Governor finds out that the Daily Show is Comedy the Hard Way.
By going on the show thinking it was a legit news show.
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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.
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Crazed Rabbit
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I think the saddest part of the whole affair is that it gave a Republican the opportunity to say that he was "hipper" than a Democrat, and not be wrong.
Egads...
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I'm telling you, these guys sometimes have no idea. They couldnt even go into the grocery store and shop because they wouldnt know how to push a cart or know how to ask one of the dirty workers people what aisle the soup was on
"Wow! Scanners! How long have you had those?" <-----guess the president who said that
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"Wow! Scanners! How long have you had those?" <-----guess the president who said that
If memory serves, that was King George the First. I recall being floored by that comment.
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If memory serves, that was King George the First. I recall being floored by that comment.
I guess being in the White House for 12 years, he didnt get out to the grocery store much.
