You know, I've noticed something. I post responses to issues people raise, then they go quient. But when we reach the next page, these people start showing up again.
Watch the hour long video isn't a response most people have time to give for an issue that only seems important to you. Fact is this is what TDS promised the guy in writing. From: [redacted] [mailto:xxxxxx@thedailyshow.com] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 4:13 PM To: Andrew Schiff Subject: RE: FW: The Daily Show We NEVER edit out of context. Meaning we never ever show responses to a question we never asked. And they didn't take his response out of context as per their own definition. This just comes off as whining. If you think you're going to work with a clown and not get a pie in the face then you're an idiot. Peter Schiff also says he doesn't regret using the term mentally r****ded to describe these workers. He just regrets having his comments bite him in the ass. Take responsibility for your own comments and stop whining about it. Or wise up and apologize for making the comment in the first place rather than doubling down on stupid. /end thread.
Oh, no, I think those two words sum up well, both for me, and I suspect many others. Perhaps all that is needed is a final set of *eyes roll*...
I didn't say it was unique to Comedy Central, in fact in my earlier post I said you could say the same of mainstream news. However, I'm not worried about those who watch MSNBC or Fox. They are all set in their ways and have skewed views anyway. I'm just making the point that Stewart and Colbert probably do more harm than good when it comes to "informing" the masses. They are comedy shows and should be treated as such, but it is quite obvious that millions of viewers don't.
You lost and now you're just trying to make it out as if you won by being sarcastic. Anybody reading this thread, check out me and NewRoxFan's line of discussion ending here. He failed to post a response. Like I said, he's a crappy debater.
I think anybody who makes smart, funny sh-t does me a service. In fact I will even label it a grand service. Haha. U mad? The only person I know of who is too dense to figure out the daily show or Colbert are satire is the peter Schiff acolyte who is embarrassing himself by starting this thread. I went to a Colbert taping BTW. It was great. From what I could tell - nobody in the audience thought it was a real newscast.
They explained, in writing, how their reference to out of context was defined. He's just whining. He showed up for the interview and thus agreed to the terms put to him in writing. So what? He said it, he agreed to the terms. They were free to use as much or as little of the interview as they wanted. That's not unusual at all. He screwed up, he got burned, and now he's acting like a whiny b****. It's not Comedy Central's job to PC check the language of their guests. You make it sound he got ambushed by Morley Safer expecting a serious piece and ended up on Comedy Central. This is stupid.
Well that's what it's really about is the young audience and political power. Conservative media consumers are literally dying off and the base of the Republican Party is a dwindling demographic. TDS viewers skew younger so there's huge incentive for conservatives to attack TDS as somehow unfair when they're the ones that originated partisan entertainment news.
Their explanation was made in relative passing, in an informal e-mail, written by an intern. I have to insist that such an important detail was insufficiently communicated. He went in there under false pretenses and made to sign a waiver. It's his fault. Suuuure. But the way The Daily Show goes about inviting interviewees seems very deceptive. It's not in proper context and was brutally edited. If they were trying to get laughs, they didn't, and their interviewee was villainized for it.
4 hours for about 2 minutes of footage? It really just goes to show you the lengths they are willing to go to get the predetermined narrative they want. But of course they don't have any ideological agenda. Its just satire.
Audience reaction. The guy got death threats afterwards. I was going to post a summary of my points so that our discussion, hopefully, would be more focused but the loss has left me emotionally deflated. I really do want us to agree and come out with a resolution. If ya'll can wait I can do that tomorrow.
By this logic, do you also believe that Fox New doesn't actually give people news? http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/11/22/fox-news-school-board-death-threats/
LOL. I feel I have risen to greater status. Perhaps soon I will get posts with my name in the title. I look forward to the OP's next summary so this thread will continue on ad infinitum. After all, I still think there is confusion over whether he thinks TDS is a comedy show and whether the subject of this thread has been hurt by the show. And after the OP succeeds on this front... he can take on Saturday Night Live (and from that point forward, SNL) and the question, is it a comedy show or a news source. I believe Sarah Palin was besmirched by SNL's portrayal... shall we discuss?
That's a lot of things to say without an argument. Posts with your name? Like bigtexxx? That's for good trolls. You fail at that too.
I actually made a resolution not to talk about Fox News a page or two back since I have no interest in them at all. I don't watch them. However, you are new so: I think they are a news network. I've heard they're skewed and I've seen footage that do make it seem so. So they're a skewed news network. However, because of that, they do get called out for it if they do report something wrong. TDS doesn't.
