This is from the Monday, October 27, 2003 program and details the bombings on Paul Wolfowitz’ hotel, and, oh, the irony of it all.
Mess-o-potamia Update – October 27, 2003 (Small – 8 MB)
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This clip was shown after this clip on October 29, 2003.
In this clip, Rob Courddry probes further into the familiar pattern of the Shrub’s blaming his mistakes on other agencies he, theoretically, has complete control over as Commander In Chief.
For example, it was the CIA’s fault about the faulty WMD intelligence that was included in his State Of The Union Address. Now it’s the Navy’s fault for following orders and hanging up the “Mission Accomplished” sign at his May 1 press conference.
Rob Courddry On “The Sign” (Small – 6 MB)
(Below: What the sign said.)
(Below: What they meant for the sign to say.)
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This clip from the October 29, 2003 show has the Shrub answering questions at his latest press conference (Oct 28-29, 2003 or so), where he talks rather vaguely about “terrorists” who are responsible for the latest round of suicide bombings in Iraq.
(This clip goes with this clip.)
What the Shrub says, and what his press secretary clarifies later, is that it’s the Navy’s fault for misrepresenting that the war was over with the “Mission Accomplished” sign. (Despite the fact that all the Navy did was put up the sign that the White House printed up and brought to the event.)
Jon Stewart:
“The White House is basically saying they can’t be held responsible for what the Navy does with a sign that they made and brought to the ship.”
Here’s the little clip about “the sign”:
The Shrub Blaming the Navy for “The Sign” (Small – 4 MB)
Here’s the complete clip of this bit:
Jon Stewart On The President’s Latest Press Conference (Small – 11 MB)
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David Blane’s latest “magic” trick was hanging in a box above London and starving himself for 45 days. I’m not kidding. That’s the whole trick.
As Jon says: (paraphrase) It’s incredible! How did he do it? How do millions of people in third world countries all over the world do it every day! What a feat!
Jon took it upon himself to comment on David Blane’s starvation routine twice last week. Once on October 20, 2003 and again on October 21, 2003. Additionally, Ed Helms provided an insightful commentary on the subject on October 21, 2003.
Jon On David Blane – October 20 (Small – 2 MB)
Jon On David Blane – October 21, 2003 (Small – 6 MB)
Commentary On David Blane By Ed Helms (Small – 4 MB)
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Highlights include: the Shrub in traditional Thailand attire, the First Lady waiting to hear her Manchurian Candidate trigger word, and Colin Powell informing us all that plutonium is not edible. (Damn. The Manchurian Candidate thing is in a later clip.)
This is from the October 21, 2003 program.
The Shrub’s Trip To Asia (Small – 8 MB)
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This is incredible. The Shrub didn’t tell Arnie anything important because, heck, Arnie didn’t ask 🙂
Only in Californi-ay. Only in the U.S. of A.
This is from the October 20, 2003 program.
Arnie and The Shrub: Twins (Small – 8 MB)
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Here’s a little Daily Show Clip from October 20th or 21st.
(No I can’t remember which – the file is named “20” but my notes say it was the 21st. So shoot me. These things happen and I’m moving to fast to go back and look.)
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Simon Woodside is my hero this week.
He’s been very patiently educating my stupid ass all week long about how to make my video’s smaller, look better, and play well in all browsers.
Now, in all fairness Kevin Marks has been trying to help me do this for weeks (months?), but for some reason the instructions just weren’t clicking in my brain. Sorry Kevin!
The first result of Simon’s tutoring to come to fruition this week is a revamped version of the old Daily Show clip of Henry Kissinger heading up the “Independent” 911 investigation committee. (Yes he was subsequently taken off that committee.)
Update: lots of folks wanted a direct link to the movie file — so there it is!
The Daily Show rendition of the event is priceless. (I re-edited it a bit.)
This all came up recently when Henry Kissinger appeared on the Daily Show this last Monday night (October 20, 2003).
So please let me know – lisarein@finetuning.com — how these new movies play in your browser and if you like them better. This one’s just a file generated from the quicktime I generated earlier, so the quality issues can’t be addressed. But, once I figure out what Simon is trying to teach me, I believe I will be delivering all of my movies in this manner. (Unless you write me to tell me it sucks and to stick with the imovie-defaulted “email” movies I’ve been using.)
Thanks again Simon!!!
lisa
This is a great clip. And not just cause I’m a Deanie. This is just plain funny.
Steve follows Howard around at one of his speaking engagements, and then turns the tables and makes Dean get behind the camera to film the event.
Right on to Steve Carell for putting this together.
This piece was produced by Jim Margolis and edited by Einar Westerlund.
This is from the October 9, 2003 program.
Trail and Tribulations (Small – 12 MB)
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Why is Arnie so sad about it? The salary he’ll be making, and that he has to move to Sacramento 🙂
This is from the October 8, 2003 program.
Steve Carell On Arnie’s Sad Win (Small – 7 MB)
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