Maddow's reaction to Stewart's smackdown

Andrew-Austin said:
His show is a news show, and its a commentary show, and its comedy show. It is all of those things, the comedy aspect does not give him free reign to to disregard all of his advice to the MSM. Making jokes at certain things is expressing a view on them. He pleads with the MSM they have so much power to do good, but he also has power to do good. Sometimes they use it, like the daily show's coverage of the Iraq war, but a lot of the times they don't. Okay maybe I don't expect him to grill his guests, but he could ask better and tougher questions while still being funny. Is there no bias in the daily show as a whole, can't it improve a lot as well? Easily, if TDS staff take up more of Stewart's advice.

People don't look to his show for a bias free experience, but they don't w/ the MSM either. People don't have that high of expectations for cable news, because they have come to expect it, that does not mean they can't live up to a greater standard. I don't see why his show is just in some completely different dimension in his opinion.
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Is this really so hard to grasp???

He is a comedian, he can talk about real problems all he wants and express his view all he wants but at the end of the day he is making jokes and no one will take his views however true and right seriously and he doesn't expect anyone to do so either.

But news shows have journalists working there, journalist who are suppose to be objective and unbiased and are suppose to serve the public good but instead are everything but.
http://www.journalism.org/resources/principles
 
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He's being put on the spot and having a conversation. I tend to like this and find it more useful then if she would have posed say 10 questions that he had ahead of time.
 
Interesting, if even at times rambling.

It seemed that some of the more meandering answers to the questions posed were being formulated by Stewart to ease any discomfort Ms. Maddow may have over his POV, a courtesy he need not have extended.

Though, I suppose a more direct route would have been taken as bad form among [imagined?] shared-ideological travelers.

Plus, only suggesting that MSNBC's commentators (that's you, Ms. Maddow) are equal to Fox News' commentators without any qualifications wouldn't have required the expanse of time allotted for the interview - so, a meandering we went....
 
He's also dealing with a stomach virus. I commend him for being able to sit in one spot for that long.
 
tpreitzel said:
I'm in agreement about Stewart's rambling ... almost incoherent.
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He was sick with the flu. May have had something to do with it.

I really like Stewart. I don't agree with him on everything, but he is fair and seems to listen with an open mind. He has also always been respectful to Ron Paul when he has been on the show.
 
I watched the whole thing. I failed to see any smackdown. That was the tamest and lamest criticism ive ever seen Stewart do.
He didnt even challenge her when she was generalizing that the tea party people are about 2nd amendment remedies and some other bullshit charge
I used to respect Jon Stewart but everyday he loses more respect in my eyes.
Funny How he now suddenly respects the tea party.
they can both go to hell
 
Anybody who thought he was rambling has attention span issues, sorry. Have you ever heard Noam Chomsky speak? That's just how they talk. Most on the left are intellectuals. Doesn't mean they are right.

Considering he spent 90% of the time criticizing Maddown and MSNBC, I call smackdown!

That was awesome.
 
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YouTube - "There Is No Honor In What I Do But I Do It As Honorably As I Can" Jon Stewart Interview pt.4

OK, I gotta set the record straight here... Rachel Maddow thought the term "teabagger" was funny because she didn't think that the people who were sending teabags knew what the slang "teabagging" meant? Seriously?

As far as I know, this is the first mention of sending tea bags as a protest in modern history: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=12707

Now notice my reply, all of 34 minutes later, when I pointed out the humor of "teabagging". This was almost 2 years before Maddow had even heard of people sending tea bags as a form of protest. Hell, I might have been the first person in history to associate sending tea bags with the slang term "teabagging"... but I thought it was pretty obvious and a bit of stupid humor. Stewart is right... it was maybe funny for a day, probably less.
 
specsaregood said:
I disagree. If you put him up on a news network and he did that, THEN he would be a hypocrite. People don't watch his show and guests don't come on his show to get tough questions. Its the same argument he took with mathews/tucker on crossfire all those years ago.
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actually a more accurate way to put it is if stewart specifically stated "anyone who interviews should meet certain criteria" then failed to do it himself, whether the criteria made any sense. either way, i'm not sure why stewart is worth a dam being defended.
 
Free Moral Agent said:
I couldn't get through all the clips, too much rambling. I'd rather him take O'Donnel to task than Maddow.
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as if liberals haven't done enough of that. liberals know their talking points well and their echo chamber is huge. they pretty much all mirror what each other say--bigger government. conservatives on the other hand lack still people who fully understand the issues. they simply fail to respond efficiently to liberal attacks.

so why do you want to see another half-knowing neo-con grilled again? another one of those fruitless activities. it is to liberals that more responses need be directed.
 
Ninja Homer said:
OK, I gotta set the record straight here... Rachel Maddow thought the term "teabagger" was funny because she didn't think that the people who were sending teabags knew what the slang "teabagging" meant? Seriously?

As far as I know, this is the first mention of sending tea bags as a protest in modern history: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=12707

Now notice my reply, all of 34 minutes later, when I pointed out the humor of "teabagging". This was almost 2 years before Maddow had even heard of people sending tea bags as a form of protest. Hell, I might have been the first person in history to associate sending tea bags with the slang term "teabagging"... but I thought it was pretty obvious and a bit of stupid humor. Stewart is right... it was maybe funny for a day, probably less.
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Oh, I remember. These people think movements don't exist until they're being pushed by Rush Limbaugh or MSNBC. Ron Paul? A gadfly. Carbon copy the Ron Paul Revolution, but pump it on Fox News and set it up to promote mainstream republicans, and suddenly its the birth of a new movement -- a movement that conveniently no longer undermines their left-right narrative.

They have no interest in getting the real story, they just live in their own self generated little world. They don't try to respond to the people -- they try to control the people. It gets pretty transparent after a while.

If a movement is born, and Rachel Maddow, Bill O, and their current and historical ilk ignore it, does it matter? 20 years ago, no. 10 years ago, not much. Now, yes -- enough to affect, but not redefine the mainstream political narrative. A few years from now, assuming freedom of communication persists? Hold on to your hats.
 
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I've been watching...when does the "smackdown" of Rachael begin? What Part? Time counter? I haven't seen it yet..

Stewart is a thoughtful smart fellow. Maybe he will come over to our side by 2012.
 
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