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Daily Show's Stewart on Scheuer: "Obviously in this country, everyone's entitled to their dope-pinion"

July 02, 2009 8:57 am ET

From the July 1 edition of Comedy Central's The Daily Show:

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Previously: Beck guest Scheuer: "The only chance we have as a country right now is" for bin Laden to "detonate a major weapon" in U.S.

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    • Author by neon desert (July 02, 2009 9:48 am ET)
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      Now is the time for all patriotic Americans to demand violence. Come on people! Don't make us call Bin Laden...
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    • Author by tbone (July 02, 2009 10:00 am ET)
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      Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

      Does "encouragement" count as "aid and comfort" because that action probably had a few hundred thousand witnesses.
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      • Author by epkklk851 (July 02, 2009 10:12 am ET)
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        I saw the original show live. I have often thought that Beck was being treasonous. I am glad not to be alone on the issue.
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        • Author by shaggles (July 02, 2009 12:01 pm ET)
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          O'Reilly invited terrorists to destroy San Francisco a couple of years ago.
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          • Author by epkklk851 (July 02, 2009 1:32 pm ET)
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            Yes, I saw that on YouTube. I love San Francisco. It is a very nice place.
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      • Author by DAWUSS (July 02, 2009 10:18 am ET)
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        I think "encouragement" counts as "aid"
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    • Author by worrierking (July 02, 2009 10:47 am ET)
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      A few years ago people like Beck and Scheuer were calling us traitors, cowards and enemy appeasers for questioning the Bush administration's adventurism. We were called un-patriotic for exercising our right to free speech.

      Today, after two elections in which their side was soundly defeated, they speak of secession, open defiance of the nations laws and their wish for an enemy attack that will kill thousands of Americans.

      I don't remember reading in our history books how an American "news" organization, wished for a Nazi attack on America. I don't recall anyone wishing that the Soviet Union would fire their missiles towards us.

      Maybe I slept through history class the day they taught that.
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      • Author by congero6189599 (July 02, 2009 11:09 am ET)
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        No king you got it right! Check this out from a MMFA article about Chris Matthews : "...We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton ... They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. ... We want a guy as president.

        Matthews' breathless claim that Bush had "won the war" was, of course, premature. But his affection for Bush remained intact. In October 2005, Matthews declared that Bush "glimmers" with "sunny nobility." Later that year, when Bush unveiled his "strategy for victory in Iraq," Matthews praised his "brilliant political move" and derided Democrats as "carpers and complainers." (Keep in mind, it had been more than two years since Matthews announced that Bush "won the war," and still the president felt the need to unveil a "strategy for victory." Yet Matthews didn't care; any criticism of the "strategy for victory" outlined by the president who had supposedly won the war nearly three years earlier was whining.)

        Today we get Obama is not a citizen and his policies are foreign and un-American blah blah blah...but somehow the 8 yrs of torture and unjust war is a shining example of patriotism! They do this with a straight face, as did this guy calling for another attack on the US! In the words of Bob Dylan "A hard rain gonna fall..."
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        • Author by Conchobhar (July 02, 2009 11:57 am ET)
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          There was a time, long ago, when I thought this guy Scheuer was worth listening to. That was when he went against the conventional meme of the time, that we were unpopular among Muslims because of our "freedoms." Scheuer had studied bin Laden, and held that it was our policies in the Middle East that make us unpopular. This is pretty close to treason, and if it's not treason, it is obscene.

          What would Fux and Friends be doing right now, if Amy Goodman or someone on the left had wished for a like event targeting red states?
          BTW, did Beck agree that this country he "loves" needs to be hit again, or did he cry?

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    • Author by shaggles (July 02, 2009 11:59 am ET)
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      That was great. Scheuer is a total nut. The way to protect the country from a major terrorist attack is a major terrorist attack. That makes perfect sense.
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    • Author by seroquel (July 02, 2009 12:31 pm ET)
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      Sorry.
      This Scheuer should have been bleeped.
      He wants Bin Laden to ATTACK us, and they bleeped Jon Stewart for the F word?
      What is going on with this Fox News letting that statement on air?
      Gee, I feel so protected now that I didn't hear profanity, but I could hear some wacko want the U.S. to be attacked, to protect us.
      Does this make any sense to anybody else?
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    • Author by paul8616 (July 02, 2009 4:51 pm ET)
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      I wager Stewart doesn't watch Beck. And I wager at least one of the Daily Show writers has MMFA in his RSS feed.

      Yay MMFA!
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      • Author by Conchobhar (July 02, 2009 5:22 pm ET)
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        He probably has an intern do it, and they probably burn out in three days. He's got to monitor Weepy; the guy's a treasure trove of material.
        Some of it, of course, is not to laugh. I think Michael Scheuer richly deserves some of the extraordinary rendition he's dished out.
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    • Author by paul8616 (July 02, 2009 5:01 pm ET)
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      Also, reminds me of Colbert's interview with Dinesh D'Souza, who admits he agrees with Osama Bin Laden's views of the American left. This was back in 2007.

      http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/80900/january-16-2007/dinesh-d-souza
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    • Author by reanna-mator (July 03, 2009 4:44 pm ET)
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      It's been a while since I've seen Stewart so outwardly upset about something. Not that I blame him.
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