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Speaker 3: I met with one of the nation's top political fact checkers,
Speaker 3: Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post, to find out how
Speaker 3: difficult it is to fact check a debate.
Speaker 4: Live debates are actually relatively easy to cover. About ninety
Speaker 4: five percent of the things they say in these debates
Speaker 4: are things they've already said in which we have fact checked.
Speaker 3: So for you, the debates are like a rerun like
Speaker 3: everybody loves Raymond, or like everybody thinks Mexicans are rapists. Yes,
Speaker 3: So compare Hillary and Donald Trump in terms of fact checking.
Speaker 4: Hillary Clinton is it's like playing chess with a real pro.
Speaker 4: Fact checking Donald Trump is like playing checkers with someone
Speaker 4: to not very good at it.
Speaker 5: It's pretty boring. You find Donald Trump boring?
Speaker 4: Yes, his facts are so easily disproven. There's no joy
Speaker 4: in the hunt.
Speaker 3: And when Glenn finds a lie, he rates its egregiousness
Speaker 3: with a withering one to four Pinocchio's.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 3: He eviscerates politicians using a wooden doll with a dick nose.
Speaker 3: So when you fact check something and you give it
Speaker 3: four pinocchios, then what happens.
Speaker 4: To the candidate, Well, a lot of most candidates will
Speaker 4: will often stop saying that. In the case of Donald Trump,
Speaker 4: he almost never reacts to something we write.
Speaker 3: Maybe he thinks Pinocchio is just a Slovenian model, and
Speaker 3: he thinks four. Oh, that's good. That's two more than
Speaker 3: I had last night.
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
Speaker 5: Fact Glenn was cocky. Two cocky. I decided to check
Speaker 5: the fact checker. The capitol of Michigan is Detroit.
Speaker 4: That's not a fact.
Speaker 5: The tomato is a fruit.
Speaker 3: It's unsafe to eat eggs that have been sitting in
Speaker 3: your gym bag for two weeks.
Speaker 4: I believe if you look on the website of the
Speaker 4: United States Department of Agriculture, that is not.
Speaker 5: It's a little ball, but it's still a good egg,
Speaker 5: all right.
Speaker 3: So Glenn checked out until I discovered how often he
Speaker 3: had given Hillary's claims for Pinocchio's compared to Trump's.
Speaker 4: She's a fifteen percent, but Donald Trump is sixty five
Speaker 4: percent percentages.
Speaker 5: Uh, how about this.
Speaker 3: If Hillary walks into a bar and says ten things,
Speaker 3: one and a half of them would be lies. If
Speaker 3: it's Trump, six and a half of.
Speaker 5: Them would be lies.
Speaker 3: Or to put it another way, when Hillary screws you over,
Speaker 3: she does it with this tiny, lying dick nose. If
Speaker 3: Trump screws you, it's with this monstrosity. The difference could
Speaker 3: only mean one thing.
Speaker 5: That sounds like this classic liberal bias.
Speaker 4: No, facts have to have a basis in reality.
Speaker 5: But who's reality? Liberal reality or conservative reality?
Speaker 4: No, there is no liberal or conservative reality. There is
Speaker 4: just reality.
Speaker 5: Why should we trust you?
Speaker 4: I am completely dispassionate politically. I just look at the facts.
Speaker 5: You have no passion whatsoever.
Speaker 4: I did not say I had no passion. I said
Speaker 4: I am dispassionate.
Speaker 3: Really, you're telling me if I leaned over and kissed
Speaker 3: you on the mouth right now, you wouldn't feel something.
Speaker 4: Well, that's not about the issues.
Speaker 5: Abortion, the economy. What do you think about those issues, Glenn?
Speaker 4: I'm dispassionate about them.
Speaker 5: But do people even give it about facts?
Speaker 3: I mean, half the country thinks what Donald Trump says
Speaker 3: is totally cool.
Speaker 4: I write the fact checks. It's up to voters to
Speaker 4: decide what they want to.
Speaker 6: Do with them.
Speaker 3: Glenn, You're a smart guy and make a lot of
Speaker 3: interesting points. But I'm an American. I believe what I feel.
Speaker 3: All right, No, that is going to eat some eggs.
Speaker 5: Poh no, thank you, Oh no, thank you, Glenn.
Speaker 3: With the election forty two days away, Americans have a choice.
Speaker 3: They can listen to fat boys with Italian woodpuppets, or
Speaker 3: they can listen to their gut, a choice which I
Speaker 3: fully endore. Trust your gut, America.
Speaker 7: Last night I assembled my own panel of experts to
Speaker 7: watch the debate. A body language analyst, a pageant judge,
Speaker 7: an expert on auras, a man who works at a
Speaker 7: tie store, a yenta, a woman who doesn't speak English,
Speaker 7: someone who recently had knee surgery, and an easily bought
Speaker 7: teenage girl.
Speaker 8: That really seems like kind of a ridiculous group of
Speaker 8: people to put together to analyze the debate.
Speaker 7: That's because it was John so to give their expert analysis.
Speaker 7: I give to you the John Oliver focus group. I'm
Speaker 7: here with a diverse panel of experts to gauge in
Speaker 7: real time reactions to this debate. Let the debate commence.
Speaker 9: Welcome President Barack Obama and Governor Nick Romney.
Speaker 7: Okay, so let's stop it right there. Who do we
Speaker 7: think is winning so far?
Speaker 8: Obama?
Speaker 5: Obama pattern judge right.
Speaker 9: Away, Obama came up with a high hello, the hand
Speaker 9: up high, with a big smile, or a expert.
Speaker 10: Just you could feel from his various chakrash kind of
Speaker 10: a confidence.
Speaker 7: Body language expert.
Speaker 11: So far, I think it's equal.
Speaker 9: I don't think you can make any decisions right now.
Speaker 7: Because they both walked onto the middle of the stage,
Speaker 7: shook hands, and literally nothing else has happened so far. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 7: that's fascinating, that's interesting. But key debate analysis is much
Speaker 7: deeper than just how you walk into a room man
Speaker 7: who works at ty store?
Speaker 5: Who do you think is winning so far?
Speaker 11: Governor Romney has a tie, interestingly enough, with a stripe
Speaker 11: that's actually an English stripe as opposed to an American
Speaker 11: straight It's seems to me someone running for president should
Speaker 11: have been advised to where an American striped tires opposed.
Speaker 5: I have to agree with you that pageant judge. You
Speaker 5: agree with that, I agree for the overall package you're
Speaker 5: representing America. Yes, many people may.
Speaker 4: Not have that knowledge, but now that I did have
Speaker 4: that knowledge, it was it just made me feels like,
Speaker 4: why would you do that?
Speaker 7: Even though you literally learned that fact thirty seconds ago?
Speaker 5: Absolutely did bother me.
Speaker 7: As the debate progressed, the analysis became even more sophisticated.
Speaker 7: Now neither men so far have put their hands in
Speaker 7: their pockets apart from nothing. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: It means they're more.
Speaker 9: Open, they have nothing to hide, They're letting it all out.
Speaker 7: Lady doesn't speak English to me their own words the moment?
Speaker 5: Who is winning this debate? Oh I don't understand very well.
Speaker 7: Ah, tell me in your own words? Who is winning
Speaker 7: this debate?
Speaker 5: Say?
Speaker 7: Understandably? These debates affect everyone differently. Now, man who recently
Speaker 7: had surgery? Obviously both of them have theirs up as
Speaker 7: someone who's suffered an ACL injury. What does that make
Speaker 7: you feel?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 2: That just makes me reminds me of what I can't do.
Speaker 7: But, as all the experts assure us, the only way
Speaker 7: to really tell who wins a debate is to watch
Speaker 7: it without audio. Now, without the sound.
Speaker 5: Who do we think is winning? Body language?
Speaker 7: Expert Romney Romney.
Speaker 9: Yes, he's more open, he's more fluid in his gestures,
Speaker 9: he's less angry.
Speaker 7: Easily brought teenage girl anything. Now, let's see if this
Speaker 7: affects your response For this next segment, we're going to
Speaker 7: keep the picture up, but we're going to play the
Speaker 7: audio from an episode of CSI Miami as.
Speaker 12: Far as as he has like two thousand cases, two
Speaker 12: thousand cases and now two thousand suspects.
Speaker 7: Did that affect your enjoyment of this debate.
Speaker 13: Made it more enjoyable?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 7: Yes, fact it actually did that is hypothetically fascinating. This
Speaker 7: was going great, but there was only one way to
Speaker 7: make sure. Ahi. So you've been watching the panel, watching
Speaker 7: this debate, body language expert, what is your reaction to
Speaker 7: how the other body language expert is doing?
Speaker 11: I like the fact that she's physically via her face
Speaker 11: expressing that she's not agreeing with the other people.
Speaker 7: Let's talk about the man who works at the tie
Speaker 7: store etiquet lady. How is what he's wearing affecting what
Speaker 7: he's saying about what Romney is wearing.
Speaker 1: I would say it doesn't signify the best taste really
Speaker 1: for October to be wearing lime green.
Speaker 7: The lady who doesn't speak English. She's not said much.
Speaker 7: Is that polite or impolite?
Speaker 5: Will you see?
Speaker 1: It's almost like she's a non person to me because
Speaker 1: she's so quiet.
Speaker 7: Do you think that has anything to do with the
Speaker 7: fact that she really can't speak a word of English?
Speaker 1: Possibly, but she could at least smile.
Speaker 7: Right, But of course, in the end, there's only one
Speaker 7: final that really matters.
Speaker 5: So, Ohio voter, who do.
Speaker 7: You think wants anist invite?
Speaker 5: Oh? I thought Obama won?
Speaker 7: Obama it is then, because you are the only one
Speaker 7: who counts waste of time.
Speaker 10: A few months ago I went down to Florida to
Speaker 10: see how some older Jewish residents were feeling about Barack Obama. Now,
Speaker 10: with the election just a few weeks away, I returned
Speaker 10: to watch the first presidential debate with miss my Mispath.
Speaker 10: Exactly like CNN, we armed our panel of voters with
Speaker 10: the latest in perception feedback analyzers. Under your seats. There
Speaker 10: you have some little controllers, these clickers. What they'll do
Speaker 10: is they're actually gonna record what you're feeling as you're
Speaker 10: watching the debate. There's a letter on each of these
Speaker 10: buttons that corresponds to what you may be feeling when
Speaker 10: you hear something. And it's just that simple. And with
Speaker 10: that we were ready to go.
Speaker 4: Good evening, Senators Obama and McCain. I'm not getting up.
Speaker 10: Our panel weighed in, make sure you're hitting the button.
Speaker 10: Are you hitting the buttons? And then send hit send.
Speaker 3: I'm pressing.
Speaker 10: It's not going Unfortunately, not everyone was having success with
Speaker 10: the feedback system. You aren't pushing the buttons hard enough,
Speaker 10: so we switched to a simpler technology. Why don't you
Speaker 10: just yell what you're feeling off the list?
Speaker 8: A little bit of naevite there, he doesn't understand. Agreed, agreed,
Speaker 8: Russia committed.
Speaker 9: Sure, Georgia, he does not the state Now it's an idiot.
Speaker 5: And I know that they know that I'll take care
Speaker 5: of them.
Speaker 8: Having all this time, I immediately said that this was illegal.
Speaker 2: Agree, disagree.
Speaker 8: We shut down with acmudenagive, and.
Speaker 1: You both.
Speaker 10: Agreed, with the debate over. It was time for the
Speaker 10: post debate analysis.
Speaker 4: He didn't let him speak, Obama interrupted McCain. It was
Speaker 4: correct him.
Speaker 10: No, no, why do you why do you say?
Speaker 13: Interrupted him a lot.
Speaker 9: He tried to tried to control.
Speaker 10: The debates he interrupted him. He tried to control the debate.
Speaker 1: He tried to take the control away from the moderator.
Speaker 13: All right, all right, we're gonna have to go one
Speaker 13: of the how dare John McCain insult me and everyone
Speaker 13: else by picking Sarah Palin?
Speaker 4: A woman who's totally inadequate.
Speaker 5: She's the governor because she was a governor of what
Speaker 5: of Alaska?
Speaker 7: What was Barack Obama?
Speaker 11: He spent a couple of days in the Senate.
Speaker 1: I am definitely afraid of him.
Speaker 4: Yourself, and I read I read magazines, and I know
Speaker 4: what the truth is.
Speaker 5: She wants to recks right.
Speaker 13: Right, Fox is fair and balanced.
Speaker 11: The others are in the tank for Obama.
Speaker 5: Do you have any idea how sick McCain is.
Speaker 11: He's physically ill.
Speaker 10: He can die any minute.
Speaker 11: And he can die in office, and that gives her
Speaker 11: the presidency. That's frightening, So good Obama?
Speaker 12: He smokes, Maybe he has lung cancer.
Speaker 10: Right now, you wish it was a lively discussion, but
Speaker 10: perhaps the last words should go to art.
Speaker 13: In four or five weeks, we're going to elect the
Speaker 13: president of the United States, and we're sitting here talking
Speaker 13: over irrelevant nonsense.
Speaker 10: On second thought, let's end with this, because she's a
Speaker 10: big horse.
Speaker 5: I shouldn't say that that's nothing against her.
Speaker 7: Who Michelle's she's got she's a big horse.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she has a lot of black women them a
Speaker 5: certain Stoy.
Speaker 8: Daily Show Bush can Pain correspondent Rob Cordrey, and of course,
Speaker 8: his counterpart with the Kerry campaign at Helms, thanks for
Speaker 8: joining us, guys, Ed let's begin with you talk to us.
Speaker 13: How are people in the Kerry camp feeling a night ecstatic?
Speaker 13: John Kerry's people couldn't be happier. Their candidate went up
Speaker 13: against a sitting war president who's never lost a debate
Speaker 13: and held.
Speaker 8: His own And Rob, what's the mood over there?
Speaker 5: At the Bush Camp?
Speaker 9: Triumph John? Or gasmic triumph? Their man faced off against
Speaker 9: John Kerry, a golden tongued virtuoso of words, captain of
Speaker 9: the Yale debate team. He's been honing his oratorical skill
Speaker 9: since the age of three. The way they see it,
Speaker 9: by not allowing himself to be reduced to tears, the
Speaker 9: president was a big winner tonight.
Speaker 13: If I can just interject here at Helms, the Carry
Speaker 13: campaign would like to remind America the senator was raised
Speaker 13: in France by a pack of homosexual billionaires and going
Speaker 13: into this had little chance against a plane speaking, hard
Speaker 13: working man of the people like George Bush. So for
Speaker 13: Carrie to be even close in this debate, they say,
Speaker 13: is a huge victory.
Speaker 9: If I made John, that's a bit of a stretch.
Speaker 5: The Bush people would.
Speaker 9: Like to remind everyone their man held his own against
Speaker 9: what they call the smartest man in the.
Speaker 13: History of the world.
Speaker 9: John is RNC chairman Ed Gillespie told me before we
Speaker 9: came on air, this is a president who's nearly killed
Speaker 9: by a pretzel.
Speaker 13: John Kerry held his own against the man.
Speaker 7: Even he's going to vote for George Bush.
Speaker 13: If that isn't a victory, I don't know what is.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 11: Joining me right now.
Speaker 8: Are two senior political correspondents on The Daily Show, Staff
Speaker 8: Moroka and Nancy Wallace. What really struck me about the
Speaker 8: debates last night was the abortion issue. It came to
Speaker 8: the forefront and I thought really divided the two candidates. Mo,
Speaker 8: what were your impressions about their abortion issue?
Speaker 9: Well, John, I can say with certainty that for countless
Speaker 9: American women, the deciding factor in how their vote is
Speaker 9: cast depends on whether or not the candidate is pro choice.
Speaker 8: Yes, Oh, that's an interesting point. You know you really
Speaker 8: you feel like abortion is the swing issue this year?
Speaker 5: Absolutely?
Speaker 8: Oh, Nancy, you know what.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Nancy.
Speaker 8: I've got word that advanced degenerous in Tampa would like
Speaker 8: to weigh in, Dvance.
Speaker 3: You know, the next administration is going to appoint three,
Speaker 3: maybe four Supreme Court justices.
Speaker 5: Now all the experts.
Speaker 10: Agree that Roe v.
Speaker 5: Wade will be a litmus test.
Speaker 8: Well that that's a valid point. Vance, I'd have to say, uh.
Speaker 11: Right, you know the real issue.
Speaker 8: Yeah, hold that thought, honey. We've actually got Steve Carell
Speaker 8: on the phone. I believe he's off today, but he's
Speaker 8: calling in from his home in New Jersey. Steve, did
Speaker 8: you have something you wanted to contribute to the abortion discussion?
Speaker 6: Yes, John, if abortion, if abortions are outlawed, only outlaws
Speaker 6: will have abortion. And and I ain't gonna place on city.
Speaker 8: That's an excellent point, Steve. I've got to say, that's
Speaker 8: exactly you feel like.
Speaker 3: I have to comment, whoa, whoa, whoa there, I'll handle
Speaker 3: this one.
Speaker 8: Yes, I'm sorry, Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 7: John, I think there's one thing that no one is naming.
Speaker 7: Last night.
Speaker 9: On that stage, two men stood behind podiums, two men
Speaker 9: and talked about whether women should have reproductive rights.
Speaker 5: Now, why haven't we, uh you know, heard from any
Speaker 5: of the chicks.
Speaker 8: Well, that's a valid point. We've got time for one
Speaker 8: more comment, Nancy, what about that?
Speaker 5: Why are women dropping the ball on this?
Speaker 13: You know, John, I've.
Speaker 6: Been sitting here listening to all of you and issue
Speaker 6: of whether women show you know what?
Speaker 13: Uh oh is that over there?
Speaker 8: Our camera man, Tom has been waiting very patiently. Tom,
Speaker 8: you had something you wanted to say. Yeah, I just
Speaker 8: think that women should definitely have the right to decide
Speaker 8: what happens to their own bodies.
Speaker 11: Also, I think prostitution should be legalized.
Speaker 8: All right, like an excellent discussion.
Speaker 5: I want to thank everybody.
Speaker 8: Mo Vance, Steven, Steve Crow at hometom the cameraman terrific work.
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