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 <p>Minassian worked at Comedy Central.  His wife Shawna worked as a White House "producer" for CNN five years ago and is currently a talent producer for <i>The Daily Show with Trevor Noah</i> (where she's been for several years now).  Just this week she retweeted a HuffPo journalist saying of an episode:  "arguably the most impressive <b>satire</b> of the current administration to date". </p>
-<p>On October 28, 2007, Mr. Minassian went to Little Rock to speak at the Clinton School of Public Policy.  The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wemv-TMs1yM video] takes you back a decade, to a time when <i>fake news</i>&mdash;at least for Minassian&mdash;was shows like The <i>Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher</i>.  Today he is counseling the WMF.  The word "fake" does not occur in their September 2016 audit.  However:</p>
+<p>A decade ago, Mr. Minassian went to Little Rock to speak at the Clinton School of Public Policy.  The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wemv-TMs1yM video] takes you back to that time when <i>fake news</i>&mdash;at least for Minassian&mdash;was shows like The <i>Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher</i>.  Today he is counseling the WMF.  The word "fake" does not occur in their September 2016 audit.  However:</p>
 <blockquote style="background-color:OldLace;color:back;border:1px solid teal;padding:30px;">Given the record levels of partisanship/polarization and POV/opinion media (embodied perhaps most of all in the U.S. election), we have an opportunity to build on the neutrality message. The post-election space gives us an opportunity to do this, but does anyone think this is likely to change anytime soon?
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-<p>Rhetorically, the slightly scornful terms "Clinton's press rep" and "that guy" shows  distance between Colbert and Minassian.  And yet, "that guy" used to work at Comedy Central and married the <i>Daily Show with Trevor Noah</i>'s talent producer.  I'm thinking that when those two see one another they probably don't struggle to remember one another's names...</p>
+<p>Rhetorically, the slightly scornful terms "Clinton's press rep" and "that guy" show  distance between Colbert and Minassian.  And yet, "that guy" used to work at Comedy Central and married the <i>Daily Show with Trevor Noah</i>'s talent producer.  I'm thinking that when those two see one another they probably don't struggle to remember one another's names...</p>
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 <p>Minassian worked at Comedy Central.  His wife Shawna worked as a White House "producer" for CNN five years ago and is currently a talent producer for <i>The Daily Show with Trevor Noah</i> (where she's been for several years now).  Just this week she retweeted a HuffPo journalist saying of an episode:  "arguably the most impressive <b>satire</b> of the current administration to date". </p>
-<p>On October 28, 2007 he went to Little Rock to speak at the Clinton School of Public Policy.  In the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wemv-TMs1yM video], we get to look back a decade, the <i>fake news</i> of the time, at least for Minassian was shows like The <i>Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher</i>.  Today he is counseling the WMF.  The word "fake" does not occur in their September 2016 audit.  However:</p>
+<p>On October 28, 2007, Mr. Minassian went to Little Rock to speak at the Clinton School of Public Policy.  The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wemv-TMs1yM video] takes you back a decade, to a time when <i>fake news</i>&mdash;at least for Minassian&mdash;was shows like The <i>Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher</i>.  Today he is counseling the WMF.  The word "fake" does not occur in their September 2016 audit.  However:</p>
 <blockquote style="background-color:OldLace;color:back;border:1px solid teal;padding:30px;">Given the record levels of partisanship/polarization and POV/opinion media (embodied perhaps most of all in the U.S. election), we have an opportunity to build on the neutrality message. The post-election space gives us an opportunity to do this, but does anyone think this is likely to change anytime soon?
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-<p>Rhetorically, the slightly scornful terms "Clinton's press rep" and "that guy" introduce more distance between Colbert and Minassian.  And yet,  "that guy" (again) used to work at Comedy Central and married the <i>Daily Show with Trevor Noah</i>'s talent producer.  I'm thinking that when Craig and Stephen see one another they don't struggle to remember one another's names...</p>
+<p>Rhetorically, the slightly scornful terms "Clinton's press rep" and "that guy" shows  distance between Colbert and Minassian.  And yet, "that guy" used to work at Comedy Central and married the <i>Daily Show with Trevor Noah</i>'s talent producer.  I'm thinking that when those two see one another they probably don't struggle to remember one another's names...</p>
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 <blockquote style="background-color:OldLace;color:black;border:1px solid teal;padding:30px;">The email in question is about my interview with Bill Clinton on stage during the Clinton Global Initiative at Washington University in 2013.  Clinton's press rep wrote to John Podesta:
 <blockquote style="background-color:#FFF8EF;color:black;border:1px dotted teal;padding:30px;">I hope you got a chance to see The Colbert Report's two special episodes i had them do about CGI U</blockquote>
-Now I'm flattered that this guy considered it an achievement that he somehow booked Clinton on my basic cable news-parody puppet show, but because this staffer took credit for getting Bill on the show, they <span style="color:0a5b16;">ndlr: subreddit sub-geniuses</span> think I'm on Hillary's payroll.  For the record: She can't afford me.
+Now I'm flattered that this guy considered it an achievement that he somehow booked Clinton on my basic cable news-parody puppet show, but because this staffer took credit for getting Bill on the show, they <span style="color:teal;">ndlr: subreddit sub-geniuses</span> think I'm on Hillary's payroll.  For the record: She can't afford me.
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 <p>Minassian worked at Comedy Central.  His wife Shawna worked as a White House "producer" for CNN five years ago and is currently a talent producer for <i>The Daily Show with Trevor Noah</i> (where she's been for several years now).  Just this week she retweeted a HuffPo journalist saying of an episode:  "arguably the most impressive <b>satire</b> of the current administration to date". </p>
 <p>On October 28, 2007 he went to Little Rock to speak at the Clinton School of Public Policy.  In the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wemv-TMs1yM video], we get to look back a decade, the <i>fake news</i> of the time, at least for Minassian was shows like The <i>Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher</i>.  Today he is counseling the WMF.  The word "fake" does not occur in their September 2016 audit.  However:</p>
-<blockquote style="background-color:OldLace;color:back;border:1px teal;padding:30px;">Given the record levels of partisanship/polarization and POV/opinion media (embodied perhaps most of all in the U.S. election), we have an opportunity to build on the neutrality message. The post-election space gives us an opportunity to do this, but does anyone think this is likely to change anytime soon?
+<blockquote style="background-color:OldLace;color:back;border:1px solid teal;padding:30px;">Given the record levels of partisanship/polarization and POV/opinion media (embodied perhaps most of all in the U.S. election), we have an opportunity to build on the neutrality message. The post-election space gives us an opportunity to do this, but does anyone think this is likely to change anytime soon?
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 <li> Think about a post-election <b>gag</b> about getting "back to facts now."</li>
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 <p>When Minassian's email to John Podesta got [https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/46703 w-leaked] many on Reddit reacted, so Colbert did a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfXWXNItF_Y segment] (from 5:09) on the email (titled "Pizzagate is an Alt-Right Fever Dream").  In it, Craig Minassian is never mentioned by name nor does his name appear on the screen:</p>
-<blockquote style="background-color:OldLace;color:black;border:1px teal;padding:30px;">The email in question is about my interview with Bill Clinton on stage during the Clinton Global Initiative at Washington University in 2013.  Clinton's press rep wrote to John Podesta:
+<blockquote style="background-color:OldLace;color:black;border:1px solid teal;padding:30px;">The email in question is about my interview with Bill Clinton on stage during the Clinton Global Initiative at Washington University in 2013.  Clinton's press rep wrote to John Podesta:
-<blockquote style="background-color:#FFF8EF;color:black;border:3px teal;padding:30px;">I hope you got a chance to see The Colbert Report's two special episodes i had them do about CGI U</blockquote>
+<blockquote style="background-color:#FFF8EF;color:black;border:1px dotted teal;padding:30px;">I hope you got a chance to see The Colbert Report's two special episodes i had them do about CGI U</blockquote>
 Now I'm flattered that this guy considered it an achievement that he somehow booked Clinton on my basic cable news-parody puppet show, but because this staffer took credit for getting Bill on the show, they <span style="color:0a5b16;">ndlr: subreddit sub-geniuses</span> think I'm on Hillary's payroll.  For the record: She can't afford me.
 </blockquote>