the daily show,iran,jason jones Behind the Scenes of The Daily Show Going to Iran

Behind the Scenes of The Daily Show Going to Iran

posted by geo321

1 month ago • 3088 views

tags: the daily show, iran, jason jones

A behind the scenes look at Jason Jones's trip to Iran for The Daily Show.

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written by NetRunner

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Adding video to channels (News, Politics, Worldaffairs) - requested by NetRunner.

written by siftbot

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One of their best segments they ever had, I was extremely proud of my favorite news program.

written by Yogi

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If I had any points I would be so qualitying this.

written by oxdottir

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*nsfw for "fucking"

Great post!

written by krazyety | 1 month ago | CH

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*quality

written by moodonia

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Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by moodonia.

written by siftbot

| 1 month ago | CH

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Excellent segment.

I wonder what happens if a video gets *quality twice within a few hours?

written by notarobot

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This video has already declared quality - ignoring quality request by notarobot.

written by siftbot

| 1 month ago | CH

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Ah, thanks sifty. Knowing is half the battle, the rest is not bombing innocent people.

written by notarobot

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*promote

written by E_Nygma

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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Saturday, October 17th, 2009 9:25pm PDT - promote requested by E_Nygma.

written by siftbot

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Anyone who's interested in modern Iranian history and the situation today should read "Iran Awakening" by Shirin Ebadi (2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner). It's a fascinating book by a fascinating woman.

written by rasch187

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By far one of the Daily Show's best pieces. The real tugging part was seeing how many of the guys they had been in Iran joking with in interviews, getting arrested during the election unrest after. The series is something every westerner should have to see to understand that 'our' problem with Iran is the same one faced by most of Iran's people, their current government leaders.

While both the left and right over here argue about the tyranny we face here, and whether the solution is removing all sanctions against Iran or bombing it into the stone ages, the people of Iran are fighting to solve the problem themselves and literally risking their lives to change the direction their leadership is taking their country.

written by bcglorf | 1 month ago | CH

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This was super-awesome. Apparently you can't pull a fast one as well on the Iranians (as you can on the Americans).

written by Nebosuke | 1 month ago | CH

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Thought this was an awesome idea...

....until I found out they're coming back. BA-DUMP chiiiing!

written by quantumushroom

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Governments need a 'bad guy' to focus the attention of their people on. Otherwise the people would focus on their own government and are thus more likely to figure out how their own government is screwing them over.

written by honkeytonk73

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Re: irony and sarcasm - had a similar experience in China, it surprised me that they 'got' ironic and sarcastic jokes. Radically different linguistics but apparently humor is more ancient and universal.

written by Memorare

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Wonderful.

Whoa, that's the first time I've ever said that non-sarcastically

*quality

edit: well, I can't quality it, but it is the though that counts right?

written by aceofkidneys

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Invocations (quality) cannot be called by aceofkidneys because aceofkidneys is not privileged - sorry.

written by siftbot

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Jason Jones is Canadian!!!

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