If anyone can do this it’s Jon Stewart. I know he’s mentioned on several occasions that he doesn’t have any political ambitions whatsoever, and he’s been true to his word. But sometimes circumstances allow great men to take great leaps, and on rare occasions, do great things.
The fact that The Hill is already running a piece trying to play him off as a comedy star from an era that has all but vanished due to the corporate landscape, is all I need to know to believe what he has to say. They’re already trying to downplay and dismiss the results before they’ve occurred.
What are the terms of the interview? Will it be in person in front of an audience, via webcast, in front of the burning reichstag, etc…
Zelenskyy was also a comedian first.
People forget that popular comedians are usually incredibly intelligent. Conan graduated MCL from Harvard.
Yeah, frankly, its hard to be a great comedian, while also an idiot.
Which is why conservative “comedy” is just a bunch of slurs. They can’t come up with actual jokes.
To be fair, Conan is not typical, and his brain needs to be studied by scientists after he dies lol
Damn I didn’t know Harvard issued medial cruciate ligaments
Maybe Jon can tucker carlson elon.
I rewatch that crossfire clip regularly. It’s my happy place.
What are the terms of the interview?
Musk just wants it to air unedited. Which means no matter what they do, he would be able to claim it was edited if things don’t go his way and he ends up looking like (an even bigger) fool.
So do a single camera and air it live.
Do multiple cameras, but display them all continuously, and then do all the tricks people use to try to make it obvious no editing was done and put them in the foreground and background of all the angles.
Nah…He’d still play the it was edited bullshit. The only thing that is nearly impossible to defend is “it was edited while being played live”. There, his embarrassments are his own, and they’re very very hard to downplay to any other causes.
Attach a scope to that “camera.”
Just shows how stupid Elon is. Stewart is an accomplished interviewer, with the backup of being a comedian. Watch Stewart keep his composure after smashing his coffee cup the other night. He assessed the cut, laughed it off, and finished the monologue instantly. Elmo doesn’t have the composure to handle a problem like that.
Was that a trick cup and fake blood, or the real deal?
Was real, they taped him up during the commercial to finish the interview. Probably just a minor cut, but at his age he’s probably on blood pressure, or heart meds, so small cuts bleed like crazy.
Pigs will fly and my shit will turn to gold before he sits in front of Jon Stewart live, and or unedited
Hopefully it’s on the podcast where he can go into detail.
I have only listened to the podcast for a year but holy shit i die not expect how much stewert softballs his guests and never argues anymore when they are spewing bullshit. I started getting agitated for example when the old white house press secretary came in saying “everything is fine, no crisis here, it’s really Obama’s fault that trump and musk are dismantling the government, dems need better press” and he just nods along. It’s so strange because I feel like that wasn’t the case 15 years ago or whatever.
The only one he pushed back on recently in my memory was Chris Christie.
I do not have high hopes for this upcoming one. It is going to be like Jake Paul vs mike Tyson, nobody wins and it is just for show.
You know, I was thinking the exact same thing when seeing this headline. I’d be interested in the conversation, but he’d probably just softball everything.
Idk. Seeing how hard he worked for the first responders in NYC, he might just shoot the guy to save the rest of us.
I doubt Musk goes in front of a lot of people at all anymore.
Musk appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week. I assume there were a decent number of people there (but maybe not a number of decent people).
And his appearance was so incredibly cringy. I have read through the half of that transcript on verge and omg dude literally has brain damage.
I have a bunch of highly functioning k addicts around me and it’s exactly the same way they speak when binging on K a bit too much. Just stammering and these random bleeps of out of context thoughts constantly seep into their conversations.
Cringey doesn’t even capture it for me. Seeing him with that stupid chainsaw and especially the way he said that chainsaw for bureaucracy comment made me feel disgusted in some way I didn’t really think was possible.
This laminated faced fucking Nazi wannabe-autist illegal immigrant piece of shit should be expelled into the sun using one of his own giant space x rocket penises.
Prefer him to be on a collision course with that Tesla he launched into orbit. Two birds, one rocket.
Don’t they have strict gun free things around cpac too?
He’ll find a way to back out. Musk is stupid, but not that stupid.
He’s also extremely overconfident and narcissistic
Well, that’s true, but the fact that he said, “I’ll only do it if they air it unedited!” makes me think he thought they would say, “no,” and he’d be able to decline while saving face. My gut tells me he’ll make up another excuse now. I’d love to be wrong, though!
I’d expect either escalating levels of demanding ways to absolutely guarantee it couldn’t be edited in hopes of unreasonable.
Ultimately it could be like the Zuckerberg fight, where Musk just ghosted the conversation when he couldn’t figure a way to nope out of it gracefully.
Remember when he challenged Zuckerberg to a fight? There are limits.
I would have loved to see that fight happen. Both are human garbage, but Zuckerberg is apparently a high level BJJ competitor. I think it would have been pretty one-sided.
They said that about Rod Blagojevich, and the desperate need for attention is what pushed the truly irrational decision to do an interview.
Still, he might get cold feet if he expects a hostile audience.
Rod Blagojevich
Why I’m not surprised that the current president pardoned someone that tried to sell a seat to the us senate
Holy shit, I just realized that Trump commuted his sentence
Well yeah, he was a contestant on the president’s reality game show.
Be sure to provide appropriate furniture.
The chances of him being sober for this are next to 0
Chances of him not attending are also close to 0.
Think you mean 100, as a chance of not attending being 0 would mean he would be attending.
And you mean 1 not 100
I think in the statement I was responding to, you could infer the chance being a percentage change, in which case my suggestion/correction would be valid. 1 could be valid if you covert percentage to decimal notation, but that just seems weird and unnatural.
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Stewart is smart and funny, but he’s nice. He’s going to be pleasant and welcoming, smiling and cracking jokes with one of the evilest men alive. Very good comedian against a very polished, smiling Nazi.
This is not an easy match like Stewart against two unprepared lightweights (Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala) on Crossfire. Elon Musk, for all his myriad faults, is not stupid, and will be well prepped.
I’m not excited about it. Too much could go wrong.
What about Musk makes you think he’s polished? The time he randomly accused a diver of being a pedophile because he got his feelings hurt? Or when he told his customers to go fuck themselves? When he did a Nazi salute?
The dude is the the most idiotic and unpolished famous person ever.
What about Musk makes you think he’s polished?
Hmmmm. Nothing, I guess. ‘Polished’ is probably some unwanted prejudice baked into me, thinking a rich bastard must know how to present himself as businesslike to bankers and other such bastards, but sweet jeebers maybe you’re right. I’ve certainly never seen Musk be anything but an unwiped ass.
He’s spoken live several times recently and “polished” is the last word I’d use to describe him.
Reminder that he got fired as CEO of one of the few companies he legitimately founded, twice.
Anyone that thinks you have to come off as “polished” or intelligent to bankers and businessmen in order to get money out of them is clueless.
That was 21 years ago! And where others might expect someone to slow down, I think Jon Stewart’s spending all the time since then writing, interviewing, producing content, and fighting in Congress will suit him well. I think we’ll see a meaner, hungrier Stewart.
I really hope we get a chance to see it.
I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really hope you’re right.
I’ll throw in a few reallys of my own. Really really really.
And my really!
Go listen to his recent podcast interview with Raheem Jeffries where he just let’s Jeffries gaslight him for an hour. It was embarrassing.
I’ll have to take your word for it. I struggle with podcasts.
Musk will never wear a bow tie again.
Jon Stewart regularly hosts chuds like Bill O’Reliy. The reason these people keep going on his show is because he hasn’t held feet to fire.
Stewart is steeped in neoliberalisim and both-sidesism, don’t be surprised if he pitches softballs.
It seems pretty obvious that you’re putting Stewart in the same camp as Bill Maher.
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yes, this is how interviewers must conduct interviews in order to have guests agree to be interviewed, to some extent
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Did you see his latest interview with Bill O’Reilly though? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7qZE4C_neo
Or famously, Jon Stewart on Crossfire? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
EDIT Also in the Crossfire one your exact concern is addressed by Jon directly
EDIT again, also his “both-sidesism” seems to be being critical of both MAGA right wing nonsense and neoliberal capitalist nonsense, but I have not seen much criticism from him of progressives. If you have some examples, I’d watch them. So I don’t see how that he is “steeped in neoliberalism” because he is often critcal of it.
I’d point at his excellent interview with AOC not even a month ago: https://youtu.be/eeheoxWzf2o
Puppets are very serious business.
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Just like the cage match he had with Zuck.
This’d be much much better. Even Joe Average can see muskrat is physically unfit, but his intellectual dishonesty is much easier to cover up.
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“So we wanted to start this interview off with a bang.”
Trump too. Hell let’s not stop there. All 1% needs to gtfo
That would be the single greatest moment of televisual history
Seriously. I honestly hope that this is the outcome.
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Don’t care, upvoting anyways
I hope the security is light.
cowardly mod censoring for “civility” over the call for a righteous fight against fascists.
Stewart is training his wordplay right now like a Rocky montage.
Unedited interviews are bold, but let’s see if Musk handles real scrutiny without edits.
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Just keep his security goons away from the production facilities and equipment. In fact, they should hire three times the amount of security Musk has. Just remember, they have been deputized by the U.S. Marshall Service, so they have the power to arrest people.
I’m pretty sure every interview is segmented to run ads and if it goes badly then that will be his complaint. See! they cut it! They went to commercial but that’s when I Said Very Smart Things™ that They Don’t Want You To Hear™©® so I’m suing them to take the video down.
you best believe jon is willing and able to release raw video of the entire thing.
my money is on musk backing out - the same way he slunk off with his tail between his legs over the absolutely stupid “mma match” with that fool of a zuck(erberg)
I wish he’d followed through. I am almost certain that even if Zuckerbot had set himself to stun, it would have been too much for Musk’s potato body to handle.
Pretty sure they still upload “full interviews” to youtube
