Jon Stewert & Crossfire
Tuesday, October 19th, 2004 | 5 Comments 
I have to set aside an ENTIRE day’s entry for the topic of Jon Stewert Appearing on Crossfire. I watch the Daily Show on a nightly basis as a breath of fresh air to the political rhetoric that fills my ears throughout the day.
Friday, Jon was invited to appear on CNN’s Crossfire. Crossfire makes my skin crawl, I admit I’ve tried viewing it a few times when I would notice a wonderful topic was up for discussion. However, they never DISCUSSED the topics in a well, articulate, and meaningful way. It was, in my opinion, the crappiest slanted opinionated show I’ve ever seen hiding behind the mask of being an important “debate-like” program. It just reminded me more of two rednecks ranting uninformed opinions.
First, you can view the entire episode here: iFilm
It is said over 600,000 views+ have been reported at iFilm alone.
Jon, literally, ripped them a new one. I’ll be more specific though. Here is a link to the transcript along with an brief & wonderful version from this web site:
Clark Brigade Brings It On.
Tucker Carlson: You could’ve asked [Kerry] some real questions don’t you think?
John Stewert: I don’t think I had to. By the way, I also asked him: ‘Were you in Cambodia?’ but I didn’t really care… cause, I don’t care because I think it’s stupid.. but my point is this - if your idea of confronting me is that I don’t ask hard-hitting enough news questions, we’re in bad shape fellas.
Later, in response to Begalla’s attempt to justify Crossfire’s confrontational style by saying it’s a debate show, Stewart is having none of it
John Stewert: No, no, no.. to do a debate, that would be great, but that’s like saying pro wrestling is a show about athletic competition.
Meanwhile Tucker Carlson realizes Stewart is about to take over the show, and with Begalla suddenly AWOL, he’d have to be the one to put Stewart back in his place. (Bad idea).
Tucker Carlson: I’m sorry. You’re a good comedian. I think your lectures are boring…
John Stewert: Yeah, now this is theater. How old are you?
Tucker Carlson: Thirty-five
John Stewert: And you wear a bow-tie….
Tucker Carlson: Yes I do.
John Stewert: You’re doing theater when you should be doing debate. It’s not honest. What you do is not honest. What you do is partisan hackery.
Tucker Carlson: You had John Kerry on your show and you sniff his throne, and you’re accusing us of partisan hackery?
John Stewert: Absolutely. You’re on CNN! The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you!
Tucker Carlson: I’m just saying you had this marvelous opprtunity not to be this guys ‘butt boy’ and you go ahead and be his ‘butt boy’. I mean it’s embarrassing.
John Stewert: Yes I was absolutely his ‘butt boy’. You wouldn’t believe what he ate two weeks ago. You have a responsibility to the public discourse and you fail miserable.
Tucker Carlson: You need to get a job at a journalism school.
John Stewert: You need to go to one!
Tucker Carlson: Wait. I thought you were going to be funny. Come on. Be funny.
John Stewert: No. No. I’m not going to be your monkey.
Tucker Carlson: Well, I’m just saying, there’s no reason for you — when you have this marvelous opportunity not to be the guy’s butt boy, to go ahead and be his butt boy. Come on. It’s embarrassing.
John Stewert: I was absolutely his butt boy. I was so far — you would not believe what he ate two weeks ago.
Tucker Carlson: I wouldn’t want to eat with you, man. That’s horrible.
John Stewert: I know. And you won’t. But the thing I want to get to…
Begala: Which candidate do you suppose would provide you better material if he won?
John Stewert: Mr. T. I think he’d be the funniest. I don’t…
John Stewert: The only way it would be harder is if his administration is less absurd than this one. So, in that case, if it’s less absurd, then, yes, I think it would be harder.
But, I mean, it would be hard to top this group, quite frankly.
John Stewert: In terms of absurdity and their world matching up to the one that — you know, it was interesting. President Bush was saying, John Kerry’s rhetoric doesn’t match his record.
But I’ve heard President Bush describe his record. His record doesn’t match his record.
Tucker Carlson: I do think you’re more fun on your show. Just my opinion.
Tucker Carlson: OK, up next, Jon Stewart goes one on one with his fans…
JS: You know what’s interesting, though? You’re as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.
Taken From: News Corpse: The Real Fake News:
The Daily Show’s popularity is significant and growing. It has averaged about 1 million viewers per episode this season, surpassing the total number of viewers for real cable networks like CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. This audience is not, as Bill O’Reilly tagged them, a bunch of “stoned slackers”. According to the National Annenberg Election Survey, Daily Show viewers know more about election issues than people who regularly read newspapers or watch television news. They are 78 percent more likely than the average adult to have four or more years of college education. O’Reilly’s audience is only 24 percent more likely to have that much schooling.
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Other GREAT sites for news on this;
Daily Kos: Great comments left by people on this subject matter.
News Corpse: The Real Fake News
Jenny posted at 11:42 pm ; Tuesday
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Jenny
thats why i don’t watch those kind of showss o__o; ttoo controversial for my liking ._.
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yuck. like jenny, i find shows like that wayyyyyy too controversial for me. o_____o
i forgot if i already told you how awesome this pumpkin layout it. the best thing about halloween is all that deep orange.
i have never seen Crossfire before…
Yeah I try to stay away from political stuff…they never seem to answer any ?’s directly. XP
i wish i can say something productive, so i’ll instead read the entry bfore this and comment on something ..i know bout..