Daily Show: Hillary's comeback like a beer commercial Sitting at her workstation in the Daily Show's cable news "Election Center... Zoneroomquarters," correspondent Samantha Bee has one explanation as to why Senator Clinton (D-NY) made strides in the recent Texas and Ohio Democratic primaries: She's attracting the "male vote."
"She's speaking a language only men understand: The language of beer commercials."
This video is from Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, broadcast March 5, 2008.
Transcript via closed captions
:: so the g.o.p. race seltssed! the real drama was across the aisle where, luckily it seems the news media will have three more glorious electoral months to play with their toys.
:: let's check in requestw "newsweek's" howard fineman. he has been our campaign listening post right now.
:: that's what we're talking about here in the strategy room, all kinds of strategy, both short term and long term.
:: jon: yes, they may have their panels of experts, their floaty screens, their touchy screens, their writey-touchy screens and brit hume?
:: we should thv-- this thing on the wall over my shoulder here. you see that? i have no idea what that is. ( laughter )
:: jon: ahh it's a little thing called... boy i hate to tell you what, boys, but there's a new kid in town. and he's kind of the sickish kid that doesn't have any friends but his dad just bought him an above-ground swimming pool. that's right. tonight, the "daily show" unveils its above-ground swimming pool. its election center headquarters. let's head over for ensight and analysis with the best political team on the mother ( bleep ) planet! ( cheers and applause ) election news... hey, election news, you better run. says who? us! ( laughter ) all right, let's just go over to the election center, for god's sake. here we're going to the election center. we have all kinds of things. can we attack a look here? we have the "daily show" election center room. hey guys, what's happening. we have oscar momby. what are you work ooscar?
:: thank you. jon, i'm on a integrated circuit hub that's jacked into an information packet stream.
:: jon: you're-- you're on the internet.
:: well, that's-- that's one way of looking at it, yes.
:: jon: all right, we'll check back in with you later. how are things going up here. we're going to talk to jason jones a little bit. jason jones you have been tracking numbers. how did hillary do it last night?
:: well, jon, as i look at the raw data, i'm struck by the edge hillary had in ohio, particularly with voters. ( laughter ) take a look at these numbers. these figures represent the number of people who voted for each candidate. the voters for clinton are represented by the name... clinton.
:: jon: okay. so then the voters for obama, then, i guess would be represented by the name obama.
:: the obama bar, that's correct, jon, very good. and zux-- as you can see the clinton bar is longer and the number is bigger. good news if you're a hillary supporter.
:: jon: that's fascinating, jason, but i'm still confused.
:: okay, no pressure jon. let me show you another way to look at this.
:: jon: uh-huh...
:: this chart here, as you can see, this represents a breakdown of hillary clinton's total vote and this right here is barak obama's. the real key here, look at the difference in size. ( laughter )
:: jon: hillary's-- hillary's is a bigger circle.
:: that is right right, right. and what does that mean? um... more on that tomorrow.
:: jon: we're going to go over inside the numbers, john oliver has been manning the numer-a-tron two. talk to us a little bit about the technology. it's incredible. you can explain it to us?
:: it's complicated, though. basically we take the data from jason's desk and geoff it a tactile functionality, the same as what he has, but we get to touch it.
:: jon: in the case of ohio.
:: certainly, rob, if you could bring up the figures from ohio for me, please. yup.
:: all right, so basically in ohio, an area like this right here, columbia down here is cincinnati, they went for obama, right, but in numbers you wouldn't expect to see --
:: i'm sorry to interrupt there, if i may, there seems to be some kind of liquid interface interfering with the data. the screen is not moving.
:: oh, yeah. look at that. the screen must have broke.
:: jon: yeah. i don't know, it actually-- it looks like it might be barbecue sauce. ( laughter )
:: oh. where'd that come from?
:: jon: yeah, i'm also struck by what appears to be a barbecue bib you're wearing and you seem to be holding ribs.
:: i get it. blame the big guy. ( laughter )
:: jon: you do have a side of ribs in front of you.
:: i'm hungry, all right! i've been manning this election center since the beginning of the show. look, look, look. i told you to get the chicken. you get the chicken, queen mary! ,, .. ,, .. ( cheers and applause )
:: jon: it's our continuing coverage of super continue tuesday to wednesday. oscar, you have breaking news for us.
:: yes, jon. anne hathaway is right now having an omelet in soho, and looks-- and this is a quote-- surprisingly cute in person. ( laughter ) so....
:: jon: do you have any election news?
:: no, i don't have-- i don't have that on my list.
:: jon: all right. what do you have on your alert?
:: mostly anne hathaway stuff.
:: jon: all right, we're going to move on. there's been a lot of talk about how hillary clinton pulled off her victories last night. for more we go to our own superbrain, sam bee here at the election center. sam, nice to see you.
:: thank you. ( cheers and applause )
:: jon: there doesn't seem to be a way up there. there's no ladder.
:: yeah. ( laughter ) stay down. ( cheers and applause )
:: jon: you've been atop--... can you climb like a monkey! you've been a top democratic strategist for the last 12 years now.
:: i'm also a lady, jon. i have been that for almost... 15 years. anyway, how did hillary do it? well, some credit her comeback to her 3:00 a.m. ringing phone ad playing up here experience. others say it was her winningly self-dep raicating appearance on "saturday night live."
:: jon: maybe her appearance on this show the other night.
:: no, no, no one's saying that, jon. but i think it's that she's found a way to get through to male voters. take a listen to this--
:: who has ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out. for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up.
:: jon: i don't see how those statements appeal especially to men in any way.
:: jon, she's speaking a language over men understand. ( laughter ) the language of beer commercials.
:: for everyone who has stumble....
:: if you've stumbled.
:: ...but stood right back up.
... but you stood back up.
:: ...for everyone who works hard...
:: if you work hard.
:: ...and never gives up.
:: plps and you never give up.
:: this one is for you. it's time for hillary get one.
:: i got one.
:: hillary beer. she'll make you drink it whether you like it or not. ( cheers )
:: lady makes a good point, jon.
:: jon: sam, shu be drinking beer, i think--
:: why, because i'm a woman? typical.
:: jon: all right.
:: of course she also got the nickel son bump. check out this actual internet ad made my bye jack nickel son and rob reiner on i'm guessing a laptop and a ( bleep ) maker's mark.
:: do you trust?
:: things would be better... things could be a whole lot better. maybe we as officers have a responsibility to this country. i'm jack nicholson. and i approved this message. ( cheers )
:: yup, reiner's best work since "north."
:: jon: wow. so, hillary clinton is being endorsed by all jack nickel son's psychopathic characters.
:: wow. someone's bitter, huh?
:: jon: what are you talking about?
:: you know what i'm talking about, jon.
:: jon: please don't--
:: roll it!
:: jon: please don't.
:: roll it.
:: do you have a $20 bill.
:: this is. t! this is the guy!
:: don't call her big boobs.
:: jon: i'm jon stewart, and i approved... i was in those movies. ( cheers and applause )
:: i don't even know... the main thing, is i didn't even know that it was possible to get only one lit on youtube.
:: jon: all right, thank you very much. sam bee, everybody. we'll be right back after this. this is unfortunate! ( cheers and applause ) ,, .. ,, ..e new color of business "from american express open.
 
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