{"id":9570,"date":"2012-09-20T10:46:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T17:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9570"},"modified":"2012-09-20T10:45:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T17:45:39","slug":"daily-show-rips-romney-fox-news-in-instant-classic-chaos-on-bullshit-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9570","title":{"rendered":"Daily Show Rips Romney, Fox &#8216;News&#8217; in Instant Classic: &#8216;Chaos on Bullshit Mountain&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both <i>The Daily Show<\/i> and the <i>Colbert Report<\/i> have been absolutely <i>en fuego<\/i> this week in the wake of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2012\/09\/secret-video-romney-private-fundraiser\">Romney&#8217;s &#8220;47%&#8221; disaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But last night&#8217;s &#8220;Chaos on Bulls#%t Mountain,&#8221; on <i>The Daily Show<\/i>, documenting the crisis that has struck &#8220;Romney Election Headquarters (the Fox &#8220;News&#8221; Channel)&#8221; in the wake of the disaster, is almost certainly an instant classic. Part 2 (both are posted below) and its stinging final button, may be among the show&#8217;s <i>smartest<\/i> moments of all time.<\/p>\n<p>As <i>The Daily Show&#8217;s<\/i> website summarizes Part 1: &#8220;In the 48 hours since the Romney video first gained wide exposure, turd containment crews at Fox News have been working overtime on Bullshit Mountain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Jon Stewart concludes at the end of Part 2: &#8220;The biggest problem with the denizens of Bullshit Mountain, is they act like their shit don&#8217;t stink. If they have success, &#8216;they built it&#8217;. If they failed, the government ruined it for them. If they get a break, they deserve it. If <i>you<\/i> get a break, it&#8217;s a &#8216;handout&#8217; and an &#8216;entitlement&#8217;. It&#8217;s a baffling, willfully blind, cognitive dissonance, best summed up by their head coach, in what is, perhaps, my favorite sound bite of all time&#8230;&#8221; (You&#8217;ll have to watch to hear the sound bite)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center>Part 1&#8230;<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:419239\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part 2&#8230;<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:419241\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both The Daily Show and the Colbert Report have been absolutely en fuego this week in the wake of Romney&#8217;s &#8220;47%&#8221; disaster. But last night&#8217;s &#8220;Chaos on Bulls#%t Mountain,&#8221; on The Daily Show, documenting the crisis that has struck &#8220;Romney Election Headquarters (the Fox &#8220;News&#8221; Channel)&#8221; in the wake of the disaster, is almost certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,246,390,400,14,308,281],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-comedy-central","category-economy","category-election-2012","category-fox-news","category-jon-stewart","category-mitt-romney","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9570"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}