Jason Jones files his final report on the Indian elections with a look at the controversy over the new prime minister Narendra Modi’s record while he was chief minister of Gujarat state when riots resulted in the deaths of 1000 people, mostly Muslims. In the manner of Michael Moore in his Roger and Me documentary, Jones tries repeatedly to interview Modi to get answers about his role in those events.
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The Daily Show correspondent doggedly continues in his effort to try and teach Indians how to run their elections better. In this hilarious episode, he looks at their media coverage.
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The Daily Show has been paying attention to the Indian elections and sent Jason Jones to India to give the people of that nation advice on how to run a proper election, since we do such a great job here. He finds that things are not quite what he expected.
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One of the things that the internet has enabled is the rise of the troll, the person who gains temporary fame by making some outrageous statement that lots of people pounce on in order to denounce it, such as the pastor of a New York City church who called for the stoning of ‘homos’.
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It is quite odd how some things that should be obvious are not so purely because tradition has deadened our sensibility. For example, it has long been standard practice for medical research on animals to use only male specimens since it was argued that the presence of female hormones would add another uncontrollable variable in the testing. This seemed reasonable enough that it was uncontroversial until people started finding that when the resulting medicines were used on women, unexpected things happened. The National Institutes of Health now demands that all testing be done on both males and females, something that seems glaringly obvious now.
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The senator from Massachusetts is hosting a conference on The New Populism tomorrow in Washington, DC that seeks to promote the following agenda:
The New Populism Conference is an all-day event focused on strategies for educating, energizing and mobilizing around an agenda for economic change that strong majorities of Americans already support, including:
- Investing in good jobs to achieve full employment
- Ensuring that anyone who works full time should not be in poverty
- Breaking up the banks that are “too big to fail”
- Increasing, not cutting, Social Security benefits
- Recognizing that America is not broke; the rich and big corporations are not paying their fair share.
- Rejecting the Supreme Court’s view that corporations are people, and refusing to let big money buy our democracy.
He suggests that talk shows should change their format so as to more accurately reflect the weight of scientific support on either side.
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What amazes me is that in their desire to keep taxes low and eliminate government regulations, the oligarchs in the US seem to be succeeding in convincing many ordinary people to deliberately set about destroying the very things that America was once noted for.
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Jason Jones is exasperated with Jon Stewart because he does not seem to be able to grasp the fact that while there may be great similarities between the two nations, there is a simple difference that makes Russia an oligarchy while America remains a democracy.
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I cannot believe that we are talking about Monica Lewinsky again. It should have been a non-story when it originally happened in 1998 and it should be even less of a story now. It was incredible how a consensual affair between two adults actually led to impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton and to an unbelievable level of voyeurism masquerading as news and moralizing.
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