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'The Daily Show' accepts Musk's terms for interview with Stewart: 'We'd be delighted'
(www.usatoday.com)
I hope the security is light.
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Unedited interviews are bold, but let’s see if Musk handles real scrutiny without edits.
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"I will do it if the show airs unedited."
That's the best outcome. Therefore he will be a scaredy musk and elon his way out of the show. Hopefully it will be like his attempt to elon his way out of buying shitter and we will get a full unedited interview and at least a couple of people might realize he is so full of shit and a damned junky.
Edit: corrected autocorrect and my own spelling.
Make it live to make sure everyone sees it
I hope the audience boos Musk when he walks out looking like the loser he is.
I wonder if it can even be a live interview or if jon will have to do an offsite recorded interview like all of the ones on his pevious show.
Elon won't do it. He's a pussy. He will back out and start calling Stewart a pedo on social media.
Retarded is his new favorite word.
Every accusation by musk is an admission
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He might convince Trump to add tariffs on the Daily Show.
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He'll find a way to back out. Musk is stupid, but not that stupid.
He's also extremely overconfident and narcissistic
Well, that's true, but the fact that he said, "I'll only do it if they air it unedited!" makes me think he thought they would say, "no," and he'd be able to decline while saving face. My gut tells me he'll make up another excuse now. I'd love to be wrong, though!
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They said that about Rod Blagojevich, and the desperate need for attention is what pushed the truly irrational decision to do an interview.
Still, he might get cold feet if he expects a hostile audience.
Rod Blagojevich
Why I'm not surprised that the current president pardoned someone that tried to sell a seat to the us senate
cowardly mod censoring for “civility” over the call for a righteous fight against fascists.
Stewart is training his wordplay right now like a Rocky montage.
Here’s how it’s going to go down:
- Jon will ask pointed questions.
- Elmo will respond with rhetoric, lies, half-truths, incendiary nonsense, &/or dumb jokes.
- Jon will call him out on his bullshit.
- Elmo will respond with more rhetoric, lies, half-truths, incendiary nonsense, &/or dumb jokes.
- Jon will be appalled at Musk’s lack of integrity, ethics, intelligence, or humility.
- The next day, right-wing pundits will spin it as a victory for Musk - saying he made Stewart “speechless and dumbfounded” with his amazing performance.
You forgot
- musk buys wherever the Daily Show is produced
- musk fires Jon
- "The Daily Show, with Sean Hannity"
I mean, Jon Stewart and maybe some of the writers are the value there. Even if you imagined that happening, he can just go do a new show.
Something like Twitter takes a lot of doing to build; network effect favors incumbents.
Yep-- apple didn't want Jon to talk about China (and maybe a couple of other things) on the show they were paying him for. He left, started a new show (slash podcast), and got back on the Daily Show.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/20/media/jon-stewart-apple/index.html
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We know how Jon handles this exact situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCuIxIJBfCY
Musk will be roasted and embarrassed.
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Have you seen the current speaking ability of Musk? I'd be surprised if he produces a single coherent sentence.
I hope Jon Stewart really pushes him through his filler speech and reveals Musk as stupid as he actually is.
Tho I still dont think this will happen. Musk would have to be incredibly stupid to accept this, like even more stupid than he actually is.
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Place your bets on muskrat chickening out.
Stewart is going to rip him a structurely superfluous behind.
If he doesn't chicken out, he might storm out mid interview when John absolutely stomps on every misleading or false thing he says and pushes him to actually define his role in DOGE which could open him up to legal trouble (if that term meant anything anymore)
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Jon would "win" if it happened, but it won't matter.
After seeing Trump utterly dog walked across the stage in his debate performance and still win the election, I have lost any remaining faith that some great Aaron Soorkin-esque moment will change a fucking thing in this country.
It would be entertaining though; so that'll be fun.
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Wouldn't it be funny if they had 2 guests. Elon Musk and Bill Burr.
Elon comes out without his kid and the Mario Bros theme starts playing
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Pigs will fly and my shit will turn to gold before he sits in front of Jon Stewart live, and or unedited
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If anyone can do this it's Jon Stewart. I know he's mentioned on several occasions that he doesn't have any political ambitions whatsoever, and he's been true to his word. But sometimes circumstances allow great men to take great leaps, and on rare occasions, do great things.
The fact that The Hill is already running a piece trying to play him off as a comedy star from an era that has all but vanished due to the corporate landscape, is all I need to know to believe what he has to say. They're already trying to downplay and dismiss the results before they've occurred.
What are the terms of the interview? Will it be in person in front of an audience, via webcast, in front of the burning reichstag, etc...
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I would like Stewart to do this to Musk:
The headline makes it sound like they were in talks with each other. Musk gave his "terms" to a random Twitter user. I seriously doubt this will happen. Stew beef would completely humiliate Musk and his mediocre white guy confidence wouldn't save him.
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