"''Daily Show' befuddles governor not in on the joke"

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/23/illinois.gov.spoof.ap/index.html

Ummm... I don't hold folks accountable for every nuance of pop culture. Heavens, I'm no expert. Personally, I've never watched an episode of Survivor, American Idol, Friends....

But I know what they are. I'm in the loop. I've gotten the memo.

I've never been to Africa, but I know where it is.
I've never played a violin, but I know what one sounds like.
And I don't really enjoy lots of modern art, but I'm aware enough to be socially viable.

I've never watched "The 700 Club", but if Pat Robertson interviewed me I'd have an idea of what he was getting at. I've never watched "Oprah", but I hear she doesn't take well to making up books....

By now "The Daily Show" is ten years old, has won seven Emmys, been on the front of Newsweek, gets a million viewers a night (including me)....

If you're a freaking governor and you and your staff are so clueless as to sit down with "The Daily Show" and not even know who they are (don't they do background checks on this stuff?), you deserve to get caught the fool, 'cause you are.