Stewart already provided his opinion on Wednesday's presidential debate, noting his disappointment with President Obama's defense of his policies and pointing out that the President's best response to Romney would have been "LIAR, LIAR, LIAR." On his show, O'Reilly said President Obama was "...coming off as a boring college professor," who failed to bring up the 47 percent issue. O'Reilly even showed a clip of Al Gore blaming the President's performance on Denver's altitude. If you watched the debate you will at least need to acknowledge that Romney had all the energy that evening. It is not clear if President Obama was up past his bedtime or has some secret strategy to lure Romney into a sense of safety before launching a serious strike.
The Stewart/O'Reilly debate will be streamed live, Saturday, October 6th at 8pm ET from Lisner Auditorium at The George Washington University. You can go to www.theRumble2012.com for more information and tickets to see the show online (since seating at the auditorium sold out pretty early).
Update: While many viewers (including myself) had problems with the Internet broadcast, it was a good debate overall. I would even say it had better coverage of the issues than the first presidential debate. And yes, it even covered crucial issues such as the "War on Christmas." What I found odd was O'Reilly's need to emphasize everything he said with a sign restating his words. This may work on television, but it looked goofy on the stage. I guess he is a creature of habit.
USAToday captured Jon Stewart's opinion of the night's debate:
The main thing is it's an ongoing conversation and I don't think you can look at these things in this idea of it's a match and there's a winner and the winner takes all. it's an ongoing conversation. ... If you can strip it away and get to the core of what someone's honestly thinking and believing, that's got a value to it on its own.
If you are looking for a similar debate, try out Glenn Beck debating former governor Eliot Spitzer at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver on October 2nd. While it is not as humorous, it is equally informative about the issues in the upcoming election. Spitzer's take on the debate and Beck's followers was outlined in his Slate column:
The passion they summon for their anti-government rhetoric is based on a strong emotional need to channel a visceral anger against the state of the world—and the government has become the perfect target for their ire. What transforms their anti-government views into a form of bizarre patriotism is the way they turn the founders of the nation into paragons of virtue. They say that if only we had remained true to the virtues of the founders, things today would be all right.
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