Illinois Governor - Daily Show - Our Guns

[Huntzman]

This is wonderful...... and this is the man who knows so much about everything that he is qualified to make a choice on whether or not we can legally own guns..... And here I thought politicians in New York were bad.....

Ill. Governor Confused by 'Daily Show' Bit
Feb 24, 10:47 AM (ET)

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Gov. Rod Blagojevich wasn't in on the joke. Blagojevich says he didn't realize "The Daily Show" was a comedy spoof of the news when he sat down for an interview that ended up poking fun at the sometimes-puzzled Democratic governor.

"It was going to be an interview on contraceptives ... that's all I knew about it," Blagojevich laughingly told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in a story for Thursday's editions. "I had no idea I was going to be asked if I was 'the gay governor.'"

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

Interviewer Jason Jones pretended to stumble over Blagojevich's name before calling him "Governor Smith." He urged Blagojevich to explain the contraception issue by playing the role of "a hot 17-year-old" and later asked if he was "the gay governor."

At one point in the interview, a startled Blagojevich looked to someone off camera and said, "Is he teasing me, or is that legit?"

The segment, which aired two weeks ago, also featured Illinois Republican Rep. Ron Stephens, a pharmacist who opposes the governor's rule. Stephens has said he knew the show was a comedy.

"I thought the governor was hip enough that he would have known that, too," Stephens said.

 

[Dannyboy]

I just posted this at APS. This is the funniest thing I have seen in a while. That guy is even more of a tool than I thought.

 

[LAR-15]

 

[Huntzman]

Hmmmmmm

I wonder whats next for his political career ?? The ALI G Show ???

Yeah Blago..... it's all real !!!!!

 

[K-Romulus]

NPR was all over this today

At least it was this morning . . . even my wife, who normally tunes out my radio, laughed and asked "what kind of idiot staffer who handles the interview requests, or the idiot who gets interviewed, has never heard of the Daily Show?"

In the NPR story, they repeated the questions, which got more rediculous. I guessed it must have been Ali G . . . then they said who it was . . .

 

[geekWithA.45]

Dunno if it's the end of Blago's career...(we can only hope)

We do know it's the end of some hapless staffer's career.

 

[DonP]

Simple answer

Somebody, somewhere on The Daily Show turned on a camera. Could have been in a gas station in Greenville, Mississippi and he still would have found it.

The second that red "on-air" light went on, he and his people stampeded to be in front of the camera, any camera. It's an election year and he's struggling to look less like the dim bulb and lieing sack of s--- he truly is.

He still has dreams of a national office, believe it or not. His turn in the scandal barrel is going to arrive sooner than he thinks.

Blago is maybe the one guy in America that could give Chuckie Schumer a run for his money in a camera grabbing demolition derby.

As Bugs would say, "What a maroon!"

 

[Jeff White]

From the St Louis Post Dispatch:

Well, I guess the boy governor is too busy raking in all that money for state contracts to watch TV. I've never watched the Daily Show either, but I know it's a comedy show. Perhaps he thought it was the Daley Show and he wanted to get on to help his father in law Mel.....
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...12CAB4C7AA6940C88625711E0056F85D?OpenDocument

Blagojevich has gay old time in interview
By Kevin McDermott
POST-DISPATCH SPRINGFIELD BUREAU
02/23/2006

Gov. Rod Blagojevich, giving an interview to a television crew in Chicago recently, first suspected something was amiss when the interviewer cut him off in mid-sentence to intone sternly: "I'll be in charge of what my listeners get to hear."

It got stranger from there, with the interviewer suggesting "role playing" involving "a hot 17-year-old." By the time he asked if Blagojevich was "the gay governor," the Democrat had already decided he would be having a serious talk with his aides who had set up the interview.

The television crew was from Comedy Central's national cable program "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," which airs politically charged, totally fake news reports geared for laughs - though Blagojevich didn't know that when he sat down with them.

Talking with Post-Dispatch editorial writers on Wednesday, the Democratic governor said he went into the interview believing it was a serious report about Illinois' emergency-contraception debate. Blagojevich said he had never watched "The Daily Show," and didn't know what it was when he saw it on his schedule.

"It was going to be an interview on contraceptives . . . that's all I knew about it," said Blagojevich, who laughed about the episode. ". . . I had no idea I was going to be asked if I was 'the gay governor.'"

Blagojevich has issued an executive order prohibiting pharmacists from refusing to fill prescriptions for emergency birth-control pills, which some have done on religious grounds. "The Daily Show" segment, which aired last week, pitted Blagojevich against Illinois state Rep. Ron Stephens, R-Greenville, a pharmacist who is trying to override Blagojevich's executive order with legislation.

In the segment, the interviewer, Jason Jones, can't pronounce Blagojevich's name, and finally settles on calling him "Gov. Smith." At one point in the phony interview, Blagojevich is genuinely startled, turning to an aide off-camera and saying, "Is he teasing me or is that legit?"

"Now I know I'm in the soup," Blagojevich said Wednesday, recounting that part of the episode. He said he was thinking at that moment of "going after" his aides.

Nonetheless, the tone of the finished segment clearly sided with Blagojevich, sarcastically lionizing Stephens for standing up to promiscuous women. "How dare the government make a moral judgment over you?" the interviewer asks Stephens, indignantly. "You're the one who's supposed to be doing that for the woman."

Stephens said on Wednesday he was aware the segment was a joke when he agreed to do it. "I thought the governor was hip enough that he would have known that, too."

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[GoRon]

I posted the link to this segment two weeks ago in another thread.

It is the segment called Pill of rights.

 

[Nanook]

GoRon, I like the Yes reference in your location.

 

[GoRon]

GoRon, I like the Yes reference in your location.

It just amazes me how 180 degrees out of phase this state is when it comes to fire arms and self defense.

Blago is a symptom not the cause.

 

[PATH]

and here I thought New York was bad!