# Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart to debate **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 18, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-and-jon-stewart-to-debate/635072 "2012-09-18T15:05:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-and-jon-stewart-to-debate/635072/1 "2012-09-18T15:05:50Z")
[I am giddy with anticipation.](http://www.therumble2012.com/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![CyclopticXander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@CyclopticXander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyclopticXander)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-and-jon-stewart-to-debate/635072/2 "2012-09-18T15:10:35Z")
They are going to make a killing with this, and it will certainly be more entertaining than the Presidential debates. I’d like to know which charities half the proceeds are going to, but I’d get it if the proceeds went to NAMBLA so I guess it doesn’t really matter. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-and-jon-stewart-to-debate/635072/3 "2012-09-18T16:54:26Z")
It sucks you have to pay to watch…maybe the day after it airs it will be free to watch? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-and-jon-stewart-to-debate/635072/4 "2012-09-18T17:14:52Z")
How tough do you think Stewart will be? He’s usually pretty amiable and easygoing when O’Reilly comes to the Daily Show. Jon Stewart so rarely goes beyond the safety of his “I’m a fake journalist” shield, and I wish he would do it more often. It’s so much fun when he gets his lather up. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-and-jon-stewart-to-debate/635072/5 "2012-09-18T17:38:58Z")
I hope it’s in a format where they have equal time talk time. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-and-jon-stewart-to-debate/635072/6 "2012-09-18T17:47:03Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > It sucks you have to pay to watch…maybe the day after it airs it will be free to watch? I don’t know about legally, but it will almost certainly be available somewhere afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-and-jon-stewart-to-debate/635072/7 "2012-09-18T17:48:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > How tough do you think Stewart will be? He’s usually pretty amiable and easygoing when O’Reilly comes to the Daily Show. > > Jon Stewart so rarely goes beyond the safety of his “I’m a fake journalist” shield, and I wish he would do it more often. It’s so much fun when he gets his lather up. Actually they both hide behind the “I’m a fake journalist” shield. Stewart just does it openly. He’ll match O’Reilly, he won’t go for the kill, nor will O’Reilly. These guys aren’t going to kill the Golden Goose. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-and-jon-stewart-to-debate/635072/8 "2012-09-18T18:49:24Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > I hope it’s in a format where they have equal time talk time. Good luck measuring the interruptions! I appreciate that these guys seem to genuinely like talking to each other, but Stewart makes a lot of effort to be reasonable and O’Reilly usually can’t acknowledge that the other guy has a point, so that puts something of a limit on how good a discussion they can have.