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'The Daily Show' accepts Musk's terms for interview with Stewart: 'We'd be delighted'
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This is a make-or-break moment for Stewart, because if he ever shows any sort of complacency with Musk when he's face-to-face with the sonofabitch, when he's so passionately against him when he's not, as talk show hosts often do with controversial guests, his audience will punish him something fierce.
Make or break?
Uh, the dude already made it... He was staple viewing for college kids of my generation and a lone voice of sanity on corporate television during the Bush years
I grew up watching TDS at like 9 or 10. My family was pretty openly liberal, they found the jokes funny, and he integrated into my life on a daily basis for years, especially during the Bush years when I was a young teen.
His work with veterans and 9/11 responders solidified Jon as not just a talker but a real community builder.
Jon’s done countless hot interviews and regularly came out ahead. Jon would have no issue challenging power: he never has. That’s his charisma and charm.
Totally agree with the poster above.
“Make or break?” Jon Stewart is on what is essentially the victory tour of his career. He was so popular in his first stint at the daily show that some openly wondered whether the show could continue without him. He retired from that to work advocacy for first responders, for which he was lauded. He’s back now because even a solid decade away couldn’t make the audience forget his heyday. I’ve criticized Stewart in the past, but even I can see that if he were to flub this interview most would shrug “huh, sad how the greats start to slip as they age,” and tune back in next week.
You don't really know much about Stewart do you?
I know all there is to know about Stewart, and I'm 99% certain he won't go easy with Musk. All I'm saying is, if it ever dares do that, I and all the folks who know him will hate his guts.
You just created an extremely unlikely hypothetical to get upset at … why?
To setup this thread for his alt account, obviously.
He will go easy, he won't go at him like people want him to. He's interviewing Musk and there will be a level of decorum and respect because that's what adults do. But the left are such rabid idealists that they won't accept that. But most importantly the right leaning groups will help nudge it along as they always do with fake accounts and memes pretending to be left leaning.
Do you just not remember him tearing into Bill O'Reilly? He's destroyed people before, why do you think he wouldn't try to destroy Musk too?
https://www.reddit.com/r/DailyShow/comments/1e5hz51/done_with_stewart_after_the_oreilly_interview/
Is this from you several years ago just being angry that he gave Bill a platform? Nothing in there says he went easy on him, and in fact there's plenty of commenters repeating my point that he kicked Bill's ass and it was great television.
Stewart will relish the chance to embarrass Musk
No, he won’t. He’ll have a conversation, keep it entertaining, but there’s no chance he makes him look like an ass. Then, the next day, you and others will be here tearing Stewart apart for the rest of the year. Eventually, he’ll say, "Fuck this," and shift his political views after realizing just how toxic and ineffective the left is, how quick they are to turn on their own, just like so many before him have.
The left has the energy of a narcissistic ex-girlfriend, full of hopes and dreams, but the moment you show even the slightest rejection of their principles, they unleash the most savage, vicious abuse.
Stewart is the master of faux, formal politeness. Yes it's sometimes annoying. He would be way too nice to some Republicans but I think he respecter them actually sitting down on his show. Stewart isn't as far left as I am, but he is capable of asking tough questions. His Jim Cramer sit-down is masterful preparation and execution by a team of researchers who brought receipts. He would not have been polite to Dick Cheney or Bush either
I think now as he's gotten older, he's even less likely to let guys like Musk slide on their bullshit. I have faith in his personal integrity. He's got a good body of work.
Him getting older will be the opposite. He'll have a more respectful approach. Smart intelligent people don't hold onto hate the way a lot of people do. He'll have a conversation. People will hate him
How can you claim to know the future with such certainty? It comes across silly.
Because of all the other times I've done it. Can you not predict the way trump supporters will act. You can't see the forest when you're standing in the middle of it but everyone else can see it that are standing outside of it
No. I can guess how some of them will react, but not exactly what everyone will do with specific timing and details lol. Claiming you know with any certainty what people will do, let alone everyone in a group of people, is naive and small minded.
You're just arguing to be right. We all know what they'll do. Likewise we know what the left will do.
I’m not hugely versed on American show hosts, but that would seem very out of character for Stewart who seems a bit more earnest than the usual from what little I know.
It's very common for hosts - hell, anybody - to be vitriolic with someone who isn't there in person, and then become all civil, polite and buddy-buddy-like with them when they're around. For example, Bill Maher recently invited that turd Matt Gaetz on his podcast show thing and it was the most nauseating best-friends act you never saw, considering how critical Maher has been of the guy.
Oh this disgusting scene that shows in no uncertain way that all politicians are in fact in the same club of psychopaths, and their public rivalries are just theater.
John has had some pretty direct and confrontational interviews already. This wouldn't be new for him.
Part of his brand is that he is authentic in his beliefs. He also has had numerous people on in the past that he did not like personally but was able to have a civil conversation with. I think John could run for president and win but I also think he doesn't want the headaches or he would have done it already.
I just came to say this. There is no tolerance. Jon Stewart is going to get crucified and pushed to either quit or he will have such a disgust from the reaction that he'll end up hating the left. He's too good at what he does. Any effective communicator must be purged no exceptions