I've always wondered how The Daily Show always managed to dig up such great clips, often showing political figures contradicting themselves. Who figured out that Cheney, who now says the polls on the public's views on Iraq don't matter, cited public opinion polls 3 years ago to support the war? It turns out that digging up these clips is a full-time job at the show.
The Washington Post profiled the show's researcher, Adam Chodikoff, in today's paper. One of the show's writers commented that Chodikoff "spots patterns, trends, the forces of history." Chodikoff just comes into work in the morning and starts pouring through news stories to pick out interesting bits. Sounds kind of like what I do...except the final product of his research is a whole lot funnier than mine.
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