Unedited versison: <object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/R4WGtg1uXQQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R4WGtg1uXQQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object> Stewart did incredibly well in my opinion and it was pathetic the way O'Reilly and his crew edited the interview.
To be fair, Stewart edits the interviews that go on air too, and the unedited version of this interview was put on the Fox website.
true although editing an interview with Tom Hanks on his new movie for time and editing an interview with Jon Stewart in his debate to take out hte least embarrassing parts are not two sides of the same coin. Although if the taping I went to is any indication, there is very little editing at all. Stewart operates on a tight schedule because Colbert is taped right after, and basically Colbert can't start until they do their little "lead in" segment at the end of TDS...as a consequence both Colbert and Stewart try to run their shows almost as if they are live, with very few takes etc.
I don't think they do the "lead in" segment much anymore, but point taken about the difference in editing. Still, I think it's nitpicking to call the editing pathetic when Fox put up the unedited version on its own website, and O'Reilly was fair in the way he conducted the interview (no over the top shouting like I've seen him do to other guests). Stewart came out looking really good in the interview, and maybe even convinced some O'Reilly viewers that the stone slackers can be decent people too :grin:
that was great. crazy to think that i just dont have the contempt for o'reilly like i once did... he really has become the "voice of reason" so to speak at fox. which is scary in its own right
They do the lead-in every night still I think. A friend got the tix, but apparently there's a long waiting list - the studios are pretty small.
Stewart is right in that O'Reilly has mellowed out a bit lately. I think it has much to do with Obama being president now, and having been criticized for "shouting" people down, or interrupting. At least when O's interviews aren't live, or edited for show time restrictions, he doesn't have to interrupt as much to keep people from blabbering off topic.
O'Reilly edited a 45 minute interview into about 10. If course a lot is going to be cut out, I thought they did it somewhat fairly. It was a lot more interesting to watch the whole thing, especially getting to hear Stewart when hes not explicitly entertaining an audience.
It's crazy. While waiting for the 2nd part of the interview, I snooped around O'Reilly's recent videos on his site, and his viewers are asking if Obama is a socialist, a foreigner etc. and O'Reilly is telling them that's rubbish, there's no conspiracy, Obama's just a typical liberal. I think O'Reilly actually respects Obama, especially after Obama did an interview with him (while he's mentioned a few times how McCain, Palin snubbed him). O'Reilly criticizes Obama of course, but he tends to place more of the blame on the other democrats than Obama.
The full thing on the Fox site: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4003531/entire-jon-stewart-interview/?playlist_id=86923
I thought Bill O'Reilly was classier than this. He was so overt in trying to patronize and belittle Stewart throughout. Props to Stewart for handling it as intelligently as he did -- I imagine if Jimmy Kimmel had been the one in that chair, O'Reilly would have had to jettison the entire interview after Kimmel ripped him a new one.
It is quite sad that denying Obama is a socialist/foreigner now deems you level headed as a Republican/right-winger/Fox News analyst/what have you.
O'Reilly's no fool to out-Glen Glen Beck. If you place a homely chick among an ugly and a fat one, who would you choose?
"If you place a homely chick among an ugly and a fat one, who would you choose?" the one with the best personality of course
I've heard O'Reilly say several times that he actually likes Obama as a person. he just differs in politics.
Stewart puts unedited interviews that could be controversial on his website, too, such as the Lou Dobbs one pseudo-recently.
I know I was replying to the OP's gripe about O'Reilly editing the on-air version of the interview when Stewart edits his on-air interviews too. Not accusing Stewart of doing anything bad
