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Daily Show's Viewers Best O'Reilly's In Political Quiz
tjg89 writes "CNN.com has an interesting article about some deragatory comments made about Daily Show viewers by Bill O'Reilly and how Comedy Central reacted. They not only proved that the Daily Show viewers are better informed than viewers of his show, but they are also more informed than viewers of Jay Leno and David Lettermen. Are more slashdot readers Daily Show people or O'Reilly people?" Update: 09/29 16:55 GMT by T : The Daily Show's audience actually topped viewers of "The Tonight Show,""The Late Show" and "The O'Reilly Factor"; CNN just carried the story. (Thanks to reader Robert Nevitt for the correction.)
Too bad he's a dyed-in-the-wool Leno fan- no wonder he's voting for Bush.
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The reason O'Reilly's name was brought up is that he recently called the Daily Show's audience a bunch of "pot smoking slackers", which is the whole point of this post.
Second, the summary says, "Daily Show viewers are better informed than viewers of [O'Reilly's] show", which is also incorrect. The CNN article states that more Daily Show viewers are 4+ years college educated and $100K+ salaried, but it says nothing about who is more informed between O'Reilly and the Daily Show. The Daily Show viewers are more informed than Letterman etc.
Story submitters and mods need to do a better job and actually read the articles they submit.
The poll was taken by Annenberg, not CNN, and wasn't taken in response to anything in particular.... This PDF from them directly has more specific stats and methodology. (I'm just amused that someone had to classify all the jokes. <g>)
If you have seen "OutFoxed" you see him totally reem a guy whos parents died in 9-11 just because he said something that Bill didn't agree with. Had the guy escorted off the studio only after insulting his dead parents. Great guy that O'Reilly.
On the other hand... Jon Stewart is a comic genius. I get more real news from the first 15 minutes of the daily show than watching CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and FOX all day. Plus I get to LOL on many occasions. Jon definitely deserves a shot at the tonight show after Jay is gone, or even Letterman's spot.
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You would like The Diane Rhem Show then. http://www.wamu.org/dr/index.html
--chris
Watch OutFoxed... they give plenty of proof. Also, read Rolling Stone a few issues back. Here is the online article: The guy is just a jerk who lies and screams and intimidates if he doesn't get his way.
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Someone should ask Bill O'Reilly abount the Paris Business Review.
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I watched the segment with Stewart, I'm an O'Reilly fan, and even I didn't like where he was going with it. O'Reilly is (don't flame me) a bit pompous. It comes across in interviews like this. He kept pounding on Stewart's viewers, and it was unfair in my eyes. Eventually, he did stop, and we'll see if Stewart is the bigger man when he has O'Reilly on his show.
--trb
FAIR is a place to start looking, especaially their article "The 'Oh Really?' Factor: Bill O'Reilly Spins Facts and Statistics".
He lied when he told Good Morning America viewers that "if the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again."
He said this before the war, and after combat operations ended and the WMD caches kept not pouring in, he started spinning to give himself breathing room. At first he said "in the next few weeks," then continually extended the deadline. Finally, in another interview in February 2004, he gave a half-hearted apology, but still shows no signs of distrust of the Bush administration. [source]
O'Reilly lied when he said he was a political independent. This is another one documented in Franken's book. His own voter registration shows himself registered as a Republican, and he's donated thousands to Republican causes, none to Democratic ones.
O'Reilly lies when he calls his show "The No-Spin Zone." This lie is so manifest, it's hardly worth taking time to document it.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
There's plenty of dumb stuff on both sides of the aisle, but these days he hammers the Republicans, and lets the Dems completely off the hook.
I don't see where you get this. On every show he makes fun of Kerry. While the Daily Show is anything but right-leaning, they have more high-powered right wing figures as guests than they do the left on average, and they routinely promote the impression that Kerry is a monotone, one-dimensional person that's incapable of inspiring people - the idea of which might have been funny the first 10,000 times they played this tired joke, but that hasn't stopped them from continuing.
He lied when he told Good Morning America...
And as you mentioned, he apologized. I'm not sure how you want him to express distrust, but he doesn't give the president a pass on anything. Watch his interview with him tonight, he questioned the president on the WMDs. He questioned him on his service record, the Swift Boat Vets, etc. He's not going to burn GW's picture on national television, but will he "trust" him again as he did at first? Neither you nor I can say that, we can just judge him in the future and bring this up.
This is another one documented in Franken's book.
He explained it: "When I registered in Nassau to vote in 1994, there was not a box for an independent. I left all the boxes empty. Somehow, I was assigned Republican status." And Franken fails to mention that O'Reilly corrected the registration issue the day after he was told he was registered Republican. If you want to believe that he registered as a Republican and is lying about it to seem more to the center, there isn't a lot that I or he can do to convince you.
--trb
The actual pdf report points out that between July 15th and September 16th, out of 83 political jokes on The Daily Show, 9 were directed at Bush, and 9 were directed at Kerry (page 8). Seems pretty balanced to me. Letterman was just about the same (20 Bush / 21 Kerry). Leno was a bit skewed (97 Bush / 76 Kerry), but, not being a fan of Leno, I would expect him to take the easy route when hunting for a joke. :)
Frogs are primitive animals - so the occasional extra toe is not that unusual. But this is very unusual.
Well you RTFAed rather poorly. The article never said that the Annenburg poll targeted Factor viewers, it said the following:
Comedy Central used its viewers' test scores Tuesday to strike back at Fox News Channel and O'Reilly's viewers.
It 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.
Then it when on to quote Comedy Central siting some of the statistics from Nielsen.
Also, if 48% of 18-29 yro Daily Show viewers got all 6 questions right, it may not be that impressive, but it is a lot higher than just guessing! The questions are multiple choice: 5 with 2 choices, and 1 with 4. You do the rest of the math, I'm way too tired.
Rome wasn't bilked in a day.