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Zomg... Zomg...

In two hours my Senator is going to be interviewed by either Steve Carell, Samantha Bee, Stephen Colbert, Rob Corddry, Ed Helms or Stacey Woods.

I know I shouldn't idololize these people, I know I shouldn't feel more important then I otherwise would be, I should stay humble but...

OMFG I'M GOING TO MEET THE DAILY SHOW CREW. I AM ELITE POLITICIAN IN TRAINING, FEAR ME BIOTCHES.

ohmygodohmygodohmygod

are you going to try to say something incredibly stupid so they will put it into the show or a book or something?

I'm thinking about walking up to them and asking them to tell John Stewart he is my God and Savior.

no no
you should use one of the insane lines of the nutcase level conservatives on the forums.

you know like ask why john stewart hates america only worse.

What about saying "Is it true John Stewart is the true messiah of the Jewish People?"

Ask them where babies come from.

no no nothing religious, it has to be political
and odd but not threatening

and GET A PHOTO WITH YOU AND THEM IN IT AND POST IT HERE!!

am i the only one who is vicariously excited for you?

I Dont Have A Camera. Son Of A-

Arrrrggghhhhhhhh... Why Didn't I Get The Cellphone With The Built In Camera??

Ask if Jon would recommend a particular brand of mascara.

I'm going to explode. :)

you can buy a cheap disposable camera at walgreens if thats what it takes. otherwise SOMEONE in the office will have a digital camera or cell phone or something. dont let this go without a picture.

hey
who is your senator and why are they interviewing him/her?

and when they call do they make sure that the senator knows who they are and what they really do?

hey
who is your senator and why are they interviewing him/her?

and when they call do they make sure that the senator knows who they are and what they really do?

The first part of your question I'm afraid I'm not allowed to answer. I'm sorry, but your going to have to wait untill the episode airs.

The second part of the question I can answer, the Daily Show called the Senator's Public Relations Guy and told them they were from the Daily Show. From the get go they know it's a fake interview, at least with us government folks. The Public Relations Guy was hesistant, but that's because he knows they make fun of the people they interview.

We were told they were in fact making fun of... well I can't talk about that either.

But the Senator said "It's all in good fun."

Vote for my Senator, he has a sense of humor. ;)

Edit: I guess I can give the name of my Senator, Virg Bernero of the 23rd District of Michigan. He has been on the national news several times... for a certain incident which may or may not relate to the interview.

Google is your friend.

OMFG. 12:30. It's time, they'll be here any minute....

Vote for my Senator, he has a sense of humor. ;)

We can't; you won't tell us who he is. :p

:)

HAHA.

I was just told I'm to play the roll of the scary intern to keep the Daily Show guys in check...

http://www.deranged.net/~jetman877/Brandon.jpg

That's me. ;)

This is the high point of my life... besides meeting my Fiance'.

HAHA.

I was just told I'm to play the roll of the scary intern to keep the Daily Show guys in check...

http://www.deranged.net/~jetman877/Brandon.jpg

That's me. ;)

This is the high point of my life... besides meeting my Fiance'.

I am sooooooooooooooooooooo jealous!

Enjoy!

Lucky bastard... Getting to meet the Daily Show crew...

Can you tell Jon Stewart thanks for driving the final stake through the heart of legitimate media?

Seriously, if you love him/them all that much, I hope you enjoy it to the fullest and get some souvenirs. I just cannot understand why so many people worship the guy...

Can you tell Jon Stewart thanks for driving the final stake through the heart of legitimate media?

Seriously, if you love him/them all that much, I hope you enjoy it to the fullest and get some souvenirs. I just cannot understand why so many people worship the guy...

Media stopped being legitmate when they turned their backs on the meaning of journalism. When a new stations reads word for word a white house press release, that isn't journalism.

John Stewart is a comedian, he isn't a real news organization. He is meant to be funny, he protests the corporate owned media by showing the population just how stupid the whole thing is. People watch him instead of the "legitimate media" because the "media" isn't really "legitment" anymore.

The final stake through media's heart came when they forgot the terms unbiased investigative journalism and learned the term sensationalist.

It's like saying someone who complains about the problem causes the problem.

You sir, are ignorant.

EDIT: THEY ARE HERE!!! OMFG..Z

Its.. uhh... who is it?!

....


ITS SAMANTHA BEE.

Wow, she's short!!!!


http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/corr_bee.jhtml

Won't be replying for awhile. ;)

-attacking the media-
You sir, are ignorant.


First, my post was very vague and quite flippant. I apologize for its general inadequacy and hope to now elucidate my point.

The Americans news media has been under assault for the post 30 years, ever since the Nixon presidency, and this attack has revolved around a few techniques:

1. Accuse the news of being biased, and then force it to "correct" this bias by including your own (of course, biased) information.

2. Create massive amounts of "information" in the form of not-fully-legitimately researched work and then shove it in the media's face until someone accepts it as legit (hello, Heritage Foundation).

3. Put together an "alternative" media, one that focuses on entertainment and ideology rather than actual newsworthyness, and present it as equally or more factual than real news.

In my opinion the third technique has had the most success and done the most damage. All local news has disentigrated to the form of "infotainment" nowadays, as well as altogether too many newspapers. Millions of people "learn" all they knew about politics from talk radio and "talking head" TV shows that care more about making people angry or laugh than actually presenting legitimate factual data without a deliberate bias. It is with this technique, primarily, that the right wing of American politics has come to dominate the understanding of so many people. If you get all yours news from Rush Limbaugh, Regenery books, and FOX opinion shows, you are not well-informed, but you believe what right-wing interests want you to.

Until very recently, this "infotainment" revolution was almost solely the property of the right wing. Liberal talk shows have mostly floundered; there is no liberally-biased news station, or practically even a TV pundit show. Until very recently pretty much all liberal interests have worked together to try and maintain the integrity of news itself and prevent all unbiased information providing from being replaced with partisan crap designed to manipulate people's base emotions.

The Daily Show, however, does exactly the opposite. Yes, Stewart is an entertainer, and yes the show is satrical in nature. That does not stop it from being the number one place left-leaning 18-34 year-olds get most of their "news". I agree with you that the media was in serious trouble, indeed reeling from the onslaught of "infotainment" and the idea that news is subjective. Stewart, however, represents to me a sort of final blow because he is America's liberal establishment giving up the fight. The right wing has huge success with their infotainment? OK, we'll make our own.

Whether or not Stewart is a "real news organization" is irrelevant: millions of Americans have decided not only that he is, but that he should be their primary, or, God forbid, only source. In that he is as large a threat to the American media and American democracy as any FOX News, Limbaugh, Regenery, or Cato Institute.

I hope this clears up what I was trying to say before, and that you enjoyed your time with Mr. Stewart and his crew.

*snip*
The Daily Show, however, does exactly the opposite. Yes, Stewart is an entertainer, and yes the show is satrical in nature. That does not stop it from being the number one place left-leaning 18-34 year-olds get most of their "news". I agree with you that the media was in serious trouble, indeed reeling from the onslaught of "infotainment" and the idea that news is subjective. Stewart, however, represents to me a sort of final blow because he is America's liberal establishment giving up the fight. The right wing has huge success with their infotainment? OK, we'll make our own.

Whether or not Stewart is a "real news organization" is irrelevant: millions of Americans have decided not only that he is, but that he should be their primary, or, God forbid, only source. In that he is as large a threat to the American media and American democracy as any FOX News, Limbaugh, Regenery, or Cato Institute.

I hope this clears up what I was trying to say before, and that you enjoyed your time with Mr. Stewart and his crew.

Meh.

The idea that The Daily Show is a threat to legitimate media borders on madness. Your points are really too bizarre to even argue with.

Regardless, Jon Stewart tends to be remarkably well-informed and provide a great deal of accurate information. He has also been very outspoken in his criticism of real media

We'd be better off if half the people that now get their "news" from Leno and Letterman watched Jon Stewart.

omg I am so jealous!

Tell Samantha Bee some guy on teh internet said he loved her.

Post pictures dammit!

Regardless, Jon Stewart tends to be remarkably well-informed and provide a great deal of accurate information. He has also been very outspoken in his criticism of real media

We'd be better off if half the people that now get their "news" from Leno and Letterman watched Jon Stewart.

I'm not saying he's worse than other infotainment options. I'm saying that any infotainment, including his, is worse than actual, unbiased, real news, such as that presented in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, or on CNN's news program (not all the pundit crap, or the editorial pages of any).

Once left-leaning folks start getting used to the idea that infotainment is not so bad, because, hey, the best one is "with us," we move that much closer to having nobody demand actual news, because most right-leaning folks sold out a long time ago.

It's not as though he's number one on my list of "Stuff That's Wrong With America" but I find the trend he represents very disturbing, especially as people of approximately my age and ideology are most attracted to what he puts out.

John Stewart made a plea on Crossfire for so called "legitmate" news sources to stop hurting America. If anything, John uses irony and satire to continue to the fight against the sensationalist infotainment organizations.

You know what the first thing I heard while talking to the Daily Show people when they showed up?

"You know, alot of people get their news from you."
"No no, it's not supposed to be that way. It's sad really..."

They do everything they can to make sure people know it's a joke, when a reporter talks about how evil Albinos are, if you can't tell the difference, you are extremely messed up.

But that's what politics is nowadays, a big, fat, joke.

It's like parents blaming the government when children try to imitate video games.

When a parent can't take five minutes out of their day to explain to their child the difference between fantasy and reality, but instead expect the government to play babysitter, it's their own damn fault.

Nothing else you can't say will change that.

Btw, everything was real cool, I shook hands with Samantha Bee. ^_^;;

We got pictures, but not with me in them. Didn't have enough time.

She was however, open to exploring the possibility of interviewing a group of students at my school building a tunneling scanning electron microscope with money from BioPort, a government biological weapons contractor.

Which I happen to head up...

*Whistles innocently*

P.S. Pael, your really blaming someone who is trying to fix real media, your anger is misplaced.

In my opinion the third technique has had the most success and done the most damage. All local news has disentigrated to the form of "infotainment" nowadays, as well as altogether too many newspapers. Millions of people "learn" all they knew about politics from talk radio and "talking head" TV shows that care more about making people angry or laugh than actually presenting legitimate factual data without a deliberate bias. It is with this technique, primarily, that the right wing of American politics has come to dominate the understanding of so many people. If you get all yours news from Rush Limbaugh, Regenery books, and FOX opinion shows, you are not well-informed, but you believe what right-wing interests want you to.

Funny, that (and the "let's add my bias in there too") is exactly what Stewart talks against.

The Daily Show, however, does exactly the opposite. Yes, Stewart is an entertainer, and yes the show is satrical in nature. That does not stop it from being the number one place left-leaning 18-34 year-olds get most of their "news". I agree with you that the media was in serious trouble, indeed reeling from the onslaught of "infotainment" and the idea that news is subjective. Stewart, however, represents to me a sort of final blow because he is America's liberal establishment giving up the fight. The right wing has huge success with their infotainment? OK, we'll make our own.

I think you're underestimating just how many people put that down on the survey as a *joke*. The Daily Show wouldn't really be funny if you weren't already aware of the issues in the first place.

Meanwhile, I wouldn't even necessarily say that Jon Stewart is "left". He seems to be an equal opportunity comedian.

Personally, I fell in love with Jon Stewart when I saw him cry on national TV.

John Stewart made a plea on Crossfire for so called "legitmate" news sources to stop America. If anything, John uses irony and satire to continue to the fight against the sensationalist infotainment organizations.

Exactly!


Nikoko, I am *incredibly* jealous.

Exactly!


Nikoko, I am *incredibly* jealous.

Thanks. ;)

Hee hee!

Well, I can sure imagine the exitement. I have the book and I always watch loyally. And I'm not even an American. I do find that it provides me with nice insights, not so much in the area of facts but in showing the insanity of things and making people aware. And for someone of "left persuasion and young age" it is comforting to actually laugh about the news now and then instead of only getting constant boiled up 'liberal anger' over the way most of the world sucks nowadays.

There was an actual survey suggesting that people who watch the Daily Show tend to be better informed then people who read newspapers. (Not saying this is because of the Daily Show of course, but still... ;) )

In short: The Daily Show rocks, and so does Samantha Bee. This is cool. :)

How long after an interview does it take for it to be shown on The Daily Show? I'd imagine a few weeks, months perhaps.

I don't know, but I'll ask tommorow.