Daily Show Evolution show makes front page KC Star

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http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/12624514.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

Television's sharpest wits poised to carve up Kansas
'The Daily Show' trains its satirical eye on the evolution debate
By AARON BARNHART
The Kansas City Star
Uh-oh, Kansas Board of Education - now you've done it.
America's most-quoted source of liberal dissent, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," is devoting four nights to the debate over intelligent design.

Beginning tonight, the news-parody show will air "Evolution Schmevolution," a nightly segment examining the scientific theory of life's origins and its faith-based challengers.

It will be the first time the popular cable program, which has a nightly audience of 1.4 million people, has devoted so much time to a single cultural issue.

"We wanted to pick a subject that was guaranteed to offend a large body of people, so that left race, sex and evolution," said Ben Karlin, the show's executive producer and former head writer. "With the current tenor in the country, this felt like the right time to do it."

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1. oh i gotta catch this! (nt)

[SidDithers]

2. Thanks for posting..but careful with copyright issues...

you might want to edit your post down to just a few paragraphs and let us read the rest at the link.

:toast:

Sid

[leftylady]

3. I don't have cable.

I saw that article this morning, too. And I would love to see those shows.

They even make fun of Kansas. Poor Kansas. The laughingstock of the entire scientific community.

[drbtg1]

4. On a related subject...

...check out http://www.venganza.org for the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

It's a site that has been covered in the NY Times, Washington Post, and other places for challenging ID with this alternative theory. Also, you can find out why the Global Average Temperature has been rising (it's not what you think). They even got the attention of some of those board members.

And you can get your very own Kansas Museum of Science tee shirt. :)

[Bassic]

5. Interesting to watch for sure

[underpants]

6. What's the Matter with Kansas?

Apprently plenty

[paineinthearse]

7. PHC's Saturday show was from the Kansas State Fair

Did a great skit on teaching evolution/intelligent design. A student asked if he could personally hold that all life on earth stemmed from 500 years ago, when alien dogs age grass and vomited.

:rofl:

[lateo]

8. Is this one tonight?

[underpants]

10. Evolution Schmevolution

starts tonight. Should be hilarious.

[Catchawave]

9. Go Team Daily Show !

The Legit version is Countdown w/Keith Olbermann on MSNBC !

Great Stuff: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/

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