I am a total fan of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report...

And, I'm prepared for them to skewer the dems when they take over next year. They should..ke­ep these people on their toes, the msm won't...an­d I'm a Democrat with a capital progressive.

It is so obvious, why don't people see it? The main stream press gets main stream money for not pressing for the truth and accepting bull$#*&, They know if they did their jobs of protecting the public, they would lose their own well paid jobs.

Don't rock the boat or we'll throw you overboard is the motto of both business and politics. By selling out to the highest bidder, politics and the press are owned by business rather than of, for or by the people.

What a fine mess you've got us into, Stanley!

Godbless Stewart and Colbert, and the whole cast and crew over at Comedy Central. What would we be without ye, boys?

I really enjoyed the two clips from the Ben Karlin appearance, but since a lot of other people have revisited the whole "Crossfire" thing...
I've always been a big fan of cable news and when those argumentative shows would have actual newsmakers as guests, they did a pretty good job. What had happened to "Crossfire" and the other shows of that ilk was that they'd too rarely have anyone of substance and instead, they'd have two partisan, professional talking heads as guests and they'd "argue" by spouting their party's line.
As a result, I stopped watching "Crossfire", when I could predict the entire show just by hearing the topics and the line-up of guests, or when actually sitting through the program became a complete waste of time.

AND TUCKER NEVER WORE A BOW TIE, AGAIN.

Two of the BEST jump out of your seat and cheer for the truth moments have come from The Daily Show --- Stewart on "Crossfire" and from former fake news correspondent, Stephen Colbert at the Washington Press Corps dinner.
SOme of us would cry if they didn't make us laugh. Olbermann is great too!! Amazingly scathing on a passionate, serious level.
What a country we'd be if a top tier prez candidate could deliver such "wow" moments of fearless honesty! We only hear passion from guys like Kucinich,Ravel (sp? -- see? not even enough coverage that I can recall how to spell his name) and even Paul. It's F'ing sad. I'm heading for The Daily Show website to avoid depression.

I love the show. Yet, I must always ask: Why is it called the Daily Show when it is only taped four days a week? Go figure.

What's with all this alleged negative reaction to Stewart's appearance on that ugly, phony show? Who's reacting negatively? My thinking is that only those phonies involved with the show and the neocon Kool-Air drinkers reacted negatively. Stewart was a gale of fresh air in that fetid swamp.

That it took a comedian to sneak it onto the corporate media, FINALLY, that the emperor has no clothes, speaks volumes about the pathetic state of media in the US.

Stewart (and Colbert and Olbermann) rock. A real thorn in the side of those who hate democracy and want to destroy it for power and $$$$$$$$$$$.

"Crossfire" was one of the only, if not THEE ONLY, mainstream television shows that had both sides (R and D) decrying the Iraq War as a mistake before it occurred. Granted, Carville, Novak, Tucker etc. all engaged in polemical quarreling as an entertainment form, but what of it? You mean to say when Jon Stewart rubs elbows and holds court nightly with scuzzbag pundits and political liars, that he isn't engaging in the same sort of media?

I recall after the infamous Stewart/Crossfire incident happened Jon Stewart's handlers swiftly attributed his behavior to "dehydration". It wasn't until it became an online sensation that he was suddenly glorified for taking the show down. That reputation, its worth noting, is largely unfounded. People fail to realize that Crossfire's cancellation coicided with CNN's new general manager who made it his mission to cancel ALL argumentative programming on the network - including "The Capital Gang", as well. Meanwhile the #1 cable news channel, Fox News, continues to dominate the ratings with the precise type of argumentative discourse that CNN purged themselves of - only difference being that their token liberals are mugwump turncoats with a personal constitution akin to lamb jelly. Personally, I'd take the tenacity of Carville/Begala over the limp wristed placidity of Alan Colmes any day. At least they argued out of a place of personal conviction.


So before any of you self-styled "liberals" unload vast heaps of praise on Jon Stewart, I think you better ask yourself this: since the show was canned, have more programs giving both sides of the political spectrum a voice debuted, or have less? At least with "Crossfire" on the air you could always rely on Carville and Begala (DLC flacks as they may be) to not let Republican propaganda go unchecked.

Way to go Jon Stewart! Not.

People like Ben Karlin, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Keith Olbermann, Molly Ivens, Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman and perhaps another two dozen or so journalists and commentators all deserve the Presidential Medal of Freedom. They should be so honored when the scum that is destroying this country have been investigated, indicted and punished. Let us all judge the worthiness of this nation based at least in part on whether these people are recognized and praised for their patriotism and intelligence by the next administration.

comedians are just philosophers with an attitude. comedy is the obvious truth, so obvious in fact that it surprises us. no sense of humor? then no job in politics. somebody work up the funny test, will ya?

Jon Stewart was so right. I was amazed that neither of the Crossfire hosts could rise to the bait and debate him. If they had even begun to believe in what they did, they could have thought up a response or two. However, they couldn't. Why? They knew Stewart had them dead to rights, and they froze like deer in the headlights. He really did try to engage them. This is one of the most honest 15 minutes of TV I've seen. BTW, I disliked Crossfire enough that I didn't watch it and so this was the first time I saw this great encounter.
Can someone do this with Russert and Matthews, two nerf balls if I've ever seen them. Will someone reanimate Lawrence E. Spivak, conservative though he was, to repudiate the blather.
Thank you for the clip.

I remember that show and was watching it especially when Jon called Tucker a "dick". That brought the house down and Jon was practically a national hero for telling the emperor he had no clothers.

I was disappointed in Paul "colmes" Begala when he thought Jon had gone to far and thought Jon should apologize for telling the truth.

I used to watch that show and just could not believe how frightened Begala and other progressiv­e/liberals were on that show while the rightwing bloviators went hogwild with their idiocy and accusations.

Begala is still an asswipe with no courage and seems to have no problem with being a coward on CNN. I've watched when Wolfie has him on with other rightwingers and Begala and Donna are both pretty cowardly.

They seem to keep trying to find the appeasement middle ground instead of just standing the hell up and telling of the morons from the right who keep coming up with logical fallacies, outright lies and strawman arguments.

What ever happened to courageous liberals/p­rogressive­s on the MSM?

Oh yeah, TPTB decided they wanted a corporate fascist government and keeping the progressive's voices stilled as much as possible was the best way to do that.

Jon appeared on Crossfire (or, the vaporous ghost of what was once Crossfire) and spake brutal Truth to those two men. He called them out for being part of the deception of America by politicians. He called "bullshit" when it needed to be called, and those two no longer have that show.

Jon took alot of heat over that appearance, but as a thinking citizen of America, I applaud his effort there.

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