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Jon Stewart Presents The Cable News Right-Wing Crazy Contest

Jon Stewart is further exploring something we've also noticed over here: That the right-wingers who oppose President Obama have taken to using some pretty racially-charged, amazingly paranoid rhetoric:

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Jon Stewart is right -- really anything can become scary if you put the score music from The Omen behind it.


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That's hilarious. Certainly Rove's latest oped has to fall in their somewhere.

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I'm still floored Dick Morris was an adviser to Bill Clinton and used to walk the halls of the White House. That guy is mentally corrupt.

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Gee - talk about plagiarism and unoriginality!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W_rx3kLTPE

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Agreed.

By the way, that is not the music from The Omen. Jon Stewart even identifies it in the clip...

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Frank Rich had a great line about Stewart in his recent NYT obit for Cronkite, "And That’s Not the Way It Is":

The real question is this: How many of those with similarly exalted perches in the news media today — and those perches, however diminished, still do exist in the multichannel digital age — will speak truth to power when the country is on the line? This journalistic responsibility cannot be outsourced to Comedy Central and Jon Stewart.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/opinion/26rich.html?_r=1

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I believe the song is O Fortuna.

O Fortune,
just as the moon
Stands constantly changing,
always increasing
or decreasing;
Detestable life
now difficult
and then easy
Deceptive sharp mind;
poverty
power
it melts them like ice.

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Of the zillion movie scores the late Jerry Goldsmith composed wouldn't a more appropriate soundtrack for the Cable News Right-Wing Crazy Contest be "Looney Tunes: Back in Action"?

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