Jon Stewart vs. Bill O'Reilly

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Caught just a few minutes of Stewart on the O'Reilly Factor last night. I was actually kind of disappointed with Stewart's performance. I've seen him really get down and tussle with folks on his show before, but on the O'Reilly Factor I thought he giggled too much and didn't seem as prepared as usual.

By the by, they're showing Part 2 tonight.
 
Boom_70 said:
What is the score going into tonight?

Billo is in danger of being run-ruled...the usual result when he has someone on who doesn't kiss his ass.
 
Fox has posted a lot of the unaired clips:

http://watching-tv.ew.com/2010/02/06/jon-stewart-bill-oreilly-unedited/

Stewart: "What Fox has done is take reasonable concerns about this president and this economy and turned it into a full-fledged panic attack about the coming of the next Chairman Mao."

Stewart: "Explain to me how Barack Obama is destroying the fabric of America. That's the narrative of your network."
O'Reilly: "It's not the narrative of the network. It's the narrative of a couple guys: Sean Hannity, a Republican, and Glenn Beck, who is basically 'everyman.'"
 
WaylonJennings said:
Fox has posted a lot of the unaired clips:

http://watching-tv.ew.com/2010/02/06/jon-stewart-bill-oreilly-unedited/



O'Reilly: "It's not the narrative of the network. It's the narrative of a couple guys: Sean Hannity, a Republican, and Glenn Beck, who is basically 'everyman.'"


I think better of the American population than
to even dream of characterizing a guy with Beck's sordid personal history as "everyman".
 
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Stewart also went after him for the network's hypocrisy of constant charges of "unpatriotic!" for anyone criticizing a president in wartime under Bush, while unleashing the Spanish armada on Obama day after day after day during wartime.
 
I forget. Was it BillO or Pill Popper who started the "Obama Teleprompter" meme? Because if it was BillO, I wonder what he'll say about this:

palin_cheat_sheet.jpg


2010-02-07-palincrib.jpg
 
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spup1122 said:
I forget. Was it BillO or Pill Popper who started the "Obama Teleprompter" meme? Because if it was BillO, I wonder what he'll say about this:

palin_cheat_sheet.jpg


2010-02-07-palincrib.jpg

You can't satirize that act.
 
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Shockingly enough, she thinks it's fine and dandy when Rush Limbaugh uses the word "retards" ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/07/palin-considering-2012-ru_n_452602.html

On Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel, she said his comments calling liberal groups "f-ing retards" was "indecent and insensitive" and cause for his dismissal.

But the former governor went to great and sometimes awkward lengths to insist that when conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh used the same exact term to describe the same exact group, it was simply in the role of political humorist.

"They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh," she said, when read a quote of Limbaugh calling liberal groups "retards." "Rush Limbaugh was using satire ... . I didn't hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with 'f-ing retards,' and we did know that Rahm Emanuel, as has been reported, did say that. There is a big difference there."
 
I give Fox News credit for not bailing out of the Stewart interview before it ended. I give BOR a hat tip for bringing him on. I sense that BOR feels a bit "neglected" because he's not the poster boy for FNC anymore and he enjoys bringing on Beck or critics of his to make O'Reilly look good.
 
From what I saw, I think Stewart and O'Reilly like each other a lot more than either is willing to admit.
 
Watching the unedited version on the foxnews site, I thought Stewart came off better than I initially gave him credit for, including on the stuff I'd already seen.

Sometimes laughter was the only way to respond when O'Reilly tried to bait him, calling his writers pinheads, asking him if he feels bad about distorting the truth to make a liberal point, calling Glen Beck an 'everyman,' mocking Stewart for using big words and telling Stewart he was smarter than he'd expected.
 
WaylonJennings said:
Shockingly enough, she thinks it's fine and dandy when Rush Limbaugh uses the word "retards" ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/07/palin-considering-2012-ru_n_452602.html

On Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel, she said his comments calling liberal groups "f-ing retards" was "indecent and insensitive" and cause for his dismissal.

But the former governor went to great and sometimes awkward lengths to insist that when conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh used the same exact term to describe the same exact group, it was simply in the role of political humorist.

"They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh," she said, when read a quote of Limbaugh calling liberal groups "retards." "Rush Limbaugh was using satire ... . I didn't hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with 'f-ing retards,' and we did know that Rahm Emanuel, as has been reported, did say that. There is a big difference there."

Of course she's not going to criticize Rush. She doesn't want to be called to Palm Beach and taken over Limbo's knee.

She is a joke.
 
fishhack2009 said:
WaylonJennings said:
Shockingly enough, she thinks it's fine and dandy when Rush Limbaugh uses the word "retards" ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/07/palin-considering-2012-ru_n_452602.html

On Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel, she said his comments calling liberal groups "f-ing retards" was "indecent and insensitive" and cause for his dismissal.

But the former governor went to great and sometimes awkward lengths to insist that when conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh used the same exact term to describe the same exact group, it was simply in the role of political humorist.

"They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh," she said, when read a quote of Limbaugh calling liberal groups "retards." "Rush Limbaugh was using satire ... . I didn't hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with 'f-ing retards,' and we did know that Rahm Emanuel, as has been reported, did say that. There is a big difference there."

Of course she's not going to criticize Rush. She doesn't want to be called to Palm Beach and taken over Limbo's knee.

She is a joke.

She is a joke that the NY Times has written 2 front pages stories about this week.
 
Ben_Hecht said:
WaylonJennings said:
Fox has posted a lot of the unaired clips:

http://watching-tv.ew.com/2010/02/06/jon-stewart-bill-oreilly-unedited/



O'Reilly: "It's not the narrative of the network. It's the narrative of a couple guys: Sean Hannity, a Republican, and Glenn Beck, who is basically 'everyman.'"


I think better of the American population than
to even dream of characterizing a guy with Beck's sordid personal history as "everyman".

That aside...how does some guy who makes $30-million plus a year realistically claim to be "everyman?"

I don't know who's more pathetic- Beck or the dopes who think he really gives a **** about them.
 
Boom_70 said:
fishhack2009 said:
WaylonJennings said:
Shockingly enough, she thinks it's fine and dandy when Rush Limbaugh uses the word "retards" ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/07/palin-considering-2012-ru_n_452602.html

On Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel, she said his comments calling liberal groups "f-ing retards" was "indecent and insensitive" and cause for his dismissal.

But the former governor went to great and sometimes awkward lengths to insist that when conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh used the same exact term to describe the same exact group, it was simply in the role of political humorist.

"They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh," she said, when read a quote of Limbaugh calling liberal groups "retards." "Rush Limbaugh was using satire ... . I didn't hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with 'f-ing retards,' and we did know that Rahm Emanuel, as has been reported, did say that. There is a big difference there."

Of course she's not going to criticize Rush. She doesn't want to be called to Palm Beach and taken over Limbo's knee.

She is a joke.

She is a joke that the NY Times has written 2 front pages stories about this week.

I'm glad that she was the keynote speaker at the same convention where Tom Tancredo called, to thunderous applause, for a return to Jim Crow-era voting literacy tests.
 
Boom_70 said:
fishhack2009 said:
WaylonJennings said:
Shockingly enough, she thinks it's fine and dandy when Rush Limbaugh uses the word "retards" ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/07/palin-considering-2012-ru_n_452602.html

On Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel, she said his comments calling liberal groups "f-ing retards" was "indecent and insensitive" and cause for his dismissal.

But the former governor went to great and sometimes awkward lengths to insist that when conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh used the same exact term to describe the same exact group, it was simply in the role of political humorist.

"They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh," she said, when read a quote of Limbaugh calling liberal groups "retards." "Rush Limbaugh was using satire ... . I didn't hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with 'f-ing retards,' and we did know that Rahm Emanuel, as has been reported, did say that. There is a big difference there."

Of course she's not going to criticize Rush. She doesn't want to be called to Palm Beach and taken over Limbo's knee.

She is a joke.

She is a joke that the NY Times has written 2 front pages stories about this week.

They were just trying to play the gotcha liberal media game with her. :D
 
WaylonJennings said:
Boom_70 said:
fishhack2009 said:
WaylonJennings said:
Shockingly enough, she thinks it's fine and dandy when Rush Limbaugh uses the word "retards" ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/07/palin-considering-2012-ru_n_452602.html

On Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel, she said his comments calling liberal groups "f-ing retards" was "indecent and insensitive" and cause for his dismissal.

But the former governor went to great and sometimes awkward lengths to insist that when conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh used the same exact term to describe the same exact group, it was simply in the role of political humorist.

"They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh," she said, when read a quote of Limbaugh calling liberal groups "retards." "Rush Limbaugh was using satire ... . I didn't hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with 'f-ing retards,' and we did know that Rahm Emanuel, as has been reported, did say that. There is a big difference there."

Of course she's not going to criticize Rush. She doesn't want to be called to Palm Beach and taken over Limbo's knee.

She is a joke.

She is a joke that the NY Times has written 2 front pages stories about this week.

I'm glad that she was the keynote speaker at the same convention where Tom Tancredo called, to thunderous applause, for a return to Jim Crow-era voting literacy tests.

Oh, the unintentional irony. Could Sarah Slime herself pass such a test?
 
Mizzougrad96 said:
From what I saw, I think Stewart and O'Reilly like each other a lot more than either is willing to admit.

Stewart has said he has respect for Bill O. His appearances on the Daily Show are usually very entertaining, in a good way. Bill O. is a hothead, to be sure, but watching him on the Daily Show, you wonder how much of it is an act to satisfy Roger Ailes' red-meat requirements.
 

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