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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU

I'm an airplane.

I hate John Oliver -- almost as much as I hate SF_Gold

Everyone here hates him, that's why you have him.

Cheers for taking Morgan too.

Meh. Once I'm finished watching TWD and start my new job, I'll think about it.

Joking aside, it just dawned on me that Gold probably doesn't have Comcast.

I have Prodigy Infinitum. However, I still think that net neutrality is wrong.

Decided to found a telecom next, have we?

Seriously, though. Between the socialist option of requiring companies to fulfil their contractual obligation of providing their customers with the service for which they've paid, and the free market option of letting openly-colluding government-granted monopolies extort economic rents out of small businesses under penalty of being excluded from the market, I'm glad you've come down on the side of the free market.

Hail Capital

Hail Satan

I mean, it's just so obvious that the former head lobbyist for the telecom industry should be the one drafting these legislations, since he's so much more familiar with the challenges of running a telecom than the ordinary man. We also shouldn't fault Obama for being close friends with the CEO of Comcast, since I'm sure they were friends long before Obama entered politics. How dare John Oliver imply the luxury resort-style treatment Obama and his largest donors receive at the Comcast CEO's house during their frequent social visits has anything at all to do with it. I'm sure Brian Roberts and Barack Obama were best friends long before Obama decided to enter politics, as you would fully expect since their social circles (born-billionaire white Philadelphian and poor black Hawaiian) overlap so nicely

Hmm, this kind of lays to rest the president's whole image as a 'progressive reformer', doesn't it?

Aside from campaign promises (which were far more ambitious than appropriate for the political capital of a new president, and apparently not congruent with the kind of donations he received either), I'm actually no longer sure that all that sure he ever deserved that image. I suppose there's the PPACA, but even in this case it seems that for every 'entitlement' expanded to the citizenry, there also exists an even bigger one for the insurance companies.

I like how certain people praise(d) him as the Messiah, even though he's just, well

Eh, the only person I've heard refer to Obama as the "Messiah" would be Rush Limbaugh (and his ditto-heads).

Okay, and apparently Barbara Walters.

Well, I stopped reading the webcomic Sinfest in early 2009 because every other strip was about how Obama was going to deliver us from Evil and Corporations. But I repeat myself.

(Incidentally, that comic has supposedly turned really weird in the past few years so I'm glad I jumped off the wagon at that stage)

Among other things.

Obama really illustrates just how racist the Republican base is, because despite all of their hand-wringing they literally could not ask for a more Republican executive.

I still don't understand why this thread is addressed towards me.

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I feel dirty now; this thread's not about you, Gold.

Why? I've only seen him on The Daily Show before (where he took over hosting the show for Jon Stewart who was in Jordan filming his movie) and I thought he was fine.

Morgan is definitely a tosser, as you might say.

I find him to be quite humorous. His new show is actually quite good.

Somebody tell me this isn't funny:

Sorry, don't know how to play this video :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bml8KwCmob8

He might have gotten better, but 10 years ago he was supremely unfunny.

John Oliver is funny, dickfaces.

John Oliver's impressions make me cringe. Not because he's bad at doing them, but because his normal voice is funnier.

Couldn't stand Jon Stewart's impressions either. Because he was bad at doing them.

I can just picture it now.

An overworked, underpaid writer in the back room at The Daily Show, pressing his forehead into his balled fists and sweating bullets over a blank piece of paper.

"We show the clip of Bush scratching his armpit and then the photoshop of him as a monkey, but then what? Think, man, think! ...Jon Stewart pretends to be a nasally Italian New Yorker. No, ****, we did that right before commercial. Oh! I've got it! Then, Jon Stewart pretends to be an even more nasally Jerry Lewis!! Yes, my bonus is safe again!"

Okay, I already liked the guy based on TDS, but this interview (which I got to via related links on youtube) strikes a perfect harmony of hilariousness and somber acuity to me:
Sorry, don't know how to play this video :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8lJ85pfb_E