<![CDATA[Jalopnik: the daily show]]> http://tags.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: the daily show]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/thedailyshow http://jalopnik.com/tag/thedailyshow <![CDATA[Daily Show: Cash For Clunkers Killing "$14 Billion" Demolition Derby Industry]]> The Daily Show took on Cash For Clunkers last night for hurting the "$14 billion" demolition derby industry. Their chart's striking in that Americans are eating more beets we thought corn-dogs were a larger part of the economic pie.

Frankly, the video's worth it just to see Obama advisor Austan Goolsbee defend the administration's impact on Truckasaurus.

[The Daily Show]

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<![CDATA[Daily Show Takes On Carpocalypse, Uses Silly Made-Up Word]]> No, Carmaggedon is not the new Carpocalypse™, but we're certain Jon Stewart just didn't want to incite the wraith of Gawker's top-notch legal defense team of Shyster,Shyster&Darbyshire. Don't worry, it's still funny.

Especially the whole making-fun-of-the-Sebring thing. That's just hysterical. But in all seriousness Jon, watch out, those lawyers at Interplay — they'll mess you up, man.

Oh, and one more thing Jon. The North American Car (and Truck) of the Year? Yeah, it's not an award for vehicles made by automakers from North America. Just sayin'...

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<![CDATA[Jon Stewart Pleads With Congress To "Give The Automakers The Money"]]> The Daily Show's Jon Stewart isn't much of a car guy. Regardless, he's on the right track with last night's humorous quasi-opinion piece mocking the not-so-Big Three, but ending in the right place — supporting Congressional loans.

Stewart's argument is based on some of the same argument's we've made on these pages, but also the new one we've starting hearing the past couple of days, that of "a Main Street bailout." Basically, was the bailout of the financial industry more a bailout for "Wall Street" — a bailout supported by everybody and anybody, while the bailout of the automakers is more for America's "Main Street." Whether you agree, at least it's funny.

Plus, we can all feel sorry for a man when his first car was an AMC Gremlin, a car "that existed so Pinto drivers would have something to BLEEP (no shittin' idea what word THAT is) on..."

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<![CDATA[Lewis Black Rants On James Glickenhaus And His Bespoke Ferrari]]>

Lewis Black, always looking to cover things that've slipped through the cracks, decided to take on James Glickenhaus. Glickenhaus is the Ferrari collector who went and commissioned Pininfarina to build him a $3 million bespoke update of the Ferrari P4 over an Enzo chassis, the 612 P4/5. It'd appear that every time this car gets mentioned in the newspaper, it gets an upgrade of about half a million in the price tag. By Detroit, we're thinking they'll be pegging the price at about $9 million. As for Mr. Back In Black, wait for the always funny money shot at the end — we guarantee the punchline'll be worth it.

Related:
Glickenhaus Unveils His New Ferrari 612 P4/5; Glickenhaus Ferrari in the Parisphere; You Are There: James Glickenhaus Drives His Custom Ferrari [internal]

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