CNN.com - Transcripts
Here is the transcript of stewart on Crossfire.
some highlights
1. CARLSON: Didn't you feel like -- you got the chance to interview the guy (Kerry). Why not ask him a real question, instead of just suck up to him?
STEWART: Yes. "How are you holding up?" is a real suck-up. And I actually giving him a hot stone massage as we were doing it.
(LAUGHTER)
CARLSON: It sounded that way. It did.
STEWART: You know, it's interesting to hear you talk about my responsibility.
CARLSON: I felt the sparks between you.
STEWART: I didn't realize that -- and maybe this explains quite a bit.
CARLSON: No, the opportunity to...
(CROSSTALK)
STEWART: ... is that the news organizations look to Comedy Central for their cues on integrity.
2. STEWART: But my point is this. If your idea of confronting me is that I don't ask hard-hitting enough news questions, we're in bad shape, fellows. (LAUGHTER)
3. BEGALA: We're 30 minutes in a 24-hour day where we have each side on, as best we can get them, and have them fight it out.
STEWART: No, no, no, no, that would be great. To do a debate would be great. But that's like saying pro wrestling is a show about athletic competition.
4. STEWART: It's not honest. What you do is not honest. What you do is partisan hackery. And I will tell you why I know it.
CARLSON: You had John Kerry on your show and you sniff his throne and you're accusing us of partisan hackery?
STEWART: Absolutely.
CARLSON: You've got to be kidding me. He comes on and you...
(CROSSTALK)
STEWART: You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls.
5. STEWART: You know, the interesting thing I have is, you have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably.
CARLSON: You need to get a job at a journalism school, I think.
STEWART: You need to go to one.
6. STEWART: You know what's interesting, though? You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show. (This was after Carlson said something like you know I think your funnier on your show. It got lost in crosstalk.)
Read the whole thing it is really interesting to see someone in the media proclaim that the emperors clothes suck.
CNN.com - Transcripts
posted by Josh Campbell @ 3:21 PM
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once a again someone says it better than I could. This from digby's blog
"I don't know how many of you are watching Crossfire, but Jon Stewart is on and he's making both Tuckie and Paul a tad uncomfortable.
They seem to be unaware that The Daily Show is a parody of the news and that its mission is to make fun of them. And that's because they are so insular and self-referential that they have no idea how the country really sees them.
They don't like it. Especially the Tuckster who is plainly wants to scratch his eyes out.
Stewart is trying to make the point that they are contributing to the dumbing down of the discourse by presenting this fake news, or political theatre, that they pretend is news. He isn't being funny and he isn't doing the usual celebrity circle jerk and they are finding it very discomfiting.
Good.'
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/
I'm sure the Tucks and Bela Lugosi were thinking "Here's a guy who makes fun of the President. We should put him on so we can as much fun as he's having, wouldn't that be neat!" What they don't understand is that he is making fun of them. They are the clowns. Stewart is the guy in the crowd who is points out that the little car they are all piling out of is full of holes. (If you would critique my analogies whenever possible.)
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