Re: "The American People"

There may currently issues involving the Comedy Central website.

I was able to get this video from Vodpod at:

http://vodpod.com/watch/3560382-american-apparently

I was accessing this from India. Jon Stewart is currently still about  
all you need to know what is going on in the United States.

-- Randal


On May 30, 2010, at 3:37 PM, Conrad Taylor wrote:

> Thanks for the pointer to Jon Stewart, Gunnar, but in a beautifully
> ironic twist I got the error message: "Sorry, Videos are not
> currently available in your country".
>
> Thanks for also remending me of the adjectival phrase "un-American".
> From 1938 to 1975 you had the House Un-American Activities
> Committee, which I guess did a great job of cracking down on
> outbreaks of Morris Dancing, Mongolian throat-singing and cricket.
>
> Conrad
>
>
> On 30 May 2010, at 10:47, Gunnar Swanson wrote:
>
>> Conrad,
>>
>> Jon Stewart can explain it better than I can:
>> http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-may-5-2010/american-apparently
>>
>> The phrase is interesting rhetorically because it can be used
>> grammatically in the plural (to avoid fascist overtones) while
>> functionally in the singular (to imply unity.)
>>
>> "High vigilance" is a difficult phrase to make sense of so we don't
>> want to confuse foreigners with it. As The Daily Show points out, The
>> American People "get it" (and, by implication, you un-American people
>> don't.)
>>
>> Gunnar
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