The Daily Show costs racist GOP leader his job through "gotcha" tactic of letting him talk
In the worst example yet of The Daily Show’s “gotcha” tactics of using working cameras and microphones, North Carolina’s Don Yelton, a GOP county precinct chair, was caught making racist comments that were then recorded and broadcast on television, where others could hear them. And now The Daily Show’s devious strategy of letting its interviewees talk has cost Yelton his job: According to a statement given to Business Insider by spokesman Nathan West, the Buncombe County Republican Party asked for Yelton’s resignation “in direct response” to the interview that aired Wednesday night, wherein Aasif Mandvi questioned Yelton on the state’s controversial voter ID law, then set Yelton up by suggesting that neither the law nor Yelton was a racist. Mandvi then cunningly stopped talking, thereby prompting Yelton to give numerous examples of why he has “been called a ‘bigot’ before” by using the “gotcha” tactic of silence.