Daily Show's Stewart Brandishes EZ-Pass, Exhorts Limbaugh To 'Get the F**k Out' Of NYC

If last night's edition of The Daily Show is any indication, few New Yorkers are viewing Rush Limbaugh's decision to permanently decamp from part-time digs in New York City, in order to avoid onerous municipal and state taxes (which by Limbaughian standards could simply mean any taxes) as anything other than a cause for celebration. "Finally!" Jon Stewart exclaimed to the delight of his studio audience, adding, "For years, New Yorkers have done everything in our power to get this guy to leave town." Tactics included holding gay pride parades, kicking Rush's potential narco connects out of Times Square, and stocking Chinatown with "Chinese extras." "He was the Truman in our city-wide Truman Show," said Stewart.

He then ended the segment by saying, "If you're heading out from Uptown, take 42nd Street west to Ninth Avenue take a left, go down four blocks, Lincoln Tunnel's on your right, and you know what? Here's my EZ-Pass. Get the fuck out of here."

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Comments

[SeaKitten]

Jon is such a small boy. How can we take him seriously? Oh, he smirks well. What a resume! I think his big smirk is masking a small, ahem, "man".

[Sepulchre]

Because he reports the facts and backs them up with evidence. Like most historical truth tellers he relies on comedy to get his message across. Comedy has always been a medium for that, since comedians are allowed more room to make social commentaries.

Stewart's reporting is considerably more accurate than Rush (who should fire his fact checkers). Rush plays to a crowd who thrive on hate and derision, so accurate reporting is a secondary consideration for him, since accuracy might not play into his rhetoric.

[SeaKitten]

Yes, little Jon Jon is a wealth of evidence. "Stewart's reporting"?! LOL. A smirk is not reporting. Were your dropped as a child or are you just willfully ign.orant?

[RedBlue7]

VOTE: 2 things which made America a prosperous nation until 2001...
http://www.e-paperview.com/epaper-poll-1.html/

[LeftRight]

get a 404 not found at that link...

[postman606]

You've spamming that link for days. Forget about it, it's broken.

[brandalucia]

Stewart is apparently not realizing that Rush left NYC about 8 years ago but is heavily taxed when he does a show there during the hurricane season - he lives in Palm Beach. As Mayor Blumberg just found out in his audit while debating to raise more taxes on the rich there...41,000 people are paying 50% the taxes in NYC. That's 41,000 out of the 8 million who live there. Yes, tax the rich more. Look it up people. The rich pay for all the loafers - always have and always will because that is what's fair in America.

[MrVee]

Give me a break. I should feel sympathy for the Madoffs in NY? Or those who get huge bonuses even though they effectively looted the nation, wrecked their respective companies and getting huge bonuses anyway? What was Limbaugh's latest contract 450 MILLION?? And that cat thinks he should pay the same as those in the middle? I can't tell you how selfish this sounds to me.

He's not married, no children and no family all he eats is pizza and subs. Its amazing when the super wealthy get that wake up call how childish they behave.

[Hnorc]

So that must mean I'm paying for you.

[LeftRight]

uh huh.... Yeah, just like how the rich "pay more" in the rest of America, even though the rich are paying FAR less as a percentage of their income than the rest of us!!!

[BikeFreak]

If the rich pay for all the "loafers" please explain all the people in this country who are or have lost their homes, jobs, retirement funds, and those who are barely making it?

Or were you speaking of "loafers" as in those ugly shoes popular with the CEO set?

[scrutiny1]

Rush Limbaugh leaves New York. Easily one of New York's finest hours.

[labman57]

A number of Republicans have blamed Barack Obama for many of the ills being experienced by Americans ever since he was elected. After careful analysis, I have come to the conclusion that they may be correct!

Rush Limbaugh complains that Obama is responsible for his chronic flatulence. I have no doubt that he is right.
Other examples of the physiological and emotional damage being inflicted by Obama's programs and policies include:

- Sean Hannity...­.incontine­nce and constipation (his internal plumbing is totally confused)
- Bill O'Reilly..­..erectile disfunction (not that the opportunity has ever 'arisen')
- John McCain....­dual-perso­nality disorder ("I'm a maverick. No, I'm one of the good ol' boys. No, I'm a maverick.")
- Michele Bachmann..­..paranoid psychosis
- Michael Steele....general mental confusion, inability to carry on a rational conversation
- Sarah Palin....rapidly declining intellect and ignorance of the world around her
- Ann Coulter....severe mood swings and overall bitchiness
- Joe the Plummer....identity crisis ("Who am I? What am I? Why don't I know anything about anything?")
- Glenn Beck....general emotional instability (but don't tell him so, he might begin to cry)

I may have overlooked some cases, but the research will continue and a cure will be sought.

[bascombe]

so he'll sell the apartment AND the condo!
the leader of the repuglyKKKan party wants to leave the city they HATED AND ABANDONED BEFORE AND AFTER THE WTC TRAGEDY.

DON'T LET THE DOORKNOB HIT YOU, RUSHBAG!

[bellavida369]

Aww...Jon Stewart seems to have built up a lot of professional resentment toward someone who crushes him in ratings everyday, even with Limbaugh only having a radio show... I think Stewart is pretty damn funny at times, but it shouldn't be a surprise who those in media trying to cut Limbaugh down voted for in this election... anyway, be careful what you wish for, regular folks don't like getting ripped off by that city either, especially when they can make a better life somewhere else.

[rini]

Being part of our society and contributing, via taxes, is not being "ripped off."

If you don't like how the government uses your money, become politically aware and active. Change the way your money is used. Don't hunker down in a bunker with your survival kits. If we are going to survive as a species we've got to do what we do best.....cooperate.

[mikesw]

I suppose it is only in Limbaughland that someone who makes $1/2 million or more a year is considered to be "upper middle class"...

I wonder how much his loser listeners make...

[bascombe]

THEY MAKE JUST ENOUGH TO PAY HIM $10mIL

[sitat]

Rich Limbaugh makes $38 million dollars a year. Cry me a river, Rich.

[ThirdSection]

Spoken in the way only a true New Yorker could!

Here's my plan:
Let's raise taxes wherever Limbaugh goes until he relocates to the far side of the moon!

[catinca]

He should go to Texas and join his other comrades!

[20090120]

Hell no...we don't want him....we already have TWO Bushies and a joke for a Governor.

[Howzat]

Send him to Sudan. he would get on well with the Regime there.

[ptgkc]

And everyone who speaks Spanish, should only communicate in Spanish. See how his KKKviews react to a larger latino population. If he wants to pay less US taxes, make him feel like he less a part of the US (as he knows it).

[LDnearthesea]

Russia: even more corporate graft and corruption.

[arniefluffkin4520]

New York seems to be intent on creating another rotting dystopia (i.e. Detroit) on the east coast. How long before we see pigeon vendors on the streets?

The first hyperinflation winter over there is going to be disastrous. Several million people in an urban graveyard, very few of whom are able to afford heating oil.

[longnow]

We won't be happy until your reserve plot is filled.
We'll use your rements for heating oil.

[bascombe]

you apparently missed the last forty years.

[LeftRight]

Don't forget to where your tin foil hat!

[PerryWhite]

Jon and Jason, Limbaugh left NYC more than ten years ago. And an EZ Pass wouldn't work for his private jet. What he is doing is ending is the occasional broadcast from NYC for which the city and state levy on him a per diem income tax. One day of pay for Limbaugh is more than your annual salaries combined.

[walk0nwalls]

Because salary = worth of human being right?

The CEOS of AIG beg to differ.

[PerryWhite]

Are you one of those people who think that the highest paid people in the country should be school bus drivers?

[LittleGirl]

I love Jon.

[whcjr46]

Rush take the EZ-Pass and get your Goat smelling A$$ out of town.

[walk0nwalls]

Glory Hallelujah be the wicked one be gone!