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Jon Stewart's "America"

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by mc mark, Oct 4, 2004.

  1. mc mark

    mc mark Member

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    Just finished this over the weekend! Now that's some funny shiznit!

    :D

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    i ordered it last week, should be reading it on the pot by wednesday earliest.
     
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    I thought so highly of this book, while scanning it in the bookstore, I almost bought a copy. Then I regained my fiscal sanity and passed on it. Can't wait til the day I get out of college, starts making money, and be able to afford luxuries like spending $30 on a fiction. :(
     
  4. mc mark

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    That's why god created Amazon.com. $16 used!

    Hell! I'll sell you my copy for $15!

    :)
     
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    "with a foreword by Thomas Jefferson"

    HA
     
  6. outlaw

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    there's a picture of Yao Ming in it
     
  7. outlaw

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    Target sells it for 30% off the cover.
    so it's like 17 something
     
  8. outlaw

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    tonight's Daily Show correspondent segment deals with Elgin, Texas you know that crappy little town between Houston and Austin on 290 where the speed limit goes down to 30mph.
     
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    Only good things about Elgin are the dancehall and the link sausage they sell at the meatmarket.
     
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    I'm pretty sure it's Giddings where the speed limit drops to 30, not Elgin.
     
  11. outlaw

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    Oh yeah you're right. they still both suck though :)
     
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    SOLD!

    Seriously, email my moniker at gmail dot com and we can arrange details.
     
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    Indeed, but at least Elgin has some redeeming characteristics - Giddings only redeeming characteristic is the view on the way out of there.


    To get this back on track - Stewart has always seemed deceptively smart to me. He comes across on the show as a goofy host, so it seems as though he's not all there - but then somebody will come in spouting the party talking points and Stewart will half-self-deprecatively tear them apart.
     
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    Too true!

    Although the book is very funny, Stewart is deadly serious in a lot of what he has to say. It's funny in that "I can't believe this happens in America" kind of way.
     
  15. outlaw

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    the naked Supreme Court justices was just gross though.
     
  16. mc mark

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    andy

    check your email

    outlaw come on... you liked it...

    ;)
     
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    so is it just a whole book bashing bush the way the Daily Show does? or does it look at both sides?



    not that the Daily Show isn't hilarious, and not that Jon Stewart isn't hilarious, but it can get a bit tiring. it's like watching bill maher, except it's funny.
     
  18. outlaw

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    it bashes everyone in American history
     
  19. Puedlfor

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    to be fair, they went after Clinton when he was still around.
     
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    Giddings sucks.
     

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