The NYT Talks To Jon Stewart

[Joe Hass]

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.

[Greg Diener]

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

[PGage]

I sort of agree with you on the latter. But I think JS deserves all the credit he got for Carlson. When he was at CNN he was being George Will-ified, framed as an intellectually rigorous (or at least rational) conservative. Banished to Fox he is clearly what he has always been, an absurd clown.

Short of murdering him, what else could Jon have done?

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 10:48 AM 'Greg Diener' via TVorNotTV <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

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

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