September 30, 2006

Hello, Cleveland Investigitave Journalism at its finest- Cleveland's WKYC Investigitave Reporter, Carl Monday, goes after a teenage boy he finds looking at porn and wanking in a public library, in a six-part, 22-minute series, where he badgers the kid and the kid's parents, in some sort of attempt to seem superior, while wearing a clichéd trench coat. So, The Daily Show (YT video) takes the piss out of Carl in kind. via. Meanwhile, Osama is still at large.
posted by es el Queso 18 years ago
  • It's really interesting how many feature stories from the Daily Show and Stephen Colbert are making the rounds on the Internets these days. I like the trend, as it's marginalizing the crap that passes for news.
  • *cue goopy sound effect*
  • You jackin' it?
  • Not only does a lot of Daily Show and Colbert Report stuff make the rounds of the internets, but there's a good bit of stuff they do that is based on stories made popular on the internets. For example Carl Monday himself noted the attention his story got online back in May. (and Carl mentions his encounter with the Daily Show on his blog as well.)
  • Oh, and on his blog he calls Comedy Central "the Comedy Channel" so that shows how media savvy this reporter is...
  • He's being accurate. That is a purely accurate statement. Comedy is broadcast on that channel. There is no comedy on any other channels.
  • By the way, you jackin' it?
  • (I am)
  • By the way, you jackin' it? Is this anything like "car jacking," because if so, then yes. And I'm gellin' like a felon.
  • And, much like an arsonist fireman, I too generate my own news.
  • I'm uh, in an coffeehouse, as I have a lot of free time lately, and um, yeah, I'm jackin' it.
  • That Carl - man what a wanker.
  • Could have been worse. It could have been A Hot Carl
  • in a six-part, 22-minute series, SIX PART SERIES? All to humiliate some loser caught rubbing one out in a library? How does this Carl Monday arsehole sleep at night? Probably by jackin' it before going to bed, now that I think of it. /jacked it early this morning //just saw the news truck pull up outside my house
  • Could have been worse. It could have been A Hot Carl Or a Cleveland Steamer.
  • Just another manic Monday.
  • a flask o' whisky makes me frisky but, alas, I'm miles from the library so I lie jackin' in the bracken and dream my true love came with me
  • A bottle o' rum makes my thighs hum but at sea there's nary a library So I'll sit friggin' in the riggin' until my true love comes with me
  • O a tumbler of gin gives me sensitive skin And although the night's airy I'm afraid the library is not just now open so I'll keep on gropin' until my true love comes with me
  • *applauds*
  • *stands on seat, waves lighter*
  • A highball of bourbon Provokes thoughts so disturbin' The kind I want to marry Don't visit no library So I stand strokin' And dreaming of pokin' Until my true love Comes on me.
  • *applauds again*
  • It sounds like something Steve from Bloom County might have written.
  • Oh a shot of tequila Makes me mad as Ophelia And horny as Satan Yet here I am waitin' Without books or reference If I had my preference I'd let my true love come on me
  • Alternate: "...And horny as Satan Yet I'm masturbatin'..." As soon as I read it, I wished I could edit...
  • 'Tis a pint of beer can make me leer but the library's far and the pub is near so I'll sit jerkin' by my firkin 'till my true love comes with me
  • I love that an FPP with "Cleveland" in the title has turned into a poetry thread.
  • A glass of brandy Makes me randy, But I’ve been banned From the library. I can’t read ‘bout Onan, So I’ll just lie moanin’, Until my true love Comes to me.
  • A tot of my moonshine Is enough to make you mine But the library won't let The books get that wet, So I sit by the still Through sheer force of will Until my true love Comes to me
  • *applauds, lifts clay jug*
  • the song was ribald that he dribbled though he was miles from the library so he sipped his fill while he plied his quill and with his true love made merry