Irrelevance Glorified

When delivering their distinct brand of satire, the folks at The Daily Show make heavy use of sarcasm, with devastating results. These two clips were from the January 5th show, and they are fantastic.

Once again, Brian Williams was a guest on Daily Show this week. I smiled when I saw the guest list on The Daily Show website, expecting Brian and John to do some verbal sparring and perhaps inadvertently getting some real news info as well. At least in my opinion, they did not disappoint.

If you need back story on what they’re talking about, you can watch this Daily Show clip or read on. Mark Sanford (Governor, SC) recently had a little bit of a scandal when he disappeared from the state for a few days. His office said that he does this from time to time, and he was ‘hiking the Appalachian Trail.’ Of course, it turns out that he wasn’t hiking, he was traveling to Argentina to see his mistress. Seriously. Although I’ll add the caveat that he went to South America to break it off. Anyways, before it broke that he had left the country, a number of media outlets e-mailed the Governor’s office offering easy interviews in exchange for exclusive interviews, and a number of them talked about how they would push back against the liberal media’s attempt at a fake scandal.

Okay, I admit it…I just love it when Jon Stewart swears.

This is from over a month ago, but it’s still funny.

The tag line : “Republicans debate the stimulus bill, forgetting that C-SPAN doesn’t destroy old tapes when a new administration steps in.” And a bonus — more monkey paw!!

Week 51, December 15th – December 19th

5-Pointed Star

Yet another star. I’m not real sure if I got this right, though…the instructions were sorta vague about this.

Gift Card Envelope

There’s an actual gift card in there. Who’s the lucky person who will get it? Well, I’ll tell you it’s no one who’s reading this. You bunch of ingrates.

Peacock

I feel like they have the same attitude as me. They’re not even trying anymore.

Scrunch Tree

Not sure what this is about, but once again it’s got a bunch of double folds and some reshaping, so it does not get the seal of approval from me.

Shell Decoration

This didn’t quite turn out the way it was intended. All those…ruffles were supposed to look like the pattern on seashells. Somehow…it’s less impressive than that.

As always, these origami designs were found in the Origami Page-A-Day Desk Calendar.

So, Rod Blagojevich has been in the news recently, due to his ridiculous corruption complaint. Now, as a Illinoisian among Californians, this makes me the local expert in the nature of the Land of Lincoln’s corruption. I needed to explain to these people that although, yes, I voted for this bum (twice!)….you should see the people he was running against! Well, okay, in retrospect, I could have made some better choices. But in Rod’s honor, I humbly submit some Daily Show clips. In his honor. And thanks to Comedy Central’s new embedding code…it will look really strange.

December 9th, 2008

December 10th, 2008

I always cringe when I see an interview done via satellite, because there is often some sort of time delay. And this time delay always makes the interviewee look like an idiot. Always. They look like they’re slow, grinning or looking at the camera, listening intently, when there’s silence on the air. This interview is no exception; Howard Dean looks like an idiot. When he grins, he kinda reminds me of Phil Hartman’s Frankenstein. But there’s something different here. One, he actually acknowledges the time delay. And second, he absolutely makes the best response I’ve ever heard. Awesome ad lib.

Hopefully that will not rate too highly on a Google Search. Anyways, the guy exudes arrogance, but as I’ve said before….he makes for a great interview on TDS every time.