Jon Stewart finally addressed the fact that the Koch brothers have been advertising on The Daily Show, and welcomed them to the program last night.
Stewart played the ad we’ve been noticing — you may have too and wondered, like us, why the Koch brothers are trying to buy Stewart’s audience. Heck, Stewart should be flattered the Koch brothers thought it was important to make one of their opinion-swaying ad buys on on his faux news show.
“Koch Industries. Started in the heartland. We help make better food, clothing, shelter, technologies, and other necessities,” began Sweet Voiceover Lady, sounding like someone bringing us good news from a distant land, as happy factory workers smile at the camera, chemists too, and even an adorable, crawling, diapered baby.
“We build on each others ideas to create more opportunity for people everywhere. We are Koch,” she added.
“Clearly, the Koch brothers are trying to say to our audience of not yet dying-off voters: ‘Even though you may have heard certain things about the Koch brothers, how bad could they be?'” Stewart snickered. “I mean, if they were evil, would a baby agree to appear in one of their advertisements?”
To welcome them to The Daily Show family Stewart re-played their ad — with a new voiceover he’d provided.
OK.. Waiting for Jon to do one regarding George Soros….
EXACTLY! Kudos to the Koch brothers for having the guts to advertise in “enemy camp”
I try and stay away from all Koch owned products including the paper company they own. I wouldn’t wipe my hands on a paper towel, or wipe my ___ with the toilet paper they produce or even use their copy paper in my printer, I go out of my way to buy other brands.
Do you buy gasoline? (Koch Resources) Vehicles with airbags or lightweight plastic parts? (invista) Electronics?(Molex) Do you eat foods they are grown with fertilizer? (Koch Fertilizer) Congratulations, you are supporting a great company that creates value for society by providing products and services that improve peoples’ lives! :)
They said try dipshit
Yeah, “guts” is totally what those guys have. That’s why they did it.
What they have is money, and propaganda. Political advertising is not covered by truth in advertising laws. The Citizens United decision by the five Republican appointees on the Supreme Court is a cancer on our democracy.
Really?!!! The guts? These guys fear nothing because what they don’t already own, they can pretty much buy or control. What’s troubling is that you don’t get that their power IS interfering with your freedom! You’re so uninformed that you back them because they’re Republican. It’s people who listen to FOX as serious news that may just take this country to it’s knees, where it will be scooped up by power grabbing robber barrens who will rule you, and own you like slaves! Educate yourself or lose your country! It’s almost gone to these Kochs et al, so you better hurry and start objecting!
Really, care to look up the big donations Soros has made the last two election cycles? Freshen up your talking points bud, it isn’t 2008.
$1,746,627. Of which 252,670 to dnc, 147,216 to democratic senate campaign committee and 259,716 to democratic congress campaign committee.
David Koch totaled $2,224,170.
Sorry you are misinformed. Now you are not.
Well why do working ppl hate when rich ppl like George Soros want to raise their own taxes or when they support legislation that puts more regulations on them? So tell me why u would back ppl who want their taxes cut so you and I can pay for it?
Yeah, the problem is that Soros and his fellow rich libruls can afford whatever additional taxes that get placed on the rest of us on the way up. It’s a rounding error for Soros.
It’s also a rounding error to his balance sheet when he spends massive amount of money on political activities that are his proxies such as Media Matters.
You fail to grasp the essentials of economics. When you take a dollar out of the hands of a rich person who might otherwise invest it in a risky startup that will create employment and potential wealth, and redistribute it, sales of beer and pork rinds will bump up, but that’s about it.
Krumhorn, you’re the one showing lack of comprehension. Soros and a few others are lobbying for higher taxes for the very rich. Unless you are making $1 million+ a year, you would not see your taxes increase. if you ARE making that kind of money, you could easily afford to pay a bit more. Your last point is nonsense. Most rich folks aren’t running around investing in risky startups, they’re buying stocks in existing companies and firing the management unless they see earnings meet or exceed expectations. That sort of mindset breeds lack of innovation, and stresses short term profits at the expense of long term health.
Who is that?
Well, if George Soros ever produces a commercial…
Leave that to FOX “News”. Look up “Jon Stewart George Soros”.
Nobody on the left knows who George Soros is. He’s a total “Goldstein” to the right’s “Big Brother du Jour.” Soros isn’t a part of my thinking, sorry, lemmings.
Zzzzzz Wow, big stretch!
This isn’t a matter of “equal time” so your comment is stupid. It’s a matter of people Stewart rails against regularly buying time on his show. While he can’t control who Comedy Central allows to purchase ad time on the show not commenting on it would have made a him a hypocrite.
you really don’t think he has any say over his sponsors? that’s silly, he’s the most powerful on air personality on the network.
He’s taking their money — that makes him a hypocrite whether he comments on it or not
Looks like the U-North ad from Michael Clayton
The Koch’s buys ads on the “enemies” show not bc they think viewers need to know the company, but as a big fuck you to liberals. It’s the same reason they paid for the new ballet in liberal NYC.
The ballet is liberal?
Pretty much every liberal under the age of 30 watches Jon and Stephen on their laptops every evening, where we don’t have to see the Koch-suckers lame commercials. If they want to help Liberal arts with their money – not seeing a problem there. I’m 26 years old. The Koch’s are – what, in their 60’s? 10-15 years from now they (along with Rush and Bill) won’t be an issue anymore.
Lex Luthor says, “Even *I* am not *that* level of deluded! Why would these fool Koch Brothers spend money on advertising during a show that’s openly hostile to them when that money can be better spent on Gigantic Satellite Death Rays?!”
Looks like those scamps at Veridian Dynamics are at it again.
Liberals get their news and information on the Comedy Channel, that should tell you alot! Shallow thinker Jon just proved he is no better than the politicians he demeans.
Progressives view of life are completely distorted by their ideology, dismissal of human nature and their disregard of history. They are incapable of common sense.
Yeah, progressives are pretty messed up. The idea that all human beings are equal and that corporations shouldn’t control our democracy is just insane.
Thanks for your comment, Sam Cro. You made a ton of good points without generalizing an entire group of people you disagree with. And kudos for backing up your weird stream-of-conscious word salad with facts and proof.
Unlike “Shallow thinker Jon” you’ve got a lot of important, smart things to say. Keep up the good work! You’re winning the internet.
“Liberals get their news and information on the Comedy Channel, that should tell you alot!”
It does, but it takes a lot of time and effort to offset the “Selling of Smug” that media liberalism trades upon.
No, Sam Cro (figures you’d identify with a gang murdering m, Conservatives get their news from the comedy channel. It’s called Fox News. Conservatives have a xenophobic, hostile view of life and their fellow human beings. The only thing that motivates them is wanton greed and petty, bigoted malice. Conservatives stand in the way of progress (climate change, health care), never learn from history (witness Kansas trying the discredited trickle down economics of Reagan and tanking the entire state’s economy) and hide from the parts of history they don’t have the character to face (racism, sexism).
I take it by your comment that you’re an avid Fox News viewer or Rush Limbaugh Ditto-Head – Two of the biggest Conservative Propaganda machines out there that push their distorted ideology, dismiss human empathy and distort history in their own special way to suit their big-business overlords.
The only difference is that people who watch the Daily Show never showcases itself as anything other than a political satire show on a comedy network nor does it pretend that it’s “fair and balanced” – the people who watch that are intelligent enough to know this.
Even with that, the Daily Show is actually more impartial than most programming on Fox News as they skewer Democrats on a weekly basis.
amen
Thank you! and well said! I’m embarrassed for people who are so simple as to not see the satirical genius of Jon Stewart. Trouble is these people get to vote! Well at least that part is a Democracy in operation…well…except for the gerrymandered districts. Sigh!
Okay Jon: When will you mention that the Kock Brothers are 59th in giving to politicians, unlike the Unions (all), Tom Stern & George So ros who give billions to Democratic politicians to support liberal causes? They give much more $$$ for green & other environmental causes like Cap & Trade, Climate Change, etc????
Krumhorn, when you give the rich huge tax incentives, they never actually invest those savings so that it trickles down to the middle class. Jobs are created by consumer demand….THAT is who creates jobs, not businesses. When consumers stop spending, you get Dec 2008, Jan 2009….700,000 jobs lost. However, when you raise the minimum wage, every single extra cent gets spent at businesses, who can then hire more people…see how that works? Poor and middle class spend every paycheck, the rich sit on their money.
The Daily Show: exploiting feelings with no facts since 1999.
OK, but seriously, why is anyone praising this video, “like oh you nailed those Koch brothers!” The only fact he gave was that they are rich and they contribute a lot of money to political funding… OK. And that’s bad, because…? We do all realize that Obama raised more money in political funding than any president ever has, right? But that’s not bad–at least Stewart won’t say so. So basically, the point of this video is political funding is bad if you’re funding the party I disagree with. “Oh damn! Nailed it Stewart!!! You got them!”
People are idiots.
Did you watch the same video I did? Because the vast majority of facts in Stewart’s video were not about the Koch brothers’ political funding, but about their many other controversial activities. And if you ever bothered to watch Stewart’s show, you’d know he’s opposed to big money buying politicians in both parties.
I wonder how Jon Stewart’s skit would have gone in a world where the majority of newspapers and TV networks were more like Fox News rather than MSNBC; if Washington was abolishing many programs and cutting spending drastically and the Koch brothers were liberals who were legally working within the current system to try and elect liberals and get a liberal message out?
I wonder who he would demonize in this scenario?
Koch corporations are for the most part not operating in the best interest of the nation. Gasoline is still used to fuel cars in large part because of the insidious and twisted value system that they have adopted. I no longer attend their hampton’s parties as they are simply well, full of shit and rather celebrate with a better class of people. As far as buying elections and manipulating policy, everyone does this when they lobby or influence politicians to make way for projects that will benefit their interests. The issue here is the nefarious nature in which they use the system to that end. Shadow corporations set up for the purpose of increasing donation dollars to unfairly compete with others with opposing views who have chosen not to take financial manipulation steroids and play fairly. Unfortunately the people who support the Koch’s are often the very same people who have the most to lose because of them. That airbag in your car can also be made by someone else, if they would let someone else make it that is. I don’t use gasoline, solar powered electric only, what a lefty.
IS this real life?? What ever happen to letting capitalism work? IF alternate energy is of value it should take off on its own and not need to be sold to the people or stuffed down their throats like everything else the left feeds us because THEY say it is four our own good…
did stewart cash their check? if he cashed their check, then I don’t know how anyone can think he truly believes any of the stuff he is saying. Especially all his stuff about hypocrisy.