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In the wall-to-wall coverage of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi yesterday, which was dominated by gruesome images of his lifeless body that I felt the networks went overboard with, two moments stood out. The oddest was when Regis Philbin read live the news of Gaddafi’s death on Live With Regis And Kelly to cheers and applause from the audience so big that even the veteran host was taken aback. The most intriguing was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s reaction to reading the news on her BlackBerry, accidentally caught on tape: you rarely see state officials in such unguarded moments. As for TV personas who stood out, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart did his thing with an amusing look at Gaddafi with all his weirdness as well as the news coverage of his death. And then there was the unlikely hero of that news coverage yesterday, former Friends star Matthew Perry, thanks to a scene from his first series, the long-forgotten 1987 sitcom Second Chance, which has a scene indicating that Gaddafi dies on July 29, 2011. Here is that scene as well as The Daily Show‘s segment on Gaddafi.
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I’m so embarrassed for Jon Stewart.
I’m not. It was funny and informative. I’m pretty sure that’s what he was going for.
@cornball : I’m embarrassed for you that you are so partisan that you can’t admit how funny he was…
TDS just proved why that award should’ve gone to the Colbert Report. They floundered as usual lately where Colbert blew it out of the water.
As much as I love Colbert, I completely disagree with your statement. It seems like ever since the Emmy’s, the Colbert Report has dropped in quality. The writing still has its laughs but not as much as it did before. He’s focusing too much on the superpac shtick that it just overall diminishes the show. The Daily Show is as good as ever in my opinion.
I remember the show “Second Chance”. It used to come on FOX when the network first started.
Gaddafi shouldn’t have been killed but kept alive and taken to court and convicted, either found guilty or not that would be courts ruling. No one has d right to kill, may be,you never know he could be Inocent. Remember it said “When u kill with a sword, u will be killed by a sword “May his soul rest in internal peace.
I agree with you, for civilians. I am 100% against the death penalty, except in cases of war crimes/crimes against humanity and military tribunals (for the military, not on civilians, mind you).
The rules are different when you are the one in charge of a country. When you have your finger on the button and can launch missiles, ect. Saddam, Osama, Gaddafi — to pick the politically safe targets of the moment — are okay to kill, either in combat or on the hangman’s noose. Military can use a rope for capital punishment, and I support this too.
Are you high? Gaddafi deserved to die. And, is English your second language?
Are you retarted? And is thinking your second thing you do before posting?
What’s the first thing he does before posting? And what does he do right after posting, why didn’t it occur to you to ask that question? Think, Tab.
There is no internal, external, eternal, literal or proverbial peace unless we live it in this lifetime. And Qadaffi didn’t live it. So he died sooner than later, who among true believers can say for sure that it wasn’t the hand of god in that young man’s trigger finger?
Let the chaos reign supreme. The president co-opts C.I.A. tactics using NATO and the country cheers a (granted) ruthless dictator being driven around on the hood of a truck. Thank you C.I.A. for yet another inchoate and theoretically nascent “democracy” (like Iraq and Afghanistan) that Scientology will be itching to “clean” up.
Start the fire. Rush in to put it out and declare in your own minds to be unsung heroes. Really classy moves unsettling an already unsettled region and world.
The Beatles’ “Long and Winding Road” Obama? How much more of an ideological plagiarist can you possibly be? Give me a break.
“Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!” Jon Stewart brings the genuine clarity of Melville to the party every night as does all contemporary political satire that takes no prisoners.
Put the Blackberry away Hillary. You look like a poser, a fake, and a clown. Be happy Hillary. Your inflammatory speech indirectly calling for Gadhafi’s assassination…worked. Let Bubba, the C.I.A., and Scientology tell and how and when to curtsy and in front of which camera.
How was your speech not indirectly suggesting a Mafia-style “hit” in a press-covered public forum?
Isn’t “tech” magical? It makes killing as efficient as churning out a pre-fabricated speech designed to provoke the susceptible.
Smile for that Blackberry baby. Open wide. You know you love it. Do that again.
I’m sorry. Could you say that again? I didn’t quite catch that.
How wonderful to see the great character actor Joseph Maher in that Second Chance clip.
Wow, can’t believe how low the bar used to be for sitcoms.
Ha! I remember that because I saw it and said ” that will be my 40th birthday on July 29, 2011″. Thanks for e memory.
We’re all going to die someday. That the man that blew up a planefull of innocents over Lockerbee Scotland, that opened fire on his own unarmed people, that spent hundreds of millions of his people’s money on his own personal wealth was shot– I’m not going to shed one tear, bleeding hearts. He got what he deserved. He was a monster. And he got off easy.
Kids dying of cancer each day, and some limp-wristed armchair intellectuals deeply concerned that an evil mass-murdering fuck was shot on sight. Had he been hit by a goddamn bus, would you feel better?
Get your priorities straight and live in the real world once in a while.
And Stewart hit that out of the park. Can’t wait until this country elects another Texas Republican, because the last one worked out so well.
What is happening in the world is because of the frustration of the majority community of that country. It should be a great lesson to every politician, especially those who are in power. Tolerance has its own limit.