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		The owner of the asbestos mine mocked by The Daily Show didn't know it was a satirical show when he agreed to be interviewed (theglobeandmail.com)		105
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brainiac-dumdum		2011-05-17 03:44:46 PM

Research is your friend. I suggest a quick glance at something I call the internet.

Calmamity		2011-05-17 04:13:00 PM

While it is true that the media-driven hyper pants-wetting that surrounds the asbestos issue is indeed stupid, it's also pretty stupid to not even do a cursory investigation of someone interviewing you, especially when you're representing a fu*king asbestos mine.

devilskware		2011-05-17 04:25:58 PM

Typical hipster "I don't own a TV" crap.

Jensaarai		2011-05-17 04:28:56 PM

That still happens? Wow.

kvinesknows		2011-05-17 04:30:26 PM

Serves the French bastard right for thinking he is superior to teh English people.

and really asshole? The Indian people are more tolerant of asbestos because their air is dirtier? Frick off.

trippdogg		2011-05-17 04:32:13 PM

According to a news release today from Mr. Coulombe, the segment's sole purpose earlier this month was to discredit him, and make the townsfolk appear as "ignorant imbeciles."

So he just sat there and let you talk?

Hyatus		2011-05-17 04:32:13 PM

I remember when the Daily Show barely touched politics and spent time interviewing regular people who had no idea who they were.
Those were the good days.

/get off my lawn

Day_Old_Dutchie		2011-05-17 04:33:43 PM

Well, he'll just have to do asbestos he can.

/foghorn

Here Comes Everybody		2011-05-17 04:34:43 PM

Oooh burn.

Wellon Dowd		2011-05-17 04:35:54 PM

Yeah, that was pretty obvious to anyone who watched that segment.

Have they quietly removed the humorless pall that is Olivia Munn from the show?

karl2025		2011-05-17 04:38:16 PM

I'm not really sure if it being a satirical show would matter if you say that it doesn't matter if you sell a cancer-causing material to Indians because "They're used to pollution."

Skyshadow		2011-05-17 04:38:30 PM

The bit where he suggests that Indians have a natural resistance to pollution was pretty solid TV.

Znuh		2011-05-17 04:39:14 PM

Wellon Dowd: Yeah, that was pretty obvious to anyone who watched that segment.

Have they quietly removed the humorless pall that is Olivia Munn from the show?

Holy crap I hope so. Proof that sexy is no backup for lack of talent. Never seen someone suck the air out of a room harder than when her segments would air.

MBooda		2011-05-17 04:39:31 PM

Asbestos mine?

Hey, if you can't stand the heat...

Rei_zero		2011-05-17 04:39:44 PM

Jensaarai: That still happens? Wow.

Came to say this..

Always makes for a good laugh tho..

Jake Havechek		2011-05-17 04:41:53 PM

If I work all day at the Blue Sky Mine.....

wallywam1		2011-05-17 04:42:20 PM

devilskware: Typical hipster "I don't own a TV" crap.

Maybe it was an ironic asbestos mine.

ecl		2011-05-17 04:43:24 PM

TDS is winning just on facts alone. Google Chrysotile.

FerneJohn		2011-05-17 04:44:09 PM

This still blows me away. Even if you're a middle-aged foreigner, is "Google" really that difficult a concept?

Rei_zero		2011-05-17 04:45:15 PM

Also... This...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny-atudWPJ4

brantgoose		2011-05-17 04:46:15 PM

I am jess an humble asbestos miner. I try to feed my family. Sometimes the asbestos mining is no good. We eat asbestos, nothin' but asbestos for de hole winter because of EC regulations. Asbestos soup, asbestos bread, asbestos coffee with asbestos cheesecake. It is a hard life. We work hard. Even the baby chew de asbestos so his mama can make de asbestos yarn and knit de asbestos insulation and fire-proof undies for de rich Yankee Gringo firefighters.

I doan ask much. I am a simple man. I no have de Daily Show. It is not on de basic cable. It costs extra. How can I know de Daily Show is de evil bastards who make fun of de poor capitalist? How can de poor asbestos miner know that his product is vilified by the supercilious mass affluent fans of pseudo-attack journalism?

Why de Daily Show fans laugh at me and my poor asbestos suit? I can no afford de cotton suit. I have to feed de cotton to my family disguised as chocolate like in de Catch 22 novel I keep in de out house. If I see dat on TV I be very sad, but me no can afford SUPER-VIP package with CBC from every city of more than one hundred thousand people from Saint John's Harbour to Victoria, BC. I no know Daily Show from those four Yankee Gringo millionaires who all yell at each other at once with the pet Liberal lady in red who yell at four millionaires for being bourgeois pricks. Is on PBS. PBS free. Not cost extra.

vudukungfu		2011-05-17 04:48:00 PM

trippdogg: According to a news release today from Mr. Coulombe, the segment's sole purpose earlier this month was to discredit him, and make the townsfolk appear as "ignorant imbeciles."

So he just sat there and let you talk?

Pretty much this.
Ignorant farking slackjawed yokel that his is.
And a racist

Broom		2011-05-17 04:51:25 PM

brantgoose, enjoy a month of TotalFark on me.

clowncar		2011-05-17 04:52:23 PM

Couloumbe: "Are we going to let this ass best us?"
Aasif: "Don't Mandvi if I do..."

DeRosso		2011-05-17 04:52:39 PM

Here Comes Everybody: Oooh burn.

Apparently, asbestos only snaps.

hammettman		2011-05-17 04:54:30 PM

Asbestos. It's what's for dinner. In Canada.

And who the hell names a mine, an asbestos mine, "Jeffrey?"

I had Snu Snu		2011-05-17 04:54:36 PM

Hyatus: I remember when the Daily Show barely touched politics and spent time interviewing regular people who had no idea who they were.
Those were the good days.

/get off my lawn

It was better before it was the 'Democractic Party Comedy Half Hour!' Jon Stewart can be funny in small doses but he's made his point and his shtick is played out at this point.

Jake Havechek		2011-05-17 04:57:08 PM

The best one I ever saw was when before Colbert got his own show, he interviewed this "ex-gay" guy and made him look like a grade A fool.

Avenger		2011-05-17 04:59:00 PM

As an urban metro area Montreal dweller I'd like to apologize for what we could call the rednecks of Quebec. The people of asbestos are rural retards and I deeply apologize for their ignorance of american culture. At least you got people who knew how to speak english which is nothing short of a miracle in the town of asbestos.

I will however admit that asbestos when used intelligently has its uses, just not in places with actual people.

Bondith		2011-05-17 05:04:35 PM

Mandvi: Seriously, dude, that's my family over there. What's the French word for douchebag?

You're looking for sac-a-douche.

The people of asbestos are rural retards and I deeply apologize for their ignorance of american culture.

Are these the same ones who pretend they can't understand you when you try and speak French and don't get the accent perfect?

kvinesknows		2011-05-17 05:05:17 PM

Bondith: Mandvi: Seriously, dude, that's my family over there. What's the French word for douchebag?

You're looking for sac-a-douche.

The people of asbestos are rural retards and I deeply apologize for their ignorance of american culture.

Are these the same ones who pretend they can't understand you when you try and speak French and don't get the accent perfect?

yup

Knara		2011-05-17 05:06:26 PM

miss diminutive		2011-05-17 05:07:31 PM

Jake Havechek: The best one I ever saw was when before Colbert got his own show, he interviewed this "ex-gay" guy and made him look like a grade A fool.

The best Colbert bit I remember was when he nailed that politician who wanted to have the 10 commandments outside government buildings. The guy couldn't name more than three of them.

brantgoose: I am jess an humble asbestos miner

ftfy

Avenger		2011-05-17 05:08:06 PM

Bondith: Are these the same ones who pretend they can't understand you when you try and speak French and don't get the accent perfect?

I doubt it, you'll get flack for not speaking french at all if you live here but you won't get -any- flack at all if you at least try even if your french is so poor it is incomprehensible.

IXI Jim IXI		2011-05-17 05:08:16 PM

anti-asbestos propaganda

Yeah, because asbestos just gets a bad rap. The same way that lead paint chips are actually healthy, as long as you salt them first.

dj245		2011-05-17 05:08:19 PM

Hyatus: I remember when the Daily Show barely touched politics and spent time interviewing regular people who had no idea who they were.
Those were the good days.

/get off my lawn

I remember those days. They would interview random celebrities mostly. Very rarely would anyone come on the show pitching a movie or a book. If you watch the really old episodes it almost looks like the guests came on to either hang out, or as a favor to Jon.

When the ditched the couch, it became all about pitching books, movies, and a real agenda.

Knara		2011-05-17 05:08:39 PM

Avenger: I will however admit that asbestos when used intelligently has its uses, just not in places with actual people.

Eh, it's perfectly possible to use non-inhalable asbestos around people with no problems at all (there's 3 main types of asbestos that occur naturally).

Problem was that the "bad" asbestos is super cheap to use, and that's why it was used.

But now everyone hears asbestos and immediately calls a lawyer, so you can't use it at all.

/mineralogy, it's fantastic

Sodathief		2011-05-17 05:09:47 PM

"What's the French word for douchebag?" - HIlarious

She comes in colors everywhere		2011-05-17 05:11:47 PM

I had Snu Snu: Jon Stewart can be funny in small doses but he's made his point and his shtick is played out at this point.

i613.photobucket.com

someone feels picked upon

Hyatus		2011-05-17 05:12:20 PM

Knara:

Yeah I remember the boring days before Stewart showed up, too.

I'm not including Craig Kilborn in that. He sucked.
I'm talking about Jon Stewart's Daily Show before they went uber-political. The first couple of years pre-9/11.

I had Snu Snu		2011-05-17 05:14:46 PM

She comes in colors everywhere: I had Snu Snu: Jon Stewart can be funny in small doses but he's made his point and his shtick is played out at this point.

someone feels picked upon

I'm actually quite liberal, doesn't mean I can't smell an agenda and need to hear the same talking points over and over and over and over and over, even if I don't disagree with them. Plus, the first half of his show is usually him doing one of his awful impressions.

sugahboy		2011-05-17 05:15:15 PM

Jake Havechek: If I work all day at the Blue Sky Mine.....

There'll be food on the table tonight.

pregerstheHobo		2011-05-17 05:15:18 PM

FTFA: "Obviously, this crude attempt to discredit the mine and the region is part of a malicious operation that coincides with the government of Quebec announcing its support for the Asbestos mine; an investment of several tens of millions of dollars that will preserve quality jobs and provide for extracting an exceptional natural resource safely and responsibly," the news release said.

Jesus Christ. Just when I start defending the Quebecois this farktard has to open his mouth and prove the Pepe LeDouche French-Canadian stereotype correct.

God damnit.

Knara		2011-05-17 05:15:32 PM

Hyatus: I'm not including Craig Kilborn in that. He sucked.
I'm talking about Jon Stewart's Daily Show before they went uber-political. The first couple of years pre-9/11.

It's not his fault. People in politics just do so many things that are mockable, only a fool would ignore that revenue generating field.

RedT		2011-05-17 05:16:45 PM

What? He didn't know the Daily Show was satire?
Does he live in a cave of something?

mcwehrle		2011-05-17 05:18:08 PM

I read that as "asbestos MIME"

I am disappoint.

Kazrath		2011-05-17 05:19:42 PM

devilskware: Typical hipster "I don't own a TV" crap.

I own a TV. Canceled my digital cable three months ago and still have not screwed the coax into the TV for basic cable.

Does this make me a hipster or someone who just thinks TV programming is complete shiat?

/Netflix = good
//Media center also good.

Bondith		2011-05-17 05:22:21 PM

Avenger
I doubt it, you'll get flack for not speaking french at all if you live here but you won't get -any- flack at all if you at least try even if your french is so poor it is incomprehensible.

I had an encounter with a guy at a lunch counter ski resort in the Laurentians. The Ottawa-born anglo in line behind me had to repeat what I said word for word before he would admit to understanding it. This after I rehearsed what I was going to say. Everyone I've told this story to told me I said "je veux un cheeseburger et des frites" perfectly (and it said "le cheesebuger" on the French half of the menu).

Every other francophone I've met has turned out to be a decent person. This one tete de merde isn't going to sour me on 30% of the country.

Pollexabator		2011-05-17 05:24:07 PM

mcwehrle: I read that as "asbestos MIME"

Our flamethrowers are useless against them, sir!

/that article would be more fun than this one

Knara		2011-05-17 05:24:38 PM

Kazrath: Does this make me a hipster or someone who just thinks TV programming is complete shiat?

I don't think it's complete shiat. I think there's some good stuff still being put out. Problem is that cable TV is just too expensive. The amount of TV you have to watch to make getting even the basic premium-digital level channels affordable is ridiculous.

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