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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 10:27 PM
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(NY NewsDay) Daily Show 'reporter' pulls City Hall (Gannon) spoof
(This one is NOT one to miss)

BY BRYAN VIRASAMI AND WILLIAM MURPHY
STAFF WRITERS

February 28, 2005, 7:25 PM EST

The reporter was fake, using a fake name, spoofing alleged fake White House reporter "Jeff Gannon." But the news conference was real serious.

A "correspondent" from the fake news show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, was outside City Hall yesterday to get some answers from City Council Speaker Gifford Miller.

Wearing a badly groomed hair piece, a fake mustache and an ugly 1970s tie, Rob Corddry waited patiently until after the real reporters had posed their questions to ask one about about Social Security.

Standing awkwardly with his legs far apart as though he were getting ready to sprint, nodding in agreement to every word spoken by Miller about the West Side Stadium, Corddry finally raised his hand.

"Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker," he shouted, as if in a White House news conference, identifying himself as "Dino Ironbody"

His question: "How do you feel about the president's awesome plan to privatize Social Security?"
(more at link)
<http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/politics/nyc-camp03011,0,6857441.story?coll=nyc-homepage-breaking2>
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LSdemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 10:31 PM
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1. I know what I am going to be watching in a half hour
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 10:34 PM
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2. I trust TDS to tell me the truth more than any "mainstream news"
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:40 PM
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3. TDS reports more news in 30 minutes than CNN reports All Day
Replay at 1:00am EST:evilgrin:
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