9.28.2004

Stoned Slackers

The Boston Globe reports...

Bill O'Reilly of FOX called the audience of Comedy Central's Daily Show "stoned slackers". The wonks came back with the numbers today:

Viewers of Jon Stewart's [The Daily 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.

Where do I fit into all of this? I just spent the last hour glued to C-SPAN.