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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums‘Daily Show’ reporter asks governor to pee in a cup
A Comedy Central reporter crashed the governors news conference to ask him to prove hes not on drugs.
BY MARY ELLEN KLAS
TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott and his drug-testing policy became the unwitting target of Jon Stewarts Daily Show on Wednesday as a reporter for the show broke into budget news conference and asked the governor to pee in a cup.
Youve benefited from hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars over the years, so would you be willing to pee into this cup to prove to Florida taxpayers that youre not on drugs? Comedy Central reporter Aasif Mandvi asked. It was a reference to the governors drug-testing requirement imposed on all state employees and welfare recipients.
Scott didnt miss a beat and said: Ive done it plenty of times.
Mandvi, a former Tampa resident and University of South Florida student, then attempted to hand the sealed, official-looking collection cup to the governor. We could all turn around, thats fine, he said. Scott ignored him.
Mandvi persuaded a reporter to hand the cup to the front row: I hate to keep harping on this, would you pee in a cup?
Scott shot back: You dont get to run this.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/12/07/2536387/daily-show-reporter-asks-governor.html#storylink=cpy
BY MARY ELLEN KLAS
TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott and his drug-testing policy became the unwitting target of Jon Stewarts Daily Show on Wednesday as a reporter for the show broke into budget news conference and asked the governor to pee in a cup.
Youve benefited from hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars over the years, so would you be willing to pee into this cup to prove to Florida taxpayers that youre not on drugs? Comedy Central reporter Aasif Mandvi asked. It was a reference to the governors drug-testing requirement imposed on all state employees and welfare recipients.
Scott didnt miss a beat and said: Ive done it plenty of times.
Mandvi, a former Tampa resident and University of South Florida student, then attempted to hand the sealed, official-looking collection cup to the governor. We could all turn around, thats fine, he said. Scott ignored him.
Mandvi persuaded a reporter to hand the cup to the front row: I hate to keep harping on this, would you pee in a cup?
Scott shot back: You dont get to run this.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/12/07/2536387/daily-show-reporter-asks-governor.html#storylink=cpy
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‘Daily Show’ reporter asks governor to pee in a cup (Original Post)
MrScorpio
Jan 2012
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GoCubsGo
(32,099 posts)1. I was expecting Nikki Haley
She is also Gov. Pee-in-a-Cup.
greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)2. Childish but funny. n/t
Lawlbringer
(550 posts)3. This happened a while ago
but still love it. Mandvi is my favorite correspondent on the show, he's well spoken, and his timing is perfect.
mojowork_n
(2,354 posts)4. My God, your'e right.
I like John Oliver, too, but Mandvi makes him sound like the Geico frog, or that cretin who used
to do "LifeStyles of the Rich and Famous," Robin Leach.