This one's too good to pass up. Don't know if you saw Bill O'Reilly's interview with Comedy Central's "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart the other day. But in it, the following dialogue ensued:
O'REILLY: You know what's really frightening?STEWART: You've been reading my diary.
O'REILLY: You actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary.
STEWART: If that were so, that would be quite frightening.
O'REILLY: But it is. It's true. I mean, you've got stoned slackers watching your dopey show every night, OK, and they can vote.
STEWART: Yeah.
O'REILLY: You can't stop them.
STEWART: Yeah, I just don't know how motivated they would be, these stoned slackers.
Someone had the bright idea to give people who watch late night comedy shows a quiz on political issues. Not only are "The Daily Show" viewers more likely to be more politically informed than those who watch Leno or Letterman, but, as CNN put it:
"Daily Show" viewers know more about election issues than people who regularly read newspapers or watch television news, according to the National Annenberg Election Survey.
CNN continues:
It [comedy central] also trotted out stats from Nielsen Media Research to show that Stewart's viewers are not only smart, but more educated than O'Reilly's."Daily Show" viewers are 78 percent more likely than the average adult to have four or more years of college education, while O'Reilly's audience is only 24 percent more likely to have that much schooling.
Plus, the network noted, "Daily Show" viewers are 26 percent more likely to have a household income more than $100,000, while O'Reilly's audience is only 11 percent more likely to make that much money.
So the guy watching Stewart may not only be smart, but may also be rich.
The intentional misnomer "Faux News" has never been more appropriate.
-- Michael
maybe I am just noticing it more now but O'Reilly is getting more and more into himself lately. He has begun referring to himself in the third person and anyone who talks about themselves in the third person has a bit of an ego problem.
I saw the Stewart interview and he kept hammering on the "stoned slacker" audience and it seemed a bit strange.
O'Reilly of course has a big ego but it seems to be growing everyday
Posted by: d meyers | September 29, 2004 at 01:13 PM
yeah, i've never understood the deal with o'reilly. his show does in fact seem to be all about his ego. he says not very well-informed things that seem to make everyone mad, and even though i think he's pretty right-wing, he doesn't adhere to right-wing ideology in the way that say, hannity does or someone. instead, he chooses the weirdest things about bush to support.
but people seem to eat up his show. i don't get it. now i do.
Posted by: here's what's left | September 29, 2004 at 02:41 PM