SFist: The Daily Show: Not So Much With The Daly

TT

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:07:04 -0800

Ammiano came off as a real idiot. I don't know how anyone could think otherwise. The whole time I was watching this segment I was wondering "How the hell does this idiot keep getting elected?"

MattyMatt

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:43:23 -0800

the museum was not actually in connecticut -- it was anchored off of manhattan. so ... lots of tourists. but the type of tourist is maybe very different -- that neighborhood in NYC had a lot of general shopping/urban-sight-seeing tourists, whereas tourists here around fisherman's wharf might be looking for a more maritime experience. i'm utterly talking out my ass at this point.

Rain

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:07:30 -0800

I agree that Ammiano came off looking pretty stupid, which just leads me to wonder: If they can make someone as irreverent and funny as Ammiano come off looking like an idiot, I wonder how many of the other "idiots" they've interviewed were actually pretty cool people. Which is not to criticize the Daily Show in any way. I love it!

Jer

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:39:09 -0800

Not to disagree with you entirely, Matt -- in fact, we are more or less on the same page. One slight quibble with your last comment (and feel free to correct me): San Francisco is a major tourist destination and a tourist-driven economy more so than CT, right? It strikes me that visitors to our fair city, particularly those that would, er, enjoy hanging out near fisherman's wharf, could well be the exact target audience for a floating museum. A bit different than bored high school kids in CT? But its fiscal viability, as you clearly lay out, is not the whole point.

MattyMatt

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:29:05 -0800

Y'know, I used to work as a high school teacher back in Connecticut, and every so often we'd take the kids on field trips, inclding one to a floating military museum in New York. I monitored that particular field trip three or four times, and each time the kids looked around the museum blankly, then all proceeded upstairs to spend the remaining 4 hours hanging out in the McDonalds. Maybe the Iowa museum could be made interesting somehow -- and making it a monument to peace or to the legacy of don't ask/don't tell is definitely an interesting idea -- but my impression is that most people just don't really care that much about floating military museums.

Jon

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:25:49 -0800

Actually, I thought Tom came off as an idiot and felt really bad for him. I'm guessing he was trying to bring the funny and play light, but it was cut in such a way that there was no funny, only borderline train wreck idiocy. The whole bit about veterans bringing him cookies? What was up with that? He should have been a natural for the show- he was a former comedian after all, but they just kind of went at him