Jon Stewart on 60 Minutes

[oldtime dfl_er]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041023/ap_en_tv/stewart_60_minutes

[knowbody0]

1. also sunday 9 et cspan

[leftchick]

2. From the article...

NEW YORK - After his outburst on CNN's "Crossfire," "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart will have a few words for "60 Minutes." The comedian will be profiled on this Sunday's broadcast of the CBS news program. Though taped before Stewart's harsh comments of "Crossfire" and one its hosts, Tucker Carlson, he did have the subject of TV news on his mind.

"You know ... what has become rewarded in political discourse is the extremity of viewpoint," Stewart says on the show. "People like the conflict. Conflict baby! It sells. Crossfire! Hardball! Shut up! You shut up!"


While many have questioned the veracity of the Fox News slogan "Fair and Balanced," Stewart thinks that frustration deserves to be leveled elsewhere as well.

"Well, CNN says, `You can depend on CNN.' Guess what? I watch CNN. No, you can't!"

Otherwise, Stewart is mostly full of jokes.

"Here's what I wonder about Dick Cheney (news - web sites), and the reason that maybe they keep him only in loyalty-oath audiences: If he becomes angry, I do believe he turns into the Hulk."

[sonicx]

4. stewart's right. everyone knows FOX is right wing but...

CNN and MSNBC are considered 'fair' when it's clear they aren't.

[Warpy]

3. "outburst????"

Perhaps the idiot who wrote that article should have watched the interview. Stewart was calm and reasonable, with comedic timing intact. Carlson was the one hot under the bowtied collar.

[calimary]

5. You beat me to it. That was NO outburst.

Unless, of course, speaking truth to power constitutes an "outburst." I watched Stewart on "Crossfire" that day. That was NO outburst. He spoke calmly, persuasively, and with no histrionics. It was Tucker Carlson who had the outbursts, if anything.

"You're supposed to be funny. C'mon. Be funny." Maybe Jon Stewart didn't regard it as a laughing matter, Tucker. None of the rest of us do, either, Tucker.

GOOD. I'm glad "60 Minutes" is doing something on this. Jon Stewart is correct. He makes an EXCELLENT point that's remained unspoken for far too long.

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6. IT was funny

I put on my hipwaders and went over to freeper land to see what they had to say about the crossfire interview. Most agreed that Crossfire sucked and John stewart was right about that show, but almost all of them missed What Jon stewart's main point was.

Of course there were more people there who didn't like what Stewart than on most other normal places.