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.

Comments

Attention Slashdot Laser:

[Anonymous Coward]

Please Slashdot the torrent link so I can download it faster. Saying that hurts my brain. :(

Stewart Deserves a Trophy.

[Fortyseven]

This man is my hero. I heard a clip of it from the Randy Rhodes show on the way home last night, and this morning grabbed the torrent of the show (god, cut the commercials out of the video, man...).

He really did something respectable and the hosts, rather than actually discuss the opinion being given, felt they needed to make fun of him and dodge the issue since they couldn't provide a realistic response. It was like "ERR ERR DOES NOT COMPUTE RESPOND WITH JIBBERISH" and sparks came out of their neck. Just like XP.

Hurt to watch

[AntsInMyPants]

It was like watching a man stomp on the heads of puppies with steel toed boots.

Except the puppies were Carlson and Begala and the boots were Truth, so it was cool.

Best quotes

[Faust7]

STEWART: It's not honest. What you do is not honest. What you do is partisan hackery. And I will tell you why I know it.

CARLSON: You had John Kerry on your show and you sniff his throne and you're accusing us of partisan hackery?

STEWART: Absolutely.

CARLSON: You've got to be kidding me. He comes on and you...

STEWART: You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls.

***

CARLSON: Jon, you're bumming us out. Tell us, what do you think about the Bill O'Reilly vibrator story?

STEWART: I'm sorry. I don't.

Re:Best quotes

[tksh]

Actually, I thought these were the better:

***

CARLSON: Wait. I thought you were going to be funny. Come on. Be funny.

STEWART: No. No. I'm not going to be your monkey.

***

CARLSON: I do think you're more fun on your show. Just my opinion.

STEWART: You know what's interesting, though? You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.

***

I mean, he got invited to the show and they were expecting him to take the setups from both hosts and make jokes but he refused to and told them straight what he thought. That takes guts. Especailly in the second quote, you can tell Carlson got smack in the face and he had nothing to respond.

Re:Funny..

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Although.. knowing the way my country works

Your country works? Looks broken to me...

"Doggy dog"?

[sczimme]

you'll notice it's a doggy dog world out there

I believe the phrase you wanted is "dog-eat-dog" not "doggy dog". The idea is that one dog will try to eat another dog when competition becomes fierce. Compare this with "doggy dog", which sounds like another name for a cute little puppy pup.

Brilliant, but...

[macthulhu]

That was easily the best episode of Crossfire I have ever seen. John Stewart was right on the money about what is wrong with this system... The sad part is that neither of those two dipshits really understood what he was saying. They're too self-important to get it. Though I normally think Paul Begala is a tapeworm, I have to give him credit for passing his pre-show IQ test and keeping his mouth shut... He knew he was bringing a knife to a gunfight. Tucker, also a tapeworm, just couldn't step on those landmines fast enough.

We need more of this. How about a smart "comedian" goon squad to fight on our behalf? I'd like to see George Carlin on Crossfire. Or let's see Tucker argue with Henry Rollins (not really a comedian, but great for the job).

favorite quote from transcript

[spoonyfork]

You can get the transcript here.

STEWART: You know, the interesting thing I have is, you have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably.

CARLSON: You need to get a job at a journalism school, I think.

STEWART: You need to go to one.

Jon Stewart, I love you.

What?

[theparanoidcynic]

A live torrent of the big file in a Slashdot story? What is this? Responsible journalism? ;)

Re:Funny..

[Bigbiff]

Oh man, Lewis Black in the Vice Presidential debate. Hilarious!

Stewart is a Darn Good Green Lantern

[Trikenstein]

But he's no where near being in G'nort's league.

Re:SAw this yesterday on Fark/iFilm

[y2imm]

I didn't like to hear that kind of personal attack, even though it's 100% accurate. It hurt his credibility a little, but for the most part, I was impressed by how he refused to rise to the baiting from the bowtied dick. Oops.

Re:Hypocracy is dead (not really though)

[AntsInMyPants]

That was intentional. Hypocracy is the most vile form of hypocrisy. Far, far worse. As a matter of fact, its so bad that when you try to search for it on Google, it asks you if you meant "hypocrisy". Google, in its quest not to be evil, is trying to hide the truth and steer people away from hypocracy to the milder pastures of hypocricy.

Down With Censorship!

Re:Jon Stewart to a foreigner / Explaining Crossfi

[CdnShaggy]

The only reason that we Canadians are paying this much attention is cause there is no hockey ...

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Re:Attention MODERATORS:

[Anonymous Coward]

am I supposed to be impressed that you know VB?

Tokerat's code compiles as C too you bowtie apologist!

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Re:America, a country at war with itself

[Anonymous Coward]

It wouldn't be the first time we had a civil war...

Comments, suggestions? Ohhhh hell with it :(

Re:Dead serious is right

[blueorder]

Wow!, thank you for that post. That's it...I just finished reading your post and had to say thanks...

I watched it and loved it when...

[gellenburg]

... he called Tucker Carlson a dick. It was right when they were cutting to commercial. I was pleasantly surprised to see him still sitting at the table when they came back.

Wonder if CNN will get any complaints about that.

"What about the children!"

On a side note, while Crossfire was on, so was Oprah, and there was this chick spreading her legs on the stage acting all seductive and moving very erotic.

"What about the children!"

I was torn between Jon Stewart and a chick spreading her legs.

Jon Stewart ... and a chick spreading her legs.

The chick won.

Re:SAw this yesterday on Fark/iFilm

[ultranova]

I'm sure there's an 'In Soviet Russia' joke in there somewhere, lol.

In the Soviet Russia, the joke is on you. In the Corporate America, your leaders are the joke. And the joke is still on you ;).

For the love of God

[fluxrad]

I agree with you, but would someone please...please tell Randi Rhodes to STOP BEING ON MY SIDE!!!!

That woman is one homeopathic peppered rice-ball away from guest-hosting Art Bell.

"Why do you argue?" Who will take my bet..

[mtec]

That Jon experienced the same scene with his parents when he was young.

I'm guessing Begala was Mom, and Carlson was Dad.

All I can think....

[Lord_Dweomer]

You know, I watched this, and the whole time I couldn't help but think of the shows creators CRAPPING THEMSELVES because John hit on exactly what they must've been planning when they were creating the show.

Welcome to the new American media folks. Where the Discovery Channel has become the Motorcycle Channel, the news channels are theater, and the Daily Show on Comedy Central is our best source of news.

This can't be good

[freetolio]

I predict that the company that owns Comedy Central will apply the pressure necessary to oust Stewart if he becomes too "powerful".

Political satire is older than "News"

[Fantastic Lad]

"News" is a relatively recent phenomenon.

But people have been making political observations for as long as there have been performers. Since most artists are creative, (and thus are inclined to naturally align their lives with the production and distribution rather than the self-serving consumption of energy), their political observations tend to be critical of whichever mini-black hole happens to be leading their nation.

Keep in mind, the "News" guys at the tops of the corporate broadcasting structures are all millionaires. They may have started out on the right path, but to have been allowed to get the top, they will first have been subverted into believing in the state.

Stewart is nothing new. But he's also pulling his punches, I suspect, in order to stay alive. Some Elephants make their own Uzis.

-FL