# Jon Stewart calls the troops dumb
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 10, 2006, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842 "2006-11-10T06:16:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ted\_baskerville\_yahoo.com](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ted_baskerville_yahoo.com)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/1 "2006-11-10T06:16:36Z")
Or something.
In doing a segment on Rumsfeld, Stewart did a thing where he wore a military helmet and hid behind some sandbags. Then he did a dumb guy reacting to things Rumsfled said. He took the military helmet for the dumb guy thing. When he came back on he said I don’t know why I took the helmet off to play the dumb guy.
See.
He thinks that the people in the military are dumb.
Just another leftist.
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/2 "2006-11-10T06:23:17Z")
Hey, you started a Pit Thread! That means I can call you a fuckwit!
_happy dance_
Fuckwit.
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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/3 "2006-11-10T06:28:08Z")
[QUOTE=ted\_baskerville@yahoo.com]
Or something.
In doing a segment on Rumsfeld, Stewart did a thing where he wore a military helmet and hid behind some sandbags. Then he did a dumb guy reacting to things Rumsfled said. He took the military helmet for the dumb guy thing. When he came back on he said I don’t know why I took the helmet off to play the dumb guy.
See.
He thinks that the people in the military are dumb.
Just another leftist.
[/QUOTE]
Actually, it turns out, he was just giving \*you \* an opportunity to demonstrate your own stupidity; he was, in other words, really calling \*you \* dumb.
Fuckwit.
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### Author:  [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/4 "2006-11-10T06:31:46Z")
Sheesh. What a pathetic excuse for a Pitting.
Fuckwit.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/5 "2006-11-10T06:33:03Z")
I don’t know if you’re stupid for misunderstanding Stewart, or stupid for using such poor sarcasm, but either way, this thread sucks.
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### Author:  [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/6 "2006-11-10T06:36:26Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23]
I don’t know if you’re stupid for misunderstanding Stewart, or stupid for using such poor sarcasm, but either way, this thread sucks.
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Pssssst – you forgot to call him “Fuckwit”. Don’t break the chain, or the baby Jesus will kick a kitten!
Oh, yeh:
Fuckwit.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/7 "2006-11-10T06:45:25Z")
Don’t pick on me for forgetting to call that fuckwit “fuckwit,” fuckwit!
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### Author:  [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/8 "2006-11-10T06:51:20Z")
[QUOTE=ted\_baskerville@yahoo.com]
Just another leftist.
[/QUOTE]
Ssshh! I also heard he’s _Jewish!!_
:rolleyes:
Fuckwit.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/9 "2006-11-10T06:55:38Z")
Nobody saw it. Rutgers was playing Louisville. Well, I might add.
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### Author:  [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/10 "2006-11-10T06:55:45Z")
Next thing you’ll tell me he sips lattes and rides around in a limousine.
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### Author:  [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/11 "2006-11-10T07:12:33Z")
OMFG. OK I’ll spell it out: The joke was ironic “\*gee \* I don’t know \*why \* I took off the helmet…” i.e. he was poking fun at the fact that he had to take off the helmet when he was playing the stupid guy or risk being misinterpreted as saying the military is stupid.
And of course the fuckwits have managed to misinterpret him that way anyway.
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### Author:  [@shizaru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shizaru)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/12 "2006-11-10T07:16:37Z")
I guess the OP is just upset because Rummy resig----I mean was fired, but of course Bush will never admit that.
'Cuz, you know, Rums was so smart. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/13 "2006-11-10T08:27:25Z")
Maybe its just me, but my Radio Shack Ironymeter registed a twitch reading the OP. 'Course, thats the same place the SDMB buys its servers, so, who knows…
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### Author:  [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/14 "2006-11-10T09:25:00Z")
Is the quality of The Pit going down? Are Fuckwits the reason?
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/15 "2006-11-10T09:27:50Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi]
Is the quality of The Pit going down? Are Fuckwits the reason?
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Will the anti-fuckwit backlash backfire on the Democrats?
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### Author:  [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/16 "2006-11-10T10:37:25Z")
Does this thread belong in the pit? I am surprised it has not been moved
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/17 "2006-11-10T10:58:34Z")
Didn’t Olberman make a point about this recently? If you think Kerry or Stewart was actually calling the troops dumb, then _you’re_ dumb, or a liar, or a dumb liar.
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### Author:  [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/18 "2006-11-10T11:12:21Z")
[QUOTE=blinkingblinking]
Does this thread belong in the pit? I am surprised it has not been moved
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I think with the level of fuckwittery, moving it out of the pit isn’t an option at this point.
(I don’t know; I just wanted an excuse to type “fuckwittery”. Say it outloud! It sounds pretty.)
Also, um…yeah. Stupid liberals! Why do they all hate America? _shakes fist_
Really. Jon Stewart. What a fuckwit.
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/19 "2006-11-10T12:43:22Z")
In case the OP wasn’t an attempt at sarcasm – the point of the sketch was that **Rumsfeld** talks to the troops – and people in general – **as if they were stupid**. He hasn’t apologized for doing such a terrible job; instead, he said that people just don’t understand his Iraq policy.
Oh, yeah. Fuckwit.
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### Author:  [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/20 "2006-11-10T12:50:42Z")
The OP is a good example of how lots of conservatives post-Limbaugh have used humor as a rhetorical device. If a conservative says something rude, he claims it was a joke, and complains that liberals have no sense of humor. If a liberal makes a joke, conservatives act like it was meant literally, and whine about how rude liberals are, effectively robbing liberals of the rhetorical use of humor.
Fuckwits.
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