Stoned Slackers?

Okay, I'm sure a lot of you out there watch The Daily Show on Comedy Central once in awhile. Yes, much of it is satirical, but there is real news and real commentary going on there, it's just wrapped up in comedy and wit so it's easier to swallow. The polar opposite of The Daily Show would be Bill O'Reilly's The O'Reilly Factor on Fox. O'Reilly is commonly known to most of us as an ultra-right wing wacko who is the born/sworn enemy of liberal columnist and personality Al Franken. I mean, really, some of the things that come out of O'Reilly's mouth are just so baffling. Earlier this month, Daily Show host Jon Stewart appeared on The O'Reilly Factor as a guest. Ya know what Billy said to him? He said this "You know what's really frightening?" O'Reilly said. "You actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary, but it's true. You've got stoned slackers watching your dopey show every night and they can vote." Guess what, Billy? Comedy Central was so ticked off at that comment, that they went and did a study on the two shows' audiences. They found that Daily Show viewers are more likely than O'Reilly Factor viewers to have completed four years of college. Ya know what they also found? Viewers of the Daily Show are more likely to correctly answer political questions than young people who don't. It seems that all of these neo-cons out there like O'Reilly really don't understand us. Why is it that the protests at this year's Republican National Convention were the biggest ever? The last time anything even remotely like that happened was at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968, and it wasn't nearly as big as what happened in NYC this year. There's just so much protest action lately, it's insane. I can't keep up with all of it. This past Sunday, there was an anti-Bush bike rally on Belle Isle (Detroit), a silent protest at 9 Mile and Woodward in Ferndale (Detroit-area) put on by Veterans for Peace, and soon there will be an anti-Bush film festival downtown. Maybe the IMF protests and Seattle and Genoa and Goteburg were all just the beginning of a world-wide awakening. These activist groups have been bubbling under for years, and now they have REAL issues to fight over, they have serious goals. The young liberal cannot be avoided, neo-cons...watch out!