The Daily Show: Barack's Wright Response

On March 18th, 2008 the Daily Show addressed Presidential Hopeful, Barack Obama's pastor's controversial remarks about America. The clip Stewart played of Pastor Wright's remarks was longer than the one I saw on a mainstream news show, but the longer clip didn't really change the framing as it sometimes does on the show. Stewart didn't voice an opinion one way or the other about how this should or shouldn't affect Obama, but he did play numerous clips from mainstream media that showed their analysis of Pastor Wright's remarks, and he tried to frame it differently, using comedy. He brought an 'expert' on the show to have a 'dialogue' on race, and the language both Steward and his 'expert' used was really interesting.

Stewart also played a clip of Obama's response speech, which was extremely elequent. Stewart also opened the segment saying that although there had been whispers that Obama was a 'foreigner', there was good news because he's christian. This was really hilarious!

Like many of Steward's other shows, there were no women on this show.