The appearance of Jon Stewart on Crossfire was initially greeted with plenty of laughter as people were obviously expecting him to be there as a funnyman and to promote
his new book with smiles and laughter. He surprised hosts Paul Begala (The ostensible liberal) and Tucker Carlson (The conservative - "
'How old are you?' 'Thirty-five,' Tucker answered. Stewart nodded. 'And you wear a bow tie.'") by being serious and berating them for running a show that was all
fluff and filler with guests essentially screaming at each other.
IFilm.com featured a clip called "Jon Stewart's Brutal Exchange with CNN Host" that collected over 670,000 hits by 11:00 Tuesday night. Crossfire
normally draws 615,000 viewers. Other download sites bring the total number of hits to
over a million. Amazingly, Carlson was
claiming the match as a victory for CNN, which many other viewers claim was a resounding victory by Stewart.
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