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...haven’t seen the footage of Jon Stewart’s recent appearance on Crossfire, it is well worth a 10-second Internet search. Rather than use the appearance to promote his new book, Stewart launches into a comic assault on the show itself, accusing hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begalla of being “partisan hacks” who hurt the quality of political discourse in the country. After an awkward exchange, commercials cut off the confrontation as Stewart finally resorts to calling Tucker a “dick.” Unfortunately, Stewart?...
...Stewart points out, this is bad for America. It allows politicians to ignore the serious realities of the world and focus on the trivial games of media politicking. In the world of 24-hour news channels, it is not the candidate with the best policy initiatives or the best record in office who wins; it is the candidate with the biggest stockpile of embarrassing sound bites of his opponent...
...world. Perhaps this is because writers for The Daily Show do not get their material fed to them by communications directors or “rapid response teams” from the party headquarters. Rather, they use “the absurdity of the system,” as Stewart calls it, to produce their own content...
PEOPLE: O'Reilly's sex suit; Jon Stewart's Crossfire debut...
Sure, it's only a movie, but there's the possibility that Team America could do for the right what Jon Stewart and Michael Moore have done for the left: instruct and energize through japish humor...