Jon Stewart was on the best Crossfire EVER! *Quicktime video and mp3 here*

[Wonk]

34 MB quicktime video

3 M mp3

Enjoy :D

I somehow doubt they'll be asking him back anytime soon...

[glitch]

1. Thank you! You're really a savior to those of us w/o upper cable. nt

[Wonk]

2. transcript

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/15/cf.01.html

[Wonk]

49. More download sites for the video available here

I haven't downloaded these yet to compare quality and filesize to the ones I posted above.

WMV
http://mediamatters.org/static/video/crossfire-20041015.wmv
http://www.contemporaryinsanity.org/video/jon-stewart-crossfire.wmv

mpeg-4
http://mediamatters.org/static/video/crossfire-20041015.mp4

BitTorrent
http://bitflood.org:8080/?file=791b2f5d95a54d1381b85f271b51f71e73964185

[cal04]

58. Just watched it here

great job Jon Stewart

if you have nortons or zone alarm and no real one, go to 200k and put your internet zone security on low until your finished.
http://www.ifilm.com/filmdetail?ifilmid=2652831&htv=12&htv=12

[ClassWarrior]

3. Thanks Wonk.

Taking it with me to local Kerry HQ!

24.

[Roon]

7. My Grandfather is a crossfire fanatic

and he just happens to be on a road trip during the best episode ever. I am going to DL it for him. (and for me of course, I don't watch TV)

[Angrillori]

61. Gwen Moore? Russ Feingold? Rock!

Could ya PM me? I wonder if I've met you in RL at Kerry HQ, or phone banking, or at one of the debate parties. Anyone here has got to be cool!

[Cerridwen]

4. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Oh, and did I say

Thank you.Thank you.Thank you.Thank you.Thank you.Thank you.Thank you.Thank you.


I'm stuck at work; this way I can take a quick peek.

[LiberalVoice]

5. Do you know where I can get the video in anything but Quicktime?

Quicktime doesn't work for me for some reason. :(

[TrustingDog]

6. would be great to have a RealPlayer version...

:)
if anyone finds one, please let me know.
I saw the show but HAVE to show it to others that missed it.

[blondeatlast]

37. RealTime here, too. Missed the show, heard parts on Randi.

He PILLORIED them.

[fugue]

8. I can't get a connection

Now why does that make me happy? ^_^

[telex54]

9. Houston, we have a problem...

"Couldn't open the file because it is not a file that Quicktime understands"

Anyone else having this problem??

[nykiera]

11. I am having the same problem

Sigh. Maybe someone could do a windows media player version?

[w13rd0]

16. It's a codec...

...that is played from within Quicktime. search vp3

and the server is probably swamped...

[telex54]

20. This codec?

http://www.vp3.com/cgi-bin/getvp3.pl

I installed the Windows/Quicktime version and still get the same error.

:(

[Wonk]

22. I'm crunching an mpeg-4 version as well. I'll have that online in a bit.nt

[nykiera]

27. Thank You. nt.

[Wonk]

40. mpeg-4 version is now online. This file is a bit bigger, and the quality

a bit poorer, but hopefully this'll work for folks who were having trouble with the quicktime version.

36 MB mpeg-4 video

[kaitykaity]

10. Keeper, thank you.

:thumbsup:

[Democat]

12. Has this file been mirrored anywhere?

No connection to the server.

[spooky3]

13. Thanks! What's amazing is that Tucker caused his own nightmare.

He began attacking Stewart. It was only AFTER that, and in response to it (pointing out the irony of Tucker Carlson telling a comedian that he wasn't asking tough enough quesitons of Kerry) that Jon began his "lecture".

[theoceansnerves]

14. is there something wrong with the mp3?

it's crashing winamp- can't play it.

[Wonk]

23. Try downloading to disc first. If you're trying to stream the problem may

be that the bandwidth is getting really hammered.

[Bongo Prophet]

15. A SPECIAL thanks for using quicktime!

I hates the wmvs...

[AntiFascist]

17. I wonder what he'd say to Tweety? n/t

[tjdee]

18. Thank you!!!

Much appreciated.

[theoceansnerves]

19. that mp3...

is actually an AIFF.

[Wonk]

21. No, it's not an aiff. The aiff file was about 10x the size.

My mp3 encoder just leaves the original file name in the header info, which is why it may say aiff in your mp3 player.

[lazarus]

24. Wonk

it's telling me it's not a format Quicktime recognises.

:shrug:

FWIW, I tried downloading it to my hard drive. It stopped at 16 MB, I just noticed, so I'll try downloading it again.

[Wonk]

26. I think the problem may be that the server is getting completely hammered

so you may want to wait and try downloading again later during off-peak hours.

As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, I'm also crunching an mpeg-4 version of it for folks who are having trouble with the quicktime codec.

[lazarus]

30. No sweat

If I had enough space i'd mirror it for you. I'll grab it tonight.

Have you thought about putting it up on Usenet, maybe on alt.binaries.multimedia?

[fugue]

36. I tried and it stopped at 7.6 MB

And then it told me the page had been moved.

[BootinUp]

25. I can't download it :cry:

it keeps aborting. Saying its finished but only part of the file is downloaded.

:cry:

[Wonk]

28. Server is getting HAMMERED. Try again later, maybe during off-peak hours.

Like the middle of the night or early morning, for example.

[PeaceForever]

31. Maybe you could take down the video and keep the MP3 for awhile?

I really badly want to hear the show.

Thanks for putting it up, by the way. :)

[BootinUp]

33. thanks Wonk

I'll try it later.

Thanks for putting it online. :)

[PeaceForever]

29. The link is down. :( n/t

[DS1]

32. MP3 mirror here

If everyone would ~not~ try get the quicktime for 10 minutes I could eventually mirror that, too (like that'll ever happen)

http://s91285765.onlinehome.us/du/10.15.04.XFire.JonStewart.mp3

[PeaceForever]

Awesome. Thanks!

:)

[chookie]

34. Here's another mirror

Jon Stewart on Crossfire

Bush? Or Chimp?

[Tropez]

35. I will mirror the file once I have it downloaded.

FYI

[julialnyc]

38. news

Jon Stewart Bitchslaps CNN's 'Crossfire' Show
http://www.mtv.com/chooseorlose/headlines/news.jhtml?id=1492305

Jon Stewart Bitchslaps CNN's 'Crossfire' Show

Jon Stewart to Tucker Carlson: "You're a dick"
http://www.alternet.org/election04/2004/10/002578.html

[ALoeppert]

39. bit torrent avi

I'm dl'ing it as we speak...

Just an alternative:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2496346

[captainjack]

41. thank you!!!!

[Lefteous]

42. This is great!

Thank you very much!

[diabhal]

43. New mirror for the video

http://www.wsu.edu/~drevil/jon-stewart-crossfire.wmv

Go get it kids!

[Grown2Hate]

44. VERY much appreciated! DLing now, keepin' it kicked! eom

[Redneck Socialist]

46. Thank you!

I don't have a TV and I don't usually feel like I'm missing much, but that was awesome! Thanks again.

[fugue]

45. Is the QT version gone?

Or is it just too busy to let me download it?

[Wonk]

48. Still there, just really heavy traffic. Try again later or tomorrow. nt

[SheepyMcSheepster]

47. wow, he is great, i can't believe he is calling them out to their faces.

[Duncan Grant]

50. Thanks a million, Wonk!

:toast: :yourock:

[IronLionZion]

51. tahnsk Wonk, you're my hero!

:yourock:

[parasim]

52. Wonk Appreciation Post

Thank you very much for providing this videoclip.

It is shame that extremely important confrontations with the American media is shown for a half hour at a time when most people are still at work or in the car or something and then never aired again.

As Stewart actually had the opportunity to so succinctly take the news media to task and say, on national television, on one of their own spintastic shows, that they simply are theatre masquerading as news.

By providing this clip, you have given us the tremendous opportunity to have access to this fleeting bit of footage that exposes the media for what they are, as well as to be able to show it to our clueless friends and family who actually follow and believe that the mainstream news media provides national debate on important issues which concern Americans.

On top of it all, I also now have it in three formats, mp3, quicktime and windows media, so it covers all the bases. Hell, I can even load it on my ipod and pocket PC to show it to people on the street, at bars or wherever! It's fantastic! I can't wait until the next time I'm at my local pub and somebody tries to make their point by stating, "I heard Tucker Carlson say...", and whip out this clip. It will be sweet.

Just for taking your personal time to capture and post this video I offer my sincere and utmost thanks.

[Skinner]

53. I'm gonna give this a kick

Thanks Wonk.

[muchacho]

54. Stewart is my hero!!

What cajones!

[Seldona]

55. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

John Stewart is my hero!

I simply cannot stop laughing!

Although I agree 100% with his assesments.

And calling Carlson a dick?

Priceless.

The best 10 minutes of television this year, outside the debates of course.

You're right.

He will not be going back anytime soon.

[burythehatchet]

56. Thanks a lot wonk. You've come through with so many

of these downloads. Its really a great service.

The xfire video was the most incredible display of courage that I've ever witnessed on a tv show.

Jon Stewart has thrown down. This thing is going to get much bigger. He has given voice to the millions of us who would say the same thing if we ever had the chance.

[wildeyed]

57. That took allot of courage.

Jon Stewart doesn't have to go a show and stand up to those guys eye to eye. He did that out of personal conviction and love of country. Awesome.

I feel like I did when I first heard Howard Dean speak. Finally, someone speaks for me. God, I hope some of those media types will listen.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

63. Thought you'd enjoy this from DFA...

if you haven't seen it already:

"Jon Stewart Gets It

Wow.

Everyone here in Burlington was watching Jon Stewart on CNN's Crossfire -- and then watched it a few more times on TiVo. Stewart took over the show -- called Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson partisan hacks, called the show and others like it theatre, said they are hurting America.

He begged for a true debate show, not a joust of disingenuous talking points. He made the distinction that while the hosts and guests on either side probably genuinely believe that Bush or Kerry would make the better president, the arguments they offer are frequently dishonest.

Asked which candidate would provide "better material" for him as a comedian, he said it didn't matter -- that the absurdity of the system drives the humor (before thanking the hosts for adding what they can to that absurdity).

This was one of those rare moments when someone talked through the filter."

I'm with ya. Watching Jon Stewart so genuinely take on those two numbnuts and the media in general brought back that feeling I had when I first watched Dean on "Meet the Press" way back when.

Too bad Robert Nofacts ("Douchebag of Liberty" in Daily Show jargon?) wasn't sitting at that table, but I guess I shouldn't get greedy!

[joefromcanada]

59. Jon

This was the best crossfire ever, and coming on after the
nightline show where the dip okneel n take it was on, it was a
great day for you americans...:) 

[CreekDog]

60. His Whole Show Mocks Media Coverage

Case in point: On the Daily Show, Samantha Bee interviewed a very serious, sober-looking scientist at the NY Zoo who said that there was homosexual activity among zoo animals, specifically penguins. In the name of balance, she interviewed a guy from the Family Research Council (a right wing group apparently) who denied that it was possible. They even took the guy to the zoo, ran some clips of the activity and he still said it was not possible.

This is how ridiculous our media is --it's the Swift Boat Veterans, but with different players and facts to make it more obvious.

Jon Stewart deserves his award --he does this every night. Thanks to his interview on Crossfire, I now understand this.

--And Jon Stewart is too popular for them not to have on again. They just want him on, they just want ratings, they want to bask in the glow of somebody of someone that people will turn the dial to watch.

[blue sky at night]

62. winamp

My winamp program played the file perfectly. Jon Stewart is a Hero.
Thanks man.

[BushOnCrackcom]

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[GliderGuider]

65. Ricochet

That was painful to watch.
Jon tried to make them listen but they were too enamored with their own drivel to hear what he was saying. In the end, all Jon could do was bite his lip and wring his hands. It was sad.

So sad.

Good on you, Jon. Well done, m'lad.
I hope you can wake tomorrow and still fight the good fight.


(And many thanks to youz guys with your vids!)

[stavka]

66. Best Comments EVER!!!!

Saw it live -

heard it today on Rhandi Rhodes

heard it again tonight (Thank YOU DU)
Sending it to everybody I know needs to hear it.

[nedbal]

67. Jon Stewart Bitchslaps CNN's 'Crossfire' Show

Jon Stewart Bitchslaps CNN's 'Crossfire' Show
10.15.2004 6:43 PM EDT
http://www.mtv.com/chooseorlose/headlines/news.jhtml?id=1492305
In what could well be the strangest and most refreshing media moment of the election season, "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart turned up on a live broadcast of CNN's "Crossfire" Friday and accused the mainstream media - and his hosts in particular - of being soft and failing to do their duty as journalists to keep politicians and the political process honest.

Reaching well outside his usual youthful "Daily Show" demo, Stewart took to "Crossfire" to promote his new book, "America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction" (see "Jon Stewart Writes A History Textbook That - At Last! - Features Nudity"), but instead of pushing the tome, Stewart used his time to verbally slap the network and the media for being "dishonest" and "doing a disservice" to the American public. After co-host Tucker Carlson suggested that Stewart went easy on Senator John Kerry when the candidate was a guest on "The Daily Show," Stewart unloaded on "Crossfire," calling hosts Carlson and Paul Begala "partisan hacks" and chiding them for not raising the level of discourse on their show beyond sloganeering.

"What you do is not honest. What you do is partisan hackery," Stewart said. "You have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably.


While the audience seemed to be behind Stewart, Begala and Carlson were both taken aback. The hosts tried to feed Stewart set-up lines hoping to draw him into a more light-hearted shtick, but Stewart stayed on point and hammered away at the show, the hosts, and the state of political journalism. Carlson grew increasingly frustrated, at first noting that the segment wasn't "funny," and later verbally sparring with the comedian.

[krkaufman]

76. Best line from the article, imo....

It seems fitting that the tirade came on a day when much of the media attention focused on the presidential race was directed at the mention of Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter during the last presidential debate, as opposed to the issues addressed at that debate.

This writer, at least, recognized the "Mary" issue as diversionary -- and that the media had gone running after it.

[justinfielding]

68. Jon Stewart = Joseph Welch

Stewart's takedown of the crap news establishment reminded me of Joseph Welch's shaming of Joe McCarthy.

Brilliant, heroic, and -- I hope -- historic.

[tomreedtoon]

69. Why doesn't someone Bittorrent this stuff?

Instead of relying on a server which can crash, you can load it to a bittorrent site. There, you download the file...but you keep your computer connected and "seeding" the file to other people. It's a cooperative way to share this video (a Democratic way) rather than putting the drain on a single system provider for personal gain (the Republican way).

I'm sure that someone on a Bittorrent site like www.phoenix-torrents.com or www.suprnova.com would be happy to create a torrent for the video and audio files. Then all you have to do is download it and "seed" what you download with a bittorrent client program.

[President Kerry]

70. wow.. what balls. Thank you Jon Stewart,

for preserving the quickly disappearing concept of responsible journalism, if only for a few minutes. I must say I do like "Crossfire" and the hosts. Even Tucker and Bob Novak I find likable, perhaps for being entertaining. The sad thing about all this is they're pundits, doing their job, which is entertainment more than informing the public. The fact that I find that appealing when I'm deeply concerned for the future of the country is unnerving.

I have enormous respect for both Paul Begala and James Carville. I think they're decent people and journalists, and they take conservatives to task. That's not my issue with them. There is a BIG problem with the media in general. And as good they are, they're part of the machine that is killing responsible journalism. Stewart is holding Crossfire to a higher standard than the rest of the media. And he's right to do so, as he said they're in a unique position, given a unique opportunity to challenge high ranking politicians' motives. This should not be entertainment for the sake of entertainment where everything is looked at as a joke. Those are very serious issues being discussed. I enjoy a good laugh just as much as the next guy but when politician do not look at this as serious discourse, they will not take this rare opportunity to publically interact with the audience seriously.

To be fair, I don't know what they could be doing differently, and I'd very much like to hear others' thoughts on it.

[lamster2k]

71. huzzah

That was outstanding what he said, really I adore Stewart's show, and America the book is the funniest thing I've ever read, but even when he's not cracking jokes Jon Stewart is the man. Huzzah for Jon Stewart.

[UCLA Dem]

72. don't think he's going on that show again...unless tucker isn't there

so great!!

[nickgutierrez]

75. If Tucker's not there, that leaves Novak.

That would be a bloodbath.

[seraph]

73. WOW! Thank you for posting! (nt)

[fortyfeetunder]

74. Now, dat's what we call in de hood

A good old fashioned (verbal) a$$ whupping. Stewart was brilliant against those two shills. I had to wipe my eyes a few times.

[JohnLocke]

77. Kick