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Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly Debate!

Un-common debate between Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly over Common White House guest makes great TV but potentially sparks political unrest?

[May 17]

No common debate when intelligence meets obstinacy as liberal media journalist, late night talk show host, actor and comedian Jon Stewart takes on Republican stalwart talk show guru Bill O’Reilly! Debate on Fox channel program The O’Reilly Factor heated up when Comedy Central Generation X hero Jon Stewart verbally attacked Bill O’Reilly on his own show. Why was Jon Stewart so hot-tempered challenging the conservative? Over Bill O’Reilly voicing what logically boils down to nothing more than racist objections towards rapper Common’s visit to the White House. O’Reilly has used the fact that Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama has the rapper perform live at a White House poetry slam to claim that the black president was out of line as president to welcome the black rapper with open arms. While the politically correct phrasing of African-American was used, O’Reilly claimed that because the rap music star wrote a song about a woman who killed a NJ state trooper that he should not have been allowed in the White House as a guest, let alone given audience with the president of the United States or shown any respect. Obviously, to ban a musician for writing challenging lyrics about tough and disturbing social issues smacks of the ugly underbelly of communist censorship and subjugated free speech that is prevalently accepted in pop culture and beyond government control. In the celebrity interview, a very rational Jon Stewart tells Bill O’Reilly that even Bono wrote a song about Leonard Peltier, convicted of killing two FBI agents, mentioned Bob Dylan, Bruce Springstein and other white music greats — and clearly pointed out that using Bill O’Reilly’s logic that those artists should have been banned from the White House as hell.