Correspondent (and former Marine) Rob Riggle of The Daily Show went to Berkeley to explore the Marine recruiting center controversy, disguised as a scarily accurate hippie throwback "to earn the trust of the locals." In classic, brilliant Daily Show style, Riggle basically points a camera at members of Code Pink and lets them bury themselves with their own absurd statements, leading to this satiric crescendo between Riggle and a Code Pinker:
Code Pinker: "Wars in general would stop if we didn't have weapons, just like violence in our streets would stop if we didn't have weapons."Riggle: "So if we got rid of police we wouldn't have crime?"
Code Pinker: "Potentially."
As a Berkeley resident who supports the USMC's presence in town -- I loved this piece. Riggle clearly had his hand on the pulse of this situation.
Why Code PINK didn't just throw down their tiaras and surrender to superior logic, I don't know. Unfortunately, they didn't. By this afternoon they have multiple trucks and cars parked on Shattuck in front of the OSO -- lots of hot pink slogans on signs, and not much else.
Thank you, Daily Show!
Posted at: March 12, 2008 4:55 PM