Thank god for the daily show, showing us how stupid our politicians really are. The real news would never dare do that. But hey, I'm jaded. I live in Boston, where $15 billion dollar tunnels fall on illegal aliens and the governor has to go to court for a month to get permission to even think about firing the people responsible. So yeah. I hate politicians, for sure.
To the guy's credit, he was making a metaphor for how the internet works, but to Jon Stewarts credit, the guy also totally barely knew how anything ACTUALLY worked, either. "I got sent an internets the other day" is not how the person IN CHARGE OF E-COMMERCE should talk.
This is going to be a growing problem, anyhow, though. The republicans have pushed an amendment to the Net Neutrality act that basically has ruined the equal ground of the internet. People are now free to legally, say, ban Comcast users from going to a Verizon hosted website. Or better yet, charge them extra for it. Pretty soon we will probably be taxed on a site-by-site basis, if the companies decide to be scumbags.
Either way, thank god for Jon Stewart.
Stewart/Cobert in 08...who's with me!!