Re: Tucker Carlson is a Dick with a Bowtie.

I like how Mo Rocca puts his profession down as Media Gadfly wherever 
he goes (NPR, VH1, etc.)

I think that Wolf, Aaron, and about a dozen other "news" folk wish they 
could give it to us straight. Its a sad state of affairs when a comedy 
show is the best news program.  Oh, and CNN International broadcasts 
TDS overseas, I think that might have something to do with why they are 
so obsessed with TDS.

OBTW - this is not the first time JS has taken CNN to task, but I think 
this time will get more attention since it was on Crossfire and not 
Reliable Sources.


http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0211/02/rs.00.html

Excerpt:

STEWART: You shouldn't have let me get away with saying that they're 
not a news network.

  KURTZ: They do cover some news. They have reporters. You seem to be...

  STEWART: Thank you.

  KURTZ: ... dismissing -- all right.

  STEWART: But the thing about CNN is, you guys actually say you can 
depend on CNN. That's why I'm more upset with you than I am with them.

  KURTZ: You hold CNN to a higher standard.

  STEWART: Exactly. I expect that from them. From you guys, I'm upset -- 
what I don't understand is why you guys, with the talent and the 
credibility and the (UNINTELLIGIBLE) would want to take a page out of 
their playbook. Why wouldn't you want to take a page out of the more 
credible? Why wouldn't you go towards the other -- why would you go 
louder when you could go smarter?

  KURTZ: Now, you are now part of the CNN family.

  STEWART: No, I'm not.

  KURTZ: And it's -- CNN has is broadcasting your show internationally.

  STEWART: I am not.

  KURTZ: Does that make you legitimate?

  STEWART: No, I am illegitimate. I am the bastard son of anything. 
We're not -- we're fake. That's what...

  KURTZ: Is that right?

  STEWART: Yes.

  KURTZ: I have a theory about this.

  STEWART: That's why I don't have a tie. If I had a tie, I would be a 
newsman. But I am not.

  KURTZ: Well, I'm going to be -- I'm going to have to take this off.

  STEWART: All right.

  KURTZ: I have a theory about this, which is, you've been doing this 
for so long, to sit in front of the big anchor desk.

  STEWART: Yes.

  KURTZ: But you've come to think that, "Well, gee, maybe I am kind of a 
journalist. I can do this."

  STEWART: No.

  KURTZ: I could host "CROSSFIRE."

  STEWART: Well, yes, you could host "CROSSFIRE." What's that got to do 
with journalism? I mean, that's just a couple of knuckleheads. I mean, 
the promo for that is Bob Novak in a boxing outfit. I mean, for God's 
sakes, somehow I don't imagine Edward R. Murrow ever putting on the 
satin robe and going, "I'll destroy you."

  KURTZ: I went to one of your tapings this week.

  STEWART: Yes, you did.

  KURTZ: And I can reveal -- can I say this?

  STEWART: By the way, I didn't care for the heckling.

  KURTZ: All right. I can reveal that all those -- you go to those live 
correspondent reports standing in front of the Capitol, out in North 
Carolina.

  STEWART: That's exactly right.

  KURTZ: They're right on the stage there with you.

  STEWART: Yes.

  KURTZ: Isn't that kind of dishonest?

  STEWART: Our budget is to the point where we can only afford the 
picture of North Carolina. We can't actually afford the trip. So we put 
them in front of a just a green screen of that.

  KURTZ: So you don't, you're not confusing yourself with a quote, "real 
journalist"?

  STEWART: No. You guys are...

  KURTZ: You're just making fun...

  STEWART: You guys are confusing yourselves with real journalists.

  KURTZ: Oh boy, you're loaded (UNINTELLIGIBLE) today.

  STEWART: Instead of putting on shows like "CROSSFIRE" and "Gotcha" and 
"I'm Going To Kick Your Ass With Tucker Carlson" and "Let's Beat Up The 
Short Guy." That was just one that I...

  KURTZ: I'm glad you're at least watching so much CNN, Jon.

  STEWART: I am watching it constantly. It's driving me insane. Make the 
ticker stop. You're in the middle of a damn sniper story, and all of a 
sudden underneath it, you know, "Liza Minnelli's first VH1 show to 
air."



On Oct 18, 2004, at 1:53 PM, Aaron S. Hawley wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Nick Bonfatti's forward had:
>
>> Don't expect him to be on any other shows for a long time, unless this
>> is the straw which breaks the corporate media's back, which I doubt it
>> is.
>
> Stewart was quickly becoming the darling of the "real" media, anyway.
> Not to say this is just a controversy stunt to sell more of Jon's new
> book. But its important Stewart checked CNN up against the boards. Mo
> Rocca is now a commentator and Wolf Blitzer's and Aaron Brown's shows 
> had
> clips from the Daily Show filling up half of their programs.  That's
> fucked up. Didn't Time-Warner sell Comedy Central to Viacom? /a
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