{"id":2785,"date":"2004-10-18T09:26:28","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T14:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2785.html"},"modified":"2004-10-18T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2004-10-18T14:26:28","slug":"stewart-1-crossfire-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/stewart-1-crossfire-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart 1, Crossfire 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the unlikely event you didn&#8217;t hear about this over the weekend, I&#8217;d like to encourage everyone to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0410\/15\/cf.01.html\">Jon Stewart&#8217;s appearance<\/a> on CNN&#8217;s Crossfire from Friday. It was rude, tense, and beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>The point of Stewart&#8217;s appearance had virtually nothing to do with his Emmy-award winning program or touting his new bestselling book. Stewart was on the show to tell its hosts that they&#8217;re awful and their show serves no valuable purpose.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I made a special effort to come on the show today, because I have privately, amongst my friends and also in occasional newspapers and television shows, mentioned this show as being bad&#8230;. And I wanted to &#8212; I felt that that wasn&#8217;t fair and I should come here and tell you that I don&#8217;t &#8212; it&#8217;s not so much that it&#8217;s bad, as it&#8217;s hurting America.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure Stewart wasn&#8217;t kidding. But see for yourself. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contemporaryinsanity.org\/video\/\">This fine site<\/a> has posted the video for the entire interview online. Be sure to take a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the unlikely event you didn&#8217;t hear about this over the weekend, I&#8217;d like to encourage everyone to check out Jon Stewart&#8217;s appearance on CNN&#8217;s Crossfire from Friday. It was rude, tense, and beautiful. The point of Stewart&#8217;s appearance had virtually nothing to do with his Emmy-award winning program or touting his new bestselling book. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}