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Showing posts with label daily show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label daily show. Show all posts
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Tony Blair on the Daily Show
To see this, go to www.thedailyshow.com.
Jon Stewart dedicated more than 15 minutes of his 21 or so minute show to the interview with Tony Blair. They went over the ground you'd expect them to - the Iraq war, 9/11, international terrorism, and so on, and while I've heard much of the same rationale before, I think I have a great deal more respect for Tony Blair as a result of this interview than I had before. He actually seemed to take Stewart's questions seriously and attempt to answer them as best he could without sounding like a jerk about it. Clearly, they disagreed on nearly every major point, but it was civil and respectful.
I just can't imagine George Bush doing that. I can imagine him, however, making that irritating smirk he always makes after making a statement about something that to him seems breathtakingly obvious and you're just a stupid moron for not understanding something that's so utterly clear to him. I can't imagine at all George Bush engaging in a reasonable, measured conversation in which his opponent disagrees with him entirely without resorting to his usual tactics of asserting that his opposition is just completely wrong-headed and is going to destroy the United States by allowing the terrorists to win.
So good for you, Tony Blair, for going on the Daily Show. More than that, good for you for being a decent human being about it, even if I do disagree with the way you chose to involve your country in my country's greatest mistake in recent history. And good for the Daily Show for keeping what matters in the news and always treating every guest - of whatever persuasion - with the same sense of humor and humanity.
Jon Stewart dedicated more than 15 minutes of his 21 or so minute show to the interview with Tony Blair. They went over the ground you'd expect them to - the Iraq war, 9/11, international terrorism, and so on, and while I've heard much of the same rationale before, I think I have a great deal more respect for Tony Blair as a result of this interview than I had before. He actually seemed to take Stewart's questions seriously and attempt to answer them as best he could without sounding like a jerk about it. Clearly, they disagreed on nearly every major point, but it was civil and respectful.
I just can't imagine George Bush doing that. I can imagine him, however, making that irritating smirk he always makes after making a statement about something that to him seems breathtakingly obvious and you're just a stupid moron for not understanding something that's so utterly clear to him. I can't imagine at all George Bush engaging in a reasonable, measured conversation in which his opponent disagrees with him entirely without resorting to his usual tactics of asserting that his opposition is just completely wrong-headed and is going to destroy the United States by allowing the terrorists to win.
So good for you, Tony Blair, for going on the Daily Show. More than that, good for you for being a decent human being about it, even if I do disagree with the way you chose to involve your country in my country's greatest mistake in recent history. And good for the Daily Show for keeping what matters in the news and always treating every guest - of whatever persuasion - with the same sense of humor and humanity.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Hump Day
I find the nickname for Wednesday rather strange... but now understandable. Today being Thursday, I know that I now have only two days remaining of my workweek. My workload has picked up, thank goodness, mostly because I'm proactive in chasing work. Now, my big project is back filing. I guess because everyone else hates filing, I'm often stuck with such projects. It doesn't matter though - at least I'm occupied, all day long.
Sadly, due to my commute, I have not had time to watch the Daily Show this week. I have been grateful ever since I saw that comedycentral put the entire show online (thank you, YouTube!) and I watch it faithfully. Except for this week. Hopefully I'll have time on Saturday. If you haven't watched the interview with Chris Matthews yet, you need to.
Sadly, due to my commute, I have not had time to watch the Daily Show this week. I have been grateful ever since I saw that comedycentral put the entire show online (thank you, YouTube!) and I watch it faithfully. Except for this week. Hopefully I'll have time on Saturday. If you haven't watched the interview with Chris Matthews yet, you need to.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Jumanji and other random thoughts
Last night I ended up watching Jumanji for some inane reason - it was great practice though, because it was all in German. And I understood most of it! Go screenwriter who wrote a script children can understand.... :)
I also watched a bunch of BBC World and CNN Intl because - well, they're in English - and I now know when the Daily Show Global Edition plays on CNN! yay! So, my Saturdays at 5:30-6:00pm are now booked.
On BBC World, one of the shows was about cancer survival and such - prevention is key, really. If you don't get yourself checked frequently, especially since every single person on the planet now has massive amounts of chemical deposits in his or her skin/body merely from living and breathing on the planet, then you're being short-sighted. Also, all girls should get the HPV vaccine! I can't emphasize that enough - a girl I had in one of my courses at the UO had to miss two section meeting because she was with her sister in Portland, who had cervical cancer. This girl had cervical cancer at the age of 19. It is now known exactly what causes it, so please, if you have younger siblings, younger family members, friends of the family, any girl who has not yet become sexually active must get this vaccine.
I also watched about ten minutes of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, but the language was much too difficult. I got all the words for opening doors and sitting down, but no way do I understand the technical language they use in those shows. Keeping the positive thoughts going...
I also watched a bunch of BBC World and CNN Intl because - well, they're in English - and I now know when the Daily Show Global Edition plays on CNN! yay! So, my Saturdays at 5:30-6:00pm are now booked.
On BBC World, one of the shows was about cancer survival and such - prevention is key, really. If you don't get yourself checked frequently, especially since every single person on the planet now has massive amounts of chemical deposits in his or her skin/body merely from living and breathing on the planet, then you're being short-sighted. Also, all girls should get the HPV vaccine! I can't emphasize that enough - a girl I had in one of my courses at the UO had to miss two section meeting because she was with her sister in Portland, who had cervical cancer. This girl had cervical cancer at the age of 19. It is now known exactly what causes it, so please, if you have younger siblings, younger family members, friends of the family, any girl who has not yet become sexually active must get this vaccine.
I also watched about ten minutes of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, but the language was much too difficult. I got all the words for opening doors and sitting down, but no way do I understand the technical language they use in those shows. Keeping the positive thoughts going...
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