Rachel Maddow Clashes With Jon Stewart, Civilly, In Hour's Worth Of Interview Excerpts

I have a brother who reminds me of Jon Stewart.  

Both are very bright, very funny, but I think both are uncomfortable being around conflict.  I know my brother is, and he tries to 'fix it' by becoming the clown.  It may work for the moment, but only until he's out of the room or the situation.  Differences between people have to be worked through and that doesn't happen by short-circuiting the process or trying to avoid it altogether.  The differences don't go away, and trying to manage how the differences get expressed, in a way that satisfies people like my brother or Jon Stewart (or Obama), only winds up satisfying the people like my brother, Jon Stewart and Obama.  It actually dishonors those in conflict, by failing to accommodate their process of resolving conflicts, and works to sabotage their coming to agreement.

Both Stewart and my brother seem to use intellectualizing (seeming to be above, and thus better, than those butting heads) as a means of alleviating their own tension over witnessing conflict.  

Ironically, when Stewart lumps the left and the right together as equally guilty of what each accuses the other of doing (and what Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann argue are false equivalencies), Stewart's doing the same thing.  

What the left and the right are at odds with each other over isn't anything Jon Stewart can relate to.  I would bet that when an issue arises that Stewart does relate to, that he feels passionately about, he does the same thing that he's accusing those in the media, at cable news networks, of doing, gratuitous insults and exaggeration.
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