You know that your issue has hit the mainstream when it is the main segment in Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He can say in a few words what I can't say as well in paragraphs. Last night's four-minute fake news segment on the Justice Department's email release lampoons how crazy it is to leave a trail of evidence in email.
Stewart shows a series of three emails. The first two are legit. But, the third one, on the left, is from the fake news writers. I love it. Watch the video.
There have been some problems with the video link to Comedy Central. Here is a copy of the script, courtesy of CNN:
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JON STEWART, "THE DAILY SHOW": A flat-out denial from Gonzales. You know, in the good old days, that would have been the end of the story. The Republican Congress would have said, huh? What? You didn't? OK. And gone back to, say, building bridges in Alaska to save Terry Schiavo from gay flag burners.
But now, the opposition party controls Congress, and they can perform a very complicated legal maneuver, known as asking for things. Like all the internal e-mails about the matter. Among them, this one, where, quote -- where the man who did the firing admits he'd never even looked at the performance of one of the men that he fired. Another e-mail relating Karl Rove's desire to remove up to 20 percent of U.S. attorneys who are not "loyal Bushies." And this e-mail that says, "let's fire U.S. attorneys for purely political reasons and make sure we keep all the e-mails. PS, I am cheating on my wife with an underaged boy. PPS, seriously, don't delete thisquot;
Yes. Some people, they don't know the power of the e-mail. And I'm sure there's an emoticon that goes with, I am cheating on my wife with an underage boy. Some version of a frowning face.
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