Monday, September 27, 2004

stoned slackers of the world unite... or something

Wonkette has posted the transcript of Jon Stewart's appearance on Two-minutes Hate The O'Reilly Factor. As usual Stewart is brilliant, and compared to him O'Reilly looks crude and spiteful. (It could be argued, however, that O'Reilly is actually a better comedian than Stewart, based on the fact that he calls his all-of-the-spin-all-of-the-time show 'the no-spin zone'.)

O'REILLY:
You actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary.

STEWART:
If that were so, that would be quite frightening.

O'REILLY:
But it is. It's true. I mean, you've got stoned slackers watching your dopey show every night, OK, and they can vote.

STEWART:
Yeah.

O'REILLY:
You can't stop them.

STEWART:
Yeah, I just don't know how motivated they would be, these stoned slackers.

Do any of you remember Wally George? His show 'The Hot Seat' was the evolutionary predecessor of both Jerry Springer and Bill O'Reilly. Once upon a time wackos like that were consigned to UHF or the public cable access channels; now they're primetime. I hope somebody is documenting all of this so later civilizations will be able to understand how we went from Mighty Empire to Very Large Trailerpark in only a couple of generations.