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Mon Mar-06-06 12:37 AM
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Tucker Carlson-Jon Stewart exchange redux? |
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I did not watche Jon Stewart on Larry King, but the WSJ's Daniel Henninger reported on this exchange:
Larry King suggested to Jon Stewart that the current low ebb of the Democrats and Republicans was good for Mr. Stewart's business.
Larry King: "So, in a sense you're happy over this."
Jon Stewart: "No."
King: "This gives you fodder." Mr. Stewart replied that if government "began to solve problems in a rational way rather than just a way that involved political dividends, we would be the happiest people in the world to turn our attention to idiots like, you know, media people, no offense."
King: "So, you don't want it to be bad?"
Stewart: "Did you really just ask me if I want it to be bad?"
King: "Yes because you . . . "
Stewart: "What are you -- I have kids. What do you think? I want things to corrode to the point where we're all living in huts?"
King: "You don't want Medicare to fail?"
Stewart: "Are you insane?"
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Mon Mar-06-06 12:43 AM
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1. I remember King torpedoed Kucinich over universal health care. |
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Edited on Mon Mar-06-06 12:44 AM by Selatius
He even interrupted him during the Democratic primary debates to call him a socialist over again several times during one debate King moderated.
King has an agenda.
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Mon Mar-06-06 12:45 AM
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2. he was great at that point..... |
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He said he would much rather poke fun at the media than the Government. :)
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Viva_La_Revolution
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Mon Mar-06-06 12:45 AM
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I swallowed my repulsion for Larry King, and I cheered during that exchange. Jon soooo shot him down. My hero! :loveya:
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Mon Mar-06-06 01:15 AM
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4. That man. Is cool. n/t |
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Mon Mar-06-06 01:26 AM
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I remember when Larry King actually was a good interviewer. Now he's turned into someone's goofy uncle who asks the most stupid questions. Usually the guests let him get away with it...Stewart knocked it out of the park.
I saw the exchange live and nearly spit up my beverage when I heard that exchange. While King was trying to do the age-old separate the comic from the politics game, Stewart doesn't play that, thus King just threw one into Jon's wheelhouse and he didn't miss it. I think C & L had this clip up on Tuesday...that transcript doesn't do the justice to the sound of incredulism in Stewart's voice.
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Mon Mar-06-06 04:58 PM
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9. "are you insane?!!" -- and his wide-eyed look ... |
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It sure seemed to me that he could not believe Larry King would ask such a question. (If he was just pretending-- I think we should rethink his description of himself as the 4th-male-lead-in-"Death to Smoochy", because in that case, he can definitely act!)
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Mon Mar-06-06 02:55 AM
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6. A fundamental disconnect |
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Media talking heads like Carlson or King keep reacting to Jon Stewart as if he were one of themselves: Sedate herd animals. Instead, Stewart basically uses his wit to deflate the talking heads' idiotic jabber.
I hope they never catch on. It's great watching Stewart skewer them!
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Mon Mar-06-06 03:10 AM
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7. Don't know if it's true... but I wouldn't be surprised. |
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Larry King asks some the most innane and ridiculous questions on television...
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Mon Mar-06-06 03:19 AM
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8. Larry King's dentures practically fell out when Jon didn't answer his BS |
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questions. CNN would be much better off if they got rid of that nasty creature. :eyes:
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