"The Daily Show" Does the Speaker's Race
Last night we finally got to see The Daily Show segment on alleged anti-Semitism in the 2011 speaker's race, complete with a brief clip of Joe Straus at our TribLive conversation series in January 2010. While it wasn't everything as advertised — the promised interview with state Rep. Elliott Naishtat, D-Austin, got left on the cutting room floor — it definitely elicited a few laughs. And that John Oliver: such a punim! Happy Yom Chechecheche...
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Comments (7)
Diana Kern via Texas Tribune on Facebook
absolutely hysterical!!!
Evelyn White via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Tee hee hee
John Reiser via Texas Tribune on Facebook
"Funny?" Calling that piece funny is like calling Arnold Palmer likable. It was one of the funniest things I have seen on TV since Liz Cheney attempted to impersonate a foreign policy guru.
Vicki Rawlins McCuistion via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Kind of agree with John,Texas politics gives the Daily show lots of potential material. The Straus story is more sad than funny. Although I liked the prayer vigil in advance of the vote and how God rewarded his chosen people again! Just wishing Straus wasn't trying so hard at being a close minded conservative now, thought he was more moderate.
Michael B Openshaw
Pretty thin gruel with a lot of manufactured stuff for laughs. Being they filmed dozens of Tea Party types (including myself) and ended up using NONE of it speaks volumes (I guess my Buddhist wife and the Muslim family I'm sponsoring in Africa didn't fit the image they were looking for). We certainly weren't 'led' by Cook, nor were the issues related to religion at all. A parody of a parody is all they could come up with? That's pretty sad on their part- and why it took this long to see the light of day.
Beth Myler
You write that this story is about ALLEGED anti-Semitism? This story reveals blatant, overt anti-Semitism.
Michael B Openshaw
Hogwash, Beth! They interviewed scores of people and all they could manage to find only one that they could make look even remotely like it was an issue with Straus's religion- and required heavy editing. They couldn't show the actual gathering the day of the caucus; it might have been hard to cut out several members of the anti-Straus forces wearing their kippah. Yes, several members who showed up to advocate voting against Straus were Jewish. .