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Surprise! The Daily Show is a comedy
Posted by on Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 5:13 pm

The governor of Illinois isn’t very hip:

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Rod Blagojevich wasn’t in on the joke.

The Democratic governor says he didn’t realize “The Daily Show” was a comedy spoof of the news when he sat down for an interview with the show.

The interview focused on his executive order requiring pharmacies to fill prescriptions for emergency birth control.

The “Daily Show” interviewer referred to Blagojevich as “Governor Smith” and asked if he was — quote — “the gay governor.”

At one point, Blagojevich turned to an aide to ask if the interviewer was teasing him or serious.

Blagojevich told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Wednesday that he had never seen “The Daily Show” before doing the interview, which aired two weeks ago.

Heh.

UPDATE: More here, here and here.




4 Comments on “Surprise! The Daily Show is a comedy”

  1. isuquinndog Says:

    Rod is going to get crushed in November.

  2. Angrier and Angrier Says:

    He should fire his Press guy for not prepping him adequately. What kind of staff does he have working for him that they don’t take the time to properly brief him about the Daily Show? Yes, the Governor should have had some idea that it was a comedy, but his public relations people really fell down on the job.

  3. Scientizzle Says:

    In the news today: Blagojevich under fire for one of his appointees to a state panel combatting discrimination and hate crimes: Claudette Marie Johnson, appointed in 2005 to the governor’s Commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes, is the minister of protocol for Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.

    This guy’s a real winner in the brains department, eh?

    http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-hate24.html

  4. Mad Max, Esquire Says:

    Wasn’t the killing of Malcolm X a hate crime?


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