Just kidding . . . 

That was a shameless attempt to get Jon Stewart to reference this blog.  On last night’s The Daily Show (TDS), in a segment called The Blogs Must Be Crazy , Stewart lampooned the blogosphere’s use of certain words – particularly “eviscerates” – to describe how strongly some media talk show hosts respond to one another when critiquing their respective competitors.

Jon Stewart’s appearance on The O’Reilly Factor has created quite a buzz this week, and whatever you think of either Stewart or Bill O’Reilly, their willingness to appear on one another’s shows is quite refreshing, with a spirited but civil discourse taking place between the two of them.  I suppose the one irony in the show was O’Reilly’s cheap shot at Daily Show viewers by referring to them as “stoned slackers” – when surveys have routinely shown that they are some of the best informed news audiences.  

It comes as no surprise that ”stoned slackers” would actually be every bit as informed as Fox News viewers, and are probably significantly smarter than Fox News’ talk show hosts – even when they are “lit up”.  If Daily Show viewers ever watched Fox News - which they are way too smart to do – wonder what they would think?

“Man I wish I could get ahold of whatever theses dudes are smoking, because that must be some really high-grade  SH!T” . . . or . . . . “Dudes, you are not supposed to drink the bong water.”