Sorry to start another thread on it, but Jon Stewart is my new hero :)

[ET Awful]

Finally saw the Crossfire. We need more people like him smacking the media around.

I loved how Tucker expected him to just come on the show and be funny, but Jon actually took it seriously and slapped the crap out of him :).

THANK YOU JON!!!!!!

[Mr_Spock]

1. "You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show"

Very funny - just love that video - a permanent in my collection :D

[TaleWgnDg]

7. yup, tis sure and hell refreshing to see and hear Jon Stewart . . .

Stewart is like opening a window in early Spring to let out the stale winter air = Jon Stewart as opposed to others on tv.

btw, do you know of any list of Sinclair advertisers re your post?


Go, John, Go . .

[Mr_Spock]

9. He was hilarious

The advertisers I sent emails to were in the Skinner sticky - one link there has a list of advertisers http://www.boycottsbg.com/advertisers/ - I think there are other lists out there - I have sent an awful lot of emails myself!

[TaleWgnDg]

10. thanks . . . n/t

[tishaLA]

2. I infinitely prefer a thousand Stewart threads

to all the bullshit I hid this morning.

[russian33]

3. My favorite quote from that is:

CARLSON: You need to get a job at a journalism school, I think.

STEWART: You need to go to one.

[ET Awful]

5. Yup, that was great. . . for some reason, the one that made me laugh

the most was:

"The lead-in to my show is puppets making crank phone-calls."

Frickin' Tucker trying to attack him for not asking his guests hard questions. . . it's a frickin' comedy for fuck's sake.

[pacalo]

4. Stewart's reply to being funny: "I'm not going to be your monkey boy."

[ET Awful]

6. That what had me rolling too :) n/t

[Robbien]

8. Go read what MTV has to say about the interview

Jon Stewart Bitchslaps CNN's 'Crossfire' Show

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.

"I watch your show every day, and it kills me. It's so painful to watch," Stewart added as it became apparent that the comedian was not joking. He went on to hammer the network, and the media in general, for its coverage of the presidential debates. Stewart said it was a disservice to viewers to immediately seek reaction from campaign insiders and presidential cheerleaders following the debates, noting that the debates' famed "Spin Alley" should be called "Deception Lane."

"The thing is, we need your help," Stewart said. "Right now, you're helping the politicians and the corporations and we're left out there to mow our lawns."

More:
http://www.mtv.com/chooseorlose/headlines/news.jhtml?id=1492305

[Lorien]

11. Write to him

I doubt if he reads DU. Here's his agent's address:

Jon Stewart -9220 Sunset Blvd. #106, LA, CA 90069

[NuttyFluffers]

12. is there a way to see this as a video clip?

i'd love to see this, it sounds precious!

[qanda]

13. I'm just glad to see more about Jon Stewart than Mary Cheney

Jon Stewart was absolutely wonderful today.