Discussion for article #241246
It was more of a BJ for Christie than an interview.
I’m sure the fundies who get all up in arms about national databases won’t lose their crap over this at all.
They won’t give a single damn because only the unwanted fereners will be in the database.
I’ve tried to watch the Daily Show for the last three days and have felt like I was watching an empty suit behind the desk. Big cheeky smile and dimples do not hide that the brain and heart are not remotely connected to the words coming out of his mouth.
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It’s literally only been three days. I will say that the writers are still writing for Stewart.I think it’ll take a good three months to really see Noah’s version of the show.
Tracking every move of a human being is fine, but tracking the sale, transfer, and use of guns is TYRANNY!!!
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Nah, not my impression at all. I like that kid. He’s sharp. I laughed a lot which is still the primary directive of the show. And I like the kid’s personality. You can tell he’s nervous as well he should be. Give him time. But he will NOT be Jon and that is ok. He needs to himself. I think he’ll do fine. Jon did 25-years of television. This kid is on week one. There will be a natural gulf between their ability to be comfortable and vulnerable in front of the camera each night.
I laughed my ass off the first night when they went off on water on Mars. That shit was funny.
Amazing for folks that claim they hate government control how much control republicans seem to want over people.
A database that will be overwhelmingly NOT consulted because:
- fingerprint/thumbprint matching is a art based on probabilities that ITSELF are based on a conjecture
- proper analysis of prints not only requires years of technical training and years more of practical experience and testing, but an uncommon facility with math that simply isn’t provided for in our society
- even the best analysis yields only a PIECE of circumstantial evidence, which has to be considered against other evidence, in other words as a matter of practicality that yields to argument over statistical probabilities
- the expense to the public of erecting and maintaining ON AN ONGOING PERMANENT BASIS, including the taking of prints in the first place, the transport of them to and for computerized database entry, related security, system integrity and updating, human inputs, data retrieval and everything needed to render the program even remotely practical to the point that just APPROACHES practical use of print evidence will - would - prove far more expensive than even was discussed so blithely and informally in this COMEDY SHOW interview
Noah was on the right track in raising the comparison to the mythical ‘border wall’ concept: both that AND this print ID program are a gigantic exercise in a massively expensive, inefficient, largely useless fifty ring circus of national self-deception, complete with supposedly tame and friendly white elephants and multicolored magical ponies.
It’s astounding to me that Christie, whose role as a US attorney was almost completely CEREMONIAL and otherwise was about protecting industry criminals from being destroyed by the court system, and also about bilking the criminal justice system of money to support a political infrastructure, to which Christie himself brought zero experience, expertise or even WORK, should be allowed to be the front man for such a preposterously disastrous con job.
This is the category for profit prisons and the border walls and cancer curing mammograms, of the extremely limited POSSIBLE advantages of a primitive single dimensional low tech being portrayed as a cure-all. If you buy into this shit that Christie is spewing about like an overfed hippo, YOU are among the suckers being born again every second into this fraudulent vision of the future.
That’s hilarious! I mean part about pretending Christie still matters. He’ll soon quit the presidential race and return to his full time job of trying to avoid indictment.
No they won’t have to give a single damn because Christie isn’t coming any where near the White House.
I haven’t watched last night yet, but I kind of agree with you int he sense that I felt like he was reading from a script that wasn’t written for him. But I can tell he’s got chops, when you get the jokes that are clearly his, he kills it. I say give him, and the writers, time to find his voice. I think the problem probably lies in the fact that he hasn’t been fully immersed in Americana yet. Jon Oliver had several years over here before getting his own show, and proving, without a doubt, that sometimes what we need is a foreigner to excoriate us. I predict that if you give him three months of immersion in the cable news BS, we will see something a lot different than right now.