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Originally posted by CaramonLS@Oct 16 2004, 06:39 PM
It is a sad day in America when Comedy Central can get better answers out of a person than CNN.# Which is the point he is trying to make.
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And obviously failed to do in this instance, the Kerry interview exactly what you would expect on a comedy show but nothing to be confused with a mid-campaign joust.
Which is why Tucker Carlson wanted him on the program and went for the throat to make that point. He knew he had Stewart by the balls on this one and was looking to stick the dagger in. Maybe he is a dickhead!!  [/b]
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As I pointed out before, Stewart had a serious topic he wanted to discuss with Kerry and asked questions that went right to the heart of the issue.
It was only a "comedy show interview" if you insist on looking at if only from the point of view of "A good interview with a candidate must be focused on grilling him on issues, and since he didn't do that he was lobbing him softball questions." To say that Tucker had him by the balls is to miss the point of the interview.
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I think what you're saying is that people increasingly need to be entertained by the news. If they're not, they'll find some place that does entertain them.
Hence the subtle rise of hip guys like Anderson Cooper (CNN) and Keith Oberrman (MSNBC) and the decline of dour guys like Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather. Take that point a step further and you have Jon Stewart and Dennis Miller.[/quote]
Saying that Jon Stewart is just a more exaggerated version of Anderson Cooper is to completely misrepresent what they do on the Daily Show.
The source of the humour on the Daily Show isn't to give the news in a flashy way, it's to point out the virtually never-ending absurdities that lie behind the stories and their coverage. If you don't know the stories before you watch the Daily show, you'll miss half the humour.
Jon Stewart's big beef with the Anderson Coopers and Crossfires is that they're at best ignoring the absurdities and at worst complicit in perpetuating them by simply allowing the talking heads from both sides to just come on and spout off their talking points unchallanged.
When he went on Crossfire and plead with them "You need to help us" he was saying that the mainstream news networks need to do in a serious way what he is doing with his dancing monkey routing because (a) not nearly enough people watch the daily show for it to make a significant difference, and (b ) you can't and shouldn't actually get the news from his show.