As I recall, Stewart said at the top of the segment that he could've booked an all-Black panel "and you white people wouldn't listen," so he booked an all-white panel. He probably should've booked someone other than Sullivan.
Mark Jeffries [email protected] <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 11:41 AM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > I just watched the episode, and although Stewart as host calling one of > his guests a motherf*cker is not really proper hosting etiquette, the real > infraction was allowing Sullivan’s deeply uninformed and racially charged > opinions to share the stage with people who have studied this both > scholarly and professionally. The fault was in Stewart booking a bigot but > somehow pretending to be above the likes of Donahue or Geraldo who used to > book similar panels in the hopes of provoking a reaction. The other two > panelists wisely refused to engage with Sullivan, which left Stewart as the > only person to react. He did. He shouldn’t have. > > This is why I cannot watch these talk shows anymore. I like Stewart and > he’s among the best at what he does, but what he does isn’t helpful, and in > the specific case of that panel discussion I didn’t find it either funny or > entertaining. > > As a practical matter, obviously white people need to talk about racism, > but no roomful of white people is ever going to solve the problem they/we > historically created. As an equally practical matter, Sullivan should be > called an ignorant motherf*cker wherever he goes, and he should never go on > television again. > > On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 2:47 PM 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Sullivan retreated into the Substack universe shortly before the >> 'intellectual dark web' was called a thing. >> >> I have noticed he has not been on Colbert in a while, possibly not since >> The Colbert Report was still a thing. >> >> David >> >> On Saturday, April 2, 2022, 01:43:32 PM PDT, PGage <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> I didn’t know Andrew Sullivan was still a thing… >> >> On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 at 12:50 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Andrew Sullivan whined about being ambushed on “The Problem with…” >> Stewart pointed out on Twitter that Sullivan had been fully briefed in >> advance and given the option to back out. >> >> >> https://twitter.com/jonstewart/status/1510062716479672322?s=21&t=kZ3Dk8dsLkXPFGutdO5f_g >> >> -- >> Kevin M. (RPCV) >> >> >> -- >> 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/192641084.617598.1648936069053%40mail.yahoo.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/192641084.617598.1648936069053%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > 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/CAKgmY4ADbG_wHxWrPTCaYHeMsY7Y438KwCoXPxzcQ%2BaCZdYADA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4ADbG_wHxWrPTCaYHeMsY7Y438KwCoXPxzcQ%2BaCZdYADA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAJ_uKi-YAN01nNOetne%2BpNGSsUH_140Xg1a9fbLRUx-Q6JKG2Q%40mail.gmail.com.
