EPISODE NUMBER: 9149 (Sept 16, 2013)
GUEST: Andrew Bacevich
SEGMENTS: Intro - 9/16/13 | Lehman Brothers Anniversary & Economic Recovery | The Word - The Guilted Age | Miss America 2013 | Sign Off - Financial Crisis Anniversary Cake
CHARACTER BREAK: Miss America 2013 (03:38 - 03:55)
SUIT REPORT: Black pinstripe suit | White shirt | Red tie with polka dots
VIDEOS: Monday, September 16, 2013
Okay, Strangers With Candy fans, who does this remind you of?
Intro - 9/16/13
“Tonight, are Americans abusing the Social safety net? And can I be the one that loads them into the Social safety cannon? Then, controversy at the Miss America pageant. Miss North Dakota’s talent was fracking. … And my guest Andrew Bacevich is a retired Army Colonel who believes in mandatory National service. I will dodge the interview by fleeing to Canada.
NPR is cutting it’s staff by 10%, so enjoy this week’s edition of ‘Wait, Wait, Don’t Fire Me’! This is The Colbert Report.”
Lehman Brothers Anniversary & Economic Recovery
Stephen got a cake for the 5th anniversary of the Lehman Bros collapse that brought about the world financial crisis of 2008. It’s a bunch of cakes bundled and sold as a derivative.
“Fair warning, there may be some poop in there…but it’s mostly cake” (mouths “It’s not cake”)
It’s been five years but not much has changed.
“It seems like just yesterday that bankers were taking unlimited risks with America’s money, because they were also doing it yesterday.”
It turns out 95% of the income gains that were made since the collapse of ’08, were made by the 1%.
Fun fact: I will never get that image of Miley Cyrus out of my head now that it’s in there. (shiver)
The Word - The Guilted Age
Conservative pundits are calling welfare recipients moochers and think we should stigmatize recipients of food stamps. What else is new?
Geraldo: You know what can be considered disability…your back hurts or you have a mood disorder.
Bill: Mood disorder?
Stephen: A mood disorder?? I mean who has a mood disorder?
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BRILLIANT!!
Last few shows, Stephen and crew have gotten really edgy and that’s saying something considering it’s always been an edgy show. Consider this below, referring to disabled people drowning after being thrown in a river.
A man in Portland sent out flyers to residents of some neighborhoods in the area, in which he threatened to list all the names of the people who receive disability benefits so the taxpayers will all know who they are. Lovely.
For some reason, he thinks they shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Nice witch hunt.
Miss America 2013
A little eye candy for just about everyone in this cap. YAY!! Character break!
The winner of Miss America 2013 is a woman of Indian descent, yet it didn’t stop anyone from calling her a Muslim extremist terrorist.
Someone in the media who is not relevant, interviewed someone else in the public eye who is not relevant about the tattoos on the Miss America contestants. He doesn’t think they should have tattoos.
“Clearly Donald Trump doesn’t believe in any body modification. He has not changed a thing since the day he was born. He is still babbling unintelligibly and covered in orange goo.”
Andrew Bacevich
Mr Bacevich thinks that young people should be required to either serve in the military or around the country and in their communities. It will reduce the number of wars. I doubt it. The rich will just get out of service.
Stephen makes a good point about having our military invade our military complex to bring democracy to our military.
Stephen: Do you think our present military system is democratic?
Andrew: I think it is fundamentally undemocratic.
Stephen: If our military system is undemocratic then my instinct is to have our military invade our military system to bring democracy to it.
He’s not necessarily in favor of the draft, but rather a National Service requirement. It’s a great idea, but even he acknowledges it would be a tough sell.
He doesn’t like it when people say “Thanks for your service” to military members. You should do more than just say thanks.
Good guest!
I love that Stephen has been acknowledging his fans all over the world in the opening of the show lately. It’s good that he does, because it seems that the international fans are some of the most passionate. Maybe having to clamor for access to the show makes the fan-heart grow fonder. Or Stephen represents all the good characteristics that people generally admire about America. In that ballpark.
Also, an awesome Word once again. A fantastic almost audible slap at Bill O’Reilly and his cynicism about the disabled. Ouch. Poor Papa Bear.
I liked this guest a lot better than Thurs’ guest. He made some strong points, although as Stephen noted, the idea of national service is never popular with the demo actually tasked with doing it. I know the national service requirement is generally hated in countries that require it. People do anything they can to get out of it - I don’t think our peeps here in the U.S. would be much different.
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I agree with the lovely CN Helper - ‘The Word’ was awesome. “Blessed are the meek, but what a bunch of, ya know…losers.” Haha! It is frustrating that some conservatives are very negative about welfare issues and sometimes, just down-right misinformed. Brilliant segment, as always!
How great was it when Stephen cracked up for moment during the Miss America segment?! Fantastic!
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Thanks Clem. What’s worse is that as the year comes to and end, we’ll have to figure out what the best Word is. It’s unenviable task; they’ve all been stellar lately!
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Wow. Now that will be a very difficult decision!
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A new Word, a nice dig at Donald Trump and a character break. What a nice way to start the week.
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