

There are no words. You can try amazing, unreal, astonished -- heck add them all up and they don't begin to tell this story. Your jaw will hit the ground, your feet are likely to fail you, you will never ever think of Janet Jackson's nipple again. We have never been more shocked by regular t.v. - at least in this millenium. Below, is the contact information for Representative Pitts should this clip move you to give him your thoughts. Washington Office 221 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 (1st Street and Independence Avenue) 202 225-2411 202 225-2013 (fax) Or you can fill out a form at http://www.house.gov/pitts/service/correspond.htm
Once again The Daily Show hits one out of the ballpark with this piece on the congressional softball league which I remember fondly from a summer internship on the Hill. But like all things in D.C. these days, power and partisanship led the republicans to break from tradition and form their own softball league. But sticking with recent tradition, republicans refused to speak on camera when confronted about their shenanigans and hid behind their lawyers (reminding me of a recent altercation I had with a republican lawyer who chose to hide behind his wife rather than speak to me directly). Or, as Daily Show correspondent Dan Bakkedahl poetically put it, they acted like "pussies". Unfortunately, like most things republicans do these days, there are serious consequences to their actions. And it's hard to know whether to laugh or cry when Bakkedahl asks a republican operative at the end of the segment if he "would say that [his] decision to storm out in the middle of an interview reflect the general dickishness amongst republicans that's probably responsible for the fact that New Orleans is under water".
THE DAILY SHOW touched on the net neutrality issue on 12 july 2006, featuring a three-part feverish old-man diatribe by ted stevens (head of the senate commerce committee) explaining how the internets work. by the third part, i could barely breathe, for all the laughter. my god.
Samantha Bee's take on 'Snakes on a Plane'. August 21. Hilarious.
Corddry leaves The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I'll miss him. Aug 24 '06.
Samantha Bee takes a candid look at the future of robot technology in a segment called "Future Shock". August 23, 2006.