Jon Stewart's Extended Interview with Lou Dobbs

Get Lou (and for that matter some of the other interesting guests) back on again and cover some more topics. While a few minutes is more than enough for some guests, there are others that have an interesting view or are worthy of a debate.

I like the extended interviews, I just wish they were longer. Traditional TV was built around fixed time frames – I'm glad the internet is removing some of these constraints.

I like guests that have opposing views, provided they are coherent, articulate and consider their answers.

"It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans." Genius!

What "hard left turn" is Obama pushing us toward? Bernie Sanders doesn't hold a cabinet post. Tim Geithner is someone a socialist would appoint?

Dobbs enunciates perfectly what many people are feeling.

Obama and the democratic congress were elected on the idea that they would somehow change what came before– the arrogance, the disrespect for opposing viewpoints, the smugness that comes with the conviction that when you win an election, you have a mandate to press forward on your party's agenda.

Now we are seeing the same type of rhetoric and policy from the democrats. It's disheartening and indeed frightening to those who would consider themselves independent.

That's why the ideas of less government, revolution, etc. are gaining traction– we gave the one side a shot and they blew it, and now the other is botching the job as well.

I just hope that Obama is savvy enough to recognize that the will of the party is not necessarily the will of the entire nation. Many folks voted as a reaction to the last eight years and latched on to a charismatic man who represented change- not because they suddenly had a change of heart and now love the idea of spending ourselves into the ground.

We don't want arrogant government, we want a reasonable one.

This was the 1st time I'd ever really listened to Dobbs (I don't have cable and just got broadband). My impression from the MSM was that he was a bit of a nutjob, but I found myself agreeing with him most of the time in this interview. If he is serious about being militant for the middle, then more power to him!

It amazes me how Jon Stewart can simultaneously claim respect for someone and not be decent enough to let them complete their argument.

I understand this in the normal format as there are time limitations but watching the "extended" web version should allow as much time as is necessary.

This is intellectual cowardice pretending to be comedy.

Dobbs is still King!

Stewart should have let him talk more about the trade deficit and national debt. This economic downturn is the direct result of wretched trade policies outsourcing the middle class and safety of this nation, starting under Clinton and exacerbated under Bush.

Shame on the Daily Show for taking the most irrelevant part of this interview and playing that on the air, however thank you for posting the rest.

fair enough

Both Dobbs and Stewart make good points.

But on John Stewarts comment about right winger's use of "lower taxes, less government and freedom" as idealistic flattery to get votes, couldn't the same be said about the left?

All I hear from the left is that
Republican's are ignorant to the important social and environmental issues such as global warming and healthcare and that they are the only party that cares about what is important for the well being and equal treatment for the people.

Isn't that just idealistic flattery from the left?

Both sides claim they know what's best for the country and that the other side is crazy and ignorant and trying to trick you with these fake too good to be true ideologies.

Neither of them are "truisms" in my opinion.

I think that both sides bring up these potentially great ideas but the left thinks the right is bullshit and lying to the country to permanently empower the republican party, and the right thinks that the left is lying to the nation so it can impose it's socialist and thought controlling agenda on us.

In other words, politicians on both sides are lying and using fear to get votes. It's a huge mess.