Full, unedited video of Jon Stewart on ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ (embedded!)
via Fox News
Hat tip boingboing
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Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Retail Sales in Jan rose .4% headline m/o/m, .7% ex auto's, .6% ex auto's and gasoline and .7% at the core. The headline figure was less than expected while the rest were slightly better. But, with respect to non headline sales, because Dec figures were revised lower, taking the two months together were about in line with forecasts overall. Sales rose in electronics, building materials, food/beverages, clothing, sporting goods, dept stores and restaurant/bars and fell interestingly for online retailers, health/personal care, furniture and motor vehicle/parts. Bottom line, headline sales were below expectations due to the greater than expected fall m/o/m...
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February 7th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
That was a royal tussle.
February 7th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Stewart highly amusing and intelligent as ever, but plays the idiot when convenient and the jester when he can’t counter a point. The opening line about not knowing whether Obama is a jedi master or incompetent is the sort of nonsense tossed out to avoid answering a question.
February 7th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
I can’t even watch the rest. I lost all respect for Sterwart. I thought a lot of him before.
Obama is a moron for listening to morons. He is listening to economic morons.
There was no change. 750 bases in 50 nations and 44% of tax revenues going to war? Some change. 23 trillion committed to the very banks that blew up the economy. Some change. Lobbyist writing and re-writing bills. Some change.
David Walker is 100% correct: Our biggest deficit is a leadership deficit.
February 8th, 2010 at 8:53 am
I was shocked. These two actually had an intelligent, reasoned debate. Too bad the rest of the country can’t also do this. O’reilly can be sane and articulate! Who knew? And Steward is intellectual. Who knew that?
February 8th, 2010 at 9:05 am
I guess the real question for O’Rielly is what did he think of Bush.
He takes most things out of context
February 8th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
That was great.
Stewart looks uncomfortable discussing his personal views about certain things, since, unlike O’Reilly, that’s not what his show’s all about. Didn’t look like he wanted to jump in with both feet until later on in the interview.
Thanks for posting, BR!
March 30th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/993/who-knows-news-what-you-read-or-view-matters-but-not-your-politics
I wonder why this poll didn’t come up in the interview or, since O’Reilly edits his interviews, maybe Stewart brought it up and it didn’t make the cut, for obvious reasons.
March 30th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/10/cheap-laughs/7650/
Sorry about that. I posted the wrong link from my “polls” folder. Here’s the one I meant to post.