OMG - Jon Stewart Gets Actual Hostage Negotiator To Deal With GOP

[tomm2thumbs]

This clip is so on-point, it makes all of the news reporting elsewhere look like amateur hour.

Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones brings in an actual hostage negotiator try and help him negotiate with a Republican strategist to unearth what the GOP’s political demands are during this government shutdown.

When she said 'Obamacare is one of the worst things ever to happen to the country', he retorts to the obvious, “Do you remember f*cking slavery?!”

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This one is a keeper -





* in case YouTube video vanishes, adding link to original as back-up
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/daily-show-enlists-an-actual-hostage-negotiator-to-get-through-to-gop-strategist-on-shutdown/

[cynatnite]

1. That repub strategist was just on MSNBC before this aired...

She was totally clueless.

[robinlynne]

11. She is real?

[gabeana]

14. I know

I was thinking it was fake, no one could be this stupid, but after all there is the GOP

[cynatnite]

21. Her name is Noelle Nikpour...

She's been on MSNBC more than once. It was either yesterday or the day before when she was on TV. She's hard to listen to.

[Gothmog]

28. I have seen her on MSNBC before

She has been on MSNBC before. She is a reliable tea party type who gets interviewed about tea party issues

[Flatpicker]

2. I like it.

I'm pretty amazed by the way Jason has been handling this issue.

This is the 2nd or 3rd time he's broken character in an interview. I like it, but, it's going to limit how many interviews they get if he keeps straight up calling them out.

Though, if all the press did it, then they wouldn't have a choice of venues when they try to spew their nonsensical tripe.

[chelsea0011]

29. There will always be teabaggers to find. They don't care what environment they are in.

They are so sure of their beliefs that they think no one can make fun of them. I'm sure she was sitting there thinking how stupid he will look to the public when this comes out.

[berni_mccoy]

3. K&R

[Stargazer09]

4. "It's not a f***ing game!"

Says it all right there.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. It's like when Orwell talked about "orgasmic victory".....

The GOP hasn't had anything but defeat after defeat which is driving them crazy. They keep thinking it's their TURN to win at SOMETHING. They put everything they had into an anti-Obamacare campaign and they can't admit it's OVER and they LOST because they were WRONG.

Remember Fonzie on "Happy Days" being unable to say he was wrong?

[Stargazer09]

13. I'm so tired

Of all of these games. People are SUFFERING! And Congress thinks it's just a game.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. The Democrats ASSUME the Republicans will give in,...

....as soon as the IDIOTS on the other side learn that "government" isn't the evil monster they thought it was.

What they don't take into account is those people can't SEE facts. They are blinded by their ideology and united in their hate.

[Stargazer09]

18. Agreed

This is not likely to end well. I'm not looking forward to what happens next.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. We actually have people in office raised to think it's their job to tear things up.

[Gothmog]

5. Jason Jones was in great form

This was a great episode last night. Earlier Jon took apart the GOP claim that they are not responsible for the shutdown

[BillyRibs]

6. The diffrence here is,

You can't shoot the hostage taker.

[Dragonfli]

10. That is it exactly, you can't even arrest the hostage taker and detain him to protect the hostage

[Dragonfli]

8. I liked the negotiator's comments

like when he stated this "in my twenty some years in this business, I have never witnessed anything like this".

I wish we could fight these domestic terrorists as seriously as we would any others that threaten the lives and security of our nation and it's citizens.

We should be able to do something other than allow them to threaten us with economic mass destruction as if it were legal to do so.
In short, we should be able to arrest and try them for their extortion and threats like would normally happen if they were not politicians that are somehow not bound by our laws.

If they could prove in court they are innocent of threatening devastation in order to have their demands met then they could be vindicated, but I believe enough evidence exists for a conviction if only they were not above the law.

When a subset of people are held above the law as are many these days in the US, then there is no civilized method to protect us from the criminals and terrorists that hold such status. Our only choice then is victimization or mob justice, and ironically unlike us, the terrorists in question enjoy very powerful militarized protection from mob justice (a bad option to resort to pitchforks and torches, but without even that we are left with nothing but to be helpless victims).

[BlancheSplanchnik]

17. so well said

And so true.

[canoeist52]

9. "I'm a pundit and I debate things" Nicole Nikpour interview

At first, I thought she was one of the The Daily Show's actors - but then...

[Stargazer09]

12. What an idiot

Funny how she had to go right when she was asked about farm aid.

[tomm2thumbs]

24. wriggling like a worm on a hotplate

and too stupid to know she's being seen for her ignorance

sounds all too GOP bwahahahaha

[pam4water]

31. Great find.

[progressoid]

35. OMG. It must be painful to have her brain.

[BootinUp]

37. Not really, reason why is

she lets other people put their thoughts in there with no problem. So she doesn't have to think much.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

16. oh wow!! thank you!!!

Gotta watch later.

[LiberalLovinLug]

20. Its not a fucking game!

Wow the stupid really hurts watching her.

But on a serious note, once again there is no reasons given when she is asked why it is harmful to, say, small business. Just a generic.."it will be the worst thing to ever happen.."

What is scary is how die-hard GOP baggers like her actually think they are winning some game they have no clue about and still have this smug smirking attitude on top of it, inherited from the Decider.

[hedgehog]

22. I think this is the most frightening clip I have ever seen -

the hostage takers really want the hostage to die!

[frogmarch]

23. Brilliant!

And I'm sure not referring to that stupid ass republican!

[applegrove]

25. That was so well done. Jason Jones hit it

out of the ballpark.

[WCLinolVir]

26. What a **%^&((((&&&*.

[gopiscrap]

27. I love Jon Stewart

[mucifer]

30. I hope this video goes viral

[pam4water]

32. Even funnier and more insightful than I expected.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

33. She's a strategist?

I'm in the wrong line of work because that talent is lacking.

[thucythucy]

34. She actually says the ACA is unconstitional

because it WENT to the Supreme Court, regardless of how the Court actually decided!

Cluelessness of surreal proportions.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

38. Sadly, there are millions of Americans who would watch that and think she's

a genius. And Fox Noose and RW radio are making more of them every day. It doesn't matter that they are a tiny minority. Look at what they have accomplished.

It's infuriating and depressing that the RW propaganda campaign has been so brilliantly executed. Those people are so thoroughly brainwashed they can be convinced of anything, anything, the RW tells them, no matter how preposterous. And they will not only believe it, they will preach it.

We are doomed.

[BootinUp]

36. This is fucking brilliant1!111!!!!

I wish all the tea baggers could watch it, lol.

[malthaussen]

39. It makes an important point:

The hostage takers do not value the hostage, they want to kill it.

-- Mal