{"id":8081,"date":"2010-09-21T10:31:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T17:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8081"},"modified":"2014-03-07T13:09:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T21:09:53","slug":"working-stiffed-the-daily-shows-mandvi-exposes-unions-non-union-picketers-of-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8081","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Working Stiffed&#8217;: The Daily Show&#8217;s Mandvi Exposes Union&#8217;s Non-Union Picketers of Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night on Comedy Central&#8217;s <i>The Daily Show<\/i>, correspondent Aasif Mandvi offered some of the best <i>journalism<\/i> we&#8217;ve seen on television in quite a while.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t particularly funny, union supporters are going to hate it, Walmart is going to love it, but credit where it&#8217;s due.<\/p>\n<p><i>This<\/i> is the sort of journalism that Rightwing con-men like Andrew Breitbart, James O&#8217;Keefe, and their acolytes <i>pretend<\/i> to be producing. It&#8217;s journalism they <i>could<\/i> and even <i>should<\/i> be producing. But as they are political\/partisan con-men\/hitmen\/hacks, they&#8217;ve chosen to throw away all of their credibility to the point where they are outclassed even by a comedian like Mandvi. Then again, the same can be said for many of the so-called journalists in our corporate MSM who rarely manage to offer anything as serious, substantive &#8212; or scathing &#8212; as Mandvi&#8217;s report from last night&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:359614\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night on Comedy Central&#8217;s The Daily Show, correspondent Aasif Mandvi offered some of the best journalism we&#8217;ve seen on television in quite a while. It wasn&#8217;t particularly funny, union supporters are going to hate it, Walmart is going to love it, but credit where it&#8217;s due. This is the sort of journalism that Rightwing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,246,188,356],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-comedy-central","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-nevada","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8081"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}