Stewart Takes On Tea Baggers' Call For Uprising (VIDEO)

With the health care debate heading toward its final vote, Jon Stewart recapped the closing arguments made by both sides, particularly the ridiculous claims made by conservatives.

Correspondent John Oliver joined Stewart and gleefully championed the rhetoric of Rep. Steve King, who recently urged the Tea Party to engage in a Velvet Revolution-esque uprising. Oliver explained that ideals are the same, mocking the Tea Party's comparison of universal health care to communism.

But as Stewart pointed out, the argument doesn't hold much water, considering that one of the Czechs' post-revolution freedoms included universal health care. Needless to say, Oliver was crushed. As was his flower named "Reagan."


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Comments

[michelesda]

02:45 PM on 04/04/2010

Equal opportunity mockery, the key to Stewart's comedy genius. He mocked out both the democrat tactics to pass the bill and the repub tactics to block it, and even awarded a touche to the right winger who got off a pretty good one about eating the bill to pass it. Stewart's ability to comment more usefully on current events than Fox News just by laughing at them must drive them nuts. nothing to stop them from doing the same thing, really, except, of course, that they would have to be fair and balanced enough to see both sides of an issue in order to do it.

[ghee99]

05:24 AM on 03/23/2010

this report seem just a little bit biased,

to say the least

[Christine Akers]

09:38 AM on 03/22/2010

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. ~Bertrand Russell

[cceras]

06:54 PM on 03/22/2010

You've nailed it! Exactly when did it become so popular to be so loud and stupid?

[Morgantheaxe]

11:47 AM on 03/23/2010

A thought crossed my mind watching this that made me very very sad. What does our country look like to the rest of the world? The vast majority of which views healthcare like fire and police protection. You know, something everyone just deserves to have. Imagine what people in every other first world country thinks of us when they see tea baggers standing in our capitol screaming against healthcare insurance for their own countrymen. Screaming against reductions in cost of their own senior citizens prescription drug costs. My god, will these people not stop until they tear apart every single shred of respect our country has in the world?

[Zaydin]

09:10 PM on 03/21/2010

You know, if these people want a revolution, why don't we give them one? A revolution in the name of sanity, reasoning, freedom from fear-mongering and hate. A revolution promoting goodwill towards your countryman. I can see it now; it would be a glorious revolution, indeed, especially since it'd strip out a major portion of the Republican base; the angry, fearful, hateful Tea Baggers. Reason must always prevail over hysteria, misinformation, and hate.

[Jim bob]

04:06 PM on 03/23/2010

Count me in.

[SchmataHari]

11:09 AM on 03/24/2010

We the people won such a revolution in November 2008. Reason is beginning to show its face, and when juxtaposed against the faces of the teabaggers, it a lovely face indeed.

[tsand19151]

09:29 PM on 03/20/2010

Hehehe....

[Deli]

02:20 AM on 03/19/2010

Dick Morris has hurt his vocal cords deep-throating women's feet.

[ragtag]

06:23 PM on 03/22/2010

LOL!

Dick and his magic hookers...

[Deli]

06:33 PM on 03/22/2010

Or is that "Hoofers"?

[Bloggerrogr]

11:41 PM on 03/18/2010

I love the sound of Tea-Whiner's heads exploding...

...kinda sounds like Victory ! ! !

FWIW

[lisakaz2]

11:19 PM on 03/18/2010

Wowowowowow. Tonight's opening (Thurs.) was INCREDIBLE. Jon totally went after blubbering Beckster.

[9liberal]

11:39 PM on 03/18/2010

It was comedy gold. I so love Jon Stewart.

[ForVivi]

03:05 AM on 03/19/2010

Colbert followed with some more Beck satire (GB's attack on the Catholic church) and an interview with Mary Matalin (she was trying so hard not to use GOP talking points that she hardly said anything!):

http://forum.colbertnation.com/tcr/board/message?message.uid=175720

[ResearchtheFacts]

10:43 PM on 03/18/2010

I'd rather live homeless sick than live well in a house with universal healthcare. Now what are the options again?

[Horus45]

01:08 PM on 03/20/2010

Your out of your mind!

[ResearchtheFacts]

06:22 PM on 03/20/2010

That was a line from the video, did you watch it? I know it makes no sense. These people are fighting health care.

[MSaxe]

08:27 PM on 03/18/2010

John Oliver makes you want to believe in Tinkerbell, the Tooth Fairy and Ronald Reagan all over again.

[dben]

05:57 PM on 03/18/2010

Dick Morris has a Gay accent.

[sekigahara]

06:14 PM on 03/18/2010

There's no such accent. What you are hearing is a dialect called d0uchebag.

[joyfree]

10:33 PM on 03/18/2010

Cool! Fat Freddy's cat! Nice avatar!

[CanUFeel2012]

06:33 PM on 03/18/2010

He's a ''Harvey Fierstein-Esque conservative minstrel''..

Jon Stewart..

[GSR]

11:15 PM on 03/18/2010

What did the highly esteemed Harvey Fierstein do to deserve that comparison? It's also offensive to call Dick Morris gay. We all know he fncks female prostitutes.

[Morgantheaxe]

11:49 AM on 03/23/2010

Amen, low blow to Harvey. Apologize please.

[MichaelMcKLA]

05:54 PM on 03/18/2010

Let's hear it for the teabaggers, same kind of upstanding, intelligent, insightful citizens that founded this country.

Or not. LOL

[InTheSouth]

09:39 PM on 03/18/2010

Definitely not.

[hardcenter]

10:24 PM on 03/18/2010

If the founding fathers had known of the possibility of teabaggers I am sure that there would be a clause in the Constitution prohibiting them.

[sekigahara]

06:33 PM on 03/19/2010

The Founding Fathers creed was Taxation without Representation is Tyranny. The Teabaggers somehow conveniently forget they have Representation, disregard the actual lowering of Taxes by Representatives for the Represented, all the while decrying "Tyranny," and none the less wrap themselves in the self-affirming mantle of being "Patriotic." If they think they are the Minute Men of today, then they are posers and if the elected government they feel is "Tyranny," then they are full of it.

I respect that they feel disaffected but I have little sympathy for their lack of critical thinking and regular displays of hypocrisy.

[CanUFeel2012]

05:32 PM on 03/18/2010

Our taxes are represented....

The original T-party would be so ashamed....

[InTheSouth]

09:43 PM on 03/18/2010

The original Tea Party goers back in the day, actually dressed up like native americans so they couldn't be recognized and tried to put the blame on the native americans for the "crime." It was a bit on the silly side even then. They weren't brave enough to just do it and let everyone know they did it.

[TovSquirrel]

01:53 AM on 03/19/2010

Nice article. A slightly different view.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/mar/15/tea-party-movement-barack-obama

[Longbaugh]

05:28 PM on 03/18/2010

Republicans are slime.

[CanUFeel2012]

05:30 PM on 03/18/2010

Cold Bl 00 ded snakes...

[DBtv]

06:21 PM on 03/18/2010

Sociopaths.

[Easyrollins]

04:52 PM on 03/18/2010

Why aren't, the Teabaggers call what they are The Radical White Right, The alter ego of the Radical Left, The right of America has been against every reform from slavery to medicare and now health care. If you were to read their history you will find the same rhetoric, be it the 1860's or the 1930's or today, Doom and gloom if we give them black folks freedom, Medicare the nation will go bankrupt, Social Security, just a socialist plot. They have been spewing the same line for ages and they always get the radical white right right to follow them anywhere. Fear and ignorance, bigotry and racism, Hate and Lies. Even when they average Southerner did not own a slave they fought to the death to defend the rich slavery owners, lost everything during the Depression yet they hated Social Security, Even the poorest of the poor white southerner yell no to segregation and equal rights, while himself a sharecropper. Fear and ignorance,bigotryamd racism,Hate and Lies.

[reasonshouldrule]

08:33 PM on 03/18/2010

Too right! Maybe I should say "correct" rather than "right." I second your post--it's true and to the point.

[InTheSouth]

09:45 PM on 03/18/2010

Excellent comment. Fanned!