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Speaker 2: October fourteenth, two thousand and eight.
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Speaker 1: This is the Daily Show with James Towards.
Speaker 4: Why do you go over and welcome for the show?
Speaker 2: Why did you shown Stoart?
Speaker 5: We are ticking it tonight old school Bush administration.
Speaker 2: Ari Fleisher's going to be joining us.
Speaker 5: President Bush's first press secretary back when they were still
Speaker 5: trying to cover up the lies.
Speaker 2: Now they don't even care.
Speaker 5: They don't even have Dana Barno just goes up there
Speaker 5: and goes, yeah, you got us. This man was the
Speaker 5: master speaking of still President Bush. Despite the frothy Turnburger
Speaker 5: that he is going to be leaving in Washington, the
Speaker 5: race to succeed him continues, and with the economy dominating voters' minds,
Speaker 5: you can imagine what the Maverick campaign is talking about.
Speaker 2: Who is the real Barack Obama.
Speaker 6: Someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pall around
Speaker 6: with terrorists, who will put our country first. Senator Obama
Speaker 6: decided to cast a vote to not fund my son
Speaker 6: when he was serving in.
Speaker 2: The living room of a domestic terrorist.
Speaker 6: A vote for Senator Obama will leave this country at risk,
Speaker 6: just once. I would love to hear Barack Obama say
Speaker 6: he wants America to win.
Speaker 2: And why won't he tell us he doesn't molest children?
Speaker 2: What are we supposed to think?
Speaker 5: It's a coordinated attack by the McCain Palin campaign designed
Speaker 5: to stir up anger and fear.
Speaker 2: But will it work?
Speaker 6: I'm man, I really man, I'm more scared of an
Speaker 6: Obama presidency.
Speaker 2: My god, he's done it. But see, there's a there's
Speaker 2: a little bit of a problem here.
Speaker 5: Any mad scientists will tell you there's a point where
Speaker 5: your excitement over the monster you've created coming to life
Speaker 5: damps down a little bit. It's usually around the time
Speaker 5: when that monster starts breaking all the in your lab. Hey, Igor,
Speaker 5: does this have.
Speaker 2: An off switch on it?
Speaker 4: Is it.
Speaker 6: Help?
Speaker 2: And there's another complication.
Speaker 5: If you've raised the monster to fear and despise fire,
Speaker 5: it's awfully hard to convince the monster that fire can
Speaker 5: also be very useful in cooking.
Speaker 6: I have to tell you he is a decent person
Speaker 6: and a person that you do not have to be
Speaker 6: scared as president of the United States.
Speaker 2: Now, I just now, I just now, look.
Speaker 4: I.
Speaker 2: See I miss smoking.
Speaker 5: But the very war first thing about creating a monster
Speaker 5: has got to be you never know when the monster
Speaker 5: is going to turn.
Speaker 3: I can't trust Obama. I have read about him, and
Speaker 3: he's not He's not he's a.
Speaker 7: He's an Arab.
Speaker 6: He is not no no man, no man, He's a
Speaker 6: He's a He's a decent family man, citizen that I
Speaker 6: just happened to have disagreements with.
Speaker 5: You know what, Give me the Mike Frankenstein. Just give
Speaker 5: it the Mike, Mike Frankenstein's monster. Did you see him
Speaker 5: in that club, ma'am? I was with you when you
Speaker 5: said you couldn't trust him. But the Arab comment, that's
Speaker 5: not gonna help.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: Austin Monby has been out on the campaign trail covering
Speaker 5: the rallies.
Speaker 2: He joins us. Now, Austin, thanks for joining us. You
Speaker 2: were at the McCain Palin.
Speaker 5: You're at the rally where Senator McCain said that he
Speaker 5: believed that Barack Obama is not an Arab but a
Speaker 5: decent family man.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 1: Thanks?
Speaker 3: John Well, First off to state the obvious, being an
Speaker 3: Arab and being a decent family man are not mutually exclusive.
Speaker 1: It absolutely could happen.
Speaker 3: I guess what I'm saying is there's no mathematical reason
Speaker 3: why someone of Arab descent could not somehow also love
Speaker 3: his family.
Speaker 5: Are you saying, From the sound of what you're saying,
Speaker 5: you're saying this has never happened.
Speaker 2: I don't know of.
Speaker 3: Any cases, not in the America I live in. But
Speaker 3: then again, you know, I wouldn't have thought there could
Speaker 3: be a two headed total either. And then last week
Speaker 3: I turned on Animal Planet and boom.
Speaker 2: There it is.
Speaker 5: Let me start this again, as if uh, okay, you
Speaker 5: would agree that there exists in the world decent family
Speaker 5: men plenty, and you would agree there are Arabs. God, yes,
Speaker 5: you'd agree there are then Arabs who are decent family men.
Speaker 2: I'm not following, all right, let me let me all right,
Speaker 2: let's let's flip this.
Speaker 5: Would you agree at least that there are people who
Speaker 5: are neither Arabs nor decent family men.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, They're called Italians.
Speaker 5: Wait, okay, listen, listen, listen, let me get back to
Speaker 5: the issue. There's a lot of levels of crazy here, Okay, okay.
Speaker 5: One is correcting misconceptions about Senator Obama, right. The other
Speaker 5: is assigning a negative connotation of those misconceptions. You know,
Speaker 5: Barack Obama's not an Arab, He's a decent man. What's
Speaker 5: wrong with being Arab?
Speaker 2: Nothing.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying I don't want a Muslim Arab terrorist
Speaker 3: for my president, whether one of them is running or not.
Speaker 2: Right, But that's here's my point.
Speaker 5: What's happening here is basically it's going Obama equals Arab
Speaker 5: equals Muslim equals terrorists.
Speaker 3: Slow down, Harvard. I'm not a math guy, but see that's.
Speaker 2: What I mean.
Speaker 5: This is like there is a pride in ignorance, Yes,
Speaker 5: and don't.
Speaker 2: We deserve a voice.
Speaker 1: Who the ignorant?
Speaker 3: This campaign speaks for us, the people that shouldn't necessarily speak,
Speaker 3: and and I, for one salute them with a with
Speaker 3: a hearty.
Speaker 5: His thank you very much, anvi a Mondhu back qu
Speaker 5: as we saw earlier, Senator McCain has tried a variety
Speaker 5: of techniques to get the straight talk Express back on
Speaker 5: the highway to victory with enough electoral fuel.
Speaker 2: And it's right now he's losing.
Speaker 5: Fear card hasn't worked, PW Card, Maverick card, campaign, suspension card,
Speaker 5: crazy based, Lady Vice President Card not a good hand.
Speaker 2: But this weekend idea, Senator Graham.
Speaker 6: Mike Allen of Politico says that Senator McCain is considering
Speaker 6: invading some new economic proposals.
Speaker 1: Do you know anything about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to talk this afternoon.
Speaker 6: It will be a very comprehensive approach to jumpstart the economy.
Speaker 2: Ooh, the economy, I hear, that's quite a hot topic.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately, later that day, McCain's advisors total porters that they
Speaker 5: quote did not know why Lindsey Graham had said that,
Speaker 5: and that they weren't going to announce any new proposals,
Speaker 5: with McCain's policy advisor saying I have no comment on
Speaker 5: anything to anybody, adding I said good day.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: Obviously this sounds a little schizophrenic, but it's all part
Speaker 5: of their new campaign slogan, we know how to fix
Speaker 5: the economy.
Speaker 2: No, we don't shut up. You don't shut up again.
Speaker 5: Away for the McCain campaign did have a game changer
Speaker 5: up its sleeve.
Speaker 2: John McCain unveiling a new stump speech, Today's.
Speaker 3: John McCain hits the reset, but the comeback starts now.
Speaker 1: Clear signs that Senator McCain is changing his rhetoric.
Speaker 8: Coming up everybody.
Speaker 5: The new John McCain, call it John McCain four point zero.
Speaker 6: McCain is expected to win, veil a new kind of
Speaker 6: fiery Stump speech.
Speaker 5: The new Stump speech is here, the new Stump peaches here, Honey, honey,
Speaker 5: get the kids.
Speaker 4: The new Stump speeches.
Speaker 5: I wonder where a new Stump speech ranks on the
Speaker 5: excitement over the unveiling of new things scale.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 5: I think it's probably somewhere between a new machine that
Speaker 5: makes gold.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's in between soup of the day and soup
Speaker 4: of the mun And so, ladies and gentlemen, I give
Speaker 4: you the new, new, new, new New.
Speaker 6: I know what fear feels like. It's a thief in
Speaker 6: the night, robs your strength. I know what hopelessness feels like.
Speaker 6: It's an enemy who defeats your will.
Speaker 5: I know what an enlarged prostate feels like. It's a
Speaker 5: fiery demon that.
Speaker 2: Takes the joy out of living.
Speaker 6: I will veto every single pork barrel bill Congress passes.
Speaker 2: I will make them famous.
Speaker 5: And know their names. I think I've heard this brand
Speaker 5: new speech before. I think it was at the Republican Convention.
Speaker 2: I will veto it.
Speaker 6: I will make them famous and you will know their names.
Speaker 2: You will know their names all right.
Speaker 5: Obviously he's going to keep his catchphrase. This new speech
Speaker 5: can't be that similar to that one.
Speaker 2: We'll start, We'll thrill them now.
Speaker 6: We're gonna stop sending seven dollars a year to trace it.
Speaker 2: Don't that don't likes very much.
Speaker 6: Will invest in all energy alternatives, nuclear wins side solar,
Speaker 6: natural steam, coal technology. We will encourage the manufacture of
Speaker 6: hybrid next to you elecflectric automobiles. My friends, I can
Speaker 6: hardly wait until eight introduced sir to Washington, d C.
Speaker 6: I've been fighting for this country since I was seventeen
Speaker 6: years old.
Speaker 2: I have the stars to prove it.
Speaker 6: Fight for what's right for our unstring, fight for the
Speaker 6: ideas of the party Waite, fight for our children's future.
Speaker 1: We never hide from the history.
Speaker 3: We we hisstream.
Speaker 8: His supporters are going to be so mad when they
Speaker 8: find out he recycles. In fact, the only new bit
Speaker 8: of business in this firing new thumb speech was that
Speaker 8: McCain's now behind in the polls, and he let people
Speaker 8: know how comfortable he is with that position.
Speaker 6: You know what they forgot, They forgot to let you decide.
Speaker 6: My friends, we've got them just where we want them.
Speaker 5: Here's what we're going to do, my friends, We're gonna
Speaker 5: let Obama win.
Speaker 2: Okay, now, listen up. Then he's gonna get sworn in.
Speaker 5: We'll let him run the country for three maybe four years.
Speaker 8: And that's when we spring the trap.
Speaker 5: Is anyone really dope enough to fall for this being
Speaker 5: a new speech?
Speaker 2: And so there is the speech.
Speaker 1: It is not the usual stumped speech by John McCain.
Speaker 7: That'll be right back. Welcome back by death tonight. Here
Speaker 7: was the White House Press secretary under.
Speaker 2: President George W.
Speaker 5: Bush from two thousand and one to two thousand and three.
Speaker 2: Please welcome back to the show. All right, fly sir, sir,
Speaker 2: all right, battle down unruly mob that's been enraged by me.
Speaker 5: Here's what I think is going on in the election.
Speaker 5: And you tell me, here's what I believe the McCain
Speaker 5: Pailing ticket is doing. They're acting erratically, they're acting irresponsibly
Speaker 5: to convince the voters that they're actually Democrats, because no
Speaker 5: one will vote for a Republican in this environment.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's right.
Speaker 2: What do you make of this? This seems insane?
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I'm glad I'm a happily retired
Speaker 1: man from active duty politics. This has been a tough
Speaker 1: one for any Republican to watch. This is a very
Speaker 1: bad year for Republicans. I hate to say it. This
Speaker 1: country really wants change, and John McCain is fighting his
Speaker 1: hardest to make himself the change element. Huge uphill climb
Speaker 1: three weeks Togo. Anything can happen, especially in this year,
Speaker 1: but it's tough.
Speaker 5: What would you do if you're if you're advising them,
Speaker 5: and I don't want to say, how do you put
Speaker 5: lipstick on that pig?
Speaker 2: Because obviously that's.
Speaker 5: Sexist, So let me try something slightly different.
Speaker 2: How do you refume this turd? How do you What
Speaker 2: would you say to them? What would you listen? John?
Speaker 2: What should they do?
Speaker 1: John Mccainn's best chance to win this selection is for
Speaker 1: the stock market to continue to go up, for people
Speaker 1: to start to think that something has been put in
Speaker 1: place to reverse the economy, and then to really focus
Speaker 1: on economic issues. If I were John McCain and make
Speaker 1: himself the change element, and I think he can open
Speaker 1: up a front against Barack Obama. My problem with Barack
Speaker 1: Obama is really twofold one is massive redistribution of income
Speaker 1: proposal he would have under his policy, it's about forty
Speaker 1: five percent of this country would no longer pay any
Speaker 1: income tax.
Speaker 2: Socialist.
Speaker 1: Well, I know where you're going to say, he says,
Speaker 1: with George Bush is for so I'm not going to
Speaker 1: go that direction.
Speaker 2: I know you are going.
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna say, because it is funny to see
Speaker 5: people going, we're going to become socialists.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, we've just nationalized the bank.
Speaker 1: I told Jim, I knew you're Oh, I know. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, but you can't have a country that's gonna
Speaker 1: be strong if you've got about forty five percent of
Speaker 1: the country that is excused from paying income tax.
Speaker 5: Isn't isn't capital gains changes, isn't changing the investor class,
Speaker 5: tax policies, redistribution of wealth just in a different direction.
Speaker 2: I mean, this whole idea of.
Speaker 5: We're not a free market system. There are puppeteers. It's
Speaker 5: just a question of which.
Speaker 2: Hand they're pulling the string on.
Speaker 5: And after this many years of the investor class and
Speaker 5: the very rich really dominating and expanding that gap, is
Speaker 5: it socialist to say, Hey, maybe the guy struggling in
Speaker 5: the middle class, maybe we should cut his tax if
Speaker 5: I were.
Speaker 1: If I were convinced that redistribution. But if I thought
Speaker 1: that redistribution of income to the extremes that it's being
Speaker 1: proposed would accomplish that, then who would be against that?
Speaker 2: Now we're just arguing at price?
Speaker 1: Then well, we're arguing whether or not it's right for
Speaker 1: forty five percent of this country not to pay any
Speaker 1: income tax.
Speaker 5: If you well, if you were to say that, for
Speaker 5: them to put up with trickle down economics and for
Speaker 5: eight years have being told, hey, man, don't worry, stay there,
Speaker 5: it's gonna get wet soon.
Speaker 2: And it never gets wet. What if somebody new comes
Speaker 2: in and goes make it right? You know what I mean?
Speaker 5: That's all that Now I thought, Let me ask you this.
Speaker 5: Do you what do you think of this Governor Palin?
Speaker 5: I know that you've spoken highly of her.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: What do you like about her?
Speaker 1: I like, Governor Palin.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, and I say.
Speaker 5: This as a with great respect for your political acumen.
Speaker 1: Why three reasons? Okay, One because I'm a conservative, okay.
Speaker 1: Two is because I like people to come in change Washington,
Speaker 1: shake it up and three. She gives you a lot
Speaker 1: of good material.
Speaker 2: How is she? How is she changing Washington?
Speaker 5: Because my sense of her is she won't take any
Speaker 5: questions from anybody, so she's not very transparent and she's
Speaker 5: involved in an abuse of power scandal.
Speaker 2: So how does she when she goes to Washington? Isn't
Speaker 2: she just like I mean, I'm just saying, isn't she
Speaker 2: just she's a dinner theater version of bush chaining? Is
Speaker 2: he not?
Speaker 6: I mean?
Speaker 2: Or is that.
Speaker 7: Out of time?
Speaker 1: And by the way, you have to recognize one thing.
Speaker 1: Cheney gets to stay. It doesn't matter who the vice
Speaker 1: president is, Toby Obama, Cheney not Obama. He just comes
Speaker 1: with the place he stays.
Speaker 2: You're saying he's literally a barnacle. But do you get
Speaker 2: my point? You know, she keeps saying, who's Barack Obama? Well,
Speaker 2: who are you? We met you six weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Look here, here's what I think the issue was with her.
Speaker 1: When Barack Obama began his candidacy twenty months ago. All
Speaker 1: the same arguments against her could have been used against
Speaker 1: some inexperience, et cetera. Too long a state center, not
Speaker 1: a United States senator. He had twenty months to prove
Speaker 1: himself in the public's eye. That's what he's had the
Speaker 1: advantage of doing. Now she hasn't had that long chance
Speaker 1: to prove herself without the scrutiny because he got it
Speaker 1: scrutiny free for the first few months of the primary especially.
Speaker 1: But she will you put a similar spot?
Speaker 2: She would?
Speaker 1: Well, I think right now, it's so super intense. And
Speaker 1: look at your show, John, Everything you showed was against
Speaker 1: McCain and Palin. You didn't show any of the things
Speaker 1: about Obama today or Biden today.
Speaker 5: There is our journalistic ethics exactly. No, all right, well
Speaker 5: let's let's how would you let's let's let's flip the script.
Speaker 1: She's taking all the scrutiny that Obama didn't take for
Speaker 1: the media.
Speaker 2: All right, My TVO says no, But all right, let's
Speaker 2: flip the script.
Speaker 5: Let's say you're a guy, you're a Democrat, and you
Speaker 5: are planning how you would attack Sarah Palin?
Speaker 2: Would you take the patriotism route? You would with her secessionists?
Speaker 1: She's running for vice president. It's like attacking Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: You don't.
Speaker 1: It's not relevant to who's going to lead American's either
Speaker 1: going to be John McCann or Barack Obama, and that's
Speaker 1: where both Canada should focus.
Speaker 5: So you don't think the person who might be in
Speaker 5: the secondary position should be looked at even when they've
Speaker 5: just appeared.
Speaker 1: Of course they should be looked at. But the point is,
Speaker 1: no presidential campaign should focus on the number two. If
Speaker 1: Barack Obama takes his eyes off John mcca, I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like, make a mistake as the group.
Speaker 5: Would you get her on the secessionist party in Alaska,
Speaker 5: like take that patriotism route, or would you.
Speaker 2: Go with the the religious religious?
Speaker 5: She had the witchcraft guy in her church and the
Speaker 5: Jews for Jesus guy. You could take the high road
Speaker 5: and just get her for her utter lack of experience.
Speaker 1: But that would apply to Barack Obama. So you wouldn't
Speaker 1: let me do that.
Speaker 5: But he has would you agree he's at least been
Speaker 5: vetted by an electorate.
Speaker 1: Well, that's my point. He's at twenty months where his
Speaker 1: job was being a candidate. But he has less experience
Speaker 1: than her. Of course in terms of any executive judgments.
Speaker 1: He's ever cast. He's never been in executive position, and she,
Speaker 1: of course also she of course also is the hot
Speaker 1: most popular governor of any state in the country, both
Speaker 1: the Democrats and Republicans in Alaska. I've her eighty percent
Speaker 1: job approval right now, that's for no reason?
Speaker 2: What reason?
Speaker 1: No, No, you're like her when they've.
Speaker 2: Seen in Alaska because they know her. No, I get it.
Speaker 5: So you feel that it's not a reflection on McCain's.
Speaker 5: He made the argument that it was all about experience,
Speaker 5: that Barack Obama was dangerously inexperienced. And then he picks
Speaker 5: Sarah Palin, who is I guess intriguingly inexperienced.
Speaker 2: Do you miss it?
Speaker 5: Would you if they called you up and said, hey, man,
Speaker 5: we need you. Your expertise in this is unparalleled, come
Speaker 5: and come and help us.
Speaker 1: That's why I have call her.
Speaker 5: I d.
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