EPISODE NUMBER: 7090 (July 14, 2011)
GUESTS: Jose Antonio Vargas
SEGMENTS: Carmaggeddon | May the Best Stephen Colbert Win | Murdoch’s Media Empire Might Go Down the Toilet | Improvised Expressive Devices
SUIT REPORT: Emmy-Caliber Gray Suit | Powder Blue Shirt | Navy and Gray Be-spotted Tie
VIDEOS: Thursday, July 14, 2011
In this episode, we close a truly fantastic week with an Emmy (nominee) celebration, some terrifying transit news for our friends in California, some excellent art commentary, and a thorough review of Mr. Murdoch’s current unraveling control of, well, his total media control.
I imagined at some point this week Stephen would touch on the amazing situation with Murdoch. Is this the turning point, and an argument for de-monopolizing media? Only time will tell, but it doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun watching Rome burn.
It was also fun watching Jose Antonio Vargas, such a sweet guy, but Stephen was all poker face, staying closely in character. We all know how important the issue of immigration is to Stephen, so you aren’t fooling anyone, Sir.
“I’ve already got two, so this could lead to an Emmy three-way.”
“We thought enhanced interrogation would give us information, but instead we turned Gitmo into an artist’s colony full of literally tortured artists.”
And some art commentary, reminiscent of old;
“Consider this still life by one of the inmates. The melon; cleft in twain, a severed completeness, an island identity isolated from the whole, proxy for the prisoner removed from society, foregrounded the reduction becomes amplification, hegemonic historical myth-making, undercut by the end-scape non-space of the White, this is canvas as theater of existential warfare, an insurgency of the voiceless subaltern.“
Some great work from the graphics department- shout out, hey!
A little Australia shout-out.
There’s been no mention of my favorite Anglo- Austrailian- American- media billionaire mogul News Corp Chairman and Five Time Illluminati Dark Lord of the Month Rupert Murdoch.
“Raise your right hand. Raise your left hand. Now, go turn yourself into the authorities.”
July 14, 2011– Jose Antonio Vargas
GUESTS: Jose Antonio Vargas
SEGMENTS: Carmaggeddon | May the Best Stephen Colbert Win | Murdoch’s Media Empire Might Go Down the Toilet | Improvised Expressive Devices
SUIT REPORT: Emmy-Caliber Gray Suit | Powder Blue Shirt | Navy and Gray Be-spotted Tie
VIDEOS: Thursday, July 14, 2011
In this episode, we close a truly fantastic week with an Emmy (nominee) celebration, some terrifying transit news for our friends in California, some excellent art commentary, and a thorough review of Mr. Murdoch’s current unraveling control of, well, his total media control.
I imagined at some point this week Stephen would touch on the amazing situation with Murdoch. Is this the turning point, and an argument for de-monopolizing media? Only time will tell, but it doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun watching Rome burn.
It was also fun watching Jose Antonio Vargas, such a sweet guy, but Stephen was all poker face, staying closely in character. We all know how important the issue of immigration is to Stephen, so you aren’t fooling anyone, Sir.
“I’ve already got two, so this could lead to an Emmy three-way.”
“We thought enhanced interrogation would give us information, but instead we turned Gitmo into an artist’s colony full of literally tortured artists.”
And some art commentary, reminiscent of old;
Some great work from the graphics department- shout out, hey!
A little Australia shout-out.
“Raise your right hand. Raise your left hand. Now, go turn yourself into the authorities.”