The one time I wish I had Fox News on.

 

Part 1

 

Part 2

 

More tonight I guess.

 

 

I've enjoyed every one of their on-air meetings, be it on O'Reilly's show or The Daily Show.

 

Here's my thing with Stewart. Years ago he was giving some sort of speech where he basically blasted cable news, and specifically fox news, and his reasoning wasn't just that they were backing a particular party, it was that they were dumbing down their audience with inappropriate/irrelevant issues/debates, and that really they were just wasting a great opportunity to be a mouthpiece for constructive good. Which made me laugh, because he's basically calling himself out.

 

He's got a great gig. He can make politicians and famous people look like flip flopping morons. Yet in the same 20 min segment he can instantly become serious and make poignant points about any given issue, and thus is deemed a credible source of political conversation. To me that's completely unfair. I find it telling that during his interviews with O'Reilly, when O'Reilly questions why Stewart thinks the way he does, Stewart just starts joking around "man you have a reach like Ali! Screw the good point you just made, I'm gonna make a joke, cuz I'm just a comedian after all!"

 

 

 

 

I've enjoyed every one of their on-air meetings, be it on O'Reilly's show or The Daily Show.

 

Here's my thing with Stewart. Years ago he was giving some sort of speech where he basically blasted cable news, and specifically fox news, and his reasoning wasn't just that they were backing a particular party, it was that they were dumbing down their audience with inappropriate/irrelevant issues/debates, and that really they were just wasting a great opportunity to be a mouthpiece for constructive good. Which made me laugh, because he's basically calling himself out.

 

He's got a great gig. He can make politicians and famous people look like flip flopping morons. Yet in the same 20 min segment he can instantly become serious and make poignant points about any given issue, and thus is deemed a credible source of political conversation. To me that's completely unfair. I find it telling that during his interviews with O'Reilly, when O'Reilly questions why Stewart thinks the way he does, Stewart just starts joking around "man you have a reach like Ali! Screw the good point you just made, I'm gonna make a joke, cuz I'm just a comedian after all!"

The bolded can describe any network news.

 

I remember that a few years ago. Didn't he go on some shot with Tucker Carlson and rip him? It was hilarious.

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I remember that a few years ago. Didn't he go on some shot with Tucker Carlson and rip him? It was hilarious.

 

Yeah that was a similiar speech. The one I'm referring to was a speech to writers or something in NY. But both had the same message.

Yeah this is the one I was about to post. That one got a lot of attention.

"You should teach at a journalism school"

"You need to go to one"

 

One of my favorite TV moments ever.

"How old are you?"

"35."

"And you wear a bow tie."

If you thought, after watching the two segments of Jon Stewart's interview with Bill O'Reilly this week, that Stewart landed some telling observations, but he seemed to pull his punches a bit -- or at least they seemed to have been pulled for him -- you were right.

 

If you also noticed, as I did while making the clip, that the segments were pretty hamhandedly edited -- the continuity, especially in terms of Stewart's demeanor, was jarring -- it turns out you were also right.

 

Fox actually put the entire, unedited version of the interview up on its site, and the difference is jaw-dropping.

 

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Edited February 6, 201016 yr by BigSqwert

wow yeah they completely cut out all of his major arguments against fox news.