Stewart Punching Again
Jon Stewart had liberal hawk Christopher Hitchens on the show tonight, and man did he kick ass. Once again Stewart takes on a pundit and defeats him with nothing but coherence. Hitchens is no mental lightweight, and he's been on the show before. Here's a sample lifted from Wonkette.
Hitch: I'm sorry, sunshine... I just watched you ridicule the president for saying he wouldn't give. . .
Stewart: No, you misunderstood why. . . . That's not why I ridiculed the president. He refuses to answer questions from adults as though we were adults and falls back upon platitudes and phrases and talking points that does a disservice to the goals that he himself shares with the very people needs to convince.
I can't believe I didn't fully realize this before, but I think he's saving his beat downs specifically for pundits. Goldberg and Carlson, he totally took out. He wasn't great against Wallace, but Wallace but just insisted on talking about fluff. It could be that he's got an agenda, and he's going against them out of his dislike of what he believes that they are doing to the country (case in point, his Tucker Carlson performance.) The alternative, is that they don't have stronger protection from agents and handlers that other celebrities have (case in point, his Santorum interview.)
It will be interesting to see in the next couple weeks to see if more pundits show up.
Update: Crooks and Liars has the Video up. Please judge for yourself. Crooks and Liars: Christopher Hitchens vs Jon Stewart.
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1. When did I refer to it as a transcript? 2. I think Stewart came out on top. That's the opinion I stated. But you're right, I'm lying about my own opinion.
3. This is, in fact, true. However your lack of evidence shows me that you just got lucky on that one.
2. Stewart got taken to school by Hitchens. You moonbat morons can lie about anything. How disgusting.
3. You're an asshole.
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Posted by: Igotyoursample at August 26, 2005 11:24 AM