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Sen. Stevens Open to ‘Daily Show’ Appearance

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Posted on Jul 28, 2006

The Alaska senator whom Jon Stewart (and much of the world) has mocked mercilessly for his infamous “series of tubes” diatribe on Internet fundamentals, says he’d consider appearing on “The Daily Show” to defend himself. Stewart has yet to extend the offer....

Reuters:

Mocked by comedian Jon Stewart for calling the Internet a bunch of tubes, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens said on Thursday he is open to going on Stewart’s popular “Daily Show” for a rebuttal.

The comedian has parodied the dean of the Senate Republicans for rejecting calls by some Internet companies for a law to block high-speed Internet providers from charging higher prices to carry certain content. Backers of such a law say it would preserve what they call “Net neutrality.”

“The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s, it’s a series of tubes,” Stevens, an Alaska Republican, said last month.

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By slim jim, July 31, 2006 at 3:33 am #
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He should have laughed it off, appearing on a tv show (or a bunch of moving pictures as tv is often described by big scientists) would be even more humiliating for him and fun for the rest of us.

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