The Daily Show & The Colbert Report Mock KTVU

Posted on July 20, 2013 by John

The past two weeks, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report hosts and staff have been on vacation. Well, the shows were back on air this past Monday and wasted no time mocking KTVU’s ineptitude for inadvertently reporting the four racists Asian names.

Stephen Colbert also mocks Asiana Airlines’ lawsuit against KTVU, which I agree with – the suit is ridiculous, IMHO. The KTVU incident doesn’t damage Asiana Airlines’ reputation – a plane crash does (whether or not it was Asiana Airlines’ fault or not).

Lastly, Colbert rightfully asks why KTVU has yet to come clear as to how those racist names came to be at the station, and makes up a mock racist name for the KTVU news director, Munchma Quchi. In somewhat breaking news, the NTSB intern has been identified as Alexander Fields-Lefkovic, a junior attending Cornell University.

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I'm a Taiwanese-American and was born & raised in Western Massachusetts, went to college in upstate New York, worked in Connecticut, went to grad school in North Carolina and then moved out to the Bay Area in 1999 and have been living here ever since - love the weather and almost everything about the area (except the high cost of housing...)
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