Full Extended Jon Stewart Interview

[JoshS]

lol they edited out rp destroying stewart for about 7 mins straight

 

[kejonn]

The saddest thing about this interview is that Stewart is more respectful than any person on Fox would ever be of Ron. In fact, it seems that whenever I catch a random interview of Ron on a liberal leaning station, they are usually more respectful than anyone on right wing radio/television. No wonder Ron Paul has so much trouble getting traction in the GOP.

 

[Texan4Life]

great interview.. thx

 

[robskicks]

WOW, some real negativity. Ron Paul Rocked this interview. He's not perfect, no one is, jesus.
We're gonna win this thing!!!! Whether you like how Ron Paul does it or not!!

 

[InTradePro]

Stewart asks some challenging questions but you can tell it's like Ron has been over it for about 20 years.

 

[Keith and stuff]

Are you saying this is a bad thing? Jon Stewart realizes that the shows primary demographic (18-35 year-olds) now-a-days includes a lot of "open-minded conservatives and libertarians" and that a Ron Paul spot is profitable for the show. That is a great indicator of the progress of Ron Paul's message. There is no doubt that The Daily Show is a profit-minded enterprise (as it should be) - it's great that Ron Paul and such "open-minded" conservative and libertarian ideas are now proving profitable within such a format. Why shouldn't Jon Stewart want to appeal to such a crowd?

Jon went way out of his way to be more than fair to Ron. Jon gave a long interview and asked easy questions. He even complimented Ron over and over again.

Ron, on the other hand, IMO, didn't make an effort to target his message to the audience.

 

[ShT]

I didn't find this interview convincing. Although Paul is definitely a charismatic humorous person (especially for an old man), he seemed to avoid the question "Do you have an example of a free society that has been successful ?" by using the usual stereotyped formal politician language. The question was straightforward so the answer should have been on the same level. I agree that it's not something easy to do, Friedman in The Machinery of Freedom used the medieval Icelandic society as an example of a private justice but it may be boring to mention this on this kind of show. Maybe a good answer would have been the Internet. It's something massively used by billion of people all around the world and the government hardly has control of it. Besides, it's something popular to the young generation (the target of The Daily Show)