So this week Jon Stewart was on the O'Reilly Factor and it was definitely an entertaining experience. Bill was asking questions to Stewart about how he thinks Obama has been doing. Stewart stunned him with answers on multiple occassions and O'Reilly said "You continue to suprise me." To me it showed such a strong sense of arrogance. For anyone who has watched Jon Stewart, you know that yes he is hosting a show meant to me comedic, but he is educated on what he is talking about. For O'Reilly to be "suprised" by Jon's answers he obviously had to be thinking "this guy doesn't know what he is talking about." Of course O'Reilly did his famous move of interrupting and talking over Jon when he was trying to make a point. In some instances Stewart would just stop talking and almost laugh it off.
O'Reilly asked him questions about what he thought about Fox News, because in a previous episode of "The Daily Show" Stewart trashed it in a sense saying it was strictly Republican. O'Reilly came back with it is a fair and balanced news station, actually the most fair and balanced. Stewart's return argument was that Fox has a good amount of opinion oriented shows, but it does not portray that to the viewer. It mostly portrays it as "fair and balanced" as well as "truthful." Stewart said O'Reilly is probably the most reputable member of the Fox News team, but he said "that is like saying you are the thinnest kid at fat camp." I definitely agree with what Stewart is saying in this interview. Fox seems to hide the line between truth and opinion and does not distinguish which is which to its viewers. How can they say it is "fair and balanced" when during the entire election of 2004 they had people saying "only 200 days til Bush is re-elected." Are you kidding me? How is that not being one sided? It still shocks me how O'Reilly can see himself as a fair and partial reporter when all he does is talk over his guests and tear down the democratic party? Fox News continues to make me laugh....in pity.
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thank you! I personally love the Daily Show. John Stewart is an incredibly intelligent man, who can keep up with any conversation. His guests are often opinionated and John, though funny, can argue and question with intelligence. I have yet to see that, though I really want to. Did you see my blog post with the youtube link for Colbert on the O'reilly factor? Anyways, Yea its incredible that these kinds of things exist. i dont care what people say, you can learn a lot from watching the daily show.
ReplyDeleteFollow up... i just finished watching the whole video, and I'm a bit impressed. i'm actually amazed they let jon say things like that on their station. I thought it was kind of funny, someone on youtube had posted that right after the interview there was a sexual commercial, "trying to win over jon stewart fans" Which may or may not be true, but there's the possibility.
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