'Are you insane?' jon stewart debates 'media bias' with fox host chris wallace.

We once respected Chris Wallace who was once a real newsman... We're now pretty sure that he's been transformed by Roger Aisles into an unblinking golem fashioned from old news stories murdered by Sean Hannity and Billo Reilly.

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[Anti-Dori]

I enjoyed the dialogue. I saw this at another site. He was angry. If you can find it without commercial interruption, check it out.

[Andrew]

Stewart is a master or equivocation and nitpicking. He evaded valid criticisms. He says he's a comedian first, but then shows up on FOX NEWS with no intention of telling a joke. He compares a Sarah Palin commercial to a herpes(?) commercial, and then pretends to be oblivious to the idea of "guilt by association" (the very reason the joke is funny in the first place). He puts on an air of confidence, but the way he snaps back in interviews, or shows up at FOX NEWS for the sole purpose of puting them down, he seems very insecure. And I'm a liberal with a favorable view the Jewish otherwise.

[james chan]

thanks adolph

[Pete]

Andrew, what the fuck does Stewart being Jewish have to do with anything?

[AprilMayJune]

Speechless

[Darksecretplace]

Stewart had overused his not-so-artful rhetorical dodge. "I'm a comedian," would mean something, if he started his show with that disclaimer. Unfortunately, his audience thinks they're watching news. Stewart won't admit it, but he's responsible for that.

James.....it's adolF. Unless you're searching for an excellent meat tenderizer.

[Bill]

"James.....it's adolF. Unless you're searching for an excellent meat tenderizer."

FUNNY!

Andrew probably has a favorable view of the Aunt Jemimah Syrup as well.

[Tommy008]

Stewart goes on these Sunday News Shows and drops his comic persona completely so that he can selfrighteously bloviate about politics and the news media, i guess to prove how he has serious intellect , borne out of some kind of insecurity. He did htis on the ABC sunday news show a while back, where he went on a meanspirited , pompous tirade about the news media and the regulars on the show. He thought he was really being a stud on the show- I was actually embarrassed for him. He singled out the younger conservative bowtie guy, Mark somehting?, for a meanspirited persoanl attack. Stewart asked him why as a grown man he still wore bowties. This was gratuitous , since no one on the show asked Stewart why as an all grown up man, he stil looks like an anteater. Stewart is an ass. What's worse , he's not even funnty.

[Radio Queen]

One of the many things I appreciate about Jon Stewart is the fact that he actually goes on FOX News. He debates with civility and I find his perspective interesting. Yes, his disclaimer that he's a comedian first is somewhat disingenuous, but I trust that most can tell the difference between comedy and news...although now that I think about it, sometimes they are one and the same.

[Jovita]

If you can find the original recording of the interview you can hear the parts that Wallace edited out.
What is disturbing is that Tom is on the lookout for studs on TV! That's pretty "funnty" I think. LMAO

[joanie]

Stewart addresses the "insane" label himself and more here. He calls Wallace on his admission that Fox News is NOT fair and balanced by his(Wallace's) own words.

Have you found the unedited version on the web?

[joanie]

The unedited video is on the web and here it is: Wallace and Stewart unedited

The transparent version for Queen: http://rackjite.com/archives/7463-UNEDITED-Chris-Wallace-Fox-News-Sunday-with-Jon-Stewart,-june-19-2011.html

It is pretty interesting really.

[Radio Queen]

There's no doubt that Stewart got the best of Wallace. Mike won't be happy about that...

[Tommy008]

the guy was Tucker Carlson, on AABC this week , and Stewart was not joking at all when he went after him. He was vcious and mean, when he asked him about the bowtie, his face set in an ugly snarl. He tried, unsuccessfully, since physically he's a joke, to bully Carlson.This guy really has problems. As Andrew says, a very poor specimen of the Jewish.

[Coiler]

poor tucker...

[KS]

Stewart showed his mean-spirited side toward Fox News, but Wallace wants to have him back and Stewart spouted "You're a good man:" to Wallace at the end of the interview - as he knew he probably "won" round 1, except he was the only one competing. Stewart is sharp and unloads on the left sometimes which is why I'll listen to this comedian. When Stewart made the remark about Chris Wallace being "insane", it felt like he was projecting.

I have seen him banter with O'Reilly which was more entertaining - although the usual suspects disdain "the loofah" or as Michael Savage calls him - the Leprachaun ...

I don't buy all of Stewart's criticisms of Fox - being that he did not differentiate between the rightwing talk shows and the news portion and he defended the lamestream media, by only saying they were lazy but they are also liberally biased, which "motivates" them to be lazy. I always thought Colbert was the funnier of the two.

[Tommy008]

Coiler's jut being a smaertass, but actually, yeah , you did feel sorry for Tucker, because you knew he just wanted to haul off and punch the obnoxious little weasel in the jaw. Unfortunately he was in live TV , not in a bar, and also it's not considered cool to hit a midget.

[Coiler]

Can't Tucker take it like a man?

[Jovita]

Tommy are you bipolar? You seem to have unusual fits of anger and then you act sort of normal.

[Jovita]

I did a Google search and the last time Stewart and Tucker were together was January of 2006..do you lose track of what day it is Tommy?

[Coiler]

This is horrible.. just like Newman and Kramer on Seinfeld, who were assassinated with spit by a ball player at Yankee Stadium. Pray for Carlson. CNN never showed us he was a midget. Thanks for that factoid tom tom.

[Tommy008]

My original post said "on an ABC sunday news show , a while back". in a later post i said it was on "ABC this week', but i should have capitalized the name into ABC This Week, the name of the show, so as not to confusde you. nise try though. you get an A for effort, spitwad.

[Coiler]

Maybe you don't know, are you ok?

[Tommy008]

could have been CNN sunday show, since Carlson mover over there at some point, from ABC. who cares? Don't be a silly little simpleton.. our busy little beaver has discovered it was way back in 2006- a show that old i'm not going to remember what network it was on.

[ExPatBrit]

Tommy, show was crossfire on CNN, Stewart went on the show in late 2004 and called bullshit on their antics.

CNN folded the tent on the show not much later. The emperor indeed had no clothes.

Carlson was pretty upset at loosing his gig. Begala doesn't seem to care.

Carlson was 7 years younger (35) than Stewart at the time, but he did look like a little boy with that tie.

But whatever floats your boat.

[Andrew]

The Crossfire incident was stupid. He goes on CNN and berates them for not puting honest debate ahead of ad revenue, b-b-but it's OK for him to put comedy before an honest debate with Jon Kerry, because he has to be funny, in order to get ad revenue for his own network.

I get tired of media people claiming he's sooo smart, when everything he ever says is arrogantly specious. In big picture terms, he's rarely ever right about anything. He's an idealist forever at odds with reality. And he's smug to boot.

If want true honesty in media, it can't be bankrolled with corperate money. The motives of the messenger have to be completely impartial. That's the big picture.

[WILD BILL]

UHHHHHH, attention to all the usual dolts on here, I doubt Stewart called FOX and said, "I'm coming on this Sunday!" More likely (DOH), he gets booked to be on "these shows." See, the TV machine shows gets these things called ratings, and when they INVITE somebody who has a high rated TV show, they gets them ratings too; that's why they done do asks em to be on. DOH! As far as, Stewart is too this, too that, blah, blah. That's just giving everybody your opinion on toilet tissue-----this one is too shreddy, this one smells like minty spring meadows by the DOW plant, this one absorbs my poop juice real swell! In other words, who gives a shit? Stewart has made a career and he's very popular, you think he's too shrill, so what?

[sparky]

Andrew..how will people get airtime without money?

What specifically has Stewart been wrong about?

His show is a comedy show. It's on the Comedy Network. Do you think he should not be funny? Do you think John Kerry went on his show unaware it is a comedy show?

[joanie]

I don't think Stewart did get the best of Wallace because, like the rightwingers on this blog, Wallace didn't really get it. I think Wallace thinks he won. In the end, not much was accomplished. And, of course, I think Stewart did make his points. Especially when he copped to voting for HW. That was good.

And Andrew, it's a TV comedy show - satire. When you get that many people to watch you, I hope you're a little humbler and less judgmental.

Best part for me was when Stewart articulated that Obama promised something different and then brought back the same guys who let the mess happen in the third place.

[joanie]

Video of Stewart correcting himself on his statement that Fox News watchers score most uninformed in every poll: Stewart's oorrection

It's funny.

Transparent for Queen:http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/06/22/jon-stewart-fox-news-politifact/#more-145923

[joanie]

Here's a great Bernie Sanders video detailing the Koch Brothers influence on the social security debate: Sanders

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFymBUsoNWY

[Andrew]

joanie says And Andrew, it's a TV comedy show - satire

The interview with Kerry - his end segment interviews with everybody - are real. They didn't get a John Kerry impersonator on the show, it was the genuine article. And he did ask real questions, they just weren't good ones. Stewart blatantly wants to be heard in a serious, not a comedic, context. There's no denying that the message comes before the punch line with him. He's a hyprocrite and a perpetual fence walker. Hosts like Conan O'Brien actualy put the joke ahead of the politics.

I think it's well established that you yourself are a "partisan hack", someone who puts party association ahead of the concept of "right" and "wrong". I'm not surprised you'd play dumb in rushing to the defense of Jon Stewart. You are the very thing which Jon Stewart claims is hurting America.

[joanie]

someone who puts party association ahead of the concept of "right" and "wrong".

Your age is showing. No, it is not obvious that I'm a partison hack except to people who have an axe to grind. If anything, I'm one of the most non-partisan on this blog which you should know by now. I have ideology, it's true, and I think both parties have failed miserably.

And thinking that Stewart is in the the same game as Wallace is like putting Twain in the same category as Hearst.

[Andrew]

Oh My Fucking God I can't believe you and some other people are comparing Jon Stewart to Mark Twain. You provide the proof that you've completely lost all perspective.

And the only reason you're ever opposed to a Democrat is because they're not as radical left as you wish they were.

[joanie]

That's right. They are not. That's not party but ideology. Get a grip, Andrew.

[Sarah]

Just disregard there's just no reasoning there.

[joanie]

BTW, I imagine there are a lot of things you can't believe. I have no control over that. :)

[Tommy008]

Wild Bill started the shitfest about Stewart late this afternoon, and the ususal suspects, led by the hag, just piled it higher and deeper. I got to give it Wild Bill though- the jist of his post is that because Stewart, the bully, is a success on tv, Andrew and I should just bend over and grab our knees and forget about criticizing him or calling him out. If the subject was Rush Limbaigh , Wild Bill and the rest of the gang, with the hag in full battle cry, Would be piling onto him dumping THEIR shitloads of criticism and condemnation on top of him, without a thought to the fact that he's a big success. Bill doesnt think we should cticize him because Stewart is on his team...a ridiculous, transparent hypocrite.

[Tommy008]

Meanwhile , Michele Obama tours South Africa with 41 personal assistants, like the wife of a corrupt third world Army colonel running a pisspot dictatorship . The persident of the country had the good sense to snub her- he will not meet with her.

[sparky]

And where did you hear that she has 41 assistants?? She met with Mandela today.

[Tommy008]

the Michael Ssvage Show,

[Radio Queen]

I couldn't find anything online (factcheck.org) that listed Michelle Obama's staff as more than 24. Still more than any other First Lady, but not by much. She may have met with Mandela, but the president of South Africa is Jacob Zuma who did, in fact, not meet with her.

[Anti-Dori]

RQ, your bias is showing:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/firstlady.asp

Laura Bush: 24-26 by the end of her service as First Lady according to her chief of staff.

Ladybird Johnson: 30

Betty Ford about the same.

Jackie Kennedy about forty.

I post in the interest of accuracy.

[Andrew]

Many of those helpers assist them with their social agenda. If that's the case, if they want more help taking on alcoholism or education then I say more power to them. Give them all the help they might need.

[Radio Queen]

A-D, thanks. That's what I get for going to a leftist site for info. :)

[joanie]

Another excuse for poor research: blame the left.

[sparky]

She might have a staff of 41, but I would like to see proof that they all traveled with her, as Tommy asserted.

[Radio Queen]

Poor research? Hey, I was in a hurry to get to work...no, wait, that excuse has already been used.

[KS]

And where did you hear that she has 41 assistants?? She met with Mandela today.

Posted by: sparky | June 22, 2011 at 11:21 PM

the Michael Ssvage Show,

Posted by: Tommy008 | June 22, 2011 at 11:39 PM

I have heard Michael Savage on the internet since he is no longer on the air here - he made too many waves while on air here by daring to debunk too many politically correct myths. His information is usually reliable though, except when reported out of context by Media Matters - that helped get him banned in Britain.

His latest book "Trickle up poverty" claims George Soros played a role in the 2008 economic collapse and he documents it fairly succinctly and it sounds pretty authentic, but the state-run media never would speak ill of Comrade Soros - who may well be Joanie's evil uncle- wink-wink, who owns part of Snopes. com now.

[Coiler]

On the internet now since all stations are owned by Soros--I heard it on Sewage Nation.