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Lincoln Chafee on the Daily Show

The is from the December 11, 2006 program.
(Dabble Record)

Senator Lincoln Chafee on the Daily Show (Quicktime - 14 MB)
Senator Lincoln Chafee on the Daily Show (MP3 - 10 MB)


Senator Lincoln Chafee (Wikipedia) is an outgoing Republican Senator from Rhode Island who is generally on the right side of every issue ("right" meaning I agree with him :-) not "to the right").

Jon asked a lot of really frank questions, and Chafee had some really honest answers. Especially with regard to the kind of blind devotion many repubs have had toward the presidents policies - no matter how crazy they became.

Jon: It must be tough, you know. You're a guy. You're considered a "moderate republican." There was yourself, Olympia Snowe (R - Maine), Jim Jeffords (I - Vermont), considered an independent switched over to be an Independent. Eh, kind of a lonely lunchtable there.

Chafee: Yes. Fewer and Fewer. We started with five when I got there. Jim Jeffords left the party. I was defeated. So there's three left.

Jon: So three left.

Chafee: We'd have lunch every Wednesday. Arlen Spectre, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins, Jim Jeffords and myself so two down, three left.

Jon: I was kidding. I was kidding. And yet, that's really what happened?

Chafee: Yes.

Jon: And when you would do that would they throw food at you guys? What would happen?

Chafee: Well it started in the 80's and 90's with a much more robust lunch of moderate Republicans. But through time, fewer and fewer and it down to when I got there in the late 90's - 1999 - five of us.

Jon: And now three.

Chafee: Now three.

Jon: That's maybe one of the saddest things I've ever heard.

Chafee: Well what's happened is the southerners have taken over the party. And all those southerners used to be conservative democrats...

Later in the interview (from 3:54 on)

Chafee: The whole caucus just lined up behind the President, and, so the agenda is set by the President. People line up in Congress.

Jon: But why? Why is it so...

Chafee: The primaries pull the contestants to the edges...

Jon: But once you get there. Once you've won. Why is it so antithetical to the process to stand up and say "hey this is crazy. We are not supposed to just rubber stamp this guy, even though he's in our party. Why can't we stand up or why can't we work with what we think are reasonable people on the other side?"

Where does the party discipline come from? What are they threatening you with?

Chafee: That's what has frustrated me more than anything in the time I've been there. Some of these senators have been there from the 70s, 80s, and been through all this Grand Rudman, "we're gonna get out of deficits." As soon as they come up with a big tax cut they all lined right up behind it. And I just...

Jon: But for everything?!

Chafee: Yeah. For everything!

Jon: That's what I'm saying. You were there! I wasn't there!

Chafee: I stood up and said "No." And I argued with my collegues. "What are we doing here? We just got out of deficits. Why are we having a big tax cut?"

Jon: And what do they.. Do they say to you, "hey man, shut up or we're taking away one of Rhode Island's senators?" What do they use as a cudgel? Are people just...

Chafee: Good question. I think it's just "loyalty to the president." That's what I found in my time there. It's the president. That's how he wants it. Get behind the president. That's what I heard. More than threats. We're gonna take away some project for Rhode Island. It's just; Support the team. Fight the Democrats.

Jon: So it's like the big game.

Chafee: Yes, but our country, you might argue, suffers.

Jon: You might argue, and in fact. I mean I think in some respects I always assumed that there was something going on behind the scenes that was far more complex that I wasn't quite understanding. But the idea that you've been there, and you're saying "yeah, I don't know what's wrong with these guys either," really has me a little bit...I have to tell you I'm a little shaken up right now.

Chafee: Yes you wish that the senators would stand up in the beginning. The Chairman of the Finance Committee, Chuck Grassley from Iowa, says "we can't have these big tax cuts." They went down to a meeting in the White House, sat with the President, and, next thing he came out and said "I think we can afford the tax cuts." ...

Jon: So do they go down there with Cheney, and it's like the pod people? He bites their neck and then the next day it's like (arms extended) "we can do this!"

Jon: And are the Democrats any better? Are they fighting? Or are they just disorganized too? Are they the same?

Chafee: Well they went through being disorganized after 911. The Democratic party just didn't stand up. They all fell in line behind the rush to war. Senator Daschle, Senator Clinton, Senator Kerry...all of em, lined up, and there was never any evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Jon: Can you point to anything in the last five years you think Congress should be proud of? In the last five years, since 911, in your mind?

Chafee: Uh...

Jon: Can I ask you this: Is that the platform you ran on?


Posted by Lisa at 04:34 PM
December 18, 2006
Great week of Daily Shows from last week

Last week was a great week of Daily Shows and Colbert Reports last week.

So far I just have the Daily Shows up here (in both Quicktime and MP3s).

There were some really relevant and incredible shows last week and I want to make sure you see all the highlights.

So I'll be putting them up one at a time starting now, too.

Here's the playlist I've started for them: December Daily Show Clips.

Posted by Lisa at 06:53 PM
October 03, 2006
Chris Paine On The Daily Show
I knew Chris Paine way back in 1993, when I was working with him on Telemorphix's 21st Century Vaudeville.

He was a really sweet, smart, and very creative guy with big ideas about everything.

Nice to see him pull it all together to create his little masterpiece, Who Killed the Electric Car?.


Chris Paine On The Daily Show
(Quicktime, 15 MB)

Dabble Record for this interview

Posted by Lisa at 09:46 PM
February 06, 2005
Joe Klein On The Daily Show - The Shrub's Social Security Plan Explained


This is from the February 3, 2005 program.

In this clip, Time magazine's Joe Klein talks about the State of the Union address and the truth behind the Shrub's Social Security overhaul: it's all about benefit cuts, not increased payments due to shrewd investment of private accounts.

Joe Klein On The Daily Show (Small - 12 MB)

Audio of Joe Klein On The Daily Show
(MP3 - 8 MB)


Joe Klein:

Here's the cool thing about Social Security. Yesterday, before the speech, the White House explains it the "torters," the private investment accounts, and here's the way it works:

You put your money in your own private investment account. And then, when it's time for you to retire, you give a whole lot of it back to the government so that they can dribble out little benefits to you that are the equivalent of Social Security as it now stands.

Jon Stewart:

That's really what this plan is?

Joe Klein:

If you make more than a designated amount, you might get a little bit extra. Yes.

Jon Stewart:

That's it?

Joe Klein:

It's an annuity.

Jon Stewart:

But here's what I don't understand...

Joe Klein:

It's really remarkable.

Jon Stewart:

But how does that save Social Security? Because the government still has to dish out the same amount of money, no?

Joe Klein:

Well, they're going to lower our benefits it was they're gonna actually do, and the President said he would last night.

Posted by Lisa at 01:48 PM
November 29, 2004
Daily Show Comedy Clips And Interviews From November 11 - 18, 2004

I hate to do this, but I'm so far behind on everything right now that I figure it's better than you guys having to wait another week for this stuff. I promise I will post this stuff appropriately this weekend.

Here's the daily show clip for
November 11, 2004
(just one arafat clip)

Here are all of the clips (with zip files and mirrors!) for November 15-18, 2004:


November 15, 2004


November 15 Mirror


November 16, 2004
Includes Tom Brokaw Interview.

November 16 Mirror


November 17, 2004


November 17 Mirror


November 18, 2004
Includes Woody Harrelson Interview.

November 18 Mirror

Many Thanks to Thilo Schlabach for mirroring my clips! Please use the mirrors guys!

Posted by Lisa at 08:40 AM
November 24, 2004
Daily Show Comedy Clips From November 10, 2004 - Including An Interview With Tom Wolfe

This is from the November 10, 2004 program.

Note that there is a zip file of all 4 clips also available for download.

Daily Show Clips From November 10, 2004

Included in these clips:
Ashcroft's resignation and hand written resignation letter

Ed Helms on Florida's disenfranchisement ploy of a checkbox in which
voters had to affirm that "I have not be adjudicated mentally incapacitated
with respect to voting, or, if I have, my competency has been restored.

Science Scope - finding the 18,000 year-old remains of a man-like "hobbit"
Global Warming creating a lovely "Northern Sea Route" in Russia
(Makes global warming worth it all!)

Tom Wolfe interview about his new book: "I am Charlotte Simmons."

Posted by Lisa at 02:04 PM
November 14, 2004
Daily Show Interview With Billionaire Richard Branson - He Agrees To Put Up A Prize For The Person Who Can Get Us Off Of Oil

This is from the November 9, 2004 program.

Daily Show Interview With Richard Branson
(14 MB)

This interview gets really interesting when Jon asks Branson to sponsor a contest to invent something to "get us off the internal combustion engine."

BTW: Branson said he would do it! He also seemed rather preoccupied with the prospect for the rest of the interview. Let's try to hold him to it!

Here's a partial transcript:


Stewart: "What about this: putting up a prize for somebody to invent something to get us off the internal combustion engine? What do you think of that? Get uh, like an X prize type of thing like they did with space travel."

Branson: "Hmmm."

Stewart: "What do you think of that?"

Branson: "That makes a lot of sense."

Stewart: "It does?"

Branson laughs.

Stewart: "How 'bout giving me some seed money?"

Branson: (leans back...) "Um. Okay."

Stewart: "What do you think of that? You could set this thing up, and people could..it'd be like a private industry thing. There's gotta be a way. I mean, we can fake diamonds."

Branson: "Um hmmm."

Stewart: "There's gotta be a way we can make fake oil or something. You know what I'm saying? It's just carbon for god's sakes."

Branson: "Water."

Stewart: "Water? An engine that runs on water? Set up a prize!"

Branson: "Well I've just given you the answer. So I want the money."

Stewart: "Or you're gonna do it?"

Branson: "No..WATER?"

Stewart: "Cars run on water?"

Branson: "Yeah. They could do."

Stewart: "What on hydroelectric cells or something?"

Branson: "Something like that. I don't know. I'm trying to get my money back."

Stewart: "I'm telling you something. This could be a great thing."

Branson: "Okay."

Stewart: "Seed money."

Branson: "Alright. Would everybody chip in here?"

Stewart: "YOUR the billionaire!"

Branson: "Alright."

Link to zip file of all November 9, 2004 clips. (39 MB)

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November 12, 2004
Daily Show Interview With The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol

This is from the November 4, 2004 program.

Kristol is always a great guest.

Bill Kristol On The Daily Show

Posted by Lisa at 06:14 PM
November 08, 2004
Daily Show Interview With Chuck Schumer (D) New York

This is from the November 3, 2004 program.

Interview with Chuck Schumer - Part 1 of 2
(9 MB)

Interview with Chuck Schumer - Part 2 of 2
(7 MB)



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Posted by Lisa at 06:13 PM
November 02, 2004
Daily Show Comedy Clips From November 1, 2004 - Including An Interview With Fox News' Chris Wallace

These clips are from the November 1, 2004 program.

Daily Show Comedy Clips and Interviews For November 1, 2004

Included in these (6) clips:

Jon Stewart Telling Us To Get out there and VOTE!

A two part interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace
(where he explains that Fox has a four person panel now that has to decide unanimously before a winner can be declared.)

Kerry and Bush respond to Bin Laden's new tape

Cheney, Chelsea, Bruce and Arnold On The Campaign Trail

A voting report from Ed Helms and Stephen Colbert


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Posted by Lisa at 03:31 AM
November 01, 2004
Daily Show Comedy Clips From October 28, 2004 - Including An Interview With John Zogby, Uber Pollster

These clips are from the October 28, 2004 program.


Daily Show Clips and Interviews from October 28, 2004


Mirror of these clips

(Thanks to Internet Veterans For Truth)

Included in these (6) clips:

-Arafat's fall
-A Red Sox Moment For Rob
-An Interview with poll taker John Zogby (with some good news :-)
-AN EXCELLENT PIECE where Stewart skillfully uses the Shrub's own words against him (shrubisms.mov)
-A film documenting attitudes toward the election in a small town
-Stephen Colbert's "This Week In God"


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Posted by Lisa at 09:24 PM
Daily Show Comedy Clips From October 27, 2004 - Including An Interview With Jesse Jackson

These clips are from the October 27, 2004 program.

Daily Show Clips and Interviews from October 27, 2004


Mirror of these clips

(Thanks to Internet Veterans For Truth)
Included in these (3) clips:

-Lewis Black on "the undecideds" (a.k.a. "the idiots")

-Another voting fiasco preview highlighting the Repubs strategy on voter fraud
(The Mary Poppins' etc. I mentioned in an earlier post.)

-An interview with Jesse Jackson


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Posted by Lisa at 06:07 PM
Daily Show Comedy Clips From October 26, 2004 - Including An Interview With Bob Kerrey From The 911 Commission

This is from the October 26, 2004 program of the Daily Show.

Daily Show Clips and Interviews from October 26, 2004


Mirror of these clips

(Thanks to Internet Veterans For Truth.)

In these (4) clips:

-Interview with Bob Kerrey of the 911 Commission
-The first of several "Fiasco Previews" of the Upcoming Election
-Another Messopotamia episode
-A bit featuring The Shrub and Kerry have pandering to the minority vote


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Posted by Lisa at 03:21 PM
October 31, 2004
Daily Show Comedy Clips - Including Madeline Albright Interview - From October 25, 2004

These clips are from the October 25, 2004 program.

Daily Show October 25, 2004


Mirror of these clips

(Thanks to Internet Veterans For Truth)

Included in these (4) clips:

-Coverage of The Shrub and Kerry on morning talk shows
-A little movie on the tax burden of winning one of Oprah's free cars
-A 2 part interview with Madeline Albright


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Posted by Lisa at 10:27 PM
October 30, 2004
Drew Barrymore On The Daily Show

This is from the September 13, 2004 program.

Drew Barrymore On The Daily Show
(Small - 17 MB)

I was really impressed with Drew and the movie she made (that she ended up selling to MTV). She's trying to educate youth about voting and make politics hip and sexy. Right on Drew!

If anyone knows where her movie may be online, please let me know.




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Posted by Lisa at 07:57 PM
Richard Clarke On The Daily Show Back Up

Just put video of
Richard Clarke On The Daily Show
back up.

Sorry for the hold up!

Posted by Lisa at 07:06 PM
October 27, 2004
Bill Oreilly On the Daily Show

This is from the October 7, 2004 program.

These files are too damn big. I'm having trouble doing anything with the DV files I'm ripping from .VOB files using MPEG stream. The 4GB files wouldn't import into Imovie. So I had import the DV file into Premiere and then generate these from there.

The result is that they're too damn big. Sorry. Maybe one of you can generate smaller versions from these.


Bill Oreilly On The Daily Show - Part 1 of 2
(51 MB)


Bill Oreilly On The Daily Show - Part 2 of 2
(30 MB)

Posted by Lisa at 08:50 AM
September 06, 2004
Ted Koppel On The Daily Show

This is from the
August 31, 2004 program
.

Ted Koppel On The Daily Show (Small - 10 MB)

mirror of the above clip



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Posted by Lisa at 05:29 PM
August 29, 2004
Other August Daily Show Clips

Update 7:08 am 9/30/04 - just got boingboinged -- now's the time for those mirrors peeps -- just download from here, upload to your server, and email me with a link) Thanks!

Just wanted to make sure you guys knew these were here.

I never got around to blogging more than a couple of them individually...

Highlights include:


The Shrub Killing Time On A TV Fishing Show


An Interview With Maureen Dowd


Robert Novak Being a "Douchebag For Liberty (Again) Freedom"

(my mistake. no mistake about the douchebag part though :-)

And a really important report from Ed Helms about the organization making calls on behalf of Ralph Nader in order to re-elect George Bush.
(CSE - Citizens for a Sound Economy)

Posted by Lisa at 08:30 PM
John Kerry On The Daily Show

This is from the week of August 23, 2004.

Thanks to Norm Jenson for grabbing this for me. (Due to either TIVO error or user error, I missed most of last week's shows.)

Norm's provided a hi resolution and low res version:

Kerry On The Daily Show (50 MB)

Kerry On The Daily Show (13 MB)


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Posted by Lisa at 12:07 PM
August 15, 2004
Bill Clinton On The Daily Show

This is from the August 9, 2004 program.

Clinton said a lot of inspirational words in this interview. Namely:
"When you're a democrat, you win when people think."

They also talked about the debunking of the debunking of Kerry's purple hearts, and how it was the exact same disinformation group that attacked McCain in 2000.

Thanks to
Sean Bonner
for mirroring these clips for me.


Clinton Part 1 of 2
15 MB (mirror)
Clinton Part 2 of 2 10 MB (mirror)








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Posted by Lisa at 04:41 PM
July 04, 2004
Michael Moore On The Daily Show

This is from the June 24, 2004 program.


Michael Moore On The Daily Show


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Posted by Lisa at 08:49 PM
June 24, 2004
Daily Show On "The Connection"

This is from the June 21, 2004 program.

These should be up by 1pm CA time today. (Uploading now.) I've got to run.

Here's the interview with Stephen F. Hayes, the guy who wrote The Connection, the new book claiming that there's a connection between 911 and Saddam.

Turns out that his book is based on a single report by none other than Douglas Feith -- the Shrub's Undersecretary of defense, and one of the most notorious members within the Administration known for helping companies he used to work for to cash in on the Iraqi Gold Rush. (See the Bill Moyers Story all about it.


Bill Moyers On The Insider Business Deals Between Shrub Administration Officials And Iraqi Reconstruction Companies

Specifically, between Douglas Feith, the Undersecretary of Defense and several companies (many related to his "former" business associate Marc Zell), including: Zell, Goldberg and Company, Diligence, New Bridge Strategies, Barber, Griffith and Rogers, SAIC (courtesy of current Shrub Administration Official and former SAIC Senior Vice President Ryan Henry), and The Iraqi International Law Group.

Anyway,
Here's the interview in two parts
.



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Posted by Lisa at 12:01 PM
May 12, 2004
Senator John McCain On The Daily Show

This is from the May 10, 2004 program.


McCain On The Daily Show - Complete
(Small - 19 MB)


McCain On The Daily Show - Part 1 of 2
(Small - 12 MB)

McCain On The Daily Show - Part 2 of 2
(Small - 7 MB)


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Posted by Lisa at 07:31 PM
April 11, 2004
Richard Clarke On The Daily Show

This is from the March 30, 2004 program.


Richard Clarke On The Daily Show - Part 1 of 2
(Small - 15 MB)

Richard Clarke On The Daily Show - Part 2 of 2
(Small - 9 MB)



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Posted by Lisa at 01:40 PM
November 06, 2003
Daily Show Interview With Walter Isaacson About Ben Franklin

Walter Isaacson is a former chairman and CEO of CNN, the President of the Aspen Institute, and the author of A Benjamin Franklin Reader.

Franklin worshippers such as myself will get a lot of mileage out of this interview. There are some lovely descriptions of my man Ben hanging out and doing cool things up until the day he died.

It made me want to read the book.

This is from the October 22, 2003 program.


Interview with Walter Isaacson
(Small - 15 MB)








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Posted by Lisa at 06:09 PM
October 23, 2003
Henry Kissinger On The Daily Show

Henry Kissinger was a guest on
The Daily Show
Monday night.

Pretty good interview. Henry was actually a funny guy. Jon had fun with him.

Hard to believe this is the same guy who ordered the assasination of a democratically-elected President in Chile in 1973 and secretly bombed Cambodia that same year (and got a Nobel Peace Prize for it).

But hey, life is strange.


Here's another Daily Show clip on Kissenger from last December.

This is from the October 20, 2003 program.

Note that these videos aren't using my new format strategy yet as I'm still learning the ropes of it and I have a ton of footage to put up that I generated before learning about it.


Kissinger On Daily Show - Part 1 of 2
(Small - 11 MB)

Kissinger On Daily Show - Part 2 of 2
(Small - 7 MB)

Kissinger On Daily Show - All
(Small - 18 MB)







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Posted by Lisa at 09:39 AM
October 09, 2003
Hillary Clinton On The Daily Show

Hillary was great last night. She isn't optimistic about our future with Arnie though.
She wishes us well because we "have a lot of problems." (No shit. And we just elected a big fat new problem.)

She skillfully dodges Stewart's question about whether or not she'll run for president at the last minute. How about Vice President, Hillary? A Dean/Clinton ticket would sure be a beautiful thing indeed.

This is from the October 8, 2003 program.


Hillary On The Daily Show - Complete
(Small - 20 MB)

Hillary On The Daily Show - Part 1 of 2
(Small - 12 MB)
Hillary On The Daily Show - Part 2 of 2 (Small - 8 MB)



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Posted by Lisa at 07:31 PM
September 25, 2003
Madeline Albright On The Daily Show

This is from the September 16, 2003 program.

This is pretty interesting. Madeline talks about facilitating Middle East Peace talks and how they won't even talk to each other during meetings. Over the years, I have always had mixed feelings about Madeline and her policies (although I must admit, she's been quite on-target lately), but she's always damn fascinating.

Madeline Albright On The Daily Show - Part 1 of 2
(Small - 9 MB)
Madeline Albright On The Daily Show - Part 2 of 2 (Small - 4 MB)

Madeline Albright On The Daily Show - Complete
(Small - 14 MB)



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Posted by Lisa at 08:10 PM
Senator John Edwards Announces His Candidacy On The Daily Show

This is from the September 15, 2003.


Edwards Announces His Presidential Bid
(Small - 11 MB)

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Posted by Lisa at 06:15 PM
September 10, 2003
Al Franken On The Daily Show

The Prince of Fair and Balanced was on the
The Daily Show
last night.

Al took the liberty of pointing out the hypocrisy of the Shrub wearing a flight suit and performing in his little aircraft carrier escapade when, in reality, he not only let his daddy pull strings for him to get into the National Guard so he wouldn't have to go to Vietnam, but then, he didn't even show up for duty, and went AWOL for a year!

I might have to break this up into highlights. But here's the whole thing for now.

Be sure to buy Al's Book too. I'm just starting it, and I already love it. Everybody I've talked to couldn't put the thing down till they were done.

Enjoy!


Al Franken On The Daily Show - Complete
(Small - 13 MB)
Al Franken On The Daily Show - Part 1 of 2 (Small - 8 MB)

Al Franken On The Daily Show - Part 2 of 2
(Small - 6 MB)







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Posted by Lisa at 11:49 AM
August 25, 2003
Dennis Kucinich On The Daily Show

This is from the August 21, 2003 program.

This is the mellowest I've ever seen Kucinich! He came across very well, I think.

Check it out and decide for yourself.

Dennis Kucinich On The Daily Show (Small - 13 MB)








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Posted by Lisa at 04:54 PM
Arianna Huffington On The Daily Show

This is from early February 2003 sometime. (Sorry I can't be more exact!)

I forgot to link to this before, but with Arianna running for Governor in the CA Recall, it seemed relevant to make this available to you.


Arianna Huffington On The Daily Show - Part 1 of 3
(Lres - 26 MB)

Arianna Huffington On The Daily Show - Part 2 of 3
(Lres - 29 MB)

Arianna Huffington On The Daily Show - Part 3 of 3
(Lres - 26 MB)

Lisa is voting NO on the recall and YES on Cruz Bustamante.



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Posted by Lisa at 04:11 PM
August 23, 2003
Daily Show Interview With NY Times Crossword Legend Will Shortz

This is from the August 20, 2003 program.

Will Shortz On The Daily Show (Small - 11 MB)




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Posted by Lisa at 02:59 PM
August 21, 2003
Jim Hightower On The Daily Show

This from the August 18, 2003 program.

Jim Hightower is the author of a new book:
Thieves In High Places
.

Jim Hightower On Texas Democrats Voting With Their Feet (Excerpt)
(Small - 4 MB)


Jim Hightower On The Daily Show - Complete
(Small - 13 MB)






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Posted by Lisa at 03:09 PM
August 14, 2003
Tracey Ullman On The Daily Show

This is from the August 7, 2003 program.

Whether or not you're a Tracey Ullman fan, I think you'll agree that this was a hilarious interview. Tracey talks about her recent trip to Italy and its politics and television -- and ends up with a convincing Kim Cattrall impression.


Tracey Ullman On Daily Show
(Small - 14 MB)




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Posted by Lisa at 07:11 PM
August 10, 2003
Dennis Leary On The Daily Show

This is from the August 4, 2003 program.


Dennis Leary On The Daily Show - Complete
(Small - 15 MB)


Dennis Leary On The Daily Show - Part 1 of 2
(Small - 9 MB)

Dennis Leary On The Daily Show - Part 2 of 2
(Small - 6 MB)




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Posted by Lisa at 10:57 PM
August 07, 2003
Gary Hart On The Daily Show

Exact date unknown -- July is all I know...
(sorry! things slip through the cracks!)


Gary Hart On The Daily Show
(Small - 20 MB)

Gary was on a commission that all but predicted a 911-type disaster in its Sept 15, 1999 report. Lots of interesting stuff about security and the Shrub's "inept" strategies to date.





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Posted by Lisa at 12:33 PM
August 03, 2003
Brian Williams On The Daily Show

Here's an interview with NBC News Anchor Brian Williams - The guy in line to replace Tom Brokaw on the NBC Nightly News after the 2004 Presidential Election Coverage.

Brian and Jon have a pretty interesting discussion about journalists and whether or not they "should" let people know about their own biases.

Brian says that he is a registered Independent and claims that he doesn't even tell his kids or his wife how he votes so that they all have plausible deniability when they say they don't know how he votes. He claims the Washington Post tells their reporters not to vote. I'm not sure how he knows this or how this could be verified, but I certainly wouldn't work for a paper who told me not to vote, and I kind of doubt many of the journalists I read in the Washington Post would either. So I'm not really sure what he actually meant by all of that.

Anyway it's an interesting interview.

Brian Williams On The Daily Show
(Small - 15 MB)




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Posted by Lisa at 03:34 PM
July 29, 2003
Ambassador Joseph Wilson On The Daily Show

Here's an interview with Ambassador Joseph Wilson -- the guy that's been touring the circuit explaining how he discovered the Niger Uranium WMD situation couldn't have happened as originally reported.

This is from the July 24, 2003 show.

This is a long interview, so I've made it available in its entirety and in two parts.

Joseph Wilson On Daily Show - Part 1 of 2 (Small - 12 MB)
Joseph Wilson On Daily Show - Part 2 of 2 (Small - 10 MB)
Joseph Wilson On Daily Show (Complete) (Small - 21 MB)




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Posted by Lisa at 02:07 PM
June 25, 2003
Daily Show Interview With Harper's Magazine's Lewis Lapham

Here's a Daily Show interview with Lewis Lapham, Senior Editor for Harper's Magazine.

This interview was broadcast on June 17, 2003.

Lewis Lapham On The Daily Show



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Posted by Lisa at 02:50 PM
June 05, 2003
Madeleine Albright On The Daily Show

Here is last night's interview with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Fascinating stuff. They talk about North Korea and what's really going on over there (not what we're told here -- that the country's leader is just a looney tune) -- and how the United States is pretty much hated and feared by the rest of the world at this point. (How sad.)

Hi-res versions will go up later today.

Madeleine Albright On The Daily Show - Part 1 of 2 (Small - 12 MB)
Madeleine Albright On The Daily Show - Part 2 of 2 (Small - 8 MB)




The Daily Show
(the best news on television).

Posted by Lisa at 07:29 AM
April 20, 2003
Martha Burk On The Daily Show

Martha Burk, chair of the National Council Of Women's Organizations, was on the Daily Show a few weeks ago. Martha has been protesting and speaking out against the
Male-only policy at the Augusta Golf Club (owned by Augusta National, Inc.).

According to Burk, Augusta members such as Bill Gates and the CEOs of General Electric and Bank of America won't stand up for women's rights because they don't want to cross "Hootie", the President of the Club.

Burk also explains how the Klu Klux Klan have stepped up to support the Club's discriminatory poilcy, saying "This civil rights stuff has gone too far. We support the club. Keep the women out."

She also explains why this battle is one worth fighting.

Audio - Martha Burk On The Daily Show - All (MP3 - 10 MB)

Martha Burk On The Daily Show Part 1 of 2 (Small - 7 MB)
Martha Burk On The Daily Show Part 2 of 2 (Small - 8 MB)

Martha Burk On The Daily Show Part 1 of 2 (Hi-res - 93 MB)
Martha Burk On The Daily Show Part 2 of 2 (Hi-res - 113 MB)


The Daily Show -- the best news on television.

Posted by Lisa at 03:41 PM
April 04, 2003
Chris Rock On Supporting Our Troops While Still Being Against The War

Chris Rock On The Daily Show (Small - 3 MB)
Chris Rock On The Daily Show (Hi-res - 36 MB)





Posted by Lisa at 11:05 AM
March 18, 2003
Eric Alterman On The Daily Show

Eric Alterman On The Daily Show (10 MB)

Posted by Lisa at 05:02 PM
March 11, 2003
Comedian David Cross On The Daily Show

Here's comedian David Cross explaining how he was able to sponsor a bomb for Iraq. He explains that it's sort of like sponsoring a star -- you don't know which one you're going to get or where it will hit.
(He's hoping for a schoolyard :-)
Audio - David Cross On Daily Show (MP3 - 2 MB)
David Cross On Daily Show (Lo-res 10 MB)
David Cross On Daily Show (Hi-res 28 MB)

If this clip isn't enough for you, looks like the entire interview is up on the Daily Show site right now too...

Posted by Lisa at 10:14 AM
January 15, 2003
January 07, 2003
Katrina vanden Heuvel On The Daily Show

Here's a great Daily Show interview from last month with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor-in-chief of "The Nation".

I had saved this on my TIVO and sort of forgotten about it until I ran across Katrina's name again reading Michael Moore's latest book. (She's on his dream list of women presidents.)

In the interview, Katrina talks about democracy and freedom of speech and political debate and how there really isn't any anymore.

Jon Stewart is obviously concerned about the state of our country these days. It's so great for him to have important guests like this on television. I only hope that more people will watch.

I think you will find it interesting.

QuickTime video and MP3 audio files below:

Katrina vanden Heuvel on the Daily Show


Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel - Low-res 28 MB

Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel - Med-res 42 MB

Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel - Hi-res 55 MB

Audio - Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel - MP3 6MB

Posted by Lisa at 07:47 AM