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JON STEWART 'DAILY SHOW' IN SURPRISE AUDIENCE DROP
COMEDY CENTRAL's 'DAILY SHOW' has experienced surprise audience erosion -- despite a publicity push by host Jon Stewart. Stewart, who announced last week that he plans to support John Kerry, pulled 1,040,000 total viewers for month of September -- down 7% from August, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
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CNN editors were busy this weekend cleaning up a transcript from Stewart's Friday appearance on CROSSFIRE. One CNN executive called Stewart's performace "belligerent." During the live program, Stewart slammed host Tucker Carlson: "You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show." The awkward exchange came at the end of an 8 minute segment between Stewart, Carlson and co-host Paul Begala.

It gets worse from there. Drudge gives the key, ugly bits of the transcript, which should be highly amusing to those of you less than fond of the MSM. Its odd... I saw Stewart interviewed on Charlie Rose, and he was very thoughtful, articulate, even erudite. He also expressed frustration that the MSM journalists are not doing their job to root out and present the kind of background information and perspective that I come here to find.
Posted by: trailing wife 2004-10-18
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