The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (and Jim Pence) on Monday night

Matt Gunterman June 22nd, 2007

On Monday night, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart will feature some footage shot by Kentucky’s very own Jim Pence of the HillybillyReport.com and also a contributor here at DitchMitchKY.com.

When the history of Kentucky’s blogosphere is one day written, that history will note that among the most prolific, dedicated, and certainly most unique contributors was Jim Pence of Hardin County.

For, in his retirement from a decidedly industrial-era career, Jim took to and took on the Information Age, and in the process he molded it and taught us all a thing or two about how to use it effectively and creatively.

Jim’s niche, by the way, is digital video, and his work is known for its biting wit and unrepentant orneriness, a style he has rightly and proudly labeled “hillbilly.” He has traversed the state recording the intersection of national, state, and local politics in Kentucky, and — through the Internet — he has made that material accessible to the entire world and has, in fact, given it to history.

And the world is using it.

You see, while perusing YouTube for video of Wesley Clark last week, a researcher for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart came across some of Jim’s footage of Clark in the fall of 2006 stumping for Democrat Col. Mike Weaver in his campaign in Kentucky’s Second Congressional District. They immediately contacted Jim, offered to have the video overnighted to their studios, and have said it will air on Monday night.

So, let’s all offer Jim our congratulations for a job well done and take a second to marvel a bit at how the era we’re living in is reshaping the creative and political landscape, when people like Jim Pence and Jon Stewart can come together to make a rather powerful point.

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