War of words rages on between Jon Stewart, Chris Wallace

[steven johnson]

The gloves are off now.

Comedy Central late-night host Jon Stewart and Chris Wallace, the Fox News Channel Sunday Beltway-show host, are now officially in a death match to see who will get in the last word.

Still looking ominous-cloud-bank-like, Stewart reminded viewers that when he was on Wallace’s show, he declared that FNC viewers were the most consistently misinformed in every poll. A political fact-checking Web site took issue with that and “said I really shouldn’t have said ‘every poll’ — it was just ‘most,’ ” Stewart noted.

“Any editorial judgment in news, or schools, or movies, that doesn’t favor the conservative view is elitism and is evidence of liberal bias,” Stewart said. “Whereas any editorial judgment that favors the conservative view is evidence of merely fairness and done to protect them from liberal bias.

“And, if you criticize Fox for this game, guess what that’s evidence of? How right they are about how persecuted they are. It is airtighter than an otter’s . . . . They can’t lose. But you know what this whole ‘victim thing’ makes Fox? Well, perhaps this term a friend of mine used once to describe the current presidential administration is most apt . . . ”

Cut to a clip from September 2009 of Wallace telling FNC’s Bill O’Reilly: “They are the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington.”


War of words rages on between Jon Stewart, Chris Wallace

[stevenleser]

1. The only person who could possibly take on Stewart and win is Colbert. Everyone else loses big.

You might as well give up before you started. Chris Wallace is certainly not up to taking on Stewart.

[Webster Green]

2. Chris is in way over his head.

He's so unwatchable it's a joke. :rofl:

[steelmania75]

4. Now Fox News has unleashed their arsenal accusing Stewart of being racist for doing a segment on

Herman Cain. Stewart countered tonight with a montage of all the people he has mimicked.

[Webster Green]

5. Jon is equal opportunity when it comes to exposing bullshit.

He's every bit as relentless on democrats, liberals...whomever, as he is on rethugs.

[ashling]

3. "Still looking ominous-cloud-bank-like," ???

:shrug:

[Kaleva]

6. I think the author got a bit carried away there.

[Javaman]

7. chris lost the moment he took back his "flake" comment...

lost not with Stewart, but what ever little microscopic shred of integrity he ever had.

now this overblown half wit living off his dad's reputation now wants to go toe to toe with his intellectual superior?

Like they say, "never bring a knife to a gun fight", caution mr. wallace, "never come unarmed to a battle of wits".

[Bake]

8. Word to Fox: Don't fuck with a smart man who has his own show.

My money's on Stewart.

Bake

[justiceischeap]

9. Like Keith Olbermann?

Part of Keith's problem at M$NBC was his rivalry with Faux and O'Reilly getting his viewers to contact sponsors.