Sh*t Just Got Real™: The Rachel Maddow/Jon Stewart MSNBC interview.

[ladypolitik]

In Stewart’s hour-long interview on The Rachel Maddow Show was remarkable for Stewart’s unprecedented openness about where he stands when he’s not making jokes. Because Stewart respects Maddow, he took her up on her invitation to clarify the message many believed he sent out at his “Rally To Restore Sanity”: That there’s a parity of invective on

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[keithmex17]

Just finished part one.

paraphrasing: Jon: Your line of reasoning about the town hall interruptions and the tea party was that it was astroturf, you were trying to de-legitimize them.

Judging very hard over here after that.

[ladypolitik]

This bit honestly left me stunned. How is Jon Stewart arguing that 2 + 2 = 5? It's like the twilight zone.

[poetic_pixie_13]

Fuck, you guys. I got four hours of sleep. But I don't want to miss this post.

*goes to watch*

[ladypolitik]

LOLLLLL *hugs*

[kitschaster]

tl;dw

I agreed with Jon very long ago when he said one very important thing, "Stop watching me for your news." I'll just wait for the reactions, and watch it later when I have written in my NaNo story/slept like a sleeping person sleeps.

/lazy

[ladypolitik]

Hell, I never watched Jon for my news, but personally, so long as he expresses opinions on current events, I'm gonna think I can take the liberty to agree *or* call him out on his opinions, just like I would with any private citizen speaking his/her mind after work at the local pub.

I mean, he can claim to be just a comedian all he likes, but all of that is totally besides the point, as I see it; what each of us non-journalists do for a living, in non-journalistic contexts, isnt going to immunize us from having to, at some point, rationalize/debate the positions we take on current events.

[poetic_pixie_13]

I mean, he can claim to be just a comedian all he likes, but all of that is totally besides the point, as I see it; what each of us non-journalists do for a living, in non-journalistic contexts, isnt going to immunize us from having to, at some point, rationalize/debate the positions we take on current events.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.

[kitschaster]

Oh, I completely agree with you, absolutely, which is why I'm going to watch it later when I'm not inundated with sleepiness. I think it's very interesting how he says he's not the news, and ends up in the news more often than not. I remember his interview on Hannity and Colmes, and was just like...okay I completely agree, but people look up to you, Stewart, and hopefully not Hannity or Colmes. You are a popular figure with a political opinion, and they're not going to stop watching you, so you might as WELL be the news. Perhaps you should take your own advice, and begin showing the masses the news you believe they need to see (which he basically does, actually), but whatever.

He seems to have gotten over that, but then I missed the Rally for Sanity, so I don't know what he said there (but I can always look it up). But I do want to see this interview, and catch up on his opinion of the current political atmosphere, and why he seems to think that tea baggers aren't racist. =\

[ladyanneboleyn]

He didn't say he doesn't think Bush is a war criminal. He said George Bush is technically a war criminal but to insist on that fact is to risk shutting down debate; and that he doesn't believe George Bush was an evil man.

Please to be not deliberately misinterpreting people.

[empressfunk]

Fuck my actual life, I have to pack and somehow finish my NaNo goal for tonight, but I want to watch this. After my friends told me that they were somewhat disappointed with the overall message (or lackthereof) of the rally, I've been wanting to see what Jon had to say. Bookmarking for later...