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Jon Stewart has agreed to host Elon Musk on The Daily Show after Musk demanded an unedited interview but later called Stewart a “propagandist.”

Stewart fired back, pointing out Musk’s support for Donald Trump and Germany’s far-right AfD party, arguing that Musk’s version of “bipartisanship” is just partisan extremism.

He dismissed Musk’s criticism as hypocritical and reiterated his willingness to air the interview unedited because that’s “how the in-studio interviews normally air.”

  • Jesus@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    That’s kind of half true. Sometimes interviews go really long, so they end up putting the full interview on YouTube / Paramount.

    But I bet if they got Musk, Comedy Central would make it work and would air the full thing or would at least plug the YouTube channel.

    Jon might also bump the field piece segment if they need another 8 minutes. Sometimes they do that.

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      2 days ago

      He said on last night show that he would make sure musk’s interview took as long as it needed.