Funnies: Negative Campaign Ads
Nov. 13, 2005 — --
Stewart: Staying overseas, we turn to France, whose decision to stay out of the Iraq war is starting to make a little more sense. After all, why go all the way to the Mideast, when you can fight Muslims in your own suburbs.
Leno: When these oil company executives walked into the Capitol building, you can see a lot of the senators and congressmen were a little scared. You know, I mean it's always nerve racking when the real owners of the place show up.
Stewart: Any further thoughts, Rob?
Rob Corrdry: Just one, Jon. Thank you for asking. When you see the images of violence in Iraq and the unrest in Argentina you showed earlier, it's refreshing to see a country implode in a violent orgasm of hatred and know they can't pin this one on us.
O'Brien: Listen Arnold, you're in big trouble. On Election Day, voters in California rejected all four of your propositions on the ballot.
Impersonator of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: (Speaks gibberish). That was only because of the democratssenss. They were playing the dirty tricks.
O'Brien: What do you mean they were playing dirty tricks?
"Schwarzenegger": Dirty tricks! They made it impossible for all my millions of billions of supporters to vote.
O'Brien: Are you talking about voter intimidation?
"Schwarzenegger": Worse! They lured the voters away from the voting stations with around-the-clock screenings of the irresistible, all-time smash-hit holiday classic, "Jingle All the Way."
Ferguson: I love the negative campaigning. You know, people say we shouldn't have negative campaigning. Shut up! … I love the ads [that] say, "You could vote for this guy, but he slept with your wife!"
Stewart: During the campaign, the two candidates spent a combined $70 million. Mostly, as you'll see, on manure.
Wheelchair-Bound Boy in Commercial: Doug Forrester doesn't support embryonic stem-cell research. Therefore, I don't think he supports people like me.
Stewart: Ouch. You think that was rough, they actually had to pull the first version of the ad.
Ad Voiceover: Doug Forrester, he pushes old ladies down the stairs.[Ad shows woman in wheelchair being pushed down the stairs]
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