"Daily Show" Duel: Dick Cheney Vs. Barack Obama (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart looked at Dick Cheney and Barack Obama's back-to-back national security speeches last night and the media's boner over the easily juxtaposable news events. Former VP Cheney gave a hawkish speech at the American Enterprise Institute, full of the familiar rhetoric of post-9/11 war-mongering, while President Obama gave a more tempered speech, despite the fact that he kept quoting Bush.

Stewart mocked the media for their metaphors as he showed clips of MSNBCers comparing the two to boxers and Bill Kristol invoking "Star Wars" then saying he sides with Darth Vader. He then dissected the two speeches and engaged in a faux debate with Cheney. We're pretty sure Stewart won, but the former vice president's approval ratings are on the rise.


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[33Greeper]

I don't care about the war of words. I just want Cheney tried and sentenced for War Crimes. The Hague would be nice. Is anyone collecting money to give the bushie goonies free vacations in Spain?

[ApolloSpeaks]

FEAR OF DICK CHENEY AND ITS MEANING

The ballistic reaction of the radical Left and liberal media to Cheney's impressive speech challenging Obama's national security policies shows how terribly insecure and mentally bankrupt they are and what little real confidence they have in him and his policies. It shows that deep down inside behind the praise, adulation and celebrity worship, behind the hyped up hopes and thirst for change they fear collapse and impending doom; they fear that something catastrophically bad is going to happen to rock their world and shatter their dreams with the president and his creed going down in flames. It's not so much Dick Cheney they fear; what in truth they unconsciously fear are the consequences of their make believe.

Postscript

Shortly after the Great Obama-Cheney Duel Lawrence Wilkinson-a former Powell advisor-said in an interview with Keith Oberman that Cheney, his disciple Rush Limbaugh and his admirers constitute a kind of satanic religious sect: “A church of darkness and insanity” he said to Oberman. When the war of fear and smear on Dick Cheney reaches this level of hysteria and lunacy in what is supposed to be a new golden age of sweetness and light you can be sure that the real fear of the Left is over Obama and growing loss of confidence in his economic and wartime leadership.

[ZenCrusader]

Considering the fact the Dick Cheney is Satan, the left is entirely correct in their position. 911 happened on his watch - he dances around that fact so hard in false hope that no one will notice the elephant in the room - 911 happened on his watch bcuz they ignored inteligence briefings that Bin Laden was about to attack the US.

[Sam&A&T]

It seems like Republicans have become so unpatriotic and that Dick Cheney is trying to instigate an attack on our beloved country so that he can say we were not safe under President Obama. Why is there so much hatred towards a president who is trying to help the masses is beyond me. Why do Republicans have to believe everything that Cheney and the gang say, why don't they think. Is it bad to try and give health care to people, or try to stop unsrupulous practices of rich and powerful companies. I guess through out history liberals (which means progressive people) like Jesus Christ, President Lincoln, John and Robert Kennedy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King etc were hated by very powerful people and their gullible followers. It's sad.

[ebanks84]

More and more, as much as Cheney speaks, I'm beginning to believe that Bush didn't know much of anything that was going on behind his back. What a dunce he was to allow Cheney to get away with so much crap. We need to charge Cheney with something, and I don't care what exactly, and send his butt to one of our gold-plated high powered prisons so he can mingle with the other diehards.

[Shawn Drewry]

I don't truly understand why Cheney is taking jib jibs @ President Obama ...

http://www.ShawnDrewry.com

[Sam&A&T]

Becasue Cheney is not for the people but for his billionaire buddies. He is trying his level best to disrupt what ever the President is trying to do for the people.

[barackobama4prez]

prez bush sounds so much like prez obama....freaky and creepy!

[eirrac]

Actually, it's Cheney that sounds freaky and creepy to me.

[simplify]

I love it!!....the media is a wasteland of hype and bloated and ego- centric blowhards

[OswegoKayaker]

When is this guy going to go away? I couldn't stand looking at perpetual sneer when he was in office. I guess being in power almost his whole life delighting in the Nixon version of the Imperial Presidency, makes it hard for him to go quietly into the night. I actually was amazed when he didn't pull out another war and declare martial law when he realized his team had lost and he didn't have another puppet to run his agenda.

Too bad that Obama is starting to sound like him.

[mudshark12]

Jon Stewart is getting to be very adept at poking fun at politicians as they flip-flop and lie so much on T.V. that an intelligent person can really show them up for the bunglers that they are.

[NO-LIE]

Now he just needs to expose obama, and the flip flopping he is doing, remember he said on the campaign trail that he would post everything on the internet for five days before he would sign it. has not happened. He said no pork projects, lie, he said he would end the wars, oops he sent more troops etc,etc,etc

[rekk]

Whatever, he DOES do that. Don't you ever watch the show?

[prunebush]

And MSNBC is actually tough on Obama all the time--especially Rachel. This is actually great; if he ONLY receives pressure from the right and never from the left, which way do you think he'll be inclined to move? All of us lefties need to expose and pressure him every time he creeps too far to the right.

[ywcachieve]

EDIT: I don't care what Cheney has to say. He is not an elected official.

[PINO]

Nor is GORE. But apparently everyone loves to hear what he has to say.

[levelshot]

you're off topic as usual.

[levelshot]

BTW, Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize for his research. What did your guy win? Oh let me guess...A bunch scared & frantic minions who thinks he's speaking the gospel.

[LemonMeringue]

Gore has a whole new subject to talk about. Cheney is only rehashing the last 8 years.

[Angiefranci]

Actually, Gore was elected President but was never seated. Kind of like what's happening with Frankl-

[eirrac]

Because Gore says things that make sense.

[toxicbrainpoison]

Exactly... and of course he loves Gitmo so much cause he's heavily invested in prisons that use barbaric tactics.

[ywcachieve]

I really don't care what Cheney has to saw. He is not an elected official. I don't understand why Jon Stewart is giving him air time.

[ywcachieve]

Cheney is trying to control President Obama presidency. Like he did Bush's.

[levelshot]

Exactly!

[LemonMeringue]

Being on trial might distract him for a couple of years.

[Hipppo]

If BO is Commander in Chief, he has to act Commander in Chief. He is the weak link, that is why Dick Cheney is taking over. The whole world knows Cheney is a war criminal, and face ICC, but instead he is acting the President again for the coming 4 or 8 years.

[Tyrione]

Taking over? How sad and short-sighted, not to mention delusional.

Two weeks of gibberish rhetoric to keep news channels in the ratings system and you've concluding that The Penguin has taken over?

[NO-LIE]

Blaming Bush is getting old! I mean Bush did not spend his time blaming Clinton!
A little history: 1993 WTC bombing, Same year Somalia, 1995 Saudi Arabia(cobolt tower) bombing, 1998 US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed , 2000 Uss cole bombed. Clinton had several opportunites to take Osama out and he did not. Weakness was shown to these terrorists and they were emboldened> The result 911!
Now we have obama at a G-20 summit apologizing for America! Tell that to the soldiers that gave their lives to liberate Europe. At the same time North korea was launching a rocket> Iran has done the same! The only thing joe Biden has been right about"he will be tested, mark my words he will be tested!

[GayGrandpa]

That you need to understand that I'm not your puppet
I'm not your puppet

[feliznavidad]

Of course Cheney's approval ratings are going up -- there's only one direction from the bottom!

[realtorgal]

Cheney knows how to raise his "approval" ratings- Just go on the talk show circuit and tell everyone that torture is as American as apple pie. The "neo con" conservatives- the stupider ones, eat the torrture stuff up like cotton candy.

Cheney complains about the costs connected to housing GITMO detainees in our "own backyard." The idiot was right next to "W" Bush when they soaked our great grand kids with a mountain of debt! Isn't $ FOUR TRILLION of dollars of more debt that he and Bush piled on Americans backs done inn our "own backyard?"

What concerns people who look at this Obama/ Cheney melodrama is that one side quotes the Constitution and the other side screams for "national security" but in the end of this staged play acting "detainees" still have no trial and Habeas Corpus.

All the detainees are ilnnocent until proven guilty. But they need a trial just as other non-US citizens received in the past. Even the convicted kidnapper of the Linbergh baby got a trial and he was a Germany illegal alien.

[JFaye]

Thank you Jon Stewart .... It's unfortunate the media is not held to a journalistic standard above the height of the dog poop Ms. Goldberg mentioned in her comments to the Glenn nut on Faux. MSNBC should attempt to improve on what they've established with their audience by an intelligent presentation of news as well commentary. Thrilled Jon Stewart called them out for billing this as a "duel."

We don't need a liberal Faux news ... We must have an intelligent presentation for progressive thinkers in our nation.

Now that is a duel .... Intelligent news versus FAUX news.

[TobusRex]

Actually this grandstanding is brilliant politicking by Cheney. His "approval ratings" are irredeemably low. Since that is a given fact, then he has nothing to lose. Cheney's political career is done,unless 1 thing, and one thing alone happens. If the USA is attacked by terrorists, wrongly, he'll be perceived as the "one" who told about Obama's shortcomings in national security. It would revive his flagging political fortunes and propel him into the presidency.

Pretty sad statement that an "American" would root for the terrorists to strike again, but I'm certainly not putting it past Cheney or the 20% "deadender" Right Wingers out there.

[eden4barack08]

The fact that they released more than 200 detainees in 2008, just before they would lose the election, some of whom they had labeled "dangerous" to US security, most of whom were greatly mistreated and therefore no doubt would seek out revenge, tells me that this is exactly what they're hoping for, that those who "return" to battle would strike the US again, just so he could say "I told you so". It's despicable!

[catinca]

Root for a terrorist attack? He's probably organizing it as we speak.

[Fremon]

Even I, a lifetime Democrat, who detested the Bush administration would not say he is organizing any kind of attack save his verbal legacy tour of attacking Obama. However, I do not know his soul but can assume he would be "happy" to have any vindication. Whether this means "hoping" for what would vindicate him is something I would not venture to state. A complex man this is.