The gossip rag's take on the Crossfire show with Jon Stewart

[MsUSA]

CNN's Tucker Carlson is still swatting at "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart in the wake of their angry on-air clash on "Crossfire" Friday night.
The conservative commentator yesterday described Stewart's behavior as "bizarre" on the program — during which a stone-cold serious Stewart bashed "Crossfire," called Carlson a "d- -k" and made fun of his trademark bow tie.

What's more, Stewart stayed an hour and a half after taping ended to continue haranguing Carlson and co-host Paul Begala. Eventually, a CNN director said Stewart had to leave the set, which was to be used for a taping of "Anderson Cooper 360."

After the show was over, "I gave him my cellphone and said, 'Call me any time when you wanna talk about how evil we are,' " Carlson told PAGE SIX. "But then he was waiting back in the green room. He was sitting back there telling us how we were destroying civic life in this country and how bad we are. I had dinner reservations so I finally split, but he stayed there lecturing Begala and our producers.

"It was like a really bad freshman survey course," Carlson fumed. "Just one long lecture. Not a single joke was told. People just don't want to be who they are. Every actor wants to be a director. It's not good enough for Barbra Streisand to star in 'Yentl.' She has to be a foreign policy expert, too."

Carlson continued, "We've had a lot of hostile guests, but calling me a d- -k or making fun of my bow tie is not gonna rattle my cage. It's not like I haven't heard that before. I would think he would have had something more clever to say."

The trouble started on Friday's show when Stewart accused Carlson and Begala of "partisan hackery" and declared: "You have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably."

Carlson fired back, "You need to get a job at a journalism school, I think." "You need to go to one," Stewart retorted.

Carlson complained that, for a comedian, Stewart wasn't being very funny. "Come on," he said. "Be funny." "No," Stewart snapped. "I'm not going to be your monkey."

Carlson chided Stewart — who recently said he will vote for John Kerry — for lobbing softball questions when the Democrat appeared on "The Daily Show" last month. Later, when Carlson told Stewart he was "more fun" on his Comedy Central show, Stewart retorted that Carlson was "just as big of a d- -k" on "Crossfire."

Stewart did not return calls.

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[shoelace414]

1. what? the NY Post taking Carlson's side?

[mikehiggins]

4. Yeah, that's a surprise, especially to us New Yorkers

A frequent pleasure I get around here is telling the telemarketers that push that rag that I don't have a bird cage to line so I have no use for it whatsoever.

Garbage through and through.

[Rose Siding]

2. "Stewart snapped"???

They didn't watch it. Jon didn't "snap" that line. He said it almost lazily. Big Fat Liars.

[Demit]

11. yes, more echo chamber stuff. The Post should've streamed the video first

before making its secondhand characterizations. Tucker Carlson was caught intellectually flatfooted. Jon Stewart so outclasses him, and it was SO MUCH FUN to watch. It was like a daddy tiger slapping around a little baby cub.

TC is like Bush with his delayed reaction comebacks. Hahahahahahaha!

[fob]

3. I guess I have shouted loud enough for Lil Fucker to hear me...

Carlson continued, "We've had a lot of hostile guests, but calling me a dick or making fun of my bow tie is not gonna rattle my cage. It's not like I haven't heard that before.

[dorktv]

5. Maybe Carlson did not think it was funny but

Stewart was quite humourous AND honest.

[stlchic]

6. "Not one single joke was told?"!!!!!

I thought Crossfire was a news/current events "debate show", not a comic showcase.



Oh, and "People just don't want to be who they are."?!? And we are supposed to believe that YOU (Carlson) know who Jon Stewart really is? If you had any idea, then maybe you would have been more prepared for him handing you your ass on national television.

:wtf:

[JHB]

7. Seems like JS DID rattle his cage...

...if he's continuing to harp on about it.

Ducker still misses JS's point: He's on a COMEDY SHOW. He follow puppets making prank calls, fer godssake! If YOU were actually airing a political debate show, you wouldn't have even had him on!

[dorktv]

9. Oh did widdle wucker get his weelings hurt?

[txindy]

8. Tucker needs to read his show's own transcript to see all of the laughter

his ignorance generated from the audience. The schmuck. :eyes:

[Norquist Nemesis]

10. Typical response when they can't defend themselves...

put it out there that the critic has mental problems. So now Tucker Carlson has a degree in psychiatry and is a credible person to comment on another person's behavior as "bizarre".

These people are sickening.