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August 03, 2004Henry Bonilla Missed the MemoBy Byron LaMastersAfter a tip from a reader, I watched the reairing of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart at midnight last night. U.S. Rep. Henry Bonilla (R-Texas) was the guest, and Jon Stewart basically just ripped him a new one. Seriously. Henry Bonilla was trying to make the point that he just wished that all politicians would be honest about where they stand. Bonilla labeled himself a conservative, and spoke of another congressman who called himself a liberal, and asked why John Kerry wouldn't just be honest and say that he was a liberal, too. So, Jon Stewart asked Bonilla if Kerry was a liberal, and Bonilla hit his stride. Here's basically what was said: Bonilla: Yes!! Those groups. These groups. Ya know, the conservative and liberal groups, they say John Kerry is really liberal. Stewart: What groups? I mean who says Kerry is really liberal. Bonilla: You know those groups. Like the trial lawyers and labor and doctors-- Stewart: Congressman. I don't think your following me. You say 'these groups'. Who are 'these groups'? Bonilla: All of them. You know the groups. They rank ALL of us. You know. Liberal groups. Conservative groups. There's lots of them. Stewart: But which group says John Kerry is the most liberal and John Edwards is the fourth most liberal senator. Bonilla: That's right! John Kerry and John Edwards are liberals! More liberal than Ted Kennedy! Why aren't they honest about it then? Stewart: That wasn't the question. The group is the National Journal. And they rated Kerry and Edwards as the first and fourth most liberal senators for last year. For their careers, John Kerry is more conservative than Ted Kennedy, and John Edwards is more conservative than the median Democrat. Bonilla: Oh. That's interesting. Apparently, Henry Bonilla didn't get the full July GOP Talking Points Memo. They all got it:
It looks like Bonilla forgot about the whole National Journal thing. Next time he ought to review the GOP talking points memo before he makes a fool of himself. Posted by Byron LaMasters at August 3, 2004 02:36 PM | TrackBack
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Henry has been making a foll of himself for years; why stop now? Posted by: cacafuego at August 3, 2004 03:14 PMAnd from that same episode of The Daily Show, did you check out the Samantha Bee interview with Florida state legislative candidate Ed Heeney? What a wacko. Posted by: Jeff at August 3, 2004 03:29 PMYes... very hilarious. Posted by: Byron L at August 3, 2004 04:27 PMI've posted the entire interview w/Bonilla on the Austin4Kerry website: http://www.austin4kerry.org/archives/000051.html#more You'll need windows media player.... Bollnia on the Daily Show was truly out of his league. Has he ever seen the Daily Show, or Jon Stewart? I think they thought he could just go on and say the same talking points, without getting a challenge. Their gameplan was to get out an attack to a new audience without a challenge after all it is a comedy show not Hardball. They really sent the wrong guy and I don’t think I have laughed harder, and that says a lot since I see the Daily Show almost every night. Posted by: TC at August 3, 2004 11:02 PMI saw the program and thought Jon's line of attack was pointless. He grandly made the point that Rep. Bonilla didn't know the organization(s) who came up with the rankings. So what? Why not argue how they came up with the rankings and on what grounds they were ranked? I like the Daily Show but that part in the episode was shameless partisanship. Posted by: Charles Hueter at August 6, 2004 10:26 AMBonilla dug his own grave. HE brought up the rankings and the lie that Kerry voted for taxes 350 times. Jon didn't simply badger him in a childish "name that group" game. He pointed out how the "rapid response team," as well as the whole Republican approach to this election year, is full of exaggerations and outright lies. It's not Jon's fault Bonilla ended up looking stupid. It's Bonilla's fault. Posted by: Ellen at August 11, 2004 08:59 PMGreetings: Greetings:
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