# 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:** 8
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/61 "2006-11-10T17:30:22Z")
[QUOTE=The Buck]
Maybe I’m naturally oversensitive, or maybe someone just slipped me decaf coffee this morning, but Ponder Stibbons Stibbons makes so many laughably counter-productive statements, it boggles the mind to think about them. Let me get to the crux of the matter: Ponder Stibbons’s bait-and-switch tactics are a mere cavil, a mere scarecrow, one of the last shifts of a desperate and dying cause.
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Not bad, not bad.
[QUOTE=The Buck]
I don’t object to his claims because he combines greed and blood lust into a single persona.
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Aw, gee, don’t make me blush!
[QUOTE=The Buck]
I object because once people obtain the critical skills that enable them to think and reflect and speculate independently, they’ll realize that I believe I have finally figured out what makes people like Ponder Stibbons condone illegal activities.
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Mmmm. Nope, didn’t work. You wandered off topic there. Pick your insults and stick to them!
[QUOTE=The Buck]
It appears to be a combination of an overactive mind,
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Shouldn’t that be _underactive_ mind?
[QUOTE=The Buck]
lack of common sense,
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Better.
[QUOTE=The Buck]
assurance of one’s own moral propriety,
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Me? _Me?_ Oh, stop, please, laughing out loud at work’ll get me in trouble.
[QUOTE=The Buck]
and a total lack of exposure to the real world. It’s our responsibility to fight to the end for our ideas and ideals. That’s the first step in trying to open students’ eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them, and it’s the only way to operate on today’s real – not tomorrow’s ideal – political terrain.
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Bravo, bravo!!! Brilliant trolling. Really, that last bit was inspired.
[QUOTE=jjimm]
I thought I recognised some of those sentences: [Scott Pakin’s automatic complaint-letter generator](http://www.pakin.org/complaint).
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Oh. **The Buck** , I am _so_ disappointed in you. I thought you had actually put some effort into your trolling.
[QUOTE=The Weird One]
Ahh, that makes a lot more sense. Pity, I was hoping to engage in some illegal activities with **Ponder**.
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😃
[QUOTE=SkipMagic]
It’s like you’re not putting any effort into it anymore. Is it us? We’ll change, I promise–just give us a chance, let us show you how…
Oh, nevermind. We’ll just break each other’s hearts again. I guess it’s time to say good-bye.
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Sigh. I suppose you’re right.
Sorry about that banning, Bucky. Did it sting? Well, I’m sure you’ll let me know all about it with your next sock.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/62 "2006-11-10T17:34:22Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia]
Jon Stewart was making a joke at the expense of former sec’y Donald Rumsfield, not the troops. No fuckwittery here.
Also, I dare someone to use the most "fuckwit"s in one post.
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[I win.](http://www.worldpress.org/images/9404_RNC.jpg)
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### Author:  [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/63 "2006-11-10T18:04:30Z")
[QUOTE=Miller]
[I win.](http://www.worldpress.org/images/9404_RNC.jpg)
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😃
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### Author:  [@ted\_baskerville\_yahoo.com](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ted_baskerville_yahoo.com)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/64 "2006-11-10T18:56:40Z")
Maybe Stewart was making a joke at Rumsfeld and not the troops. I would have no problem with that. Rumsfeld is a murder, but he should have been clearer. The troops are the best of the country and nothing should be done that could hurt them.
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### Author:  [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/65 "2006-11-10T18:58:06Z")
[QUOTE=ted\_baskerville@yahoo.com]
Maybe Stewart was making a joke at Rumsfeld and not the troops. I would have no problem with that. Rumsfeld is a murder, but he should have been clearer. The troops are the best of the country and nothing should be done that could hurt them.
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Like sending into some trumped up bullshit war…
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/66 "2006-11-10T19:04:14Z")
[QUOTE=ted\_baskerville@yahoo.com]
Maybe Stewart was making a joke at Rumsfeld and not the troops. I would have no problem with that. Rumsfeld is a murder, but he should have been clearer. The troops are the best of the country and nothing should be done that could hurt them.
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Wait, surely you’re not trying to say that there has never been a single [dumb soldier in the US military,](http://rwor.org/a/1242/images/abu-ghraib-leash.jpg) are you?
(Not that I think that’s what Stewart was trying to say, but even if it _was_…)
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### Author:  [@uglybeech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uglybeech)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/67 "2006-11-10T19:21:34Z")
Fuck. I explained the joke earlier. It was buried in a segment about Rumsfeld, but it was \*not \* about Rumsfeld. And it was \*not \* about the troops being stupid. It was about having to take the helmet off to avoid pissing people off.
I know it’s a little layered, people, but jesus …you’re all fuckwits.
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### Author:  [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-calls-the-troops-dumb/379842/68 "2006-11-10T19:53:43Z")
OK, that’s enough of this idiot.
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