John Bolton is on tonight. This can only end well.
I’m sitting here wondering about the OP. What’s so special about a long-haired has-been pop singer being on TDS? Then it hit me. John Bolton. :smack:
Okay that was a good show. A very good show.
Excellent interview and I liked the McCain piece and the friendly ribbing of Rudy Giuliani.
Jim
How can we be coalition partners if we can’t be friends
How can we start over when the fighting never ends
How can we make war if we can’t make amends
How can we be lovers if we ca-an’t be, can’t be friends
I’m pleased to be your straight man. 
Bolton: “Bureaucracy” :: Psychlo: “Leverage”
Did the band play “I am the Walrus” as Bolten walked out?
It’s 3/20. Not 3/21. I had a big blonde moment when I looked at my TiVo to see if it had recorded the “3/21” episode and it hadn’t, and I had a panicky moment of “why didn’t it record!? What could have happened??” before realizing what was up. D’oh!
I wish the audience would shut their damn mouths and let the guest answer.
Agreed, they were extra annoying tonight as I think they found the guest extra despicable. I suspect they would be more polite with Charlie Manson. 
Thread title edited to 3/20 since the 3/21 show ain’t happened yet. This is one of those daylight savings time things, right? Move the clock back a day?
I find it amazing how gracious Jon Stewart is with guests he disagrees with. He admonished the audience a number of times. Truly a classy guy.
There was a bit of a conflation, by both parties, about two similar but not identical issues surrounding the executive branch.
The first is about how the president should approach agencies and laws that he doesn’t agree with. Bolton sees nothing wrong with appointing people, such as himself, who are hostile to the institutions to head or interact with them. I differ (the president should enforce all lawful institutions to the best of his ability until he can persuade congress to abolish them), but I can see the logic there.
The second is the question of whether the president should use the power of executive to further his personal power or the power of his party. That is, not just to further his plans to serve the best interests of the nation as he sees them, but for purely political reasons. This is what’s being alleged in the US Attorneys case. There’s no defense for it if that’s true, and the evidence I’ve seen suggests that this is so.
That was a lovely tennis match. I too wish the audience would shut their holes - I want to watch two very intelligent, oppositional men discussing things that I’m interested in learning about (my husband was a poli sci minor - shows like these spark very informative debates in our house).
It would be clever if the show had Letterman-esque cues for the guests- it would have been funny if they had played “You Haven’t Heard Of Me, But I’m Chris Dodd” when Dodd appeared on the show.
Kudos to John Bolton (there’s something I never thought I’d say for anything that didn’t involve a splashy televised ritual seppuku) who had to know how beloved he’d be by the audience. While I love Stewart I actually think he could have done a bit more to silence the audience (even if off-camera “Please don’t applaud everything I say”) and should have cut out the middle sketch to extend the interview, because this was actually a very serious political-philosophical issue.
And WHY AREN’T MORE NEWS SHOW LIKE THE DAILY SHOW IN THE PEOPLE THEY INTERVIEW AND THE LEVEL OF DISCUSSION! I don’t remember the last time I saw as many authors of great new books interviewed on CNN, FOX, MSNBC, etc…
I wonder what Stewart could do to Ann Coulter. There of course there’s no room for, expectation of, or need for civility, but she’s yet to have her ass handed to her like she deserves and I think he’s the most likely untouchable who could and would do it without being just a “Nah-ah!” pansy like Matt Lauer. My favorite FU to her was from Adam Carolla, who hit her where it really hurt by hanging up on her and denying her the airtime she feeds on.
She would not engage in a civil debate. The only thing he could do is shoot her.
The Bolton interview was okay. I thought Bolton’s “you’re wrong about history” crap was annoying, but other than that he presented his arguments as well as could be expected in the time allotted. It was sometimes hard to tell when they were talking about entrenched bureaucracy, and when they were talking about the congress. I did come away with the idea that Bolton is none too keen on checks and balances.
That would be so awesome.
Ditto this.
Last week when he interviewed Zbigniew Brzezinski it was one of the most fascinating 10 minutes I’ve seen in a while. So fascinating, in fact, that I bought the book (not the first time that has happened actually - maybe the 10th or 12th? That isn’t a bad record I dare say.). I’m sure people like this show up every once in a while on other news shows but I never seem to catch them. If I DO catch them, the discussion is rarely as good.
That was a really excellent interview. As with last night, I wish Jon Stewart would cut some other stuff and go to a longer interview when he has a good interview going. Maybe they could even extend the interview and show the extension on-line. I really is a shame.
He is at his best with political interviews. He excels at this like very few interviewers even in straight news.
Jim