Bill O’Reilly's viewers are actually less educated than (Jon) Stewart's

[Newsjock]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6117542/

The Associated Press
Updated: 6:52 p.m. ET Sept. 27, 2004

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.

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[politicat]

Let's get to work on the Bill O'Lielly Crow Cookbook....

cuz boy's gonna be needin' some good crow recipes....

Pcat

[West Coast Democrat]

1. According the Annenberg, Daily Show viewers are best informed...

about politics, compared to viewers of other late night shows.

http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/naes/2004_03_late-night-knowledge-2_9-21_pr.pdf

[kysrsoze]

57. They're all just intellectual, snooty stoners who can't speak plainly

The question should be who you'd rather go out with to get drunk and start fights. :eyes:

[6th Borough]

70. The answer would of course be Jon Stewart :) EOM

[NC_Nurse]

2. Not one bit surprising...

O'Lielly appeals to morons because his arguments are moronic!

[mark0rama]

25. True, there is not a thinking person in this country...

...that will be surprised by this.

O'Reilly's viewers, on the other hand, will refuse to believe it.

[goforit]

3. Now thats the poll that matters and is quite obvious!!!

[qanda]

4. My husband and I are no stoned slackers

And we never miss The Daily Show and we wouldn't watch Bill O'Reilly if we were guaranteed a million dollars for doing so.

[maxsolomon]

8. i would watch o'reilly for a guaranteed million

it would hurt, and hurt bad, but i really need some money.

how long would i have to watch? one show?

one observation: if i was stoned at 11pm, i couldn't get to sleep until 2.

[LibeMatt]

60. I would definitely take the million...

...provided I was allowed to suitably alter my consciousness beforehand :^)

[Sequoia]

19. We're stoned, but not slackers

Maybe some are hackers, but yes, way smarter. Sure beats O'Riley's Pabst Blue Ribbon beer guzzlers.

[NMDemDist2]

20. for a million dollars?? i'd hold my nose and watch but I never miss

Jon and he's never sent me a red cent lol

[Ediacara]

21. A million is a lot of money

I'd watch O'Reilly every night for a month for a million dollars :-)

[Zhade]

24. I'm a "stoned slacker" - but also a college grad and a media professional.

Compute THAT, O'Lielly!

[6th Borough]

71. Hell...

I'de watch O'Reilly for 10 clams an episode...maybe 5...

Not that that I'm saying I would agree with him...but...when unemployed, beer and cig money is, well...beer and cig money.

Plus, I could save up enough to be stoned for Jon Stewart!:smoke:

[DS1]

5. O'Reilly was everything he claims liberals are in that interview

Aloof, condescending, name-calling, etc etc.
Fuck him, he needs to slam into the other side of the Pentagon :nuke:

Olsen was merely a step in the right direction.

[Lerkfish]

32. republicans always accuse of what they just did. funny, no?

its so endearing...they actually like to think they are being clever. Poor dears.

[grannylib]

64. That's been their 'strategery' from the get-go. * waffles on everything

from reasons for war, to the 9/11 commission, to Condosleaza testifying, to limiting his own "visit" with the commissioners (can't have * 'testifying;' makes him sound like a CRIMINAL!) to OBL dead or alive, and on and on and on. So since * IS a flop of a flip-flopper, they HAD to smear Kerry with that 'flip flop' label.
Same with military service: * was an aWol zero, Kerry was a hero, so: discredit Kerry! Bingo!
Shameless whores, the ReThuglicans....just shameless.

[colgate]

47. O'Reilly

and the horse he rode in on!!!!:nuke:

[Zorba607]

56. WHAT!?

I know you got bunches of posts and I'm but a low posting lurker but shit man, I hope you weren't serious.
1)ted olson and his wife can suck on my balls, agreed, but I'm wary of anyone celebrating tragedy. Calling her death 'merely a step in the right direction' is outrageous. Perhaps we've become a bit immune to outrage after dealing with the administration but I don't find that in any way acceptable.
2)oreilly and his gimp can suck on my balls, but again wishing death upon them for being stupid and influencial smacks of fascism. Again, perhaps we've become a bit numb to fascism after 3 years but still, that don't make it ok.
3)'he needs to slam into the other side of the pentagon'? Are you kidding me? You want him to die in a plane hijacking that is then crashed into the center of our defense infrastructure, killing all those on board and many within the pentagon itself? Tell me, were the right to make a comment to the effect that Paul Krugman needs to be done like carnahan, that wellstone was a good first step, is this ok?
Seriously, you have no idea the irony. Between the title and the message the disconnect is alarming. I almost suspect that a freeper has hacked your account in order to make the left look ridiculous.
Get a grip

[Sterling]

63. Check this out!!!!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steveseymour/lies911/lies.htm

[MaineDem]

6. Well of course!

Yes, this is very obvious.

Good to see it in print, though.

We need a "thumbing my nose at O'Reilly" icon!

[stepnw1f]

7. yeh thunk? (nt)

[MissMarple]

9. Oh, really! Let O'Reilly have his little illusion.

He is as dishonorable and idiotic as his viewers.

[Mojambo]

10. When will O'Reilly learn?

Every time he opens his big trap to take on the left, he just gets slammed.

He's like a bully who hasn't realized that more than half the kids in the schoolyard can whip his ass.

[GoldenOldie]

12. O'Reilly is a Corporate welfare hog

This guy has a 10-mil annual contract. He rags on the Hollywood elite who make less than this and actually have to work for it. Than consider for the amount of work that actually does is simply reading the daily Rove script and than screaming over his guests statements. He is overpaid and the majority of his salary should be going to the stockholders who have actually invested in his sponsors.

So in fact O'Reilly is sucking at the tit of Big Business......what a guy.

[yardwork]

46. 10 mil? That means O'Liely gets paid about a million

to do his own show!

[dogtag]

11. Fans of O'Lielly, Rush, Hannity, etc.

need a 'daddy' to tell them what to think. They are basically infantile and incapable of forming their own opinions.

Adult, educated people don't enjoy being hectored, and realize when they are being blatantly misinformed. Hence, O'Lielly gets the knuckle dragging crowd.

Clueless folks would not find Jon Stewart's show amusing, they wouldn't know what to make of it. The political pieces on the Daily Show are only funny if one has a working knowledge of the players and the issues.

[BlueEyedSon]

13. Well.... DUH!

:)

[tjdee]

14. Did someone email this story to O'Reilly?

Just so he learns something new....

[William Bloode]

15. I can't wait....

Till Bill comes on the Daily Show. You know John, and company are going to make a big deal out of. Hell, i'm pretty sure they squeeze it in next show.


It's really just so damn funny! Think about it, O'liely basically was slandering the Daily Shows viewers as slackers and stoner's, and his audience tends to be uneducated "Moran's".

Being stoned now just makes it extra hilarious :D

[sniffa]

16. oh this is hiLarious

and not just because i'm stoned.

[gratuitous]

17. We knew that . . .

But of course, it's because we're smarter than O'Reilly's audience. And each man caters to his audience.

So Bill? Shut up, shut up, shut up, just shut up!!!!

Capisce?

[LiberalFighter]

38. Anyone with a brain would not suffer the abuse that O'Reilly dishes out

We have better things to do than waste our time listening to his drivel. He is too abusive and obnoxious to be funny.

Jon Stewart challenges their viewers to think and at the same time enjoy the show.

[Vox_Reason]

18. This story from the department of the utterly unsurprising

We need story tags for headlines like they have at Fark.com.

This one would get the "obvious" tag.

Anyone with half a whit of intellect and insight could watch both shows for a week and tell you which one appeals to a more educated and informed audience.

Stoned slackers, my ass. Put me in that category as opposed to the "mouth-breathing knuckle-dragger" category that watches O'Liely.

"Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!!! Cut his mic."

http://http.dvlabs.com/carolina/Trailer_A.wmv

[childslibrarian]

22. Not only am I not stoned

but my husband and I have 2 masters and a PhD between us. And we're MATURE gainfully employed people who are putting a kid thru college!!!

[Cha]

23. Freakshow o'lielly Leaves him-

self Wide Open for this with his LIES! And no wonder Jon Stewart's are more educated..in addition to their education ..they actually get the Truth on Jon's Show!! :D

[VegasWolf]

26. Shame about O'Reilly, thinks he's so smart, but

he would have gotten a far superior Catholic education from
the Jesuits than he did from the Dominican Sisters if only
his parents had been able to afford the extra cost.

I think too many ruler slaps to the head ruined his objectivity.

[Kierkegaard]

27. O'Reilly's definition of intelligence is

possessing the ability and the bad taste to shout down anyone who disagrees with him. He's really lame...

[LiberalFighter]

36. They weren't applied to the appropriate part of the body

And I'm not referring to his rear!!

[JerseygirlCT]

28. Is anyone really surprised at this?

If you're thinking, you realize that O'Reilly is just a big, blowhard bully happily devoid of any intelligent thought.

Stewart actually requires that you be up on current events and have a few brain cells to rub together.

[PurityOfEssence]

29. "Life is a tragedy for people who feel, and a comedy for people who think"

Anyone have the actual quote and attribution on that?

[joefree1]

30. Hee hee hee. Thanks!

Sending to everyone I know.

[Generator]

31. Well duh.

Wanted to say that on many things, but this is the best!

[Lugnut]

33. What a shock!

Not. :eyes:

[Skittles]

34. HA HA, HA HA HA HA

take that O"Reilly, you stupid asshole

[Proud2BAmurkin]

35. Fox viewers are proud of their idiocy

.

[David Zephyr]

37. Nielsen: Stoned Slackers Brighter Than Drunk Crackers! My Poem.

How swiftly truth contradicts O'Reilly,
Each time the fool opens his mouth,
Is he jealous of Stewart's audience so smiley,
Because his are mostly bigots down south?
For Nielson now tells us that Stewart's "Stoned Slackers"
Are more educated than O'Reilly's drunk crackers.

--DZ

[fameless]

39. Anyone have video of Jon on "The Factor"

nt

[gatlingforme]

41. When was he on? I did not see that but I would love to.

[Squeegee]

40. Funny, I never smoked pot and I am a work-aholic

... I guess I've been watching the wrong show.

[bigtime]

42. they ACTUALLY are? ACTUALLY?

thanks AP! for ACTUALLY publishing this story.

Once again, the headline writer is ACTUALLY a condescending asshat. ACTUALLY!

[Carolab]

43. IMHO

Here we have a true culture war. The close-minded dummies are taking over the world, beating up on "liberal intellectuals" to prove THEY are superior!!! Haven't you noticed?

They hate us for our "freedom" of thought--or ability to think, period. At least they are smart enough to figure out that "we've" been making fun of "them"--but they have nothing to fight back with except just pure, unadulterated, irrational nastiness and hatred.

[hyphenate]

44. Hoo hah!!

:D

[RevCheesehead]

45. DUH!!!!!!! This is news - to whom?

Yet more evidence that volume and repetition do not a journalist make.

[AspenRose]

48. Ha ha ha ha ha

And Bill, since you're humorless....

You have to be SOMEWHAT intelligent to get the wit and humor on Jon's show.

[Cocoa]

49. not fair to O'Reilly

it's a low blow to actually go out and check O'Reilly's facts.

[llmart]

50. This coupled with the earlier survey.......

that showed people who got their information about the Iraq war from Fox News were less informed than people who got their news from other sources just goes to show you how brilliant (not) Fox News viewers are.

[MagickMuffin]

51. Big Surprise (Not)

Did you guys take the vote for who you get your campaign news from?

The Daily Show had 41% @2:23 when I voted.

It's really no surprise that O'Liely is so jealous of the "liberals", because we actually are better informed then the people who watch his show.

He likes his audience to be stupid, it's easier to manipulate the masses!

When the protest against the RNC in NY, (which I recored from c-span), all day long when people approached the Fox news building they were chanting, "Fox News Sucks", "Fuck Fox News", "Fox News Lies", "Boycott Fox". I laugh every time I re-watch the tape.

It's no wonder why O'Liely hates us.

[Bread and Circus]

52. I'm a physician, my IQ is 138-152 (depending on the test),

I graduated 3rd in my class in college (graduating class of 6,000), my gpa was 3.92, and my MCAT scores were 13/13/11/R.

I watch The Daily Show every night.

It's the only "news" on TV that doesn't insult my intelligence.

Smoke that, Bill O'Reilly.

[Endangered Specie]

58. Smartass

;)

[Zorra]

53. You don't have to be too bright to figure this out. So I guess Comedy

Central did the poll for the benefit of freepers.

[xxqqqzme]

54. U have 2 B informed

2 appreciate Daily/Stewart's humor.

O'Lielly has no humor; he does get off on pontificating tho.

If someone has a link, they should send the poll 2 Jon. He is leading everyone on that list w/ 42%!

[Gregorian]

55. And a whole lot angrier.

O'Rielly and wit are strangers.
Here, have my tribute. I call it Zombo'rielly.

[IA_Seth]

59. He, he...I am a stoned slacker

But then again, I am also fairly educated and pretty familiar with current events both here and abroad.

More anti-marijuana propaganda. Not ALL stoners are smoked-out idiots, just like not ALL drinkers are dirty t-shirt wearing slobs.

[AgadorSparticus]

68. how can people not see the danger in stoned out slackers?

i mean, they sit there and....they...sit..and all. not to mention the eating frenzy because...they are the only ones to...EAT?

it may, afterall, alert al queda to twinkies and cold pizza and god only knows what that can lead to. :silly:

I agree. I think a whole lotta people smoke pot occasionally that we would NEVER think would smoke pot. Like O'Lielly, maybe? lol

[daleo]

61. I would be curious to see the actual numbers

I think it would be very unflattering to Fox, so they weren't reproduced in the article.

[Indie Media Magazine]

62. O'Reilly listeners are a bunch of inbred imbeciles....nt

[VegasWolf]

65. Simple O'Reilly is less educated than Jon.

[Digit]

66. There's viewers and then there are discerning viewers.

We watch the Daily Show because we can tell we are being lied to.
How can the media promote * when he is such an embarrassment. Other countries which receive unbiased news know it to be true.
When I see a journalist touting * as being a great leader, I immediately know something is amiss.

[obiwan]

67. Apparently, excessive alcohol consumption by his viewers...

... doesn't qualify them as "stoned slackers."

Man, growing up in the Westbury section of "Levittown" sure does some strange things to the ol' thought processes.

Maybe it's in the water. That's why it's yellow.

[AgadorSparticus]

69. you got that right!!