Mr. Stewart later acknowledged that Mr. Yoo had bested him, which didn’t happen very often. In that sense, the interview was an outlier. But it wasn’t a coincidence. Mr. Stewart had gone in lazy, relying on a caricature, and seemingly unprepared for the thoughtful conservative sitting in his guest chair.
NY Times "It shows how gifted Jon Stewart is that his best moment happened on someone else’s show. He appeared in 2004 on “Crossfire,”
a CNN yelling program, and asked the hosts to take seriously their
responsibility to public understanding by having useful conversations
instead of shouting matches."Liberals turn out to be just as prone to their own forms of intolerance, ignorance and bias. But the beliefs are comforting to many. They give their bearers a sense of intellectual and even moral superiority. And they affect behavior. . . . "This sense of superiority is hardly the only cause of our polarized public discourse, but it sure doesn’t help."
And polarized it is, indeed. In fact I feel an intense dislike between both sides that is manifested in many comments and tweets on current events. TD
