Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Jon Stewart is awesome on Crossfire
I just have to say that I love Jon Stewart! Take a look at the clip of him confronting the hosts of Crossfire about their shoddy coverage - it's great! I especially love that the hosts completely missed the whole friggin point he had - that they should do a better job of giving us the information that we need. The kept telling him that he's more funny on his show, etc. Well, duh! Of course he is. He wasn't trying to be funny on Crossfire; he was trying to make a point. Someone needs to give those guys a pink slip if they're that dumb.
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Tucker knew EXACTLY what Job Stewart was saying. He was just so livid that someone would actually come on the show and tell him off that he really didn't know what to say. And I think the reason that he didn't know what to say to Jon about it was because Jon was right and there really wasn't any arguing with him.
ATOH, something I was thinking--when I think of Crossfire, I think of a show that's supposed to be serious but is so bad that I can't take it seriously. When I think of the Daily Show, I think of a show that is not supposed to be serious at all, but the humor is often based on very, very serious things. Crossfire cannot claim to be needless of respsonsibility for the public discourse, to quote Jon Stewart. But the Daily Show is more than a comedy show, and Stewart knows that. Though can't say what that means in terms of Stewart's responsibility to the public discourse.
Thank you, and good night.
True, but Jon is always saying on the show that people shouldn't be getting their news from the Daily Show. And I agree. I get my news from a lot of different sources, which is part of what makes the Daily Show that much funnier to me.
I love that they can point out the absurdity of all of this crap. I think that is what most people connect with more than anything. A lot of people, especially us young people, are fed up with this retarded smoke and mirror performance that parades around as democracy and politics in America.
The Daily Show has come a long way since Jon first took over from Craig Kilborn (whom I also loved as a host), but as Jon points out in the clip - the show right before the Daily show is puppets making crank phone calls - the shows on CNN and like stations are all news oriented. So, why would he be asking hard hitting news questions to his guests? Granted, the Daily Show gets awesome people on the show from both sides of the fence, and he does ask good questions of them; but that's not what their show is about. So, Jon has a good point to say that network programs, such as Crossfire, have a responsibility to give us the information that we need and not play into the hands of the politicians by playing their game. That is, afterall, what our media is supposed to be for.
>>>So, Jon has a good point to say that network programs, such as Crossfire, have a responsibility to give us the information that we need and not play into the hands of the politicians by playing their game. That is, afterall, what our media is supposed to be for.
Understood. But--and I'm playing devil's advocate here--I'm sure Jon Stewart understands the influence that his show has on 20-somethings. The fact is the guy makes good points, he's got a sense of humor, he's smart and he's charismatic. Hell that's the start of a good president right there. People listen to him. And he is partisan. I am, too. And from the state of politics today, I see know problem with being nice to John Kerry and being a little pushy with Bill O'Riley. But still...
You and me, we oughta run. But under our internet monikers produced one of the various "name generators."
Super Absorbant Smurf/Ribbed Cracka Fool 2004!
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