Jon Stewart on CNN's Crossfire.

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UPDATED: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 05:12
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FIREFLEW

Tuesday, January 11, 2005 11:37 PM

What's great is that the reason cited Jon Stewart's interview . It worked! He did stop.

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REEQUEEN

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:49 AM

Bwahahahaha!

That is all.

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SOUPCATCHER

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 3:29 AM

Kevin280: Welcome to fireflyfans! It's always good to see a first time poster around here. I hope you enjoy the time spent with fellow browncoats. It's also nice to see old threads revived so thanks for bumping this one. It had gotten a bit dusty over the past few months.

I haven't finished Jon Stewart's book yet (just got it for Christmas and I've been picking it up periodically to read for a few minutes and get a good chuckle) but it's nice to see that you have. I knew I was going to enjoy it when I opened the front cover and saw the off-center "This Book is the Property of:" textbook stamp that was on every book I had in grade school. Especially the last line of the instructions, "3. We are fully aware that Dick Hertz, I.P. Freely, and Heywood Jablome are not real people, so please exclude them." It's the little things .

Connorflynn: Yeah, that's too bad about Tucker . It sounds like he wanted to move to more of an anchor job and failed his screen test - at least at CNN:

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excerpted from Reuters article dated 5 January at http://tinyurl.com/4jq4s
Carlson's fate as a CNN personality had been the subject of discussion for months, ever since he told his bosses in April that he didn't want to continue as a "Crossfire" co-host, which he had been since 1999. It heated up in recent weeks as he was courted by MSNBC and given the chance to substitute for "NewsNight" anchor Aaron Brown last week.

But CNN-U.S. president Jonathan Klein told Carlson on Wednesday that he wouldn't be offered another contract at the news channel.

"Tucker was ready to go on to the next phase of his career, and I respect that," Klein said. "We are not a place where he can realize his ambition to anchor a nightly show."

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DTUCK

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 5:12 AM

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Originally posted by Connorflynn:
In case you didn't know..Tucker Carlson has been fired by CNN.

AaaaHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

I try not to get into politics... and I'm not attacking Rebublicans or Democrats, just Tucker Carlson.

He's an extremely unlikable individual.

I feel that CNN's status as a 'world-leader in news' was degraded by his presence. Had he calmly explained his ideas/opinions, and let others get their fair say, I would have been more likely to listen to what he had to say, and might even be the slightest bit saddened by his getting FIRED.

As it is though, he was an obnoxious prick who never let anyone get a word in edgewise, and always tried to out-shout his opponents, rather than defeat them by having a more sensible viewpoint.

(Edited to say: Maybe if Jon Stewart is in a forgiving mood, he can hook Carlson up with a job on Crossballs... hehehe

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