In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. In an apparent attempt to cover up the incident, the company then put her in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or a bed, and “warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she’d be out of a job.”
This year, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) proposed an amendment that would deny defense contracts to companies that ask employees to sign away the right to sue. It passed, but it wasn’t the slam dunk Jon Stewart expected. Instead the amendment received 30 nay votes all from Republicans. “I understand we’re a divided country, some disagreements on health care. How is ANYONE against this?” He asked.
Stewart goes on to show video of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) arguing that it’s not the government’s place to decide who the government does business with and juxtaposed that with Republican sentiment on how the government should deal with ACORN. “I guess it’s an efficiency thing. You don’t want to waste tax-payer money giving it to someone who advises fake prostitutes how to commit imaginary crimes, you want to give it to Halliburton because they’re committing real gang rape.”
So, Jon Stewart, is pure awesome. Stewart is somebody who actually holds people to what they say. Somebody who actually has the balls to go face to face with big business. The fact that he can do so and be funny makes him pure awesome.
The clip below shows Stewart calling out CNN “The world’s leader in breaking news delivery.” Not only does Stewart really pussify CNN, he goes on to prove their pointless existence if they are not there to provide news. I laughed rather hard watching this segment and had to clean my monitor also because I spit out my soda when John Oliver delivered his dialogue at the end.
Enjoy. Quit watching “news”. It really is just another sneaky method of advertising and entertainment. If you want news, read the paper or check out the BBC or Reuters online.
I’m so glad Jon Stewart is alive and doing what he does. This 6 min segment is one of his finest moments and I had to share it with you. Stewart does a great job at highlighting the partisan bs that the GOP is pushing right now. I really like how he compares what is happening now to how this would have been responded to under the bush administration! To question the government under bush (purposely left lower case) you would be labeled an evil-doer or a terrorist. I don’t think I’ll ever understand why both sides are so at each other’s throats all the time but it really does not help, in any way, the path that our country is heading. I could devote this entire site to partisan bs, but for all of our sake, I will not. I’ll leave that to our fabulous news industry.
We’re going to have to leave it right there
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009So, Jon Stewart, is pure awesome. Stewart is somebody who actually holds people to what they say. Somebody who actually has the balls to go face to face with big business. The fact that he can do so and be funny makes him pure awesome.
The clip below shows Stewart calling out CNN “The world’s leader in breaking news delivery.” Not only does Stewart really pussify CNN, he goes on to prove their pointless existence if they are not there to provide news. I laughed rather hard watching this segment and had to clean my monitor also because I spit out my soda when John Oliver delivered his dialogue at the end.
Enjoy. Quit watching “news”. It really is just another sneaky method of advertising and entertainment. If you want news, read the paper or check out the BBC or Reuters online.
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