On Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 6:24:53 AM UTC-4, Joe Hass wrote: > > > https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/15/magazine/jon-stewart-interview.html > > At some point in the last year I recall (but now can't find) something > about Elizabeth Warren and her first appearance on Colbert Report in 2010. > The story went that Warren did her spot, wrapped, and Colbert said to her > that it sounded like she didn't say what she wanted to say. What did she > want to say, Colbert asked her. She told him. Colbert reset, did a little > bit of a reshoot, asked a few more questions that helped her get her point > across, and helped. > > I think the fact that I can imagine Colbert would do that, but never > Stewart, says a lot about how history will handle the two going forward. > > I also have never seen an interviewer really push Stewart that, in big > interviews against actual important people, he almost always genuflected > and folded. His standard excuse is that he was entertainment, not news, but > that's just bullshit: he could light people up when he wanted to, he just > didn't want to light up the *wrong* people. > > And Charlie Pierce on his Twitter account pointed out how Stewart > bothsides the problems each party has: > > “When you have a duopoly, there is no incentive to work together to create > something better...We’re incentivized for more extreme candidates, for more > extreme partisanship, for more conflict and permanent campaigning.” > > There's so much disingenuousness in that I can't stand it. >
I've always believed Stewart got overpraised for the Tucker Carlson moment on Crossfire and the proof of that being that Tucker Carlson still has a career afterwards. Not to mention how he equated Olbermann/Maddow with Hannity/O'Reilly at that stupid Glenn Beck counterrally he did in 2010 which also accomplished nothing. Greg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/96765cfc-39a4-4db0-a713-faed78c915c3o%40googlegroups.com.
