Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight
Jon Stewart rocks! Jon Stewart is my new personal god. I will build a shrine to Jon Stewart and worship at his altar and sacrifice goats and rubber chickens and drink their blood.
God, I wish I had seen Crossfire today. Jon Stewart was the guest, and he basically told Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala what a lot of us have been feeling for a long time: that these shows are theatre, they’re put-ons, and they are doing an immense disservice to political discourse in America. I’ve stopped watching most news shows because they are uninformative and unenlightening and, in my opinion, bent on making their viewers less clued in than if they never watched any news at all. I’ve given up hope that it’s going to get better, but I wonder if Stewart’s willingness to speak up will encourage others to do the same. Maybe it’ll just draw some attention to the preposterous beast that modern television journalism has become. We can hope.
The Poor Man has a transcript, and one of his commenters posted an edited video of the segment.
There was also coverage at Wonkette and at Hullabaloo.
Jon, dude… I’ll be buying your book, this weekend. Least I can do.
UPDATE: Yes! There’s a Bittorrent, courtesy of Boing Boing.
Friday, October 15th, 2004 @ 6:13 pm 
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October 17th, 2004 at 8:46 am
When Comedians Attack
My friend Stumax took great delight in Jon Stewart’s recent appearance on Crossfire. From prowling around, it seems that the consensus is that Crossfire sucks. I concur. I also think the Daily Show is very funny from time to time.