DISQUS

Open Culture: Not Always a Nation of Dunces

  • Will · 1 year ago
    The guy's name is Derrick Ashong. He gives speeches about politics; also was in Spielberg's "Amistad". http://wiki.idmashup.org/DerrickAshong

    wrong kid indeed!
  • ben j · 1 year ago
    Interviewer is a gigantic tool. He might as well begin each question with "Hey stupid..."

    I couldn't watch the whole thing (dude was making me sick), but even halfway through, once it became clear that his subject had something to contribute on the topic, he's STILL trying to catch him out.
  • cyenobite · 1 year ago
    Wow! Thanks so much for posting this! I hope you don't mind but I had to post this over on my blog as well. In addition, I found a few more of Derrick's posts on youtube... I encourage others to check them out as well...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2zO5d-XZWA

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-JirI45yGs
  • Rk · 1 year ago
    What an abrasive interviewer.
  • nino · 1 year ago
    The takeaway from that video was not health care-related but rather that Obama as president would unite Congress. Which means it was a promotional spot in the guise of an interview.

    The fake high five at the end was classic.
  • Anonymous · 1 year ago
    i am confused, why, if the interviewer was trying to catch him out, and was being made to look bad, did he post the video. It seemed to me in watching it, that this whole thing was staged. The interviewer was not catching him out really, but setting up questions. and given the subject is a regular youtube correspondent, seems a great coincidence that he is the one randomly interviewed.
  • Anonymous · 1 year ago
    and he is also an actor, staged seems right