On Friday, Jon Stewart appeared on The Bill O'Reilly Factor. I've long found Bill O'Reilly to be a complete, for lack of a better word, diktad, but this just cements it. The transcript can be found here. The man comes off as completely petty. Chunks of it appear that he's joking, but really, when one of the first things you say to a guest is, "I mean, you've got stoned slackers watching your dopey show every night, OK, and they can vote" that just comes off poorly. Stoned slackers? Man, I didn't realize I--and many of my friends--are stoned when we watch The Daily Show. And he harped on the fact that John Kerry chose to do TDS instead of his show. Dude. Get over it. Also, "Eighty-seven percent are intoxicated when they watch it. You didn't see that?" Ugh.
At least Jon and crew won an Emmy last night.
Posted by Barb at September 20, 2004 09:48 AM | TrackBackO'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.
Jackass.
Posted by: M-D at September 20, 2004 10:03 PM