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The Daily Show Institutes the Dobbs-O-Meter

In the wake of McCain’s and Obama’s appearances at the National Council of La Raza conference earlier this week, Jon Stewart institutes a new method of...
July 18, 2008

In the wake of McCain’s and Obama’s appearances at the National Council of La Raza conference earlier this week, Jon Stewart institutes a new method of measuring their success in charming hispanic voters. (Who needs opinion polls?) “The best way to measure success in wooing the Latino community,” Stewart says, “is by using the Dobbs-O-Meter: the angrier Lou Dobbs gets, the better you’re doing.”

Watch the video below; the NCLR segment comes about 6 minutes in.







Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.