Went skipping across the related videos until I got to one of Seth MacFarlane talking to Piers Morgan about Jon Stewart. The fact that it literally starts off with MacFarlane confounded as to how Piers Morgan found out about a phone call is beautiful.
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RTTP: Jon Stewart on Crossfire
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The news was just following the money as sadly all corporations do. Maybe it's my political bias but I see Fox News as the start of this. They came in fairly biased from the beginning and made shows based on entertainment instead of news. Fox's original "both sides of the issue" show had the fake liberal Colmes basically play the role of Hannity's bitch. They became the #1 news channel on this crap though and everyone followed suit. CNN reacted the slowest and are just lost floating along lost waiting for something to disappear.
EatinOlives
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I agree. At this point Fox News and MSNBC won't change because this simply gets them more money, but they make a ton of damage to the political discourse in the US and they don't give a fuck. It's frustrating. And CNN...well, they're circling the drain. I don't' know if it's true still but just a couple years ago their ratings were absolutely abysmal. They had all the "non-news as entertainment" news but without the heavily partisan shit to bring in the money, so they suffered. Now they're doing their "bu- bu- but both sides!!" angle IMO in an attempt to bring in viewers from...well, both sides. I don't know how well it's working but I'll wager not so much.
Earthstrike
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Browsing his other videos, he is so often prophetic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_qJiReI8hU
Early commentary about piers morgan replacing Larry King. He says a bunch of other smart stuff, but that's to be expected because, ya know, it's Jon Stewart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_qJiReI8hU
Early commentary about piers morgan replacing Larry King. He says a bunch of other smart stuff, but that's to be expected because, ya know, it's Jon Stewart.
Wait, Jon Stewart is against unions and didn't strike during the Writer's Strike?
That's sad to hear.
Most late-night shows participated in the strike initially, then were forced by the network to go back on air in improv mode. (Letterman was the exception -- his production company was able to make an independent deal with the union.) Stewart, Colbert, O'Brien, etc are all members (I think), but were also in the position of being The Boss. They all expressed near-nightly sympathy for the strike and lampooned the networks, but needed to continue to do the show so that the non-writing staff & crew could get paid.
MacFarlane can be disappointed in Stewart all he wants (and he's being goaded by Morgan, who clearly wants to stir up some shit), but he speaking from a much more privileged position of someone whose show is weekly instead of nightly, whose scripts are written up to a year in advance, and who works for a network that can replace his programming temporarily with Slut Island or whatever reality show some exec can crap out in five minutes. To say "I'm disappointed that you went back on the air while the strike was still going on" when it was obvious that wasn't what Stewart (or anyone else) wanted to do at all is to ignore the realities of their situations and the very real lives of the rest of the staff.
zero shift
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I will say one thing, that joke certainly made Stewart feel some type of way. Regularly if someone saw a joke they'd just shrug it off and ignore it. The fact that Stewart was furious and argued for an hour is really telling.
EatinOlives
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Does anyone have a clip of the joke itself? I can't seem to find it on Youtube.
Pretty great interview. Stewart comes out hard against the hosts of Crossfire for their nonsense, and gets that mess cancelled.
Would almost be the GOAT of speaking truth to power by somebody from that show/production company were it not for this gem;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7FTF4Oz4dI
Would almost be the GOAT of speaking truth to power by somebody from that show/production company were it not for this gem;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7FTF4Oz4dI
benjipwns
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I always liked the Frank Zappa episode of Crossfire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ISil7IHzxc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAkVnlA9CJo
Did you forget Cuban already?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAkVnlA9CJo
Only if you ignore why he didn't go on strike, so that he could continue paying his staff out of his own pocket. All of the late night hosts did this.
Avon Barksdale
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Crossfire has been cancelled again. On the tenth anniversary of Jon Stewart's appearance.
LMAO.
LMAO.
Spring-Loaded
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Wasn't it canceled right after his appearance? Or within a few months? I still think that was the impetus for that.
ActStriker
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Yes, it was first canceled about a couple months afterwards.
Hahaha, they probably got scared the day Stewart didnt do the show last week and assumed it mean he was coming for them.
Maybe he offered to come on for a reunion show and they panicked.
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