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Jon Stewart: Bush Bailout Speech Same as Iraq Speech (VIDEO)

huffingtonpost.com — Jon Stewart finds an eerie similarity between President Bush's big bailout speech and his Iraq invasion speech five years ago. "Those who do not study the past get an exciting opportunity to repeat it."

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  • kdawg1012, on 09/26/2008, -3/+87Wow!
    • whahaa, on 09/27/2008, -0/+52i've said it before and i'll say it again:

      a $700billion bailout will prevent an economic collapse like a war in iraq prevents terrorism.
      • rex84, on 09/27/2008, -0/+7That's one of the best quotes I've ever heard, may I borrow it? C'mon, it's not like it's $700 Billion, or anything.
      • whahaa, on 09/27/2008, -0/+6borrow it?
        heck, you can have your own copy. my treat.
      • Jeebugorn, on 09/27/2008, -0/+4well said sir! well said!
      • GawtMilk, on 09/27/2008, -1/+1Stewart: my hero. This was amazing.
      • mrharrymason, on 09/27/2008, -15/+0Newsflash: No one gives a ***** about teenage uberliberal gullible ***** like yourself waxing political on the internet
      • jusccoj, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Dear mrharrymason,

        Sir,

        Please have another beer and go back to pro-wrestling. I think there's a tribute to Chief J. Strongbow tonight.

        Sincerely,
        Rear Reverend Sport Trendelberg.

      • jusccoj, on 09/27/2008, -1/+0700B would feed everyone on this planet.
      • hedge41, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2And don't forget that the "fight them over there" lie came only after the original "WMD" lie failed.
    • skyz, on 09/27/2008, -0/+11both appeals were done with the same artificial urgency

    • gcnlivedotcom, on 09/27/2008, -2/+6This is a short news story to read from congressman Ron Paul

      http://www.prisonplanet.com/ron-paul-congress-has- ...
    • EndGamePlayer, on 10/01/2008, -0/+0Time to ACT--- send the following link to every news paper, radio station and television station in your state. . . apparently the politicians didn't hear you the first time and are trying to pass the Bail Out through the Senate???-

      Email a nice little note like: ---------------->
      This explains why no one wants a bail out- EVER. And though I don't buy into the whole video - if ANY part of this is true -- God help us.

      http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
      let peace begin.
      ----------------------------------------------
  • MorganMghee, on 09/26/2008, -3/+67That's what happens when you alienate the intelligent staff and support.
    • lamiaconfitor, on 09/27/2008, -2/+1he he he.. you think he alienated his staff... how naive.
  • seasun21, on 09/26/2008, -2/+127I was hoping someone would highlight the similarity between these two calls to action by George Bush.

    After his lies and manipulations to get us into a war 5 years ago, how can anyone trust anything this man says?

    • bobsbones, on 09/27/2008, -0/+17It isn't that anyone (or few, anyway) trust him, it is the mass apathy and inaction, the thought that 'someone else will deal with it' or 'how bad can it be' that will continue to let them get away with plundering you all.

      Posting angrily on message boards does not equal action.
      • biz20, on 09/27/2008, -1/+4This is what I keep telling people.
        People can complain all day, but if they dont actually do something, you cant really be upset about what happens.
    • drwho9437, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2You don't need to. The market data is all right there for you to see. Look at the rate on the T-bill. Jeez. It isn't like it is secret intelligence. WMD that was trumped up *****. Lots of banks failing, oh wait they are actually failing. Yes there are similarities, and the quick pace means thing are likely to get balled up, but they are different. Bush wanted war in Iraq ideologically. He doesn't want to interfere with the market really ideologically, they have had to shoot deregulation in the head to get the plan pushed. I think that is the last thing the administration would have wanted.

      Okay I've been logical. I probably should have just typed a quip.
    • benroy, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1Um...no?
  • danfive555, on 09/26/2008, -2/+40Just as McCain showed up in Washington, the deal fell apart!!
    • rex84, on 09/27/2008, -0/+10Then I say, "Good job McCain, you should stay in Washington (just not as President)."
    • VitriolAndAngst, on 09/27/2008, -1/+9Actually that was a damn good thing.

      We cannot deal with this until they replace the foxes guarding the chicken house -- Paulson and Bernanke. Bush appointed them to cover up the problem which is MUCH BIGGER than is being reported.

      WE don't have enough money in the entire US to deal with the problem. It has to be resolved by the funds involved in the Ponzi scheme first.
  • macbooker, on 09/26/2008, -2/+82When is the public going to wake up and realize that this is not okay. Funny for Jon Stewart show, but tragic for democracy and for everyone that trust in our elected officials. This is embarrassing more than anything else, in that we allow these buffoons to be our leaders. Only a drugged society would be this asleep.
    • orbitaldiamonds, on 09/26/2008, -0/+21No wonder more young people get their news from The Daily Show than elsewhere! The mainstream media isn't calling the government out on its ***** enough. They dropped the ball, and Stewart and the TDS crew, and Colbert at TCR picked it up and ran with it! Aside from Olbermann and Maddow, TDS and TCR are about it.
      • jaymzdean, on 09/27/2008, -1/+3Yes, but they trivialize serious issues by making us laugh instead of storm.
      • rex84, on 09/27/2008, -0/+4Believe it or not, Glen Beck is all pissed about this too.
    • geddon, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2People keep telling me this is all part of the cycle that happened in the 90s and the 80s -- kinda like these storms that keep ripping apart one coastal town after another. We do this every year, you know? Like a family reunion where people take a break from their daily routines to gather in football stadiums and public shelters.
    • RealJimShady, on 09/27/2008, -0/+7You're dead right dude. It's not just a funny coincidence that these speeches are the same. It's a speech formula thats designed to put fear into people, and then recruit them into the idea of action.
    • Smtn, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1The drug is stupidity
  • WafflesID, on 09/26/2008, -1/+44Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhahahahaaaaaaaaaaa *GAAASP*

    The Daily Show's Wayback machine strikes again!
    • nickeeeast, on 09/27/2008, -0/+4I'm glad the Daily show has caught on to the regurgitation, and repetitiveness of the greedy idiots that run this country. The sad part is that this ***** script of fear continues to work on the majority of Americans. I wish that mainstream media had both the insight, and motive to show videos such as this to the general American public. This could help wake the sleeping giant of "We the People". Wake up people!. Snap out of it. I commend the Daily show for exposing this for what it is.
  • e68895f, on 09/26/2008, -2/+16Rerun / Palin 08 !!
    • jellygraph, on 09/26/2008, -1/+9More like "Hospitalized / Rerun in womens clothes 08 !!!"
    • WinMacLin, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1McSame / Palin 08 !!
  • GovernmentSp00k, on 09/26/2008, -2/+24Jon Stewart definitely has his moments.
    • ligyron, on 09/27/2008, -1/+8Is that some sort of backhanded compliment?
  • CharlesDance, on 09/26/2008, -15/+4And so i didn't even notice that he was behind me, next thing you know he was ejaculating in my hair.
  • cheezintern, on 09/27/2008, -1/+12It's funny cause it's true...which also makes it kinda sad
    • tjbaker, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1..and very very SCARRRYYYYYYYYYYY ....

      ok... breathe ... it will all be over soon ..... that scary grey haired guy and the hot rifle carrying chick are just a bad episode in my mind......... I pray.....
  • levitron, on 09/27/2008, -2/+74Link for Canadians: http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/#clip96220 (Stupid Comedy Central.) It's the first thing he covers, no need to fast forward.
  • contact, on 09/27/2008, -1/+25Leave it to Jon Stewart to turn a scary situation into pure comedy.

    If only the our current President had a staff as smart as the Daily Show.
  • Ytrewqhgfdsa, on 09/27/2008, -2/+14I'm so scared right now :(
  • sk11, on 09/27/2008, -1/+30History repeats itself everywhere, it is just that America has a much shorter memory than most other places.
    • swaxhog, on 09/27/2008, -0/+21It's been going on for a long time...

      "Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank.
      You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin!
      Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin!
      You are a den of vipers and thieves."

      - Andrew Jackson (1836) 7th US President. Jackson revoked the charter of the Second Bank.
      • unAntimatter, on 09/27/2008, -0/+5***** A... those ***** that put our economy in this position have a lot farther to fall than most of us. Greedy swine merchants...
      • colorwindows, on 09/27/2008, -0/+6sweet quote
  • tjallen, on 09/27/2008, -1/+19When I saw this last night, I was so impressed with the Daily Show. Bush's speech aired earlier that day, and they were able to not only realize the similarities between the two speeches, but put the video together in such a convincing manner. Shocking, hilarious, and sad.
  • bigfatphony19, on 09/27/2008, -3/+7I was hoping someone would digg this. ***** great
  • tjallen, on 09/27/2008, -2/+12Bush's writers are using Mad Libs?
  • Me0wmix, on 09/27/2008, -4/+8Youtube/Comedy Network link please. Not everyone is American.
    • tjallen, on 09/27/2008, -1/+6You can't watch the video from the digg link? Why? What censorship or pipe-clogging is going on? This is news to me. I thought the internet was the internet (discounting China).
      • Me0wmix, on 09/27/2008, -0/+5Comedy central doesn't let non americans to watch their shows on their site.
      • geddon, on 09/27/2008, -0/+3I thought we won that whole Net Neutrality thing?
      • jakem1, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1I watched it without any problems and I'm in the UK.
    • retzed, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93bH7QVzNWc
    • sickanimations, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1Not everybody is Canadian, either.
  • DaviDTC, on 09/27/2008, -4/+34Direct link. No need to link to the huffingtonpost spam and their 1 sentence on it.

    http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?vide ...
  • springerlicious, on 09/27/2008, -18/+2I like Jon Stewart, but he might has come out and deep throat a dildo that says "Obama" because that's what he's become. Now, that' s just IMO of course, but I think I'm right....
    • Khast, on 09/27/2008, -1/+10Do we really want a repeat of the last 8 years? I should hope not....Obama seems to be the only hope of trying not to repeat the Bush regime. I applaud the Democrats for him as well. For one, it will break down barriers which have been around since the US was founded. Which mind you isn't a bad thing. If a colored person should become president, and actually do a good job...it will open the door so that others may eventually run for president.

      I vote color-blind...if Obama can do the job right, more power to him. Racism has NO place in current society.
    • MAARRS, on 09/27/2008, -1/+9ahh...but your not.
      He might deep throat this sexy Obama dildo you dream about on his personal time, but pointing out the obvious farcical actions of the Bush White house isn't partisan rhetoric but a necessary, if not down right patriotic, act of a journalist. the fact that he does it with humor does nothing to detract from the absurdity of the situation. Bush can no longer manipulate the country with fear and lies.
      I wish more network journalists would grow a pair of balls similar to Stewart's.
    • tjallen, on 09/27/2008, -0/+6Everyone knows Stewart is a liberal. He makes comedy of both parties (usually the one who's giving him the best material to work with on the given day). That's his job, and he can be as biased as he wants, because he's not a real news reporter, despite all the evidence and sad reality to the contrary. The scarier thing to me is how many people believe Colbert is a hard-core Republican. Do people not realize satire? The Leftist Stewart and the Right's lil-poppa-bear Colbert are the perfect combo. They bring a comedic and satirical balance to the end of my day.
    • enantiodromia, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2so you didnt watch the Daily Show when Clinton was president, right?
  • martinherrera, on 09/27/2008, -2/+2im outraged
  • Spade914, on 09/27/2008, -6/+4bricks were shat
  • VitriolAndAngst, on 09/27/2008, -1/+7Boy, I'm sure Bush really hates video and the internet by now.
    • Rotzooi, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Why? It's not like the American people really *really* care. If they did, Bush would have been out of office years ago, and McCain would be running a completely different campaign. The Politics Of Fear still work.
  • zebraz, on 09/27/2008, -28/+3Obama is getting his butt kicked in the debates tonight.
    His ignorance really shows.
    • tufftugg, on 09/27/2008, -1/+18What debate are you watching?
    • renegadeafk, on 09/27/2008, -1/+16don't look now, but your stupid is showing.
    • malex, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1220 bucks says you also think Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric sounded authoritative and confident.
    • Jeebugorn, on 09/27/2008, -0/+7yeah, his ignorance is really showing. and by "his" i mean McCain. at least Obama can pronounce the name of the president of iran.
      • rdoger6424, on 09/27/2008, -5/+2I thought his name was spelled ahmeijasddfsaeofgnsidufgnsidufvnsirnvgerfiopnsddrfgjsdpiugjhsdrgjad
    • lordbeaker, on 09/28/2008, -0/+0Is that why McCain couldn't even look Obama in the eye?

      He's a scared little boy now, and his ignorance is showing with a now 35 point spread. Keep the debates coming.
  • 68024, on 09/27/2008, -0/+8This is pure brilliance! Only on the Daily Show...
  • 4wheel, on 09/27/2008, -19/+1Just a reminder. The guy you're all "Wowing" about, is a COMEDIAN! The jokes on you.
    • jon30041, on 09/27/2008, -1/+7Just a reminder: doesn't matter. Comedy is often used as a tool to show strange, sad, depressing, and frustrating things in a funny manner. If he stood at a podium, pumped his fist into the air and yelled about it, it'd be just as true.

      Comedy is not the same as fiction. More often than not, comedy is reality with a pretty bow on.

      Also, Jon Stewart is a God.
      • 4wheel, on 09/27/2008, -8/+1He's a "god"? Okay. That not only proves my point, it drives it home. One day you'll look back on this, well, I'll let you figure it out.
    • JohnnyJpg, on 09/27/2008, -1/+8Strange how a comedian has a greater grip on reality than the ones in control.
      • 4wheel, on 09/27/2008, -7/+1It depends on how much you know about reality, and how much tv you watch. I'd be willing to bet you know more about tv.
  • jaycalgary, on 09/27/2008, -21/+3burried huffington spam
  • springerlicious, on 09/27/2008, -22/+2I used to like Jon Stewart ... but he's grown increasingly liberal over the years. I don't really like that. I hope he chokes on an Oprah dildo as he's pleasing himself...
    • malex, on 09/27/2008, -0/+12How is what he's saying here "too liberal?" Because it's critical of the president?

      Maybe what's really happened is the right wing has grown increasingly stupid.
    • deutsch715, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Really, seven posts later and now you used to like Jon? Just out of curiosity, who personifies the dildo you're sucking on right now?
    • charm803, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Hey, guess what?

      Elections are right around the corner. During this time, many shows TALK ABOUT POLITICS.

      SURPRISE!
    • throop77, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2So, you don't like him because he is liberal? Do you have any friends?
  • Nhimrod, on 09/27/2008, -21/+3burried for huffspam sh!t
  • mebble, on 09/27/2008, -0/+14Nice catch. I think the few Americans with any brain cells left must have felt some residual twitch of recognition.

    Screw the bail out, we're screwed already. If you want to spend my taxes, spend it on a Manhattan Project to develop energy independence and put hard working innovative risk taking Americans back to work ... $700 billion just ought to do it.

    I'll be happy to oversee the disbursement of the funds. Like Secretary Paulson I too am a Dartmouth grad.
    • regeya, on 09/27/2008, -0/+5I don't know if it's true, but I do know that Milton Friedman was way smarter than me.

      "Monetarists, including Milton Friedman and current Federal Reserve System chairman Ben Bernanke, argue that the Great Depression was caused by monetary contraction, the consequence of poor policymaking by the American Federal Reserve System and continuous crisis in the banking system.[10][11] In this view, the Federal Reserve, by not acting, allowed the money supply as measured by the M2 to shrink by one-third from 1929 to 1933. Friedman argued[12] that the downward turn in the economy, starting with the stock market crash, would have been just another recession. The problem was that some large, public bank failures, particularly that of the Bank of the United States, produced panic and widespread runs on local banks, and that the Federal Reserve sat idly by while banks fell. He claimed that, if the Fed had provided emergency lending to these key banks, or simply bought government bonds on the open market to provide liquidity and increase the quantity of money after the key banks fell, all the rest of the banks would not have fallen after the large ones did, and the money supply would not have fallen as far and as fast as it did.[13] With significantly less money to go around, businessmen could not get new loans and could not even get their old loans renewed, forcing many to stop investing. This interpretation blames the Federal Reserve for inaction, especially the New York branch.[14]"

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression#U.S. ...

      Seriously, they're acting to counteract what they felt was the Fed's failure during the Great Depression. Again, I don't know that they're right, but it would seem to me that someone who actually studied the period and found their own agency's reaction to be lacking. Now that they're trying to do the opposite, the masses are screaming for a return to the same policies. Next up: The New Smoot-Hawley Tariff.

      In the next section of that entry, they bring in the Austrian economists' interpretation.

      Eh, both sides are working on theories. I make people angry by pointing out I see merits and flaws in both arguments, which is something I do with depressing regularity in real life.

      Also, when someone bandies about platitudes such as 'worthless paper,' I offer to relieve others of their worrisome burden by magnaminously offering to receive their worthless paper. Their minds are unburdened with the knowledge that those pieces of paper are, despite being legal tender, worthless, and I get a stack of cash I can use to buy food, groceries, and fun stuff, thanks to other countries' malinvestment. Or, rather, I would, if anyone would take me up on the offer. No one has yet. They're happy to direct me to sources of 'real money' in the form of gold which, I'm delighted to discover, are willing to accept worthless slips of paper in exchange for their real money. One wonders what they do with it. Do they burn it? Do they do origami? Why would they be willing to part with their real money for worthless slips of paper? Such an act of nobility, trading money for nothing of value! Perhaps they're true art fans, and really delight in artful monochromatic etchings. Ah, I suppose I'll never understand these strange minds.
  • Evolutuon, on 09/27/2008, -0/+14In Bush's defense, the strategy worked in 03, so why shouldn't the same fear mongering speech work this time?
  • Layne, on 09/27/2008, -1/+7I wonder if he get's his speeches from a Mad Libs book.
  • nickeeeast, on 09/27/2008, -0/+5It's been the same story over, and over. This pattern of lies to pass bills, and legislation that will inevitably benefit the powers above. The bush administration has been very effective at imposing fear so that Americans will give up their privacy, their rights, and obscene amounts of resourceful tax money. He's using the economic disaster that his administration created to pass more devastating legislation over the American people. After the undeniable failure, and horrendous abuse of power over the past eight years I am amazed that anyone is willing to consider any more "emergency" bills that need to be signed immediately. Don't read it...there's no time. Meanwhile the original legislation proposed by the administration included millions in severance packages for wealthy CEO's who had driven these failed corporations into the ground.
  • Thinbev, on 09/27/2008, -0/+13Amazing how the Daily Show spits out more real news than the "mainstream" corporate news stations.

    This video has to spread far and wide!
  • onesquarelight, on 09/27/2008, -0/+4While I'm sad to see that this "Dugg" item has enjoyed more comments than other, more legitimate news stories, there is no doubt that this current G.W. Bush administration has thrived on scare tactics.
  • TWGMichael, on 09/27/2008, -4/+1I don't think I want to hug you after all.
    http://digg.com/business_finance/I_don_t_think_I_w ...
  • Lunarbunny, on 09/27/2008, -2/+4Lunarbunny is now playing: Propellerheads & Miss Shirley Bassey - History Repeating [04:04m/192Kbps/44KHz]
    • Mpwns, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1glad to see some people on digg still use irc.
  • Br3ach, on 09/27/2008, -1/+3Not sure weather to laugh or throw up in disgust
  • Proctor, on 09/27/2008, -6/+2Buried as inaccurate. Didn't sound the same to me.
  • triclipse, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Obama supports the bailout. Sure, he may tinker with it's edges, but in substance and in principle, he supports it.
  • Sleekery, on 09/27/2008, -12/+0More Huffington Post? Didn't we just have this. STOP IT NOW!

    Anyways, Jon Stewart isn't the most reliable source, especially when it comes through the extreme bias filter of Huffington Post.
    • charm803, on 09/27/2008, -0/+3" Jon Stewart isn't the most reliable source"

      Considering it's supposed to be SATIRE, it's not supposed to be "realiable," but for the record, it has been more reliable than Fox News.


  • passivex, on 09/27/2008, -0/+3Haunting
  • firebirdx01, on 09/27/2008, -0/+3State of Union Address in 2002 by Bush which was used to justify the invasion of Iraq.

    "As we gather tonight, our nation is at war, our economy is in recession, and the civilized world faces unprecedented dangers."

    6 Years Later...he's still using the same tactics to justify the bailout.
  • calderon0311, on 09/27/2008, -1/+5in before "Reported possibly untrue by Digg"
    (Even though the evidences proves it's true)
  • elitedw, on 09/27/2008, -0/+4Like Bill Maher has said continually the past year... George Dubla still has one *****-up left in him.
    • LenBaird, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2At what point do we all agree that "*****-ups" don't happen repeatedly with the same results. Less for us, more for them. Power, and money to the executive branch and corporations, freedom and money away from everyone else. Always following an emergency that they created or allowed to happen.
  • NotYourProdigy, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Nice catch, Stewart. That's why I pay your advertisers the big bucks.
  • Earendil1, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2I am in Germany, and I can watch it.
  • Olfster, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Anyone notice the re-elect Ted Steves google ad at the bottom. LOL. Hmm I bet there are tons of likely Ted Stevens supporters that read huffingtonpost.com. No wonder it took him all weekend to receive his email. His staff consists of a bunch of computer illiterate cave people running his campaign. I sure hope his lawyer is slightly better.
  • crazyhorse1972, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2I said this several days ago. He's pulling the wool over everyone's eyes and Dems are going along with it for fear of being labeled unpatriotic or in this case irresponsible and partisan. The pattern is clear and the speech shown here is just icing, not the meat of the issue.
  • crackberri, on 09/27/2008, -2/+0Who?
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