Jon Stewart on Crossfire

Why HN readers recommended it

HN returns to it constantly as the definitive critique of adversarial TV punditry, still seen as relevant to polarized media and online discourse.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Alex Felker

Topic

political media criticism

Format

interview

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2009–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• After reading this, I don't think you understand what the Daily Show is. This is probably the best discussion about what the show is all about (note: crossfire was canceled almost immediately after this). [VIDEO]

• This is exactly what I thought about John Stewart during his epic debate with Tucker Carlson on Crossfire. It's so very worth watching again even if you've seen it multiple times. It really reminds people that John Stewart and Stephen Colbert really are only "characters" …

• In TFA, Brian Williams mentions Stewart's takedown of Cramer in an interview in which 'the odds were stacked against Jim Cramer'. This brought to mind a brilliant attack on the now defunct political show "Crossfire", in which Liberals battled Conservatives. In a nutshell, Stewart was …