Not sure how a near 1 to 1 ratio of guest/host speaking time can be called a “filibuster”…

Marc claiming that Jon “talked over” all of his talking points were not supported by facts (of course, that seems to be a theme with the right-wing crowd).

ed tosses a gutter ball with: “the guy who wrote the legal docs legalizing torture in the US”

Um, no. No one authorized or legalized torture in the US. EIT are not torture. Your own heavily staffed ACLU division of the DOJ in Obama’s Administration cleared the authors of those documents you wrongly contend “legalized torture”.

I guess when the bowling alley is shut-down, the farLeft will still be screaming from the loose balls room that “Cheney Tortured”. It’s so sad; you’d think the same people who still cry about WMDs not being in Iraq –even after all the proof– would realize no one is listening to them anymore. Not even Obama, our newest Warrior President.

As dh points out, actual amounts of time spent talking are pretty much dead even, so that pretty clearly eliminates the “filibustered” argument. The long and short of it is this: Marc went in there with his prepared spiel, which is pretty clear when you hear him making the same exact arguments, nearly word for word, in other interviews. Jon was doing his usual job of pointing out misleading arguments and opinions, and I simply don’t think Marc was entirely ready for it. If you watch the completely unedited version online, there is one point towards the end where Jon asks him one VERY simply question about 20 times in a row because Marc simply will NOT answer it directly. I think that’s indicative of the interview as a whole. Thiessen wasn’t prepared or willing to be challenged, and his defense was to try and talk over Jon (which ultimately cost him time to speak) and avoid directly answering Jon’s pointed questions.

For the 1st time in a long time, I watched David Letterman (whose real letter is evidently a big ol’ Scarlet A) interview Mitt Romney. He asked Mitt about Sarah Palin’s worthiness and Mitt responded in a way that drew the audience’s near boo’ing and ol’ David’s squirming in his seat. Mitt exited that uncomfortable moment by reminding the hearing-challenged Letterman that Sarah Palin hunts with a rifle. Now that’s character when you’ve unwittingly made the host uncomfortable and you use his forte –humor– to get the host out of another deep hole.

People of character, like John Yoo and Marc Thiessen and many others, can easily rebut low lifes like Jon Stewart or hacks like Chris Matthews or baiters like Larry O Donnell by their simple presence. Stewart wasn’t over prepped –he never has been, he’s a stand-up jewish comic schlepping for the farLeft just like Bill Maher (when he can hold a job) or Al Franken or Lewis Black.

Stewart gets his intel from the comment threads over at the Daily Kos and Democrat Underground. Thiessen has his informed by life and occupation –he was there at the event… not reading about what others say about events.

Stewart’s audience continues to shrink and people tune out these radicalized, off-spectrum voices. Jon will keep at it until he’s back to doing stand-up in the Berkshires for obnoxious, over weight pathetic New Jersey jews “out for some natural time” in the woods.