Comedy Central's Foreign Intruders. Jason Jones, a Canadian, was put forward as "Senior Political Reporter", as The Daily Show's first commentator in tonite's discussion of last nite's Democratic debate. The Daily Show is very heavily foreign, and I resent it. Samantha Bee is also Canadian. John Oliver is British. Why are they on an American political satire show? And why are they permitted to intrude into an election in which they are not entitled to vote? There are restrictions on foreigners contributing to American political campaigns, but none on their intruding into our elections as correspondents and commentators whose behavior can affect many votes. That makes no sense at all.
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There are 300 million Americans. Does The Daily Show really need to hire foreigners? It's insulting. I turned off tonite's Daily Show when a second foreigner, John Oliver, came on to offer his thoughts. To quote Jason Jones about his own comments, I "don't give a rat's ass what [he] has to say" about our elections. This is not Jason Jones's country, not John Oliver's country. They should mind their own business and stay out of our affairs. If they want to participate in our country's elections, they must become citizens, either as individuals or by bringing their countries into the Union. Then they'd be entitled to employment in the United States and to participate in our elections. As foreigners, they are not.
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How the hell did satirists and actors get past the border? There is no shortage of such people in this country. There has never been an actor shortage and never will be. So how do these people get the right to take jobs away from Americans in Americans' own country? These aren't jobs "Americans won't do". They are among the best and highest-profile jobs in media. They are also presumably very well-paid. All the best jobs in this country should go to Americans — only. I don't need foreigners telling me anything about my country's elections, and deeply resent The Daily Show's hiring foreigners for top spots.
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John Oliver in particular should have been fired the very nite he called George Washington, and I quote, "a douche". That is out of line for any foreigner, but especially for a Brit. He should not just have been fired from The Daily Show. He should also have been deported, and placed on a no-fly list and permanent blacklist to ban him from even visiting the United States for the rest of his life. There was nothing funny about his attack upon George Washington, a man without whom the United States might never have come into existence. And there is nothing funny about foreigners intruding into American elections. If I wanted to hear foreign views of our elections, I'd tune to a serious commentator on the BBC, CBC, or some other foreign network. But frankly, I don't give a damn what outsiders have to say about our elections. Our elections are none of their business.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 3,637 — for Israel.)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 11:51 PM