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Daily Show Coverage Of The Republican National Convention-Day 1-Part 3

This is from the
August 31, 2004 program.
In this clip, Stephen Colbert goes on a fact finding mission to the streets of New York City in order to quelch all the cynics who accuse the Repubs of having the convention in NY in order to exploit 911.
Why The Repubs Picked NYC (Small – 11 MB)

mirror of the above clip

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Daily Show Coverage Of The Republican National Convention-Day 1-Part 1

The Daily Show’s coverage of the Republican National Convention was so awesome that I’ve decided to bring all of it to you in its entirety.
Every day will have a “repubconv-1,2,3,” an interview labeled by name and other little bits, including some “Moments of Zen” and closing credits that were just too cool to not post.
Sean Bonner has been nice enough to mirror the clips for me, so we can all see them at once (hopefully).
These clips below are from the
August 31, 2004 program.
The clip below highlights the 911 theme of the evening. McCain, Rudolph Guliani, and Michael Moore are all featured (when McCain mentions Moore by name in his speech).
911 Fest At the Repub Convention (Small – 6 MB)

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Mirror of the above clip)
Here’s the complete clip of the Daily Show’s opening bit of coverage that the 911 clip was excerpted from. (Small – 15 MB)




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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)

Daily Show Debunks The Shrub’s Attempt At Debunking Kerry’s Purple Hearts

This is from the August 9, 2004 program.
Jon Stewart and his crew provide their usual excellent job of researching the facts before going to press. (Too bad the “real” press isn’t as good at doing this.)
It turns out that not even one of the people in the anti-Kerry ad denouncing his purple hearts actually served with Kerry in Vietnam. They were in Vietnam at the time, but never knew Kerry. The doctor who appears in the ad also never actually treated Kerry — or at least his name wasn’t found on any of Kerry’s medical records from Vietnam.
Nice try guys — but you’re no match for
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Debunking the Debunking of Kerry’s Purple Hearts 7 MB
(mirror)
(Thanks to
Sean Bonner for mirroring this clip!)

Jon Stewart Nails Cheney In An Outright Lie

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This is from the June 21, 2004 program.
Stewart: “Mr. Vice President, I have to inform you: You’re pants are on fire.”
Cheney said he never stated that it was “pretty well confirmed” that meetings had taken place between Saddam’s Officials and Al Queda members. The Daily Show dug up the Meet the Press coverage from December 9, 2001 that proves otherwise.
As a blogger and “traditional” journalist, I always hesitate to throw the word “lie” around unless I can validate my statement. How wonderful that we live in an age where I can present my case and back it up with evidence all on one interactive medium (for those that have quicktime, anyway…)
I also had the luxury of having the Daily Show With Jon Stewart to do my homework for me.
Here’s the Complete Video Clip of the contradicting statements as presented within this larger daily show clip. (The larger clip also contains footage of the Shrub and Rummy making excuses for their past inaccurate statements.)
Here’sa tiny clip of Cheney denying he ever said the meeting was “pretty well confirmed.
(Source: CNBC)
CNBC: “You have said in the past that it was quote “pretty well confirmed.”
Cheney: “No, I never said that. Never said that. Absolutely not.”
Here’s a little clip of the Meet the Press footage
where he clearly did say just that such a meeting was “pretty well confirmed.”
(Source: Meet The Press, December 9, 2001)
Cheney: “It’s been pretty well confirmed, that he didn’t go to Prague and he did meet with a Senior Official of the Iraqi Intelligence service.”

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Daily Show On Shrub Administration’s Bogus Terror Report

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This is from the June 14, 2004 program.
Colin Powell was on Meet the Press apologizing for this last weekend — the Shrub Administration released a War On Terror update report that had 8 pages of errors and retractions and lots of other questionable material throughout.
(Colin said he wasn’t a “happy camper” having to apologize for it.)

The Shrub’s Bogus Terror Report (Small – 9 MB)

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