The blog-reading demographic doesn’t often overlap with the “O’Reilly Factor”-watching demographic, so I figure many of you may have missed the final segment of Bill O’Reilly’s interview of Jon Stewart. In the video below, they discuss global warming, Iran/nuclear weapons, and Sarah Palin. The two are their usual selves — Stewart can be too glib; O’Reilly leans toward the bombastic — but all in all I’m pleased that there’s an actual exchange of differing ideas on a cable news channel. I hate to say this about Fox News, but it’s actually… fair… and possibly kind of… balanced.

Up next on Fox News: Glenn Beck demonstrates the imminent failure of health reform by setting himself on fire.

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So here’s video of Jon Stewart’s appearance on Bill O’Reilly. I found it an interesting and relevant interview, but I’m not going to say anything because people get all up in arms if I express anything resembling a political opinion. People get upset because I don’t heap adulation on “Lost.” So how ’bout this, People Who Prefer Complaining to Telling Jokes: How about you little twats stop bitching every time you read something you don’t like on the Internet and just shove it up your ass. I guess that’s technically a question, but I’m leaving off the question mark because I mean it as more of a directive.

Part two of the interview, which is more about Fox News, is below. I’m going to go drink some coffee now.

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Set your DVRs, people. Jon Stewart is going to a guest on Bill O’Reilly’s show in a two-part interview that will air Wednesday and Thursday. The two have gone head-to-head twice that I know of: in 2004, Stewart went on “The O’Reilly Factor” to promote America: The Book, and O’Reilly appeared on “The Daily Show” after the 2008 election to promote one of his books (both video clips are embedded below). But nobody has a book to promote this time, and given Barack Obama’s in-person smackdown of the GOP and its refusal to engage in bipartisanship, we’ve got the table set for fireworks tomorrow.

Although why someone would set a table with fireworks, I don’t know. You should really set tables with place mats and eating utensils, not explosive devices. Otherwise someone might get hurt dinner. Which is why this should be compelling television.

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Glenn Beck was on Bill O’Reilly’s show last night, and he broke out the rarefied Glenn Beckian levels of crazy, using Barbies and a dollhouse to demonstrate how the government is messing up the investigation of ACORN.  And I don’t want to make this political.  For all I know, the government IS messing up the investigation of ACORN (that was the organization that registered squirrels to vote, right?).

But are the little girls’ dolls necessary?  I feel like I’m watching some bizarro world Stephen Colbert, and my mind gets re-blown every time I think about the possibility that people take Beck seriously.  People don’t take him seriously, right?  RIGHT?  Oh dear God.  **invests in bomb shelters**

[TV Newser via Videogum]