{"id":184924,"date":"2011-12-08T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/12\/08\/people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off-daily-show-correspondent-aasif-mandvi\/"},"modified":"2011-12-08T22:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T03:31:00","slug":"people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off-daily-show-correspondent-aasif-mandvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/12\/08\/people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off-daily-show-correspondent-aasif-mandvi\/","title":{"rendered":"People I Do Not Want to Piss Off: Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><object height=\"294\" width=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SLIV7ucAhaw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SLIV7ucAhaw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"390\" height=\"294\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Blah, blah, blah!<\/span><\/div>\n<p>He showed up to a press conference for Florida governor Rick Scott, and <a href=\"http:\/\/miamiherald.typepad.com\/nakedpolitics\/2011\/12\/comedy-central-targets-gov-scott-passing-a-drug-testing-cup.html\">asked for a urine sample for a drug test<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Gov. Rick Scott and his drug testing policy became the unwitting target of Jon Stewart&#8217;s &#8220;Daily Show&#8221; on Wednesday as a reporter for the show broke into budget news conference and asked the governor to &#8220;pee into this cup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou&#8217;ve benefitted from hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars over the years so would you be willing to pee into this cup to prove to Florida taxpayers that you&#8217;re not on drugs,&#8221; asked Comedy Central reporter, Aasif Mandvi. It was a reference to the governor\u2019s drug-testing requirement imposed on all state employees and all welfare recipients. <\/p>\n<p>Scott looked straight at him, didn\u2019t miss a beat and said: &#8220;I\u2019ve done it plenty of times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mandvi then attempted to hand the sealed, official-looking collection cup to the governor. &#8220;We could all turn around, that&#8217;s fine,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>At one point  Mandvi persuaded other reporters to pass the cup to the front row but Scott ignored it. Mandvi asked again. &#8220;I hate to keep harping on this, would you pee in a cup?&#8221; Scott shot back: &#8220;You don&#8217;t get to run this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last session, Scott persuaded the legislature to pass a law requiring all welfare recipients to pass a drug test but the measure was challenged by state Sen. Arthenia Joyner, D-Tampa, and the Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and put on hold by an Orlando court. Scott is appealing the ruling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remind me to never <b>ever<\/b> piss off <b>anyone<\/b> on <i>The Daily Show<\/i>, not even Steve the Intern, <b>ever<\/b>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blah, blah, blah! He showed up to a press conference for Florida governor Rick Scott, and asked for a urine sample for a drug test: Gov. Rick Scott and his drug testing policy became the unwitting target of Jon Stewart&#8217;s &#8220;Daily Show&#8221; on Wednesday as a reporter for the show broke into budget news conference &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1013,1028,978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}