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Posted Jun 26th 2008 11:45AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free

"Be Patient, This Gets Amazing": What this segment lacked in punniness, it made up jaw-dropping, cherry-picking amazingness. Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA must regulate greenhouse gases. The EPA proposed some changes in an e-mail they sent to the White House. The administration then
refused to open the e-mail, leaving the EPA to re-write the policy into something more Bush-friendly. Jon Stewart said (shouted?) it best with that expletive.
Continue reading The Daily Show: June 25, 2008 - VIDEOS
Posted Jul 24th 2007 1:22AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews

"
The Cheney Presidency Remembered": For a few hours on Saturday, while Bush was getting a colonoscopy, Dick Cheney was President. The side-by-side view of Cheney's evil Iran plans and the colonoscopy was very unnecessary. I was not prepared for it and now have the image permanently burned into my brain. Senior Presidential Historian Samantha Kearns Bee reflected on the bold moves of Cheney's presidency, including decriminalizing shooting old men in the face. I spent a few minutes wondering why Samantha got a new middle name ("So... she'd be... Samantha Kearns Bee-Jones?") before I realized the
Doris Kearns Goodwin connection. What can I say? I'm slow. Very, very slow.
Continue reading The Daily Show: July 23, 2007