17 October 2004
Jon Stewart: I’m here to confront you, because we need help from the media and they’re hurting us. …You know, the interesting thing I have is, you have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably.
Tucker Carlson: You need to get a job at a journalism school, I think.
Stewart: You need to go to one. The thing that I want to say is, when you have people on for just knee-jerk, reactionary talk…
Carlson: Wait. I thought you were going to be funny. Come on. Be funny.
Stewart: No. No. I’m not going to be your monkey. …I watch your show every day. And it kills me.
Carlson: I can tell you love it. …Is this really Jon Stewart? What is this, anyway?
Stewart: Yes, it’s someone who watches your show and cannot take it anymore.
Media prophet and fake newsman Jon Stewart takes Crossfire to task.
Daily Links October 17 2004
Very Good News
Chlorine, Christ, and No Condoms
“The overpowering smell of chlorine failed to deter thousands of university students from squeezing into the narrow aisles in order to absorb the evening’s message: Love Jesus, and don’t have sex until marriage because condoms are untrustworthy…” Blake Lambert talks about sex — not having it — with Ugandan evangelicals in Kampala.