Jon Stewart Mocks President Obama's 'Storm Out' Of Debt Ceiling Meeting (VIDEO)

Time is running out for President Obama and Congress to come to an agreement about raising the debt ceiling before August 2. As tense budget talks continue down to the wire, things are getting heated -- specifically at a Wednesday press conference. On Thursday night Jon Stewart was ready to call out Obama's negotiation tactics as well as the media for saying he lost his cool.

Several outlets reported that Obama had "stormed out" of the room at the end of Wednesday's meeting after telling Eric Cantor not to "call his bluff." It sounds dramatic, but the fact that Obama had time to say "See you guys tomorrow" makes Stewart think he wasn't being as tough as it sounds:

"That's not storming out. That's ending a meeting by scheduling the next meeting. And I've gotta say, if that's Obama mad, that's weak."

Check out the rest of the segment below to hear Stewart explain why Obama got his Poker analogy wrong, why Eric Cantor's name makes it hard to sound serious while yelling at him and why Obama should be more like The Hulk.


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Comments

[Nelle]

01:29 PM on 07/19/2011

Am I the only person who thinks Eric Cantor is annoying as Hades?

[we-r-stardust]

11:03 AM on 07/18/2011

SPAM

[Footwarrior]

11:04 AM on 07/18/2011

Spammer. Flag it but don't click on link.

[imfedup]

04:20 PM on 07/17/2011

That thing about the animal genitals was weird, and I don't really understand where he was going with it.

[freeportguy]

12:41 PM on 07/17/2011

Little Eric seems over sensitive... If he can't take any, then he shouldn't give any...

[huffyfan2]

01:10 PM on 07/17/2011

My 5 year old nephew acts more mature.

[MMMMarilyn]

02:32 AM on 07/17/2011

Obama stormed out snidely saying to Cantor "Yo Bubby".

[WorkhelpWorkhelp]

01:56 AM on 07/17/2011

Obama is getting worse. "Don't call my bluff."
Near idiocy.

[WorkhelpWorkhelp]

01:49 AM on 07/17/2011

Lick my animals genitals. ?

Well, let me tell ya....

[jennielake]

12:28 AM on 07/17/2011

Jon Stewart for President of Comedy Central.

... and beyond

[JimNauseam]

11:55 PM on 07/16/2011

A rare miss for Jon, I think. "Don't call my bluff" means "don't assume I'm bluffing", not "this is a game I'm playing".

[imfedup]

04:18 PM on 07/17/2011

Exactly.

[abbraxus]

09:42 PM on 07/17/2011

Whatever... it's entertainment.. it's comedy. It doesn't have to be 100% spot on factual.

[OldPirate]

06:16 PM on 07/16/2011

I love how the right can't wait to play the angry black man angle, meanwhile obama is just as guilty of trying to ensure that there is no such story...to the point of continually getting steam rolled by these ja ck as es.

What they both seem to miss is that there a good many of us who would love to see an angry version of Barack come to the meetings. Maybe not every time, but at least enough to shake things up.

[Pleneras]

05:45 PM on 07/16/2011

Once again he proves to the viewers what many of us already knew when we read those silly headlines. That the media is like a silly child expecting you to get excited over NOTHING.

[LisaLou]

05:30 PM on 07/16/2011

I do love Jon, don't get me wrong, but really, shouldn't this be about how the media is reporting Obama's walkout? No one SAW it. It's all reported. And what does it mean? The media isn't reporting on the substance of the debate, which to me should be the source of the comedy.

[WiltonDiary]

01:33 AM on 07/17/2011

Regardless; the President of the United States decides when to end meetings and leaves the room before all others. This has been standard US protocol for a couple hundred years. Eric C is a drama-queen who should be talking to Rabbi Bachman about his repressed feelings.

[imfedup]

04:19 PM on 07/17/2011

No one SAW it? Of course people saw it. There were others in the room.

[WYO PROUD]

02:59 PM on 07/16/2011

Nobody cool has a grudge against Jon. All these hateful clowns are fox news junkies.

[mojo filter]

02:55 PM on 07/16/2011

Obama leaves a meeting at the scheduled time with the words, "I'll see you tomorrow."

Look out, the angry black man is at it again!

Got to love Faux News and the right.

[Pleneras]

05:46 PM on 07/16/2011

HP and msnbc ran with the silly hype too... and that is why all media is not trustworthy.

[WiltonDiary]

01:34 AM on 07/17/2011

NO the others did not, you are either blind or deaf, and on here you could be either.

[SisterAnn]

02:31 PM on 07/16/2011

A lot of these anti Jon Stewart posts are:

Courtesy of the Republican party and Peterson.

Republican trolls are posting everywhere. They want to ruin a good site.

[Pleneras]

05:47 PM on 07/16/2011

They have the christian college kids on payroll posting the same old sentences.

[signgrrl]

03:14 PM on 07/17/2011

pretty much easily identifiable though

[myworld]

07:37 PM on 07/17/2011

Yep,I like to say 'Paid Troll Alert!!!

[myworld]

07:35 PM on 07/17/2011

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