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Saturday, October 16, 2004
Jon Stewart unleashes both barrels on "Crossfire"
Political pundits Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala, hosts of CNN's popular "Crossfire," got it in the cornhole yesterday by comedian Jon Stewart. Stewart, who has been ever critical of the show for engaging less in debate and more in partisan squabbling, let the moderators know in no uncertain terms that he did not approve of their methodology.
"I felt that wasn't fair, and I should come here and tell you that it's not so much that it's bad, as it's hurting America," Stewart told Carlson and Begala. "So I wanted to come here today and say . . . stop. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America."
Carlson tried to fire back at Stewart, accusing him of being guilty of hypocracy, having the nerve to critisize "Crossfire" when Stewart's own show had John Kerry on it.
"If you want to compare your show to a comedy show, you're more than welcome to," Stewart sneered.
And that's really the point, isn't it? Jon Stewart has made no attempt to hide the fact that "The Daily Show" is a comedy show, ont a news network, something the partisan pundits--O'Reilly, Carlson, et al.--just don't get. By engaging in comedy and parody, Stewart successfully exonerates himself from the responsibility of reporting actual news. And goddamn it's funny.
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Agreed, and it's very clever of him to continue to insist that TDS is comedy (which it is.)
Kerry got roasted as much as anyone on there, I think, and it was obvious to Jon and his viewers that Kerry was trying to take advantage of his audience, much like Edwards did some months before. The first question Stewart asked Kerry was something along the lines of "Do you flip-flop?" Honestly, I thought Kerry's poor addressing of that question right then and there in a "friendly" news room doomed his campaign.
However, I will definitely agree that TDS takes on more of a "liberal" or "progressive" agenda than does the current leadership of the Republican Party...or the Democrats, for that matter.
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Kerry got roasted as much as anyone on there, I think, and it was obvious to Jon and his viewers that Kerry was trying to take advantage of his audience, much like Edwards did some months before. The first question Stewart asked Kerry was something along the lines of "Do you flip-flop?" Honestly, I thought Kerry's poor addressing of that question right then and there in a "friendly" news room doomed his campaign.
However, I will definitely agree that TDS takes on more of a "liberal" or "progressive" agenda than does the current leadership of the Republican Party...or the Democrats, for that matter.
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