“How Jon Stewart Went Bad.” Good title.
I think they had their own lover’s quarrel a few years ago, if I remember correctly.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-03-18/how-jon-stewart-went-bad/
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I believe Tucker Carlson is taking down a straw man argument there.
It isn’t Jon Stewarts claim that short selling = bs repackaged bad home loans
it is his claim that wall street insiders playing games with our money is bad, and rampant, and that CNBC is part of that culture when they should be working to expose and end it.
The rest of the article seems to be insisting that Jon Stewart isn’t funny.
Well, ok, maybe not as funny as your boytie
=)
Give me a break. Tucker Carlson is a jealous loser still bitter about Stewart calling him out on Crossfire 4 years ago. I was actually at GWU (where Crossfire was filmed) when that taping occured. Stewart laid into Carlson and Paul Begala and I believe ended up calling Carlson a dick.
That video spread like wildfire and Crossfire was cancelled a short time later. I am not saying it was all because of that appearance, but it certainly contributed. Stewart has had an enormously successful show, with a successfull spin-off for the past 4 years. Carlson’s show on CNN was cancelled, he got another show with MSNBC or CNBC I believe it was, lost that show as well. Now he occassionally appears on MSNBC and writes for the Daily Beast.
He is jealous and bitter, nothing more.
His claim is that Stewart lives off of his own set of straw man arguments, most of which are either logically inconsistent or, worse yet, incoherent. And he observes that Stewart is given pretty much reverential treatment from the media at large. Has there ever been a negative piece done about him? Not that I’m saying that to be legitimate there must be something irreverent written or shown about a person, just that he (Stewart) does seem to be riding the crest of a very favorable wave from which he’s benefitted enormously.
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Mr. Carlson’s arguments are empty. He’s whining because Jon Stewart’s appearance on Mr. Carlson’s show was the precipitating event that got said show cancelled. And rightly so.
**He is jealous and bitter, nothing more. **
You’re letting emotion overrule intellect. We usually only do that when something involves women or new power tools. 
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My evil plan to lure out all the closet Stewart sycophants is working brilliantly! BOO-YAH!!!
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You’re letting emotion overrule intellect.
I think it’s actually Carlson who is doing that.
Until he takes him down to the unemployment office, he will always be Stewart’s biatch.
And keep in mind, the Lefty (Begala) also lost his job - bipartisanship!
I actually like Tucker. His occassional appearances on the “Bubba the Love Sponge” radio show are hilarious. But he has a serious bug up his ass about Jon Stewart.
Stewart handed him a beating. It cost Tucker his show. Tucker is bitter. He never misses an opportunity now to criticize Stewart, and frankly it is getting old. Jon Stewart is an entertainer, a social critic and a comedian. To criticize Stewart for making jokes about politics in the manner that Tucker does is the equivalent of saying to Roger Ebert … “What right do you have to critique a film, you’ve never made one.”
I tend to think of those “straw man arguments” as jokes, that’s why he is on Comedy Central, not CNN, CSPAN, or any other network. Let’s not forget, as Jon Stewart pointed out to Mr Calson, “The lead in to my show is puppets making prank calls”.
I can’t wait till Mr Carlson lays into Larry the Cable guy. I mean that guys theories on the current financial meltdown are seriously flawed.
Jon Stewart, who is by his own description an average comedian, completely emasculated Carlson on Crossfire. Carlson is the political version of Paul Reubens now.
I’m sorry but I can’t look at Tucker Carlson without thinking about closets.
Two incredibly unimportant still arguing reminds me of me.
Man, that was a whiny critique. It’s kind of sad. It’s hard to have a real rivalry with someone when you’re as insignificant in the American consciousness as Tucker Carlson is.
Tucker Carlson is the master of the strawman argument as well as the filibuster. It was irritating to listen to him try to control the discussion when he was on Real Time, constantly trying to argue a point no one was presenting.
I could easily dissect his blog point by point if I wished to take the time. His premise missed the entire point Stewart was making (either intentionally or not). By his second page he exposes himself to be compeltely full of shit. He should drop the cross fire argument. Stewart was 100% correct. I can’t believe that Tucker is still defending himself. He had to KNOW that that entire program was about the two of them presenting BS spin from each party. It was partisan hackery and that was entirely the intention of the show. He then goes on to complain about the type of interview he gave John Kerry. JOHN STEWART IS NOT A JOURNALIST!!! By the same extension of logic any one of us can critical of Limbaugh railing on the liberal media. I hate Limbaugh, but as a conservative radio show host he A) has every right to be critical of media bias and B) has NO obligation whatsoever to remove bias from his own program.
In short BigK, Tucker isn’t taking down anyone.
You just don’t understand Tucker. If you don’t like his stuff don’t read it.
Or should we just put Jon Stewart in charge of the FCC and give him authority to say what every TV show can and cannot do.
You just don’t understand Tucker. If you don’t like his stuff don’t read it.
I normally don’t, with exception to the instances I listed above. Maybe I was missing some great irony he was trying to get across with his strawman argument and comparing his own level of journalism to that of a comedian.
Or should we just put Jon Stewart in charge of the FCC and give him authority to say what every TV show can and cannot do.
He already has that authority. He’s allowed to call BS when he sees it, just like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are.
I still don’t understand your gripe. You think its okay for journalists to be full of shit, and in this particular case, for someone to use a strawman argument to make an ilegitimate point, but have a problem with comedians who ask journalists why they are full of shit and give them the opportunity to answer.
Maybe you should be in charge of the FCC.
I** could easily dissect his blog point by point if I wished to take the time.**
Do it, then. I’ve got the time, and I’m sure you have it, too. And I promise to make you famous in the blogosphere if you do it well enough.
In short BigK, Tucker isn’t taking down anyone.
Don’t be such a Stewart fanboy, Signore Barry
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//Maybe you should be in charge of the FCC.//
Thanks. I suppose the only reason you allow me this dubious honor is you know exactly what I think and what I will do.