What happened with Obama in Cleveland? I missed this story, but Stewart was talking about it

[LeftyAndProud60]

Did he really get a low turnout or was it done on purpose by the planners.

[Thrill]

1. Stewart rails against the Media. Yet uses their BS reports

to hit Obama.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Did Stewart talk about 35K @OSU or just the 8,500 @Cleveland?

:thumbsdown:

[Pirate Smile]

7. He had 35k in Madison, Chicago and LA too. But, of course, those will be ignored along with

the USC rally.

[Riley133]

16. OSU had John Legend performing on a Sunday evening

And the weather was nice so I think that's why there was a strong attendance there.

[Clio the Leo]

3. Did he mention that the President's appearance on his show caused his ratings to DOUBLE?

Dont get the big head Jon.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/nearly-3-million-watch-as-obama-visits-daily-show/

[TheDebbieDee]

4. I love Jon Stewart......but he's starting to get on my nerves latlely.

Maybe I just need to take a little break from Jon Stewart.

[dennis4868]

5. I agree...

he is reading his press clippings too much and his head and ego are getting awfully big....the fact that he called the president of the USA "dude" tells me he thinks alot of himself.

[gkhouston]

8. Actually, at the rally, when he gave out one of the awards for reasonableness,

he talked about people questioning the President and showed several clips, the last of which was the "dude" moment from his interview and he said, "Most of us blow it." The award in question went to that woman at the town hall a while back who very respectfully asked Obama a lot of awkward questions.

[JI7]

11. i wonder if that is an age thing also, this is the first time hte President

is his own age so he probably feels more comfortable talking to him than he would others hwo would have been older than him.

i can see him even being more nervous interviewing Clinton now than Obama .

[Uzybone]

10. It wasn't negative about the President

he made a joke of maybe Obama was wearing LeBrons jersey so thats why the arena wasn't full.

[DFab420]

6. What did he say?

I see people crapping on Jon, but what did he say about President Obama? It's only 8:37 here..



ps.. GO Giants!


edit for proper address to president.

[gkhouston]

9. He wondered why the rally had been so poorly attended, then showed

a Photoshop of Obama in LeBron's jersey. He then went straight into a montage ridiculing Fox for distorting Obama's "car in the ditch" story.

on edit: I don't know what the actual rally attendance was. The newsclips shown claim an attendance of 8,000 in an arena seating 13,000. Perhaps some DUer who was actually there could give us his/her impression of the attendance figure?

[madamesilverspurs]

12. I'm not in Cleveland. But when Obama

came to Denver in February the Secret Service closed the doors to the event facility while there was still a very long line of people with tickets waiting to get in. We weren't given the reason for their decision, just assumed they had a good one.

[WI_DEM]

13. He got 8000 in an auditorium on a college campus on Halloween on a Sunday

the crowd that was there was enthusiastic but the auditorium could hold 13,000--no big deal. If it had been Bush he would have been lucky to get 500.

[marlakay]

15. i am surprised he got that much on halloween

of course in the show they don't say that at all...bad bad jonny...

[vaberella]

14. Don't put too much stock on the sayings of Stewart.

He's been losing his funny for a while now. And pushing the same exaggerations I've seen Cenk push.

[Phx_Dem]

17. Only with Obama is 8,500 considered low turnout.

:puke:

Funny, I don't recall the media making a big deal out of Obama HUGE rallies including one that had 35,000 people.