Jon Stewart "I respect Bill Oreilly and I like him"

[brettdale]

How can anyone respect and like someone who sexually harrases woman?

I mean his lies on Faux news is bad enough, I thought Jon really had a pair.

[grasswire]

1. what has happened to Jon?

Midlife crisis or something? He's starting to sound like Dennis Miller.

[digitaln3rd]

Yeah, he's totally like Dennis Miller..

Just because he likes someone personally.. riiight.

/rolleyes

[Lint Head]

2. Jon. It's over between you and me!

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. I thought his gathering at Washington

was the beginning of my disappointment with him.

He's still funny sometimes .... maybe power corrupts
and it got to his head

In the last year I think he lost his mojo.

[Lint Head]

3. Jon Stewart has done nothing compared to Keith Olbermann.

People received health care because of Keith.

[SidDithers]

5. Jon's coverage was instrumental in getting the 9/11 Responders Bill passed..nt

Sid

[NuclearDem]

12. We have a winner! nt

[dkofos]

6. I guess you didn't see the show.

[burnsei sensei]

7. I just can't say the same.

O'Reilly is shamefully obtuse.

[upi402]

8. Bad enough he wants us to tuck nuts a cluck

Now he's going to show us how to swallow?


don't think so.


done

[Tx4obama]

9. You need to see the FULL segment in context.

The title of the OP is VERY misleading.

[BeFree]

10. No I don't

Jon is history. I thought for awhile he really was with us, but he's just another rich guy.

An elite. Too bad. I may never watch his show again.

[NuclearDem]

11. Yeah, you do

When the comment comes at the tail end of a seven minute segment where Stewart absolutely skewered O'Reilly.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january-27-2011/bill-o-reilly-defends-his-nazi-analogies

Something some of us learned in debate class or from supervising others at work: people respond better to criticism if you're able to not be a total douche while you're telling them.

[Initech]

15. Yeah, that was a great segment.

But he said he liked O'Reilly because unlike some Fux News commentators, he isn't afraid to go on other shows.

[NuclearDem]

18. Exactly

He didn't say he liked O'Reilly for his politics, his debate style, or his personal life; he was pretty specific about what he liked about O'Reilly.

[Desertrose]

22. Man, people are so quick to pile on Jon....

without knowing the whole story.

OP is totally slanted.

[NuclearDem]

23. Stephen Colbert: Hitler is number one!

:rofl:

[Desertrose]

25. Leave it to Colbert

:rofl:

[The Gunslinger]

13. He's going Dennis Miller and has been for a while

[Peregrine Took]

14. I've always thought he was a little worm and not funny in the slightest. n/t

[high density]

16. Yeah, Jon said that before or after totally ridiculing the guy

People should watch the comment in context before going off the deep end about it.

[brettdale]

19. If Stewart really wanted to go after Oreilly

He would bring up the secual harrassement of woman the abuse of oreilly staffers, and more, instead he plays
it safe, Stewart should take lessons from Gervais.

[NuclearDem]

21. And how exactly is the sexual harrassment lawsuit related to Nazi imagery?

I must have missed that...

[high density]

34. So when Stewart starts slamming somebody, he needs to pick apart every weakness in them?

I guess he'd better not bring up Bush again because that's a few months worth of shows right there, just to set up the joke.

[Scruffy1]

17. He's just part of the false dialogue

He has a lot more in common with Billo than with you and I. He's rich, he's white and both are proponents of capitalism. They just keep the false dialogue going between two bad alternatives. It keeps us chosing between really sucks and sucks less.

"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable". John K. Galbraith.

[Rex]

20. That's okay, everyone has that one asshole they like.

Maybe because no one else will.

[Archae]

24. How can he not like a guy who gave him so much material?

[upi402]

26. Ok but "respect"?

Nah, no way is that real...

[Blue-Jay]

27. Jon is DEAD to me!

(insert generic DU dead-to-me rationale)

[Tx4obama]

28. Have you watched the FULL segment ?

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january-27-2011/bill-o-reilly-defends-his-nazi-analogies

p.s. The out of context OP thread title is misleading.

[Blue-Jay]

30. Yeah.

I figured that the sarcasm was obvious.

[mucifer]

32. Exactly! The OP doesn't even take into account the comic inflections he used

with the word "I even like you".

[fishwax]

29. so he says after skewering him for his hypocrisy

:rofl:

[steelmania75]

31. Yeah guys stop taking the things Jon Stewart is saying out of context

he said that after owning O'Reilly for an entire segment.

[stevenleser]

33. You almost have to be this way if you are going to do this kind of work...

and try to divorce political disagreement from how you feel about the person.