible”* while hosting the bankers, oil patchers or some other $multi-gazitrillion special interest group in a closed meeting at the WH? THAT I’m gonna wanna hear about, y’all.
You don’t suppose that the GOP will be disavowing the comments of MO’s own Asshole Akin’s, do you?
* And his comment is a long, long way from that.
Chiroptera
August 21, 2012 at 10:30 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
d cwilson, #4: But of course, the media has to play the false equivalency game.
And to be a true equivalence to some of the things the Republicans have been saying about women, Biden would have had to say that some blacks really deserve to be in chains, some blacks voluntarily put themelves in chains, and, besides, everyone knows that blacks have special neurotransmitters that make beatings and whippings not all that bad.
scienceavenger
August 21, 2012 at 10:35 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Luckily we have GOPers coming out with truly reprehensible things on a near daily basis (legitimate pregnancy-preventing rape anyone?), so the false equivalency with Biden’s comments, which were merely politically awkward and not remotely in the same league, will fade quicker than you can say “fast and furious”.
Jordan Genso
August 21, 2012 at 10:37 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@7
They already are. Even though he’s no worse than several of the 2010 Tea Party Republican senatorial candidates, the party doesn’t want a repeat of Sharon Angle, Ken Buck, the “not a witch” person, etc.
What’s quite entertaining though is the base does still want more of those candidates, so Akin will probably stay in and go against the party’s stated preference.
dingojack
August 21, 2012 at 11:06 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Dear Ed -
Please don’t ever refer to Jon Stewart again, because evidently as ‘children of a lesser god’ we don’t deserve the benefit of his ‘golden goodness’ even from his own website.
If Mr Stewart treats me with contempt…
Dingo
eric
August 21, 2012 at 11:26 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
…it’s a day ending in y. His mouth is probably one of the main reasons there is a “Vice” in front of his position title.
Dr X
August 21, 2012 at 1:00 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Of course Malcom X, Jr’s minion, Joe Biden, will engage in divisive rhetoric. He pals around with people who pal around with terrorists. These people have phony birth certificates and hate white people. One of them was a red diaper baby, trained by communists to usurp power in the US and send all the white people to concentration camps.
caseloweraz
August 21, 2012 at 1:16 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I don’t see Biden’s remark as reprehensible. We’ve seen the results of banks and Wall Street writing their own rules. The phrase “wage slaves” comes to mind. And black folks are disproportionally affected by such economic inequality. So Biden’s allusion to actual slavery may have been politically tone-deaf and unfortunate, but I would call it a minor gaffe at worst.
I wonder how many black leaders objected.
abear
August 21, 2012 at 1:43 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Chains aren’t bad as long as the slavery is legitimate.
Dr X
August 21, 2012 at 2:47 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It was most offensive to people who treasure their chain-maker heritage.
bobaho
August 21, 2012 at 3:31 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@dingojack: Your dispute is with Mr Stewart’s employer. Whether something is available to various countries or even to people served by particular cable companies within a given country, is the prerogative of the producer, not the performer. I would gladly eviscerate the sleaze ball at Time Warner Cable who blocks my access to ESPN3. It has nothing to do with country, and everything to do with greed of the distributor.
Trickster Goddess
August 22, 2012 at 12:11 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Canadian link to the segment:
http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/Shows/TheDailyShow?videoPackage=121338