Between the Scenes - The College Bribery Scam and America's So-Called Meritocracy
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Comedy Central
4.2 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:30.0 | I am loving this college bribery scandal story for two reasons. |
| 0:40.0 | One, because it's just a fresh story. |
| 0:43.7 | There's no politics. |
| 0:45.6 | You know, there's no partisanship. |
| 0:47.7 | It's just like a simple story about people doing a bad thing and they got busted. |
| 0:52.1 | And we can all talk about it and all this fighting. |
| 0:53.8 | I was just like, yeah, look at the bad thing. |
| 0:56.0 | And I like it for another reason. |
| 0:57.2 | Because it raises like an interesting conversation in and around whether or not America truly |
| 1:02.4 | has a merit-based society. |
| 1:03.4 | Because a lot of people say that in America. |
| 1:04.9 | It was going to America if you work hard and you get where you need to go. |
| 1:08.0 | And it's like, yes, but we cannot deny. |
| 1:10.8 | Who you know makes a big difference in how far you can get in this country. |
| 1:14.4 | Somebody has to open the door for you. |
| 1:19.6 | Somebody has to open the door for you. |
| 1:21.3 | I don't care who you are, where you are. |
| 1:23.2 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:23.6 | Like, I've worked hard in my life. |
| 1:24.9 | But I know that John Stuart was the person that opened a door and be like, |
| 1:27.9 | hey, come into this world. |
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