I was filmed for The Colbert Report!

Who knows what is going to survive the cutting room floor, but right now I feel like the coolest person on the planet.

For some reason, TCR glommed on to a news story about a library that denied a child borrowing privileges because he wasn't a resident of their town.  The town where the family does live has refused to fund the regional library, because they think a $12/year per capita tax is too expensive for unlimited access to books, DVDs, databases, educational programs and expert research help (can you tell I'm biased here?)

ANYWAY, the politics of library funding aside, when you've got a cute kid who wants a library book, you've got a news story.  Since the family didn't want to step foot inside the library that denied them privileges, they asked if they could film inside my library and just pretend it was the other (mean, anti-kid) library.

What was interesting was how staged the segment is. They wanted shots of the child bringing books to the circulation desk to be checked out.  It involved multiple takes and calls of "Action!" More like a movie than a news story: this was, literally, fake news.  I'm not an idiot, and I know that TCR and The Daily Show are fake news, but I sort of thought the field pieces were based on reality.

I have a feeling that TCR will end up ridiculing the "mean library", and I feel bad about being part of the ruse, but hey - I was filmed for The Colbert Report!

(by the way, if the story and my footage survives, I'm the lady checking out the books).