I wish Stewart would have thrashed him a a little bit more. There were so many opportunities for him to jump on what Bill O was spouting about that were left untouched.

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>> ^JiggaJonson:
I wish Stewart would have thrashed him a a little bit more. There were so many opportunities for him to jump on what Bill O was spouting about that were left untouched.


There was also a lot cut. In the last clip of the second part, they show stuff that was chopped out of the first time they rolled through it. I wonder how many of the edits were just to cut out pauses and superfluous things and how many were to keep Bill from looking like an ass.

The Fox News website doesn't seem to work on Firefox, FF must have an automatic anti-bullshit-addon pre-installed

I was trying to find the full video, because I want to see what this video looks like unedited.. If anyone could post that, I would love that.

Do you guys think Stewart didn't go on live television, because he didn't want to, or so Bill O'Reilly could cut up the vid to his own lokings afterwards? I think the latter.

Nice sift, demon_ix, Steward did pretty well, and although I agree with JiggaJonson that he could have said a lot more things, it's no use with a guy like Bill to try and shout every time he says something stupid.

I will go and watch the old video with Stephen Colbert at O'Reillys' show now He may probably never come back there, because he absolutely destroyed Bill that show

"Is Glenn here? Can I get a chalkboard?"

This is Stewart at his almost-best. It's much better to be the calm and collected guy at the table while the other guy sticks his finger in your face, interrupts your points, and raises his voice.

The one big missed opportunity is when O'Reilly says that the "hard news" department of Fox was unbiased. I check Google News for online news articles every day, and Fox News stuff creeps in there, and the author always goes way out of their way to make any Obama-related story seem bad for him. They'll counter-point all of Obama's points in a speech, and they always happen to choose the most unflattering picture for Obama or any democratic politician. They covered the birther movement as if it was news. Here's a quick example headline from the top story on their Political page: "Storm Brews Over Decision to Reveal Abdulmutallab's Cooperation." The only reason they call it a brewing storm is because a single Republican senator made some comments about it being improper to publicly declare that Abdulmutallab is sharing information, and the only reason he's saying that is because it proves the point liberals have been making for years which is that granting habeus corpus rights is as good or better at convincing captured terrorists to share information as torture. The headline should be about how Abdulmutallab is sharing information because his family convinced him to trust the US, which they wouldn't have done if he were in limbo at Gitmo. It's complete vindication of the anti-torture movement in America, and of course Fox can't report on it that way, they want to make it a story about how unscrupulous it was of the Obama administration to share this "sensitive" information.

This is a continuation of the disagreement between Fox News and the White House last year, where Fox News got away with saying that their hard news items have no bias, and it seemed like no one is willing to stand up to that statement, then or now.

Holy crap there's a 42-minute unedited version

(and not surprisingly, Stewart's best criticisms of Fox News didn't make it to air)

I watched the unedited version posted by Lodurr, and Stewart annihilated Fox News supremely. I don't know how much got cut, but I think he did an outstanding job; he was very direct and effective.

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part 3 (next day)
http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2010/02/04/jon-stewart-on-the-oreilly-factor-part-ii/

Dammit, I watched all three parts and I respect both of them more for it. that is the sort of dialog the US needs to come to terms with its self

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well, I tried....that's the embed code for the unedited one posted by Lodurr>> ^Lodurr:
Holy crap there's a 42-minute unedited version
(and not surprisingly, Stewart's best criticisms of Fox News didn't make it to air)

>> ^Lodurr:
Holy crap there's a 42-minute unedited version
(and not surprisingly, Stewart's best criticisms of Fox News didn't make it to air)


Even if their broadcast edit was self-serving (I haven't compared them yet), it's cool that they posted the whole thing on their website. That's actually fairly unusual.

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>> ^Lodurr:
Holy crap there's a 42-minute unedited version
(and not surprisingly, Stewart's best criticisms of Fox News didn't make it to air)

Even if their broadcast edit was self-serving (I haven't compared them yet), it's cool that they posted the whole thing on their website. That's actually fairly unusual.


It might have been an agreement beforehand--"I'll come on the show but you *must* make an unedited version available"--or they knew that Stewart would call them on it if they were unfair about it. It's handy to have your own multimillion viewer soapbox to stand on, to get a fair shake.