{"id":1782,"date":"2006-08-21T22:42:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T22:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/21\/democracy_and_t\/"},"modified":"2006-08-21T22:42:50","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T22:42:50","slug":"democracy_and_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/21\/democracy_and_t\/","title":{"rendered":"DEMOCRACY AND THE DAILY SHOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>REPOSTED FROM VOX 8\/09<br \/>\nWe seem to have a DAILY SHOW thread going &#8212; not just here but across the web.  My favorite is a piece on ALTERNET by the great writer and wonderful editor Jessica Clark,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/mediaculture\/40051\/\"> &#8220;Comedy, Like Reality, Has a Liberal Bias<\/a>.&#8221;  It debunks some of the complaints about current political satire &#8212; reminding us that there&#8217;s a basis in reality to much of the brilliant satire served up every night on Comedy Central.  Beyond that, she reminds that &#8212; well read the piece.  It&#8217;s worth the time and not very long anyway<\/p>\n<p>To really understand the appeal of the program, however, go beyond the Bush-bashing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kiZ-TqvVdGM\">this<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REPOSTED FROM VOX 8\/09 We seem to have a DAILY SHOW thread going &#8212; not just here but across the web. My favorite is a piece on ALTERNET by the great writer and wonderful editor Jessica Clark, &#8220;Comedy, Like Reality, Has a Liberal Bias.&#8221; It debunks some of the complaints about current political satire &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/21\/democracy_and_t\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DEMOCRACY AND THE DAILY SHOW<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[97],"tags":[82,268,1651,992,2583,1814],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-bush","tag-comedy","tag-comedy-central","tag-satire","tag-stewart","tag-young-voters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-sK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}