DU XCLUSIVE: C-Span2 "Cleans" Jon Stewart's Bush Comment (RealVideo)

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On yesterday's C-Span2 BookTV presentation of Jon Stewart promoting his book, Stewart slips into dangerous territory with the comment, "There's this whole idea that George W. Bush is stupid...".

Dangerous to criticize the president? Apparently "objective" C-Span thinks so: they pulled the following 48 seconds of Stewart, ostensibly because of "video difficulties". Not only were no tech difficulties evident, but Stewart actually claimed he DIDN'T believe that Bush was stupid, just before the cut. Miraculously, the whole incident was cleanly edited from later airings.

RealVideo: http://www.hyperoptix.com/stewart.ram

Threads from yesterday:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1733891&mesg_id=1733891
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1734306

Big thanks to LittleApple81, parasim, and TIVO for stopping that one from going down the memory hole!!

[librechik]

1. Curious--did they also clean the F word from Graydon Carter bit?

He used it twice. That's $half million.

[LittleApple81]

3. No they didn't. I watched it the second time yesterday and all the

liberally sprinkled FUCKS were there.

[LittleApple81]

4. And they are cable. Rep. Wilson (R-NM) wanted to include cable

in the censure motion but it has not been done yet despite her tears about JJ's boob.

[LittleApple81]

2. Thanks for the TIVO snippet!!!! n/t

[NMDemDist2]

5. has anyone found what Stewart said during the missing seconds? eom

[lanparty]

6. I wonder if ...

I wonder if they'll do a bit about this tonight.

Rob Cordroy would make some deal about ...

Rob:
"Of course it was censored, just look at the SPEAKER!!!!!"

John:
"Ahhh, Rob, that's ME. Are you implying I'm a danger to the nation??"

Rob:
"That's right John. You have to be stomped out. Then I'LL be the Daily Show anchor man. Bwuahhahahahahahah!!!!! I finally have you in my power!!!!!!!"

[elfwitch]

7. Jon has a new book coming out?

Or is it a re-issue of his first book?

[baby_bear]

8. new

America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

s_m

[BringEmOn]

9. "Emily get out of the way."

[baby_bear]

10. I can't get the audio file

Any chance for a transcript of the missing minute? I was watching when this happened and couldn't believe it was cspan doing this.

thanks
s_m

[parasim]

11. thanks for putting up the video clip

In addition to the 48 seconds they cut from the original broadcast, that whole section (looks like two questioners) were lopped off for the replays.

I haven't found the video or the transcript on c-span.org nor booknotes.org. Have to keep a watchful eye out for them.