The Method Post 1

In the Crossfire video, repetition and strands could be found in Jon Stewart being interrupted by the hosts of the show. They would hardly let him finish a sentence before interjecting their own thoughts or feelings on what he was trying to say. They came off as very rude to him, not willing to see two sides of any argument. Jon Stewart is merely trying to show the hosts his opinion on how the hosts' show is set up and tries to be constructive, but the hosts are too defensive and used to a one-track-mind system to see that. The hosts and Jon present present themselves as binary oppositions to each other. Jon is very open-minded, trying to better the show and in a way better the media by revealing its flaws and misconceptions about what makes for good coverage of political situations and nominees. The hosts are convinced that they do have an open approach, but in reality they use a very narrow range of opinionated questions to grill the people that they bring in, backing them into a corner and squeezing the answers that they want out of them merely to start a one-sided argument. In a way, it almost seems as though they know what they are doing wrong and how it is, in Jon's words, "hurting America," but they refuse to face this truth, which is what causes the disputes that transpire over the course of Jon Stewart's time on the show. He is revealing a side of them that most people don't reveal, especially on their own show in front of them. He's stripping their normal argumentative nature down to its bare-knuckle basics to get them to drop all of the politically motivated theatrics to do true, mature arguments.