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How much of an impact did The Daily Show & Colbert Report have on the 2006 mid-term elections? A discussion about the influence of Comedy Central's political satirists, Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert.

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symixs : LVL 21: VP 3: said:

symixs

30 votes NegativePositive

1111 days 20 hours ago...

Of course they had a huge impact with the younger American voters!

Batman! : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

Batman!

36 votes NegativePositive

1111 days 19 hours ago...

Stewart/Colbert '08.

They should run as independents.

LeighCedar : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

LeighCedar

29 votes NegativePositive

1111 days 19 hours ago...

^ Totally Agree.

Also someone should point out to that guy that sites like youtube (and Spiked;) are filled with Daily Show and Colbert clips.

sosrandom : LVL 16: VP 2.5: said:

sosrandom

14 votes NegativePositive

1111 days 19 hours ago...

Record numbers, thats good. Go new media he forgot us :(

Khollest : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

Khollest

8 votes NegativePositive

1111 days 15 hours ago...

Am I the only person who thinks it is funny that a majoy news supplier is making news about a mock news shows? (if that makes sense)...

...I agree that access to new media changed thw way I thought about things, not alot, but some.

blong : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

blong

24 votes NegativePositive

1111 days 12 hours ago...

Every joke is a tiny revolution.

Thurston : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

Thurston

5 votes NegativePositive

1111 days 10 hours ago...

the daily show and colbert report should move up to 7:00 and 7:30 respectively.

shananay : LVL 30: VP 3.9: said:

shananay

-5 votes NegativePositive

1111 days 10 hours ago...

if Stewart/Colbert ran in 2008, they shouldn't run as independants. A vote for stewart would be a vote for the republicans.

ummo.cc : LVL 14: VP 2.3: said:

ummo.cc

3 votes NegativePositive

1111 days 10 hours ago...

democrats and repub. are one and the same

LeighCedar : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

LeighCedar

9 votes NegativePositive

1111 days 9 hours ago...

shananay wrote "if Stewart/Colbert ran in 2008, they shouldn't run as independants. A vote for stewart would be a vote for the republicans."

Thats the wrong attitude. America's two party system sucks (Canada's is a bit better, but is still moving centerist).
Think about it, what is so democratic about switching between two parties every 4 years or so. Yo need some new blood and ideas in there. The Dems and Reps look more and more alike every year (case in point: which party is Hillary Clinton supposed to be on).

arturovale : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

arturovale

0 votes NegativePositive

1111 days 9 hours ago...

Check out Mathew @ 8:07 passing the blunt!

evergrim : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:2007 Winner

evergrim

4 votes NegativePositive

1111 days 8 hours ago...

Of course the Daily Show and Colbert had an impact. We all witnessed the massive amount of views and the debates going on in our very own site just before the election. They should have mentioned SpikedHumor in this clip, screw googletube.

frogleg : LVL 12: VP 2.1: said:

frogleg

4 votes NegativePositive

1111 days 7 hours ago...

Despite my usual lack of understanding for republicans, I should admit I dont really dislike them THAT much.

I mean they basically stand for everything I hate, rigid conservative systems. The word itself MEANS preserve. Basically it's opposing everything I love about liberalism. Change, freedom and tolerance (wich I've been practicing too little of).
Obviously liberlism isn't a dirty word like every asshole in the media wants to paint it out to be *cough O'reilly, Hannity and Limbaugh cough*, in fact your nation was pretty much FOUNDED on it. BUT....

It's really the Neo-cons *cough Wolfowitz, Perle cough* twisted worldview I CANT stand. Them and the repressive moralist christian fundamentalists that see nothing wrong with forcing their opression on the rest.

Normal everday republicans I can live with, between us and them we will make a better world.

So if Stewart indeed is a republican, wich I doubt, he still has shown that he's a human being with decency, that it wouldn't matter to me. The sad part is though, once they got a taste of the power.... who knows when they too corrupt....

TwistedFates : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

TwistedFates

8 votes NegativePositive

1111 days 5 hours ago...

They forgot to mention Spiked Humour. Shame on them. That's where I get my daily dose of political chit chat and gossip.

mcbarker : LVL 29: VP 3.8: said:

mcbarker

9 votes NegativePositive

1111 days 4 hours ago...

Stewart/Obama 08

DSent : LVL 17: VP 2.6: said:

DSent

0 votes NegativePositive

1111 days 1 hour ago...

Hopefully American news will from now on help people make informed decisions about who best would represent them.

supermatter : LVL 8: VP 1.7: said:

supermatter

Hidden (Show Comment) -8 votes

1111 days 1 hour ago...

Stewart and Colbert are very entertaining, but I'm not dumb enough to allow them to convince me that the Republicans are evil, sadistic liers and the Democrats are good, honest humanitarians. You'd have to be a fool to base your political affiliations on what these guys say. There is no difference between these guys and Fox News.

D! : LVL 29: VP 3.8: said:

D!

6 votes NegativePositive

1111 days ago...

supermatter,

you're a moron.

i dont think they believe the dems are good honest humanitarians at all. I can guarantee you that when they fuck something up, the daily show ill be there to call them on it.

There's a HUGE difference between them and fox, in case you don't get oxygen to your brain. Fox is regarded by many as an actual news station, instead of a comedy show, although it often looks like a comedy show. Some people are too dumb to tell the difference.

frogleg : LVL 13: VP 2.2: said:

frogleg

2 votes NegativePositive

1110 days 22 hours ago...

D is right.

And it's not so much about republican or democrat to me anymore... It's about decency, freedom, change, equality and justice (and fucking COMMON SENSE). Anyone who can restore thoose values to politics is a good guy in my book. Unfortunately I think MOST, but not all, of thoose guys we are gonna find on the democratic center or the left.
Nowhere in what I care about do you see order. Order to me is just something you will want to maintain a minimum _needed_ dosage of.

Like psychotic drug prescriptions :P So neo-cons, drop 50mg off your prescrips now...


Oh and honestly. I do believe MOST people are thoose things. So if I could run a computer simulation of what would happen if you just randomly selected 500-1000 people for goverment from the general populace (excluding criminals serving time/ repeat offenders)... I would.
I think you'd end up with a majority of GOOD people. Either way it'd be a fun simulation and I absolutely believe a disturbingly big portion of the people who WANT to rule never ever should be allowed to...

supermatter : LVL 9: VP 1.8: said:

supermatter

-2 votes NegativePositive

1110 days 19 hours ago...

OK you guys are mildly retarded, I know you probably will never believe it, but really, its the truth. Sorry I have to be the one to break it to you.

THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FOX NEWS AND STEWART/COLBERT. One tells conservatives what they want to hear in order to get veiwers and make money, the other tells liberals what they want to hear for the same reasons. It shows the liberal "smarter than thou" attitude when they refuse to believe that they can be manipulated by the media just like the conservative watchers of Fox News, only by Stewart/Colbert/Olbermann. You idiots completely missed my point.

bälö : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

bälö

3 votes NegativePositive

1110 days 15 hours ago...

1) The first time the experts are shown they smirk like they are senior correspondents for a fake news show

2) The very fact that the possible impact of Stewart/Colbert on the election is even discussed proves that there IS an impact.

KBlueBiG : LVL 15: VP 2.4: said:

KBlueBiG

1 votes NegativePositive

1110 days 15 hours ago...

I definately think they made an impact. Not on the people who are already Green party members, liberaterians, Democrats, republicans, etc. But its the young people who were undecided and people who would never have voted at all.

Colbert, Stewart, and with help of Spikedhumor, Google Video, and youtube definately helped reach brand new voters and they will create new democrats and new republicans. But much more democrats.

The next few years, even decades we are going to see a DRASTIC change in voters. Its already started.

RyRySoFly11 : LVL 6: VP 1.5: said:

RyRySoFly11

2 votes NegativePositive

1110 days 10 hours ago...

i completely agree with an earlier statement.

MOVE THEIR SHOWS TO PRIMETIME!!!!

LeighCedar : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

LeighCedar

4 votes NegativePositive

1110 days 10 hours ago...

supermatter,

You obviously don't watch the Daily Show much. They make fun of the Democrats all the time. Kerry and Dean were targets of ridicule all the time.
Its not Stewarts fault that the Republicans have more newsworthy scandals, or that the president couldn't talk his way out of a paper bag.
It is a comedy show, and they satire what they can. The republicans are just eaiser targets.

If the Dems get in in the next election, they won't be safe from The Daily Show.

supermatter : LVL 9: VP 1.8: said:

supermatter

-3 votes NegativePositive

1110 days 8 hours ago...

leighcedar,

There is a fundamental difference in the way they "make fun" of the Democrats and rip the Republicans a new one. One seems to be good natured needling and the other is a hard core bitch smacking designed to make the target curl up into the fetal position and beg for mommy. At whom do you think each is aimed? It will always be this way with Stewart. The amount of attacks may be more balanced with the Democrats in power, but Stewart's most vicious attacks will always be directed at the Repulicans.

Kung Fu Ninja : LVL 25: VP 3.4: said:

Kung Fu Ninja

-3 votes NegativePositive

1110 days 7 hours ago...

Politics = Boring

LeighCedar : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

LeighCedar

2 votes NegativePositive

1110 days 1 hour ago...

"The amount of attacks may be more balanced with the Democrats in power, but Stewart's most vicious attacks will always be directed at the Repulicans."

Again, because the Republican's make it easy for them.

It harder to be "vicious" against a party that's main problem seems to be lack of clear platform. They do it, they call the Dems, weak, vague, etc. But Honestly the Democratic scandals and moments of "foot in mouth disease" are just fewer and more far between.
The Rep's tend to be a huge target. They tout the conservative moral values, yet are always having scandals that go against what they say they stand for.

This is simply your own bias showing supermatter. You see the party you favour getting attacked and you fail to realize that the Daily Show is just working whith what they are given.

supermatter : LVL 9: VP 1.8: said:

supermatter

-3 votes NegativePositive

1109 days 9 hours ago...

Are you kidding me? Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and others seem to have no problem being consistantly vicious with the Democrats. So why doesn't Stewart launch some similar attacks on them. Because guys like Stewart and Limbaugh are two sides of the same entertaining but ridiculously stupid coin. The fact that you don't see Stewarts obvious bias should tip you off to your own Leigh.

BTW I'm not a Republican, and am deeply saddened to see a moron like Bush holding the most important job in the wolrd.

Tada : LVL 14: VP 2.3: said:

Tada

1 votes NegativePositive

1108 days 22 hours ago...

Hmm they seems to be kinda narrow minded on the subject. One is saying YouTube is the reason and one is saying that its Colbert & Stewart. Why not both?
I mean YouTube, spiked and other videocommunities are FLOODED with The Word and all kinds of interviews.
Im pretty sure that if you added the number of viewers on youtube to the TV-shows it would be VERY high and THATS what makes Colbert & Stewart so big.
1.4m tv viewers of around 200m voters? Thats too low for that kind of win we had this year.

rester555 : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

rester555

-2 votes NegativePositive

1108 days 11 hours ago...

What's funny is that people watch the daily show and that's the basis they use to vote. I don't think people take the time to actually find the facts, so they rely on those "reliable sources" like youtube, the daily show, and the colbert report. Don't get me wrong, I think regular news is ridiculous and doesn't answer anything. I don't think people take the time to see what the candidates have voted on in the past.

LeighCedar : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

LeighCedar

2 votes NegativePositive

1107 days 21 hours ago...

"The fact that you don't see Stewarts obvious bias should tip you off to your own Leigh."

I think Stewart is more left wing than right. Do I think he is a full fledged Democrat? No. He, like myself, sees huge problems with both parties.
My guess is that, like me, he sees the Dems as the lesser of two evils.

yes4me : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

yes4me

0 votes NegativePositive

733 days 10 hours ago...

doh for the obvious!

Of course they have an huge influence on young voters. The only reason why they talk about such topic is to spin the reasons why young voters come on numbers.
But does it matter? NOPE!! How about news start to talk about real informative stuffs instead of this kind of news? Go check news in other country and you will found out that American news are so different. In France/Canada, I am used to heard at least a dozen number with explication... kind of like when Ron Paul or an economist talk. In here, news are like a soap opera: Always about feelings not much substance.

MorphingJar : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

MorphingJar

0 votes NegativePositive

723 days 21 hours ago...

This is so blatantly pathetic.

Shadow100x : LVL 28: VP 3.7: said:

Shadow100x

0 votes NegativePositive

337 days 12 hours ago...

Booooyaahhh!!!! Nice one!

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