O'Reilly's stoned slackers

Last week, the Daily Show's Jon Stewart inexplicably appeared on the O'Reilly Factor, which is probably the most annoying, least informative, most shrill show on television. So, O'Reilly teased Stewart about the "stoned slackers" that watch the Daily Show. (Which, by the way, is one of the best shows on television). Comedy Central was peeved by that description and did a little research.

And guess whose audience is more educated? Viewers of Jon Stewart’s show are more likely to have completed four years of college than people who watch “The O’Reilly Factor,” according to Nielsen Media Research.

Then again, Fox News Channel viewers are lucky enough to get unvetted Drudge headlines fed to them as actual news, actually believe that there were WMDs in Iraq, and also believe that Saddam Hussein had links to al Qaeda. They report. The uneducated and misinformed decide.