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Anonymous
In response to the blatantly liberal stance of Stewart and the Daily Show writers, conservative news channels attempted to mold their own programs into more teen-oriented shows. Hence, the O'Reilly Factor was moved into prominence over the more straight-story Fox Report. In response, Stephen Colbert (the mock republican from Stewart's 'fake news' show) was given his own show in which he expounded upon the hyperreligious and overzealous Right (as characterized by Colbert's character, an obvious mockery of O'Reilly himself). Furthermore, to mimic The O'Reilly Factor, The Colbert Report eschewed all contrary data, relying less upon 'facts' and more upon 'truthiness - a gut feeling that what you FEEL is right, must be right'. Of course, in doing so the Report does a less than stellar job at getting actual news reports across, but as the point of the show is to satirize a program that makes a BUSINESS out of displaying opinions as facts and facts as outright lies, the Report carries the point home nicely.
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