-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
"No Joke: Daily Show Viewers Follow Presidential Race"
- Thread starter JoshuaJSlone
- Start date
- Status
- Not open for further replies.
fennec fox
ferrets ferrets ferrets ferrets FERRETS!!!
Here were some of the questions used, btw, taken from
http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/naes/2004_03_late-night-knowledge-2_9-21_pr.pdf
1. Who favors allowing workers to invest some of their Social Security contributions in the stock market?
2. Who urges Congress to to extend the federal law banning assault weapons?
3. John Kerry says that he would eliminate the Bush tax cuts on those making how much money: Over 50 thousand a year, Over 100 thousand a year, Over 200 thousand a year, Over 500,000 a year?
4. Who is a former prosecutor?
5. Who favors making the recent tax cuts permanent?
6. Who wants to make it easier for labor unions to organize?
Answers
http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/naes/2004_03_late-night-knowledge-2_9-21_pr.pdf
1. Who favors allowing workers to invest some of their Social Security contributions in the stock market?
2. Who urges Congress to to extend the federal law banning assault weapons?
3. John Kerry says that he would eliminate the Bush tax cuts on those making how much money: Over 50 thousand a year, Over 100 thousand a year, Over 200 thousand a year, Over 500,000 a year?
4. Who is a former prosecutor?
5. Who favors making the recent tax cuts permanent?
6. Who wants to make it easier for labor unions to organize?
Answers
1. Bush 2. Kerry 3. Over 200,000 a year 4. Kerry 5. Bush 6. Kerry
fennec fox said:Here were some of the questions used, btw, taken from
http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/naes/2004_03_late-night-knowledge-2_9-21_pr.pdf
1. Who favors allowing workers to invest some of their Social Security contributions in the stock market?
2. Who urges Congress to to extend the federal law banning assault weapons?
3. John Kerry says that he would eliminate the Bush tax cuts on those making how much money: Over 50 thousand a year, Over 100 thousand a year, Over 200 thousand a year, Over 500,000 a year?
4. Who is a former prosecutor?
5. Who favors making the recent tax cuts permanent?
6. Who wants to make it easier for labor unions to organize?
Answers
1. Bush 2. Kerry 3. Over 200,000 a year 4. Kerry 5. Bush 6. Kerry
what the shit those are just common sense answers.
I figured this was on topic:
http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2004/09/27/so_who_are_the_stoned_slackers_watching_jon_stewart/
http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2004/09/27/so_who_are_the_stoned_slackers_watching_jon_stewart/
NEW YORK -- The folks at Comedy Central were annoyed when Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly kept referring to "The Daily Show" audience as "stoned slackers."
So they did a little research. And guess whose audience is more educated?
Viewers of Jon Stewart's show are more likely to have completed four years of college than people who watch "The O'Reilly Factor," according to Nielsen Media Research.
Comedy Central also touted a recent study by the University of Pennsylvania's National Annenberg Election Survey, which said young viewers of "The Daily Show" were more likely to answer questions about politics correctly than those who don't.
Comedy Central had no statistics on how many people watch "The Daily Show" stoned.
Whether it's the slacker or no-slacker zone, O'Reilly is entering it Oct. 7, when he's scheduled to appear on "The Daily Show."
ErasureAcer
Banned
got em all right and I don't even watch the daily show. I don't even have cable(anymore). And I don't watch those crap latenight shows either. People fail to understand that they have the greatest tool ever invented in front of them...it's called the internet and it's filled with information(some true and some false) but the truth is not hard to find.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Crap most of those questions are easy. #3 is the only one I wouldn't have known; not coincidentally it's the only one with more than two options. Just going by total guessing, wouldn't the average score be 2.75?
So... not watching the comedy programs actually makes you do worse than random.people who did not watch any late-night comedy programs in the past week answered 2.62 items correctly
:lolComedy Central had no statistics on how many people watch "The Daily Show" stoned.
Error Macro
Member
STONED SLACKERS
FortNinety
Member
Jon Stewart is the only news caster I trust anymore.
Idle Will Kill
Banned
I got 4/6. Don't really watch late shows anymore.
Shogmaster
Member
I got two wrong too. I chose 500,000 for #3, and Nader for #4. :|
Viewers of Jon Stewart's show are more likely to have completed four years of college than people who watch "The O'Reilly Factor," according to Nielsen Media Research.
OWNED :lol
Just b/c you're stoned doesn't mean you don't care about the world. Matter of fact, you're probably more likely to since you sit around watching tv and waxing philosophical about random nonsense. Still, the results aren't very good for such an easy test.
Oh yeah, the reason people are so clueless is b/c most of the networks do more op-ed bullshit than actual news. You need to tune into CNN Headline News or the Beeb to get actual facts. Otherwise, all we'd know about these guys is them Nam records. PEACE.
So true.ErasureAcer said:People fail to understand that they have the greatest tool ever invented in front of them...it's called the internet and it's filled with information(some true and some false) but the truth is not hard to find.
I got them all right and am an occasional watcher of The Daily Show. I never watch Letterman, Leno, or Fox News.
Banjo Tango
Member
Any video links? Does Fox News archive this stuff?HalfPastNoon said:I wish Jon Stewart bitchslapped O'Reilly when he was on the Factor a few friday's ago. Could O'Reilly have been more of a patronizing, condescending asshole?
O'Reilly must've had hurt feelings from "The Colbert Report*."
* It's French. Bitch.
Edit: Found this partial transcript.
JON STEWART, "THE DAILY SHOW": How are you, sir?
O'REILLY: OK. You know what's really frightening?
STEWART: Uh oh.
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.
O'REILLY: Yeah, it just depends if they have to go out that day.
STEWART: What am I, a Cheech and Chong movie? Stoned slackers?
O'REILLY: Come on, you do the research, you know the research on your program.
STEWART: No, we don't.
O'REILLY: Eighty-seven percent are intoxicated when they watch it. You didn't see that?
STEWART: No, I didn't realize that.
O'REILLY: Yeah, we have that there.
STEWART: We come on right after, I believe, puppets that make crank calls...
O'REILLY: Yeah.
STEWART: ... so we are, I think, the appropriate follow up...
O'REILLY: Yeah, and that's a great lead-in for you.
STEWART: It's a wonderful show, by the way.
O'REILLY: Puppets can't vote, but these dopey kids who watch you can.
STEWART: They actually can -- in Florida, they can.
O'REILLY: Puppets can vote in Florida.
STEWART: As long as they vote Republican.
O'REILLY: And they haven't committed a felony.
STEWART: And they haven't committed a felony, that's exactly right.
O'REILLY: But you do have some influence. Now, how do you see that? You have influence. John Kerry bypassed me and went right over to you. You're only four blocks away. He said, "O'Reilly, I don't think so. Stewart, I'm going to go talk to you."
STEWART: Well, I have to tell you -- and again, I mean no disrespect, but the snack selection backstage, quite frankly...
O'REILLY: Yeah, it's...
(CROSSTALK)
STEWART: You know, I don't want to shake Guantanamo Bay, but it's a little sparer back there.
O'REILLY: It's close, it's close. We want people to be hungry when they come out.
STEWART: I think that's wise. We have, what I like to call, snack-size Three Musketeers, some Snickers, some Milky Ways. If I were a presidential candidate and I had to choose, I think a place that had an energy pick-me-up might be the place I would go.
O'REILLY: Do you think that Kerry does himself any good talking to you? Because I think most of your audience is going to vote for him anyway, aren't they?
STEWART: If I thought...
O'REILLY: The stoned slackers.
STEWART: If I thought honestly that their strategy hinged upon his coming and talking to me, I would suggest that they were in some deep trouble. I don't know. I feel like, you know, we don't have an agenda of influence.
If we have influence, it is peripheral. And I don't imagine that people who watch the show are watching it to make up their minds in terms of who they think would best prosecute the war on terror. I think they watch to see who would maybe have the best jokes on the war on terror.
O'REILLY: No, here's what I think. I've been on the show a couple of times. I mean, you obviously make fun of everybody. You know, I'm making fun of your show now. But you get everybody.
STEWART: We are, in fact, crass and immature.
O'REILLY: But you are a show that your target audience is younger, left leaning, so you have to play to the choir sometimes.
STEWART: But the real estate is younger, just because it's Comedy Central.
O'REILLY: And it's at 11:00 at night.
STEWART: I don't know if it's left leaning. I mean, would you suggest that -- you know that blue collar TV show that does all the -- like Foxworthy and all that? You'd consider that a red state show -- you know, Foxworthy and -- ...
O'REILLY: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
STEWART: OK. They're our lead-in on Monday nights, and there's really no difference between...
O'REILLY: But even so, younger people tend to be a little bit more, you know...
STEWART: When you say younger, are you talking 9, 10? What are you talking here?
O'REILLY: No, I'm talking 18 to 25, you know. The people who are on your intellectual level.
STEWART: Thank you.
O'REILLY: They seek that.
STEWART: Yes.
(CROSSTALK)
O'REILLY: You ask some serious questions too.
STEWART: Very rarely. Every now and again.
O'REILLY: Well, you asked me why I was such a bad person, didn't you, or something like that? Wasn't that a serious question?
STEWART: Did I ask you why you were a bad person?
O'REILLY: Yeah, I think so.
STEWART: No, I wouldn't have done that.
O'REILLY: ... "scum of the earth, O'Reilly," I think that's the way you put it.
STEWART: No, I wouldn't have put it that way. I think it would have been, why do you have such je ne sai qua?
O'REILLY: Yeah, some French. We're boycotting France, so I couldn't answer...
STEWART: By the way, I couldn't agree with you more about the French thing. They are such an important country, and I think really deserve a boycott.
O'REILLY: Yeah, they do.
STEWART: Because of the influence they wield in the world.
(CROSSTALK)
O'REILLY: Well, you know, I know you don't agree with...
STEWART: They have a variety of cheeses, and...
O'REILLY: I was just going to say, you have to have your brie before you go on.
STEWART: Do you really believe France is, in any way, worthy of a boycott?
O'REILLY: I do. I think France has really hurt the USA, to be...
STEWART: Really?
O'REILLY: Yes, I do.
STEWART: More than like Saudi Arabia? You would advocate a boycott...
O'REILLY: No, I'm not going to say more than Saudi Arabia. But I'm saying we do a lot...
STEWART: So why not boycott them?
O'REILLY: France is supposed to be our friend. Saudi Arabia is...
STEWART: Since when?
(CROSSTALK)
STEWART: Since the revolution they haven't been our friend.
O'REILLY: OK, when you get a guy like Kerry on...
STEWART: Yes.
O'REILLY: ... and again, he bypassed me, so I took it personally, he went over to talk to you...
STEWART: But you and I are not competitors, let's be frank about it.
O'REILLY: Well, we're on our second rerun on The Factor -- is now at 11:00.
STEWART: I don't mean in terms of -- we're not competitors in terms of content. You're a news show, and we are a comedy show.
O'REILLY: That's true. But what do you want the audience to get out of your discussion with Kerry? Just yucks, or anything else?
STEWART: First of all, I shall rarely refer to it as yucks, and I think you should reconsider.
O'REILLY: OK, I'm sorry about that arcane term.
STEWART: "Shnicks," we call it shnicks -- shnicks and giggles.
O'REILLY: Thank you.
STEWART: All right. I am very uncomfortable going more than a couple of minutes without a laugh, because the same weakness that drove me into comedy also informs my show. So that same, what we call, neediness, neuroses...
O'REILLY: If you're not hearing the audience laugh, you're getting a little nervous.
STEWART: That would be exactly correct, because it is, at heart, a comedy show. But it's a comedy show about things we care about. So naturally, it's informed by relevant issues and important information.
O'REILLY: What do you think Kerry wants to get out of coming on your show?
STEWART: He wants to get what any politician does: access to a new constituency. He wants to get...
O'REILLY: The stoned slackers.
STEWART: ... that's exactly right, because the stoned slackers, this election is going to rely on the undecided. Who is more undecided than...
O'REILLY: Than the stoned slacker, right.
STEWART: ... the people who are high. Right now, they're thinking to themselves, ice cream or pretzels, ice cream or pretzels.
O'REILLY: Don't you think that these guys want to be hip, when McCain was on with you -- Bush hasn't been on with you, right? You would remember that...
STEWART: George Bush?
O'REILLY: Yeah.
STEWART: I don't recall the president stopping by the program.
O'REILLY: But McCain's been on.
STEWART: Yes.
O'REILLY: OK. Kerry's been on, as we mentioned.
STEWART: Yes.
O'REILLY: I've been on. So you've had the three most powerful people beside him on.
STEWART: That's probably right.
O'REILLY: What do you think Kerry wanted to get out of it?
STEWART: A hug -- just a sweet hug. I'm sure what he wants out of it is, again, that access -- it's the same thing that Budweiser wants out of it. It's the same thing that Dell computers...
(CROSSTALK)
STEWART: No, it's access to this market that may be untapped, an untapped potential, a reserve, an ANWAR, if you will. He wants to drill in an area that has previously been un-drilled. And don't make a dirty remark about that, because I see it coming.
O'REILLY: All right, your book is...
STEWART: But what do you think he wants out of it?
O'REILLY: I think he wants to be hip. I do. I think going on your show is a cache, and he's considered the hipper candidate than the square.
STEWART: So you think he's not looking for votes. This is middle-aged crisis?
O'REILLY: No...
STEWART: This is a mid-life crisis...
O'REILLY: No, he just wants to get that tag...
STEWART: ... buying a Corvette.
O'REILLY: ... that he's with it, that's all. And he probably wants to get hair tips from you. Look at that hair. It's great. All right, Jon Stewart, buy his book, here he is. And I'll see you on your show in a couple of weeks.
STEWART: You will see me on my show.
The sheer arrogance:
:lol
STEWART: George Bush?
O'REILLY: Yeah.
STEWART: I don't recall the president stopping by the program.
O'REILLY: But McCain's been on.
STEWART: Yes.
O'REILLY: OK. Kerry's been on, as we mentioned.
STEWART: Yes.
O'REILLY: I've been on. So you've had the three most powerful people beside him on.
:lol
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
6/6
I don't watch any late night shows but I do watch the news. It's damn sad that there are so many stupid people. I agree with Raoul Duke... you SHOULD have to pass a test before you can vote. Because honestly, if you don't have a clue whats going on around you then you shouldn't be able to help decide the direction that this county is headed in; its too important IMO. It's like driving around with a blindfold on.
I don't watch any late night shows but I do watch the news. It's damn sad that there are so many stupid people. I agree with Raoul Duke... you SHOULD have to pass a test before you can vote. Because honestly, if you don't have a clue whats going on around you then you shouldn't be able to help decide the direction that this county is headed in; its too important IMO. It's like driving around with a blindfold on.
Error Macro
Member
HalfPastNoon said:The sheer arrogance:
:lol
I do believe that was a joke.
Oh, and I got 6/6. No offense to anyone, but that test was incredibly simple.
Tommie Hu$tle
Member
Error Macro said:I do believe that was a joke.
Oh, and I got 6/6. No offense to anyone, but that test was incredibly simple.
I would assume that almost anyone on this board would score a 5/6 or 6/6. We are much more politically aware than the average American. On top of that I bet probably a good 70 to 80% of us don't register as "likely" voters. I know I have never in my life been called to anwser one of those polls and I have voted for the past 12 years.
Mama Smurf
My penis is still intact.
I got 0/6! Actually I didn't do it, but every single question would have got a guess from me if I had (maybe not no. 2).
But then I'm not American. I wish their was a British version, I'd love to see how badly I do on that.
But then I'm not American. I wish their was a British version, I'd love to see how badly I do on that.
MetatronM said:Why are we so fucking stupid as a country?
As much as I hate to say it, we're not any less informed than any other country. Just because you happen to disagree with the morons of this country doesn't make them less informed than the morons elsewhere.
Case in point, they did a survey in Europe of whether people favored certain other countries joining the EU. They included fake countries. Less than 10% of the people they asked noticed this and pointed it out. There are others I've seen, but it's pretty sad all-around in every Democratic country.
Alex Anderson
Member
I got them all right, but I had to guess at the $200,000 figure. I avoid political threads on GA like the fucking plague and watch zero programming that deals with political issues really. All I had to know to answer those questions was Bush = Republican + dimwit and Kerry = Democrat + a girl.
Nerevar said:As much as I hate to say it, we're not any less informed than any other country. Just because you happen to disagree with the morons of this country doesn't make them less informed than the morons elsewhere.
Oh, I'd say it takes a special kind of stupid to honestly believe that if Kerry's elected, the Bible will be banned and gay marriage will become the law of the land.
worldrunover
Member
So does anyone have the video clip from O Reilly interviewing Stewart?
Lol @ transcript. Its great how throughout the entire show 0'Reilly tries to pull John in his "zone" by constantly insulting his show's content and its audience, and yet Stewart seems to stay cool, calm and funny, making O'Reilly look like the jackass. I CAN'T wait for October 7th.
hell yea i do. right after jon stewart's interview with seymour m. hersh where they talked about his book "chain of command" i logged onto amazon.com and ordered the book.
lots of great reviews. his words about the 8-9 neocons who've taken control of this country really fucking scared/bothered me.
lots of great reviews. his words about the 8-9 neocons who've taken control of this country really fucking scared/bothered me.
explodet said:I laughed just as hard at the deconstruction of the Bush interview as I did with the Kerry / Sawyer interview - especially Jon's reactions.
"Am I in heaven?"
same here. kerry really needs to shape the fuck up concerning his slow and wordy answers regarding those questions.
it's too bad it has to come down to that, though.
- Status
- Not open for further replies.