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- Rawkus, on 05/23/2008, -21/+299Leave it to Jon Stewart to be the one "real journalist" on TV
- Strungout, on 05/23/2008, -8/+162Ahhh, the sweet, sweet irony of our most factual source of news coming from a comedy/satire show.
- rawg, on 05/23/2008, -14/+162Good interview. I actually thought Jon went easy on Mr. Feith. There were plenty of opportunities to take easy shots or toss up clips to contradict what Feith was saying but Jon didn't take them. In any case, Stewart is definitely a smart individual.
- RandomEyes, on 05/23/2008, -22/+103Jon Stewart is one smart man, i was lucky enough to see him live
- bjenidles, on 05/23/2008, -7/+79ORLY?
Feb. 7, 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, to U.S. troops in Aviano, Italy: "It is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."
March 4, 2003, Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a breakfast with reporters: "What you'd like to do is have it be a short, short conflict. . . . Iraq is much weaker than they were back in the '90s," when its forces were routed from Kuwait.
March 16, 2003, Vice President Cheney, on NBC's Meet the Press: "I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . (in) weeks rather than months." He predicted that regular Iraqi soldiers would not "put up such a struggle" and that even "significant elements of the Republican Guard . . . are likely to step aside."
You were saying? - GirlsCallMeMatt, on 05/23/2008, -8/+76Ever talk to former Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith...ON WEED?!
- dark1587, on 05/23/2008, -10/+71Is it sad that The Daily Show provides better news and opinion coverage than all the other mainstream media outlets combined?
- Herolint, on 05/23/2008, -3/+58That was one of the most intellectually stimulating political discussions I've seen in a long time. Usually political debates are one party yelling over the top of the other party like some scientologist vs. some regular guy.
Both men spoke calmly and both had points and views I can understand and agree with. My thanks to both men. - jahurt, on 05/23/2008, -2/+41"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell
- inactive, on 05/23/2008, -8/+44I actually depend on the Daily Show and Colbert Report for my political news. A sure fire sign we've allowed our government and media to become a joke.
- vircity, on 05/23/2008, -4/+38Jon makes a killer argument -as always.
I have to admit though, even though Douglas Faith may have been wrong, he seems like THE most eloquent person in this administration. I was almost waiting for him to make a solid case to prove us wrong. Never came. - orion846, on 05/23/2008, -1/+34listen, i get that fear mongering is the republican platform right now. but you're trying to convince me that my apartment in new jersey is going to be overrun by ak-47 weilding arabs any day now? god you guys are getting desperate.
- Hangly, on 05/23/2008, -0/+30A good interviewer should keep his guests talking, not cut them off to make their own points like Hannity and O'Reilley do.
- inactive, on 05/23/2008, -6/+35He was rambling, and clearly not prepared to back his remarks with substantiated evidence.
- LittleFishChan, on 05/23/2008, -8/+35Governments as a whole (Not just the Bush administration) are just like a bratty little kids. They trick their friends into doing stuff, when questioned about their bad behavior they they fabricate an excuse (There was a monster there) and when nobody's looking they raid the cookie jar.
- praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -2/+28Republicans and Democrats lying...how novel.
- neognostic, on 05/23/2008, -26/+49That is one book I definitely won't be buying.
- jaxcs, on 05/23/2008, -0/+22There was nothing satirical about that interview. Stewart seemed to have read the book, wasn't hostile to his guest, and allowed his guest to answer questions leisurely. He presented his own views firmly but backed off when it seemed the guest wasn't going to give more than was already presented. All in all it was a very fair interview. O'Reilly's show is nothing like this show at all neither in temperment or content. O'Reilly screams at his guest if he disagrees with them, doesn't let them finish sentences and pounds on his guest until he gets an answer that he wants to hear. This is tough journalism? It's a fool in a suit.
- murphidaho, on 05/23/2008, -2/+23If the book contains verifiable evidence that contradicts popular belief why would you choose to be misinformed? An efficient democracy depends on a well informed public. If you believe the current administration misinformed the public previously, you should choose to learn more about our situation instead of stepping down from your role in the democratic process.
- jp12380, on 05/23/2008, -1/+22That was a really great interview. Very to the point, very articulate questions asked as well as answers given.
- DemonicKyle, on 05/23/2008, -4/+23For the Canadians (or if you're having other troubles with the video)...
Interview is here:
http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/shows/showdetails.a ... - Speed, on 05/23/2008, -1/+20I think that's why he has quotes around journalist...
- Diderotten, on 05/23/2008, -2/+20I think he's serious. He's not a criminal. He seriously thought he could prtect us by attacking Iraq. When Jon mentioned N Korea, Pakistan, Iran, and others to be guilty of the same crime as Iraq. I think the long-term plan was to get everybody, with iraq being a stepping stone. The ones that started the war were very misguided.
- MegaHz, on 05/23/2008, -11/+29damn comedy central blocking canada.. pissing me off
- Hangly, on 05/23/2008, -0/+17PBS's Frontline and Tim Russert take their jobs pretty seriously. And Olbermann, though he's more about rants of righteous indignation.
I'm trying to think of more examples of good journalists and coming up blank. So you're right, it's pretty sad. - MagicBobert, on 05/23/2008, -0/+16Agreed, really good interview. I'll admit I'm not much of a fan of Stewart regularly, but he did a fantastic job on this. I'm all over the spectrum politically and this was very nicely balanced interview. That's definitely something I praise an interviewer for: the ability to continue the dialog with someone of an opposing viewpoint and keep the conversion balanced.
- MrXfromPlanetX, on 05/23/2008, -8/+24Doug Feith is full of crap
Let's take a look at what the Bush Administration said leading up to the Iraq war. We don't need what he says in his book. We have C-Span footage we can go back and look at:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EYI7JXGqd0o
Oh yeah. What did Dick Cheney say about going into Iraq? It would be a Quagmire. Yes this was back in 1994, but it's exactly how it turned out:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YENbElb5-xY - soccerman90, on 05/23/2008, -17/+33im just sick of this. Im sick of this *****. Its like we know they are lying to our faces, they know they are lying to our faces but they dont care we know because there isnt any ***** accountability. Every damn day brings more crap about how we are getting screwed and the government doesnt give a ***** that a minority of the people that really care about whats going on knows what they are doing because the rest of America is too damn stupid to realize whats happening. If we get stuck with McCain, and to some extent Hillary then this whole country is screwed
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sorry i had to get that out - JeffD, on 05/23/2008, -0/+16"I don't consider the cigarette companies murders, not matter which anti-smoking slogan you try and throw at me."
IIRC back in the mid 20th century there were a number of cigarette companies that knew cigarettes increased cancer rates but chose not to disclose the fact to the general public. That is what played into the analogy Jon was trying to make, they knew the risks but refused to warn people about them (while at the same time promoting all of the potential advantages), hoping that everything would turn out all right.
Hiding pertinent information in situations like that is tantamount to lying. The fact that you knew the outcome had a not insignificant chance of being very bad should and does impact the degree of responsibility that offending parties share. - jmpeagle, on 05/23/2008, -3/+19you make the implication that the pronoun "we" is only referring to democrats in saying "we were misled". Everyone was misled. We had no primary sources and not even secondary sources. Our main source was tertiary in that it was info from an Iraqi national to the Germans who then relayed it to us. We weren't even allowed to interview him. I don't know how that justifies spending hundreds of billions of dollars.
- luciferin, on 05/23/2008, -2/+17No, he is right. Bush said that the war was going to take years; maybe even decades... once we had been in for over two years.
- regeya, on 05/23/2008, -1/+15Indeed. From everything I've been seeing, you had essentially one guy behind the scenes, pulling the strings for years, who honestly believed that Middle-East peace could be achieved, if only one could get America to depose/execute Saddam.
Amazing that supposedly conservative Christian politicians actually believed that peace in the Middle East could be achieved. Less bible THUMPING and more bible READING, if you insist on being called a Christian. And anyone whose heads that flew over, same to you, too. - stuwanker, on 05/23/2008, -3/+17Excellent point given that the clip and the post say nothing about partisan politics!
- BootsElectric, on 05/23/2008, -6/+19Yeah, Jon Stewart, RIP, or so your post makes it sound...
- ConceptualTrap, on 05/23/2008, -1/+13I thought he took it pretty easy too...until the end. Those last few lines were brutal.
- Hangly, on 05/23/2008, -1/+13The role of the jester has always been to speak truth to power. Too bad the media is part of the power structure now. I guess that makes us some kind of medieval kingdom or something.
- inactive, on 05/23/2008, -18/+30There's nothing like neocons, making huge sums of money, while committing horrific acts of terrorism to overthrow the Middle East.
- inactive, on 05/23/2008, -1/+13 But if you believe as I do that Douglas Feith was a big part of an outright deception to go to war for interests that were not the American peoples then why would you believe a word he says in his book? How would reading the personal notes of a notorious liar make me "informed."
- JeffD, on 05/23/2008, -0/+12http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-wi ...
http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-wi ... - Hangly, on 05/23/2008, -2/+13Why do you assume everyone critical of the war is a Democrat?
- repete, on 05/23/2008, -2/+12I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!
- ApokalypseNow, on 05/23/2008, -1/+11In addition to his eloquence (or at least, his adequacy as compared to the rest of the administration), he did seem pretty sincere about his statements. Further, he was critical of a number of the decisions the government had made as well. All this makes me slightly more inclined to believe him, but only slightly. I may have to read his book and see if I feel the same afterwards, or at least see if it follows the same lines as those he was presenting in this interview.
Beyond all that, Jon made an excellent case. - kevman459, on 05/23/2008, -2/+12Exactly, this is just going to be a revisionist version of what happened. He was probably commissioned by the administration to write this book.
- murphidaho, on 05/23/2008, -0/+10Point well taken. Everything I stated was based on the assumption that the book contained statements which were verifiable true. If what is in the book is false, then what you are saying is absolutely correct.
- soccerman90, on 05/23/2008, -6/+15yeah, you are right. it's very sad when the news with the most truth and the least amount of ***** is coming from a comedian on the comedy channel. I respect no new person more than Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz because he chooses to cover real news and not lie.
good day.
i said good day! - jkahrs595, on 05/23/2008, -13/+22It's sad that I get some of the most useful/factual information from John Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
- luciferin, on 05/23/2008, -1/+9There was a 22 minute interview on a thirty minute show. With commercial time included that interview was the entire length of the show. I can't watch Bill O'Reilly without him cutting off his "guests" every 2.5 minutes to catch his commercial breaks on time. What does a real journalist care more about, money or honest discussion.
- laserdog, on 05/23/2008, -0/+8The great thing about Jon's interviews (when he bothers to be serious) is that it shows that being respectful and conciliatory but firm in your arguments makes it difficult for the subject to drop back into mindless talking points, or if they do, makes it nakedly apparent.
- littlebluedevil, on 05/23/2008, -1/+9It's okay, they're working on taking away our rights too.
- xBarium, on 05/23/2008, -9/+16"In light of 9/11 he (Saddam) looked even more dangerous, even though he wasn't involved in the 9/11 attacks" What a load of ***** the administration spoon fed us. Dougie was so full of contradictions, twisted logic, and general sleaze. Something that really made me angry was that he accused other people of "not remembering the lead-up to the war". Yeah, maybe not how you would like them to remember it *****.
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