The Daily Show: Dick Move of the Week

Although not too much about the election on April 8th, 2008, The Daily Show does introduce a "Dick Move of the Week" segment which talks about how the Obama campaign was giving out free Dave Matthew's Band tickets at the same time that Bill Clinton was giving a speech on the same campus. It is interesting because although he calls it the 'Dick Move', the way he presents it is rather hilarious and incredulous. He doesn't make a judgement on the event really, and unlike a mainstream news show might do he doesn't talk about how it reflects on Obama as a candidate.

There was also a special section called "Back in Black: Celeb Endorsements" which is a special section by a correspondant on his show, Lewis Black. This segment made fun of the celebrity endorsments that happen. It was interesting because this was one of the first shows that actually mentioned John McCain (he recieved a celebrity nomination from a character on the Hills). There was an interesting Obama tilt. Out of about 7 or 8 celebrities quoted for endorsing one candidate or the other, they only showed one endorsing Hillary (Laura Linny), who also happened to be one of the two women shown (the other being Oprah, of course). Also for one of the celebrities, Stewart makes the claim that we shouldn't bother to listen to celebrities because what do they know? But then he shows a clip of the same celebrity sounding extremely intelligent while talking about real issues and why he supports Obama.

This show was one of the view that had a woman interviewed. Cokey Roberts was interviewed for her newly released book, "Ladies of Liberty" about the first ladies of young America.