GREAT IDEA: political talk shows captioned like POP UP VIDEO

[yurbud]

Take the research of Media Matters and pair it with pop up fact checking with sources cited.

So when Bill O'Reilly says his boycott of France hurt their economy, you'd get a little bubble that says our trade with France has actually increased according to the department of commerce (or whoever keeps track of that).

I bet it would be more popular than the shows it was making fun of, a lot like talk soup when Greg Kinnear was doing it.

[TheFriedPiper]

1. EXCELLENT IDEA

K&R

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I love it! Now, who should do it?

[yurbud]

3. I wonder if anyone is watching Current yet? Or Comedy Central

[sproutster]

4. Yesssssssss ... I like, we should do each of Bush's speeches

[yurbud]

6. like every time a Bushie says fascist

[Richard Steele]

7. I'll second that motion. That would be great!

With a B*sh speech, half the popups would be FactCheck,
and the other half could be devoted to grammar and
pronunciation. That would be entertaining AND informational.

[yurbud]

9. then his mafeance would be manifest

[annabanana]

5. What fun!

It could be a regular feature on The Daily Show... It would fit right in.

[hootinholler]

8. That idea is worth a rec....

That would be a great youtube section.

-Hoot

[Telly Savalas]

10. Bill O'Reilly really said his boycott of France hurt their economy?

Yipes.

You are aware the only people that would believe such things are the folks who wouldn't be able to read the pop-ups.

[yurbud]

11. media matters and Al Franken have mentioned this a lot

You can probably find the clip at mediamatters.org

[catzies]

12. That would be great! Kinda like how Colbert's "The Word" segment works

Good idea.

[yurbud]

13. yep--except with the people he's imitating instead of him.