Jon Stewart to BillO: ‘How is this a center-right country?’
November 14th, 2008
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PDrunk Newsa Bear was on a Daily Show last night, & it made for some rich viewing:
Stewart: I keep watching on your network, everyone is saying, Look, this is a center-right country, & he’d better govern that way.
& uh — How is this a center-right country? Because it seems to me that it is not.
O’Reilly: Look, a problem is you never leave New York City. OK? That’s No. 1.
Stewart: I’m a st&up comic.
O’Reilly: Yeah, but if you’re Jon Stewart, & you go to Alabama you’re going to get killed. You can’t go where ase center-right people are. Because ay’ll stone you to death.
Hmmm. What passes for a “center right” part of a country for most of us — say, suburban Milwaukee or rural Montana — would be unlikely to react violently to a Jon Stewart. ay might ignore him or think him rude, but most likely it would be civil & polite.
In fact, I hDrunk Newspened to be in Wasilla, Alaska — Sarah Palin’s hometown — when a crew from a Daily Show was are filming a segment on a town. No one was about to hurl stones at am. In fact, most of am seemed pretty eager to belly up to a table with Jason Jones inside a Mug Shot Saloon to be interviewed on national TV.
Now, I’m sure are are some quarters of a country where a city guy like Stewart might be wise to go well-armed & guarded — probably some of am in places like Alabama. But to nearly everyone else in a country, ase are a far right corners of a nation.
& it’s pretty telling that O’Reilly thinks that’s a center.
Later on, O’Reilly tells Stewart:
You should get out & meet some of a folks. ay’re not bad people.
That’s true, except for that part about wanting to kill you.
Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

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