Jon Stewart the most trusted person in american news. Which is interesting because he isn't a news anchor and his show, The Daily Show, is hosted on Comedy Central.
Anyway, some of my favorite moments.
On October 15, 2004 Jon Stewart was a guest at political talk show Crossfire, an opportunity he used to tell the hosts that he mentioned among friends, in private and occasionally on TV, that he considers their show bad. Hilarity ensues. The show was canceled shortly afterwards.
Quotes:
- "I didn't realize [...] that the news organizations look to Comedy Central for their cues on integrity
- "You're on CNN! The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls! What is wrong with you?"
On October 2nd 2007, Chris Matthews, host of NBCs Hardball, just came to the Daily Show to promote his new Book "Life's a campaign". To Matthews surprise Jon Stewart read and analyzed the book ... and enthusiastically disagreed with him.
Quotes:
- Stewart: "I'm not trashing your book. I'm trashing your philosophy of life."
- Chris Matthews: "This is the worst interview I've ever had in my life!!!"
Jim Cramer is the host of Mad Money, a finance television program on CNBC. Its main focus is investment and speculation, particularly in publicly traded stocks, presented in an entertaining, infantile way. Right before and during the financial crisis, Cramer and CNBC in general vehemently recommended the very stocks that lost all their worth during that time. Jon Stewart reported on this, got subsequently feuded on, then got to interview Cramer in his show.
Quotes:
- After rolling a video of Cramer explaining how he illegaly manipulated the stock market for short term profits: "I understand you wanna make finance entertaining ... but it's not a fucking game. I can't really tell you how angry that makes me. [...] What this tells me is: You all knew."
- "Maybe we could [...] start getting back to the fundamentals of reporting - and I can go back to making fart noises and funny faces"