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Related: About this forumDaily Show Enlists Actual Hostage Negotiator to Get Through to GOP Strategist on Shutdown - vid link
VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/daily-show-enlists-an-actual-hostage-negotiator-to-get-through-to-gop-strategist-on-shutdown/
A lot of the rhetoric over the government shutdown has included the term hostage-takers, and on Tuesday nights Daily Show, correspondent Jason Jones enlisted an actual hostage negotiator to help him talk with a Republican strategist to understand exactly what the GOPs demands are.
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Daily Show Enlists Actual Hostage Negotiator to Get Through to GOP Strategist on Shutdown - vid link (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Oct 2013
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johnd83
(593 posts)1. I am amazed she sat through that and just kept repeating her talking points
She must be a talking points robot. I wonder who gave her the instructions? I wonder how many people would actually stay there after a megaphone and bullet proof vest showed up.
KT2000
(20,587 posts)2. that was great!
she wasn't the brightest bulb - someone told her what to day and she just kept repeating it.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)3. Excellent!
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)4. This was great
Jason Jones was in great form
Turborama
(22,109 posts)5. Genius!
The whole thing was, especially the punchline.
I can't believe it's only just made it to The Greatest.
Thanks for sharing.