Guests would you like to see on "The Daily Show"? Goodman, Chomsky, or?

[NAO]

Who would you really like to see as guests on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"?

Stewart often has guests that the major networks will not allow anywhere near their studios - people who are banished from the mainstream and whose views are completely excluded from TV land and it's version of manufactured reality.

By doing this, Stewart helps bring important view into the mainstream. I think some important people that would make fantastic guests and could thereby promote their important books include:


Noam Chomsky. no comment required.

Amy Goodman, author of "The Exception to the Rulers" and host of Democracy Now!

Greg Palast, author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy"

David Ray Giffin, author of "The New Pearl Harbor" (9/11 Bush LIHOP-MIHIP) and "The Omissions and Distortions of the 9/11 Commission Report".

Michael C. Ruppert, author of "Crossing the Rubicon" and creator of "From the Wilderness" website and newsletter.

What other important authors/activists would you like to see given media exposure on "The Daily Show"?

[Taverner]

1. Greg Palast

Amy Goodman, I love her to death, but she's the textbook example of the circular firing squad we have in the progressive community.

Noam is right, but way too far left to be taken seriously.

The other two I'm not too familiar with...and Palast is a hard hitting REAL investigative journalist who gets straight to the point.

[cronincal]

2. bill maher

a bush-bashing contest

[newyawker99]

11. Hi cronincal!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[cronincal]

12. belated thanks for the welcome

just figuring this out

[BlueWolff]

3. GREAT START

I would like to see M. Ruppert on the show. I would like to see Ruppert on Bill Mahr ...go after (Adam's apple)Coulter or Andrew "crybaby"Sullivan....
One can dream!!!Can't one!

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

4. Michael C. Ruppert

Crossing the Rubicon was an amazing read. Everyone must pick up that book--it gives a clear concise analysis of 9/11 all the important facts and goodies the MSM have never "reported" on.

He would be an amazing guest, along with all the others.

[NAO]

8. Crossing the Rubicon is THE most important book I've read in a long time

and I am an avid reader.

I read CTR cover to cover - it took me 29 days to plow thru the 600 pages - but it went so fast because the material was so remarkable, so interesting, so riveting.

Paradigm shifts and (apparently) disparate puzzle pieces coming together into a tightly integrated, highly coherent narrative that explains so many things - just not the type of thing you come across every day.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

10. I couldn't put it down

it took me just under 10 days...truly fascinating.

i couldn't explain it better then u did

[welshTerrier2]

5. Ben Franklin ...

how cool would that be ... bet you they'd get a really big audience too ...



of course, if you're going to nit-pick and require a living person, I'd love to see Arundhati Roy ...

[lostnfound]

6. Also maybe Sibel Edmonds nt

[NAO]

9. 9-11 Truth Movement needs exposure

I can't believe how much hard evidence there is that the official story is a total crock...and yet except for a tiny sliver of activists, people are not aware of the big lies that were told by the 9-11 Commission and the important questions that they just completely ignored.

911 Truth Movement - Central Portal Website
http://www.911truth.org/

[NMDemDist2]

7. that would be to close to "real news" TDS's strength is that it is "fake

news"

any of those guests would be way to close to serious left wing activism

he can get away with Bill Maher but that's about it

[rqstnnlitnmnt]

13. AMY!!!

I fully credit Amy Goodman with my awakening in 2004 as an involved, informed progressive.

I found her book at a shopping mall in my home town while I was stopping by to see my brother on the way to the beach with my friends. The store was going out of business and everything in the store was 50% off.

I bought "Exception to the Rulers", "House of Bush, House of Saud", and "Bushwhacked"(Molly Ivins). Until that point, I had never read a book critical of the Bush administration (I hated the Bushies of course, but could never articulate a good position on it).

Luckily I live in a progressive-as-hell city (Charlottesville, VA -- if you haven't visited here DO IT NOW, you will be utterly amazed) and they air DN! on public access.

Definitely the singular most important moment of 2004, possibly my life.

Palast, et al...they're great. But Amy will always have a special place in my heart.