{"id":1529,"date":"2006-08-21T14:03:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T14:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2006-08-21T14:03:59","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T14:03:59","slug":"2006-8-21-new-middle-east-gets-daily-show-treatment-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1529","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;New Middle East&#8221; gets Daily Show treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">I&#8217;ve just uploaded a brilliant recent Daily Show interview with their Middle East correspondent in Beirut to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1DQaj8sBB34\">YouTube<\/a>. Instead of their usual correspondents, they has a guy act as their Arab correspondent. And while Jon Stewart was expressing concern about the carnage, the correspondent kept reacting as if he loved the whole birth pangs of a new Middle East thing &#8212; i.e. as if he lived in Condi and W&#8217;s alternate reality. It&#8217;s very moving comedy, and make sure you watch it to the end. (The first few seconds are blacked out, but then it&#8217;s fine.)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1DQaj8sBB34\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1DQaj8sBB34\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>(Smaller download version <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/issandr\/downloads\/the.daily.show.08.09.2006..mov\">here<\/a> &#8211; 3MB)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">I&#8217;ve just uploaded a brilliant recent Daily Show interview with their Middle East correspondent in Beirut to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1DQaj8sBB34\">YouTube<\/a>. Instead of their usual correspondents, they has a guy act as their Arab correspondent. And while Jon Stewart was expressing concern about the carnage, the correspondent kept reacting as if he loved the whole birth pangs of a new Middle East thing &#8212; i.e. as if he lived in Condi and W&#8217;s alternate reality. It&#8217;s very moving comedy, and make sure you watch it to the end. (The first few seconds are blacked out, but then it&#8217;s fine.)<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1DQaj8sBB34\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1DQaj8sBB34\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n(Smaller download version <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/issandr\/downloads\/the.daily.show.08.09.2006..mov\">here<\/a> &#8211; 3MB)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[60,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}