STILL Jon's greatest hit...euthanizing "Crossfire"

[Miles Archer]

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. Thanks for reminding us of that.

Basically shutting down Tucker Carlson and speaking out against the combativeness of TV news formats.

That goes back to the days of Point/Counterpoint which was a segment on 60 Minutes where William Kilpatrick and Shana Alexander would debate for a couple of minutes. He was a grumpy old conservative like Buckley. Only older.

That was what Saturday Night Live was parodying when Dan Ackroyd said, "Jane, you ignorant slut" to Jane Curtin in a supposed debate.

[swilton]

2. RIP Crossfire

Poor theatrics, poor journalism.

[Enthusiast]

7. +1. Crossfire always had a agenda. The agenda consisted of "liberals lose again".

They tried to keep it believable. But over the years it became ever more obviously slanted.

[cannondale]

3. Tucker is such a child

I find it hard to listen to anything he's on. He really is a dick. And his site, The Daily Caller, is full of the most vile comments that are never removed.

[Enthusiast]

8. He really is.

A juvenile dick.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. That gets better every time I see it. Stewart totally owned those two blowhards

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It took Carlson and Begala a few minutes to realize that Stewart was talking with a stright face. After a few more minutes, they realized to their horror that he wasn't acting.

If anyone wants to call that false equivalency, I respectfully disagree. I may be more likely to agree with Mr. Begala's point of view, but he was still doing the same thing.
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That same year, NBC had a segment after each of the Presidential debates in which former Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry and Bush communications advisor Karen Hughes each gave their impressions of that evening's debate. Either one of them could have mailed in their remarks the day before. It would have made no difference. It was more obvious in the case of Ms. Hughes, but she had the more difficult, if not impossible, task or telling the public how the Frat Boy "dominated" the event. It didn't do the voting public any good to watch it.

[Enthusiast]

9. +1 an entire shit load.

[turbinetree]

5. Nice

It was nice to see how he put two pundits of rhetoric in there place and to tell them that theatrics of a gotcha moment is what is taking this country down and it was really nice to revisit this moment, and the responsibility of the media to ask the hard questions to the emperors is the core issue.
And looking and remembering this segment reinforces what happened then and to todays media and there lack of journalistic might, instead of infomercials of today what is called news and the seeking of ratings.
Carlson looked quite upset and Jon kept poking him in the eye
He will be missed

[zeemike]

6. "No I'm not going to be your monkey"

But Tucker wanted it to be comedy and he tried to make it by pretending to laugh at what Jon was saying...Jon was not being funny he was serious...and seriously right.

[leftieNanner]

10. Tucker Carlson is

a jerk and always will be. The way he talked over Jon (who was doing his best to be respectful as he told them to "STOP&quot was beyond annoying. When will these blowhards go away - and STOP?

sigh...

[classykaren]

11. Why does the young man in the first row look identical to a young Bill Clinton must be related.

He has a baseball cap on and the cameraman put him on often.