Over at the Daily Beast, Tucker Carlson repeats, and embellishes his weekend rant about Jon Stewart.
To recap, you may remember Jon Stewart besting Carlson when Stewart critiqued Carlson and Crossfire, Carlson's now-cancelled show.
When Stewart took apart CNBC and Jim Cramer over the past few weeks, Carlson decided to rise to Cramer's defense.
Carlson continues his self-serving criticism in the Daily Beast essay, but most interestingly, the readers flay him in the commentary, including a most interesting post from an alleged attendee at the CPAC conference, which Stewart mocked roundly, who posts as "goneprivate."
Tucker-- I would much rather prefer someone to mock me and other conference attendees as opposed to coming to our conference, getting sh*tbombed, acting wildly unprofessional, and then capping it off with sleeping with a young associate at my firm-- all the while collecting a hefty speaking fee to take home to an unsuspecting wife and child. Sound familiar??? It should-- unless you are an amnesiac.
The post is comment, after all, and comments are notoriously unrelible, but it's an accusation, though it offers little in the way of proof. Still, if an enterprising journalist digs a little, he or she may find that Tucker Carlson's behavior at CPAC has him throwing stones in a glass house.
Showing posts with label jon stewart. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
The jester is essential
Jon Stewart is a comedian, with a show satirizing television news on a network called Comedy Central. It's amazing that the best interview about the economy is conducted by a comedian. That's entertainment.
Jim Cramer on Jon Stewart last night. Comedy Central has provided the uncut, uncensored interview, and it's well-worth watching.
Jim Cramer on Jon Stewart last night. Comedy Central has provided the uncut, uncensored interview, and it's well-worth watching.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
I can throw feces on him
You would think TV financial analysts and news hosts would know better than to challenge a smart, funny, merciless comedian with a large audience, but, nope.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
John Stewart explains the financial mess
After a distasteful experience at a live taping of the John Stewart show, I haven't watched as regularly as I once did. But Stewart and his staff are brilliant, and never more so than here where he dissects the cranky correspondents at CNBC.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Jon Stewart's cunch to the punt
Well, you'll get it after watching this segment unless you're bass ackwards.
And he's gone, or so say Hall and Oates.
And Hannity? Well, he's angry, but isn't he always.
And he's gone, or so say Hall and Oates.
And Hannity? Well, he's angry, but isn't he always.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
The setup is the punch line
Leave it to Jon Stewart to demonstrate the absolute absurdity of a Republican party talking about experience, sexism and women candidates.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Warming the crowd with racism
Six months ago, I applied for seats for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.Little did I know that the writer's strike would leave Stewart a little less brilliant than he appears when he has a full team (it's still hard to imagine he writes the entire show himself). But even he is willing to admit that it's not at the level of the old show, and has acknowledged it by temporarily changing the name of his show to A Daily Show.
The WGA strikers were picketing, and a few of the writers handed out leaflets suggesting ways in which A Daily Show audience members could help toward a solution to the strike, including phone numbers for Viacom execs. Surprisingly, the writers did not urge the waiting audience members not to attend the show.
Inside, audience members were required to pass through a metal detector and to relinquish sharp objects.
After waiting in our seats for about a half hour. Paul Mercurio, an obnoxious stand up comic, and former writer for Stewart emerged from the wings to "warm up" the crowd. Aside for some fascist calisthenics designed to raise the en
ergy level of the audience, in which we were urged to cheer, shout and chant, Mercurio offered little in the way of real humor.He set about insulting audience members. He called one middle-aged female attendee a slut because she admitted to enjoying a cocktail. Then he settled on one of the few African Americans in the audience.
"Hey man, you look cool," he said to a young African American man. Then he asked of the young, white woman sitting next to the man, "Is she your girlfriend?" The man said, "Never saw her before." When he found out that the young woman was from Britain, he suggested that the man show her New York.
"Hey, don't rape her," Mercurio warned. Then to the woman, "Watch out, he's going to kidnap you."
The crowd wasn't laughing nearly as heartily as when Mercurio poked fun at some frat boys in the first row.
The racist and sexist humor should have driven me from the room, and I feel a bit guilty that I stayed for the show. But at the very least, Stewart ought to be aware that his warm-up act is appealing to the most base instincts of an audience that ought to know better.
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