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Jon Stewart on CNN's Crossfire
BoldAC writes "Instead of plugging his new book, Jon Stewart tonight on CNN's Crossfire used his time to slam the media's coverage of the election. Although Stewart leans left, he attacked political shows and begged them: 'Stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America.' Is it time to really stop all the political games that both sides play? Torrent of the event is available." And another set of .torrent links.
lol What now, get our politics from the Comedy Channel? ahahhahhaha
All your base are belong to Google.
You ever hear of this gizmo, called a VCR? It uses, y'know, tapes?
Nathan
First step, for you: think for yourself instead of whipping out terms out of your (or, as in this case, somebody else's) ass.
If you didn't hear what Jon Stuart was saying, then you need to pick up the book on Listening 101.
He was on the show to tell both sides to calm down the rhetoric and talk issues. Clearly you didn't read the transcript or watch the clip; please do so before you spout off again.
He clearly says, "You guys (left and right) should be debating", and not indulging in staged theater (a-la pro wrestling). He is begging them to take the "N" in CNN (which stands for NEWS) seriously and try to inform the people, instead of just spouting their party lines back and forth.
Read the transcript. And when done reading it, READ IT AGAIN. And put down that other crap you've been reading.
And finally: get out of your mom's basement. There is a whole world out there, you know.
This is the essence of freedom.
No, its the essence of greed and selfishness, because you benefit from these things but don't want to pay for them.
"But clearly many non-foolish Americans disagree, and I for one would like to know what they're being told that we're not."
I think you are greatly overestimating most American's who are supporting Bush.
My estimation is there are a couple big groups who support Bush:
A) America's fundementalist Christains, the moral majority being one facet
B) America's business community and especially the wealthy elite
Many in group A are in rural America, the Midwest and the South. Many of them are very fundamentalist. I'm not sure you've ever spent any time in America's bible belt and I'm not sure there is a counterpart in Europe. These are people who hand over billions of dollars to con men on TV like Jerry Fallwell and Jim Baker. They are gullible and easily manipulated. You need to remember most American's are completely ignorant of the most basic geography, foreign affairs and how the politcal world really works. They are easily manipulated and controlled.
In Group B there are certainly some very smart people. I'm pretty sure they are people who A) want to make a lot of money and B) want America to completely dominate the world. B tends to be a good way to accomplish A. These are hard core, make money at all costs Capitalists, a subset of them are America's wealthy elite who have all the money and power. Many would probably support Bush no matter what he does as long as he keeps slashing their taxes.
And of course you can't leave out the fact that since 9/11 the Republicans have been relentlessly promoting as much fear as possible in the American people, mostly in the easily manipulated group A. The Republican convention was a non stop exercise in telling people their children and grandchildren are in grave danger from "Terrorists" and if you elect Kerry your children will most certainly die. I live in a swing state, you should hear the fear mongering rhetoric they are putting on their automated dialers that are ringing my phone about a dozen times a day. The Dems have some too but it pales to the Republican messages.
I'm not sure all this makes it to the rest of the world, but there are really good an obvious reasons why America is split down the middle and half would follow Bush in to hell and probably will. Unfortunately the Dems are countering with Kerry and nobody likes him either. I'm pretty sure almost any good Democratic would beat Bush but Kerry isn't good. I'm pretty sure any good Republican candidate could demolish Kerry but Bush is not good. We are in a race to the bottom, who is the lesser evil.
@de_machina
"Americans aren't naturally ignorant sheeple."
....this list goes on a while, should I continue?
Perhaps you should provide some support for this. Here is my evidence that many are:
- Jerry Falwell
- Pat Roberts and the 700 Club
- Jim and Tammy Fay Baker
- Jimmy Swaggert
- Oral Roberts
- Billy Graham and son
I'm wagering all the sheeple that follow these conmen and give them huge sums of money are also Bush supporters.
@de_machina
A guy who decides what stories to cover, how to cover them, and what to say: Sounds like a journalist to me.
Miss the point much, or did you just skip over the part about owners telling the managers what to do?
And with the exception of Fox and maybe Clear Channel, none of them seem to care what their news organizations do, as long as they aren't a threat to their primary corporate interest: Making Money.
And by buddying up to Republicans, they stand to make more money if the GOP retains control so they can get more deregulation. And somebody had a nice list, which I unfortunatly couldn't Google in a couple of minutes, of stories that GE told NBC to run/not to run. Most of them weren't directly political, but definetly showed meddling by the owners - like a story going on for 10 minutes about how great this new medical device is but neglecting to mention that said device was made by GE.
All I'm trying to do is square the circle between the conservatives who have reasonable examples of liberal bias and the liberals who have reasonable examples of corporate bias.
Sure you can find examples of both, but there never was a "biased liberal media", that was just a GOP urban legend.
Part of the problem is that the GOP has a 30 year head start on organized relations with the media. The RNC can send out "experts" on the drop of a hat to talk about any subject, from any one of a dozen different think tanks. The Democratic party's PR network is pitiful in comparison, and as a Democrat I think the party leaders need a serious kick in the ass to start catching up.