Posted on 06/20/2011 4:40:28 PM PDT by Qbert
It was pitched as a classic grudge match between the left and right of network television.
And when Daily Show host Jon Stewart entered the 'lions den' of Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, the results did not disappoint.
Despite trying to maintain his comedic detachment, Stewart lost his temper during the 15 minute interview as the two TV heavyweights battled over perceived liberal biased in the mainstream media.
The conversation started jovially, with Mr Wallace joking to Stewart: 'After months of evasion, disconnected phone numbers and press agents saying 'who are you again' it appears he has run out of excuses.'
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But the atmosphere quickly turned serious as Mr Stewart, angered by questions over his own 'liberal' bias, snapped.
The audience were shown a transcript of Mr Stewart describing Fox News as a, 'relentless agenda-driven 24 hour news opinion propaganda delivery system.
Mr Wallace the asked the comedian: 'Where do you come up with this stuff.'
Stewart responded: 'Uh, it's actually quite easy.'
After repeated prodding, Wallace then played a clip of Mr Stewart comparing a video of Sarah Palin's recent bus tour to a herpes commercial.
Mr Stewart erupted: 'You're insane... Here's the difference between you and I.
'I'm a comedian first. My comedy is informed by an ideological background, there's no question about that.
But the thing that you will never understand...is that Hollywood, yeah, they're liberal, but that's not their primary motivating force. I'm not an activist. I am a comedian.'
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Rising in temper again, he said: 'You can't understand, because of the world that you live in, that there is not a designed ideological agenda on my part to affect partisan change because that's the soup you swim in.
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Why does “Stewart” hide his real name? He self hating??
I loved "Get Smart" when I was a kid. Don Adams wasn't to bad as the voice of "Tennesee Tuxedo" either
“Here’s the difference between you and ‘I’.” That’s the one that is like nails on a blackboard to me. I hear it constantly on the radio, television, newscasts. It’s right up there with “irregardless.” I can forgive most errors, but those are the two that literally cause me discomfort.
You’d have to go to Harvard or Yale to understand...
“Here’s the difference between you and ‘I’.” That’s the one that is like nails on a blackboard to me.”
It’s like something that an anti-intellectual would say...
I have never, ever liked that form of humor.
It is cruel and evil, in my opinion.
Guileless people, who may only want to be nice to someone, lend a hand in their own way or simply don’t want to be rude find themselves used as an unwitting tool to be laughed at and ridiculed so some jerk can make money at their expense.
That kind of thing really pisses me off. It encompasses many aspects of human behavior that I detest.
Don Adams was also the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo I believe.
I think Stewart is a relatively intelligent fellow but like virtually all liberals he’s an Obama lickspittle. I can’t understand this fawning, obsequious, and servile behavior, unless their white liberal guilt trumps everything, even the truth.
Stewart's defense was that he does all sort of ethnic voice imitations. But we all know that any conservative recorded mocking a black man's way of speaking would cause an uproar and make him lose his job. Libs can get away with it when mocking black conservatives, of course.
“Libs can get away with it when mocking black conservatives, of course.”
—Partly because we let them. Basically what we have here is an extremely wealthy white male (who lived a comfortable life growing up) ridiculing a successful black man who built himself up from very little... and we kowtow to this ridicule only because Jon the narcissist says so. Jon would rather a society of blacks living in misery who agree with him, than successful blacks who don’t. It’s all about Jon...
“Stewart’s defense was that he does all sort of ethnic voice imitations. But we all know that any conservative recorded mocking a black man’s way of speaking would cause an uproar and make him lose his job.”
—Yep. I thought the look on his face when he realized he was busted was precious, though.
Here is a better example.
Here's the difference between you and I.
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