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Is this clip online somewhere? I'd love to check it out. Why can't the Daily Show be available for full downloads somewhere... I'd pay the big bucks for it.

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My only issue with this show is...people confuse it with actual news. John Stewart [et al] is a comedian, not a journalist.

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So what? Someone doesn't watch the daily show. he does have to run a state.

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Okay, the gov. didn't know what he was getting into. That's understandable. But does the man not have a staff? Surely there is someone younger on the staff, who must have known that when the boss was getting interviewed by the Daily Show that his boss was in over his head.

Of does his staff dislike him so much that they let him go on to be interviewed thinking it was all on the up and up.

Dude, before you get interviewed for a show you never heard of, maybe just turn to that 20 something aid and ask him or her what they think.

Doh!

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Do a google search. Didn't he even realize the show airs on COMEDY CENTRAL?

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Actually Gordy, Jon Stewart is a journalist. The show still covers news information but just presents them in a humorous way.

Sounds like your right wing christian republican values have been brought to light as ridiculous one to many times by the great writing of the Daily Show and you are just crying boohoo.

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wow. you mean there is someone out there who is busy, important, and sucessful who doesn't spend a whole lot of time parked on a futon in front of the TV? Well, I'll be.

Akbar, your attack on Gordy draws so many ignorant assumptions about him that it is embrrassing. Comments like yours are the reason the word "liberal" is becoming an insult.

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I think knowing your interviewer is a basic tenet of media training, especially when you're talking about a show with a national following. If he wasn't prepared for the interview, that's fine, but someone on his staff should've prepped him. I suspect there's at least one handler gig open in Springfield today.

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amb34 is right. Assuming (which we should) that the governor has better things to do than stay up late to watch the Daily Show, that's why he has a staff. He's probably got a bunch of college interns running around his office who watch the show regularly, and it's shocking that no one gave him some advance notice of the tenor of the interview he was planning to sit for. It's a basic example of media savvy.

In fact, I may have to call BS. The Daily Show's been on the cover of Newsweek and Time, and was a recognized force during the last election. It's not just a little comedy show... hasn't been in a while. I think the governor was thrown off by the questions, looked foolish, and is trying to save himself by professing ignorance of what he was getting into.

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I love the Daily Show and think Jon and the staff are great BUT, Jon Stewart is not a journalist and doesn't purport to be. He is an actor and comedian. He certainly isn't unbiased and he has made his position clear.

Finally The Daily Show is a comedy show about current events who's lead in is puppets making crank phone calls*, on a little cable network.

If it was as powerful as some seem to think in the last election their horse would have one.

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Jon Stewart does not purport to be a journalist. Just take a look at his interview on Crossfire from a few years ago (Google search Jon Stewart Tucker Carlson). You'll understand then....

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"If it was as powerful as some seem to think in the last election their horse would have one."

Oh, jeez. Let's not get into this. 50.73% of the popular vote isn't a landslide, no matter how you try to spin it.

All I'm saying is, the Daily Show is a highly ranked program. Whether it's journalism or comedy, it has drawn and is drawing real newsmakers. It's made the cover of national magazines, it's produced two best-selling books, and clips from it are used on "Meet The Press" type shows as an encapsulation of what the country has been discussing over the past week.

For a political leader to walk into an interview blind is ridiculous, and this show has had too much hype and press for someone to be completely ignorant of what to expect. To not be aware of the show, or to not bother even doing preliminary research, is not a sign that he's too busy and important -- it's a sign that he's living in a bubble.

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If you think Jon Stewart is an actual journalist, then there is something seriously wrong with you. He is a freaking comedian with a bias. His stuff is funny and for the most part, only present it from viewpoint of the left.

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The only reason Jon Stewart is ever left holding the "journalist" ball is because the other journalists keep dropping it.

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Sy: as opposed to an unbiased comedian?

You've never seen Stewart bash Democrats? EVER? Perhaps your inherent bias turns your sensory nodes off when he does so.

Also, don't accuse others of having something "seriously wrong" with them until you learn to structure proper sentences.

Wow, I guess the AOL contingent has finally arrived at Weblogs, Inc.

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Reality check: Daily Show ratings do NOT bear out this iconic status. They simply don't. Just because some people are fans doesn't mean *all* people are fans. Being a huge fan of anything often crates a myopic point of view...but the truth is TDS ratings are pretty damn low.

All cable news ratings, satiracal or serious, are low. People like to think it;s a much bigger influence than it really is.

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L'Emmerdeur ...read my post CAREFULLY ...I said for the "MOST PART" ...DOH ...what a surprise ...a doofus complaining about sentence structures on a blog but yet missed some operative words in a post ...complaining about grammar on the web, especially on a blog, is futile ...and yes all humans are bias in one way or another ...never said otherwise ...lol ...how you like my sentence structure now?

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It wouldn't surprise me one bit that Blago didn't know that TDS is satirical and not a serious news show. He's fairly oblivious to a lot of what happens in Illinois. But he's much better than any of the GOP candidates in my state, so that's why I'm going to vote for him.

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I am a huge, (repeat: HUGE) Jon Stewart fan. I lead a flipping campaign to have him speak at my commencement ceremony (we had Maya Angelou instead). This said: he is a liar.

Whether he likes it or not, and whether his fans are willing to admit it, he is a journalist. Watch his interviews. They're funny, but he can take someone to task at any given moment. When he says, "I'm not a journalist" it reminds me of Charles Barkley saying, "I am not a role model". Both of them are wrong.

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John Stewart is a Journalist and is not biased. If the Democrats controlled all the levers of power and were braking the law, were corrupt and were acting in a totally immoral and retarded fashion then you can be sure that the Daily Show would have just as much fun at the expense of the Democratic party.

Simply saying the emperor has no clothes does not make one biased - but it can be funny and it is real news.

The mainstream media and the Democrats have allowed this Orwellian nightmare to evolve and they take their hits on the show.

That leaves it to the American people - who are brain washed from birth - who have failed to demand truth over propoganda and myopic Jingoism.

So now you will all hate the messenger - since in the USA Truth is like water off a Duck's back. Any one who critizes the USA is merely labelled and the message is ignored.

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