The Daily Show with Jon Stewart #2

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Op vrijdag 6 november 2009 11:42 schreef Schuttingbeer het volgende:
En wat een enorm goede parodie op Glenn Beck..

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Op donderdag 12 november 2009 22:55 schreef Thomas B. het volgende:
Volgens mij heeft South Park deze week ook een Glenn Beck parodie

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Op donderdag 12 november 2009 14:57 schreef NJ het volgende:
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Iemand z'n DVD-recorder gaf verkeerde beschrijving bij The Daily Show. Alleen was het eigenlijk de beste beschrijving van The Daily Show.

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Op woensdag 18 november 2009 12:18 schreef Irien het volgende:
Djeez de aflevering van 17 november. Nieuwsprogramma's vallen over Obama's te diepe buiging voor de Japanse premier. "How low can he go?!?"

Ik vond het juist mooi en heel respectvol.

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Op woensdag 18 november 2009 14:43 schreef Mavro het volgende:
Hebben jullie het interview met Joe Biden ook helemaal gekeken? Want er was iets op het einde wat ik niet snapte:
Als de democraten in de regering zitten en ze willen een beslissing nemen dan dwingen de republikeinen een stemming af over het feit of er gestemd moet worden of niet? (vaag)?
En als de republikeinen in de regering zitten dan stemmen ze gewoon over een wetsvoorstel zonder dat de democraten ze een strobreed in de weg leggen?

Anyone die de logica hiervan aan mij kan uitleggen?

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Op donderdag 19 november 2009 21:55 schreef Montov het volgende:
"It feels like all the people that want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.".
Jon Stewart in een inteview met Lou Dobbs:
http://www.huffingtonpost(...)bs-dis_n_363616.html

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In just the span of a short few years, Jon Stewart has gone from optional to indispensable. Case in point: when Jon went all Glenn Beck on Jim Cramer a few months back. A few of us blanched. Getting pissed, brimming with bile—that was so . . . MSM of him. And yet, in the niche-y, hip, and in-the-know world of late-night, media-skewering comedy, it had the impact of Cronkite turning against Vietnam. The Web clips of the choreographed filleting of Jim Cramer helped foment public outrage against the excesses of the financial industry in the midst of a housing crisis. That was an important moment. But even more important is the system of checks and balances Jon has created. On occasion, when we’ve been on the cusp of doing something completely inane on NBC Nightly News, I will gently suggest to my colleagues that we simply courier the tape over to Jon’s office, to spare the Daily Show interns the time and trouble of logging our broadcast that night. That usually gets us to rethink the inane segment we were planning on airing. The old arc of a news story went like this: News happens. Media cover news. Audience reacts, then turns in for the night. For the past several years, however, there’s been another step added to the end of the process: being held to account for our faults by a comedy show with a sharp eye and a sharp tongue. How did we live without it?
Williams is anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News.

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"Well," said Mr. Rosewater, who had been fairly quiet up to this point, "we have interesting video footage of you. That may persuade you to be more cooperative." I could not imagine what that might be. Something personal? Something that might compromise my friends? But…I reminded myself I had done nothing wrong.

I saw the flicker of a laptop monitor under my blindfold. Then I heard someone speaking. It was a recording of another prisoner's confession. "It's not that one," said the second interrogator. "It's the one marked 'Spy in coffee shop.' " Mr. Rosewater fumbled with the computer. The other man stepped in to change the DVD. And then I heard the voice of Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.

Only a few weeks earlier, hundreds of foreign reporters had been allowed into the country in the run-up to the election. Among them was Jason Jones, a "correspondent" for Stewart's satirical news program. Jason interviewed me in a Tehran coffee shop, pretending to be a thick-skulled American. He dressed like some character out of a B movie about mercenaries in the Middle East—with a checkered Palestinian kaffiyeh around his neck and dark sunglasses. The "interview" was very short. Jason asked me why Iran was evil. I answered that Iran was not evil. I added that, as a matter of fact, Iran and America shared many enemies and interests in common. But the interrogators weren't interested in what I was saying. They were fixated on Jason.

"Why is this American dressed like a spy, Mr. Bahari?" asked the new man.

"He is pretending to be a spy. It's part of a comedy show," I answered.

"Tell the truth!" Mr. Rosewater shouted. "What is so funny about sitting in a coffee shop with a kaffiyeh and sunglasses?"

"It's just a joke. Nothing serious. It's stupid." I was getting worried. "I hope you are not suggesting that he is a real spy."

"Can you tell us why an American journalist pretending to be a spy has chosen you to interview?" asked the man with the creases. "We know from your contacts and background that you told them who to interview for their program." The other Iranians interviewed in Jason's report—a former vice president and a former foreign minister—had been ar-rested a week before me as part of the IRGC's sweeping crackdown. "It's just comedy," I said, feeling weak.

"Do you think it's also funny that you say Iran and America have a lot in common?" Mr. Rosewater asked, declaring that he was losing patience with me. He took my left ear in his hand and started to squeeze it as if he were wringing out a lemon. Then he whispered into it. "This kind of behavior will not help you. Many people have rotted in this prison. You can be one of them."