. . . on many things, but discuss it with intelligence and respect — Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow.
Well worth watching even if you dislike one or the other or both. Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon.com has a lengthy review, which includes this:
It was riveting, at times utterly thrilling stuff, with both sides gracefully doing the dance of abundant, obvious admiration while firmly maintaining their own convictions. This is what happens when people don’t scream and hurl nonsense invective at each other. Watch and learn, America.
A wan looking Stewart — who admitted he was battling a vicious stomach flu and bragged near the end that this was the longest he’d gone without throwing up in some time — clearly chose Maddow because he had a few things to get off his chest. On “Maddow,” he was free to be something other than the brilliant satirist we know and love on Comedy Central. He was simply Jon Stewart, lamenting to his hostess that “You’re in the playing field; I’m in the stands yelling things.” But he seemed nonetheless grateful for the opportunity to explain the motivation for the Rally because “People should have a chance to say what they thought it was … I just want a chance to say what it was, because I made it.”
This is the full, uncut interview, which is slow at times, though is still interesting throughout. Click here to go to the site and select excerpts.