At 11:50 PM 8/19/2004, Eric Cordian wrote:

Was that our John Young on the Daily Show, talking about being visited by FBI agents, with the title "Anarchist" under his name?

Yup. Reruns of the Daily Show are usually on at 7pm the following day, though check your local cable schedule.

That was a surprise and I missed it. Saw the re-run just now. Pretty funny, ISTM. The clip was from an AP TV piece which was taped just before the recent AP story. One day a still photographer and video guy came to do a follow-up to a telephone interview by Tom Hays, the AP reporter. No fanfare like the ABC News gang. The two were in and out in 20 minutes. Each carried his own equipment, the TV guy packing a heavy shoulder camera. No lighting, no rigging, a mic, a recorder, the camera. He asked a couple of questions, said just talk, so I did. He said turn off the radio. Shot the barking carcass. He said walk down the corridor, don't talk. He shot a couple of scrolling screens, packed up, took off. The still camera guy was the only journalist over recent days who showed press ID, wore it around his neck. He was a black man, so it figures. He said, without prompting, you know it's amazing how people let the press into their homes and offices, no questions asked. We could be cops or feds and nobody'd know. He said a couple of guys showed up at his home while the baby-sitter and his daughter were alone, had talked their way past the doorman, said they were cops, but showed no ID. The baby-sitter said show me ID. The guys said we don't need to. The babysitter said go to hell and slammed the door. The next day, the photog called the precinct to see if its cops had come. Precinct said nobody from here went there, but maybe they were from another jurisdiction. He said he never learned who they were or why they came. A black women reporter came a couple of days ago, showed no ID but mesmerizing giant hooters in a deep-cut blouse. Don't remember what I told her, her name or who she worked for. Fought hard to look at her eyes, I think.