Jon Stewart single-handedly got CNN’s “Crossfire” ( featuring a not-yet-fully-crazy Tucker Carlson) cancelled just by going on the show and doing his thing.
In the final exchange before a commercial break, Carlson remarked that he thought Stewart was “more fun on your show, just my opinion.” Stewart responded, “You know what’s interesting, though? You’re as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.”
“Look, I’m not suggesting you aren’t a smart guy, because those things are not easy to tie. But the thing is, you’re doing theatre, when you should be doing debate. It’s not honest… what you do is partisan hackery.”
There is a direct line between GWB and Trump. The lies of the Bush administration and it’s denigration of the “reality-based community” laid the groundwork for Donald Trump’s Big Lies. if Al Gore won in 2000, I doubt we would have Trump today. Ron Suskind wrote all about it in the NYT back then. This article about the article is not behind their paywall:
The aide said that guys like me [Suskind] were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Jon Stewart single-handedly got CNN’s “Crossfire” ( featuring a not-yet-fully-crazy Tucker Carlson) cancelled just by going on the show and doing his thing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stewart's_2004_appearance_on_Crossfire
(Shit, that was over 20 years ago. I’m old …)
Carlson never recovered from that bowtie burn
Jon Stewart on Crossfire
And so savage was the mockery that he never wore a bowtie again.
Seriously, he ruined that dude’s trademark fashion statement. Lol. Tucker is a snowflake confirmed.
That was Carlsons “rejected from art school” moment.
What do you think Krasnov’s “rejected from Art School” moment was?
That white house correspondent’s dinner where Obama joked at his expense.
Bro, around 10:50 Jon made a statement he would later regret:
“In terms of the absurdity of this group, they’re going to be hard to top.”
Regarding the Bush administration.
There is a direct line between GWB and Trump. The lies of the Bush administration and it’s denigration of the “reality-based community” laid the groundwork for Donald Trump’s Big Lies. if Al Gore won in 2000, I doubt we would have Trump today. Ron Suskind wrote all about it in the NYT back then. This article about the article is not behind their paywall:
https://theweek.com/articles/854892/what-karl-rove-right-about-realitybased-community