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Originally posted by Cowperson@Oct 16 2004, 09:33 AM
Very entertaining, as Stewart says it should be, but not exactly pinning the guy to the matt on anything so that it might qualify as serious.
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He threw out as many soft, entertaining questions as he always does (
"Is it true that every time I use ketchup your wife gets a nickel?"), but IMO he was serious and really tried to get at what he sees to be the most important issue right now: trying to get an honest dialogue going in America; the same thing he was trying to hammer home on Crossfire. It's not a serious talk on the issues in general, but it's not a fluff piece.
JON STEWART:
--in-- in the 2000 election it was an election I think the country didn't realize how important it was going to be. And yet it was a relatively substantive discussion. I can recall in the-- in the debates there was a lot of talk about funding Social Security and-- education and all these things. This election is clearly the most important one of our lifetime.
JOHN KERRY:
Yeah.
JON STEWART:
And yet it's very difficult to have that discussion.
JON STEWART:
--because-- you know, I am-- as any good fake journalist should do, I watch only the 24-hour cable news. This is what I learned about you...
JON STEWART:
Done a little of that. Where-- where does that-- you know, when-- when they come up with these sorts of-- of talking points and-- and that's what gets--
JOHN KERRY:
Well--
JON STEWART:
--sort of carpet bombed on-- on the networks, how-- how does that-- how do you counter that?
JON STEWART:
I'll watch the TV and they'll say-- and this is in advertisements. John Kerry wants our troops to go to war wearing only gabardine. (LAUGHTER) You know? They'll say that you voted against the body armor. And-- and yet they won't talk about what the vote was about and what the battle was.
JON STEWART:
Do you think you'll-- when-- when you get into the debates with him is this going to be-- will you be able to do that? Or-- or will he-- I've seen he's very shrewd in debates of saying, "Look, this is a choice. It's a-- it's a very easy choice between-- a man who loves-- Fidel Castro and-- (LAUGHTER) and someone who-- loves America." You know? How-- how do you-- do you think you will ever be able to have an honest discussion?
JON STEWART:
Very smart. Now if-- if someone wants to come to your rally, what kind of loyalty oath do they have to sign?