Just what is Jon Stewarts impact on todays politics?

Reporter: Senator, what do you think of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”?

Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.): The what now?

Reporter: “The Daily Show.” It’s a show that makes fun of politicians.

Burns: Well, that’s OK. We’re pretty easy to make fun of.

Reporter: What kind of impact do you think Jon Stewart has?

Burns: None on me. We can make our own humor.

Reporter: Excuse me, congressman, have you ever watched “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”?

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas): No. I don’t even know who he is.

Sen. Ted Stevens (Alaska), the most senior Republican in the Senate, was in the thick of a policy-luncheon press throng last week when he was asked about Stewart.“I don’t know who that is,” Stevens replied as reporters broke out into a rush of questions about Supreme Court nominee John Roberts and Hurricane Katrina.

“Wait a minute,” the senator said, momentarily disregarding the issues of the day, “who is that?”

Anybody who has read this blog knows that I have nothing but love and respect for Jon and the wonderful gift of comedy that he and his writers deliver to me four nights a week. The fact that the people who are often the source of Stewarts material do not even know who he is just makes it that much more humorous.

When I first learned that a large segment of the college age voters in this country were getting their political information from Jon I was appalled! However, after watching the piss poor job the main stream media did in delivering the goods. I decided that the college kids were ahead of the curve on finding pertinent information untainted by any connection to a monster conglomerate.

It is no surprise to me that my own Senator Ted Stevens is unaware of "The Daily Show", I don't think the old fart even knows that we are no longer in the 1960's.