Posted on 03/01/2005 3:33:12 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
The reporter was fake, using a fake name, spoofing alleged fake White House reporter "Jeff Gannon." But the news conference was real serious.
A "correspondent" from the fake news show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, was outside City Hall Monday to get some answers from City Council Speaker Gifford Miller.
Wearing a badly groomed hair piece, a fake mustache and an ugly 1970s tie, Rob Corddry waited patiently until after the real reporters had posed their questions to ask one about Social Security.
Standing awkwardly with his legs far apart as though he were getting ready to sprint, nodding in agreement to every word spoken by Miller about the West Side Stadium, Corddry finally raised his hand.
"Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker," he shouted, as if in a White House news conference, identifying himself as "Dino Ironbody"
His question: "How do you feel about the president's awesome plan to privatize Social Security?"
Miller, who realized what was going on, played along.
"I'm not such a big fan of the president's plan to private Social Security," Miller said. "I think Social Security has worked pretty well for generations and we outta stick with something that works."
After the gathering broke up, Corddry, in a move uncharacteristic of reporters, invited them to chat.
"Anybody wants to talk shop, I will be right here," he said, pointing to the ground and cameras rolling. "Good conference man!"
A spokesman for Comedy Central, where the show is aired, said the pretend reporter was spoofing the former White House correspondent known as Jeff Gannon -- who is really James D. Guckert -- who worked for a conservative Web site and was accused of asking pro-Bush questions. The access Guckert enjoyed to White House news conferences has been a source of controversy.
Comedy Central says the segment will air during Thursday's show.
Used to watch the Daily Show religiously, but no more thanks to the show's (and especially Stewart's) having become what they claim to hate so much.
Lovely.
And yet they wouldn't have spoofed the "real" media swooning over the ex- liar-in-cheif.
Freak shows and circus clowns. All very amusing.
Except that dems take them seriously.
I have attempted to watch "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" to see what the hoopla is all about. It's on Comedy Central so I presume it is comedy. But I'll be damned if I see the humor.
Like the current cast of Saturday Night Live, Stewart just isn't funny.
South Park, though hideously vulgar and crude, is funny.
The Daily Show was hilarious for a long time, but in the past two years it has swung deep into the Leftist fever swamps. Now Stewart books fringe crazies like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, then slavers over them like a college sophomore trying to get back at his Republican parents. Corddry is a funny guy -- hate to see him used as a DU pawn all the time.
Agree, SNL has become sooo lame...SP, Well?...sometimes very funny/NOT
'the daily show' seems to have a warm fondness for Gifford Miller, the most appalling candidate to run for nyc mayor in recent memory, which is saying a lot.
?? Why was an article written about this? What about this merits an article??
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