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   From: Dipthot@Yahoo.Invalid   
      
   On 4/29/10 7:44 PM, Ubiquitous quoted some dude named Jeffrey Lord:   
      
   > He has used The Daily Show to successfully carve out a niche as what his   
   > occasional Fox sparring partner Bill O'Reilly calls "a cornerstone of   
   > the liberal media in America."   
      
   Which says more about O'Reilly (and Fox News, who runs him on   
   prime-time) than it does about Stewart. The former tries to play the   
   Serious News Guy -- he wears the mask better than does his colleague   
   Beck -- but then his character takes on a Court Jester (when he's not   
   interviewing lingerie models), thereby revealing himself to be little   
   more than one more character in a basic cable comedy of manners: the   
   Pompous Scold. O'Reilly has more viewers, many of whom buy into the   
   notion (as does Mr. Lord, apparently) that his part in the play is   
   somehow more "real" than is Stewart's. But the latter persona gets more   
   intended laughs as the former continues to act like it's not all staged.   
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   JDG   
      
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