Love among the stoned slackers
Wonkette has a transcript of Jon Stewart’s visit with Bill O’Reilly last week.
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.
A. and I watch The Daily Show the next day (thanks, Tivo!). We proudly count ourselves among O’Reilly’s stoned slackers, slackers who are surprisingly well informed.
Polling conducted between July 15 and Sept. 19 among 19,013 adults showed that on a six-item political knowledge test people who did not watch any late-night comedy programs in the past week answered 2.62 items correctly, while viewers of Late Night with David Letterman on CBS answered 2.91, viewers of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno answered 2.95, and viewers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart answered 3.59 items correctly.
