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But the woman who interviewed me from "The Daily Show," one of the things she mentioned in that four-hour interview was that she was a socialist, a Marxist. Of course, they didn't show any of that but I had her admit that she was basically a communist. So people at "The Daily Show" buy into this nonsense. They don't believe in the free-market system. They believe in government. They believe in the system that destroyed the Soviet Union. But they don't think with their heads because they don't really have much up there. They think with their hearts. So they tried to present me in a sinister light by taking a lot of things out of context and they actually had to piece that segment together kind of like Frankenstein made his monster, because they actually would show them asking questions and then the answers that I gave were not even to the questions that they were asking then. They were to [sic] questions that were asked at different parts of the show. So they would take the same question they asked me in, say, the third hour of the interview, and they would take a part of the answer that I gave in the first ten minutes, and another part from the next 40 minutes – so they would basically take fragments from various sentences that happened in different parts of the interview and put them together to make one sentence as if I was expressing one complete thought. So the whole idea was to try to rearrange my words and try to make me look as bad as possible.

I really did not know that they would basically take my answers and use them for different questions. In fact, my brother went with me to the studio and they refused to allow him to be in the room while I was being interviewed. They didn't want any witness.

Anybody could do this, of course. I could ask you, "What's your favorite farm animal?" and you answer, "A pig." Then I could ask, "What's your husband like?" "Oh, he's a really nice guy." But I could take the recording and change it so that when I ask, "What's your husband like?" you answer, "A pig." Yet without releasing the entire recording, you have no way to prove that when I asked about your husband you actually replied, "He's a really nice guy." They create a dialogue based on questions and answers that weren't even related to each other.

So the bottom line is this: Nobody should think "The Daily Show" is a news show. It's not. It's a comedy show.

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