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In class on Tuesday we watched a clip from the Daily Show and I enjoyed it very much, which doesn't really matter, because that has nothing to do with the assignment.  I think that a flaw in the argument of The Daily show vs. Rush Limbaugh is that the Daily show is a TV show whose main goal is to attract the most possible viewers, and not necessarily to influence its viewers politically.  John Stewart has an entire staff of writers who work around the clock to write the best jokes possible while remaining on the political topic at hand, not to talk about politics in just a funny way. This is why I think that Rush and The Daily show aren't even in the same category.  The Daily show is funny first and informative second, and I think that Rush Limbaugh's show is politically focused with extra entertainingly ridiculous extremes used to sway his viewers in favor of his own views.  Disclaimer: I have never actually heard anything else from Rush Limbaugh, and I do not watch The Daily show regularly enough to even include it on the list of shows that I would say I watch.