I just watched the episode, and although Stewart as host calling one of his guests a motherf*cker is not really proper hosting etiquette, the real infraction was allowing Sullivan’s deeply uninformed and racially charged opinions to share the stage with people who have studied this both scholarly and professionally. The fault was in Stewart booking a bigot but somehow pretending to be above the likes of Donahue or Geraldo who used to book similar panels in the hopes of provoking a reaction. The other two panelists wisely refused to engage with Sullivan, which left Stewart as the only person to react. He did. He shouldn’t have.
This is why I cannot watch these talk shows anymore. I like Stewart and he’s among the best at what he does, but what he does isn’t helpful, and in the specific case of that panel discussion I didn’t find it either funny or entertaining. As a practical matter, obviously white people need to talk about racism, but no roomful of white people is ever going to solve the problem they/we historically created. As an equally practical matter, Sullivan should be called an ignorant motherf*cker wherever he goes, and he should never go on television again. On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 2:47 PM 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Sullivan retreated into the Substack universe shortly before the > 'intellectual dark web' was called a thing. > > I have noticed he has not been on Colbert in a while, possibly not since > The Colbert Report was still a thing. > > David > > On Saturday, April 2, 2022, 01:43:32 PM PDT, PGage <pga...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I didn’t know Andrew Sullivan was still a thing… > > On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 at 12:50 PM Kevin M. <drunkbastar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Andrew Sullivan whined about being ambushed on “The Problem with…” Stewart > pointed out on Twitter that Sullivan had been fully briefed in advance and > given the option to back out. > > > https://twitter.com/jonstewart/status/1510062716479672322?s=21&t=kZ3Dk8dsLkXPFGutdO5f_g > > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/192641084.617598.1648936069053%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/192641084.617598.1648936069053%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4ADbG_wHxWrPTCaYHeMsY7Y438KwCoXPxzcQ%2BaCZdYADA%40mail.gmail.com.
