Once again, Stewart and O'Reilly sit down for a jovial and gentlemanly conversation. If there's anyone on the "left" who needs to teach a clinic on managing O'Reilly's on-camera persona, it's Jon Stewart. The only problem is that it's not really a talent one can impart to others. Without question, he is the undisputed master of sword-and-shield debate. In his case, exploiting the unique power of humor to placate and disarm an adversary before delivering shrewd points of argument. O'Reilly needs to feel in constant control of the conversation, and Stewart dances back-and-forth over this requirement like James Brown in a third encore.
As it is a favorite topic of this blog, I also love to see Stewart press the issue of narrative.
Here's the full, unedited interview which, of course, was only made available online:
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