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News Release: Congresswoman Sherri Davis, (R-CA), Turns Up the Heat on “Daily Show” Host Jon Stewart and his “Misinformed Midtacular” Election Coverage

2006-11-07 09:13:39 –

New York, New York (PRINSIDE) November 7, 2006 – Congresswoman Sherri Davis, R-CA, issued a statement today blasting the the election reporting of Jon Stewart and his ‘Daily Show- reporting team as “misinformed, misleading and occasionally mystifying.”

“Some of his reporting does not even seem factual,” charged the outspoken Republican Congresswoman. “It appears to be ‘belief-based,’ rather than ‘fact based.’”

Congresswoman Davis, a conservative Republican who has become known as the “Ann Coulter of Anaheim” for her vocal opposition to flag burning and illegal immigration, and her fierce support of the American family, charged Jon Stewart with deliberately misleading the American public in his “Midwest Midterm Midtacular” series broadcast from the key election battlefield of Ohio about the true issues in that key battlefield state.

“Jon Stewart insists on incorrectly emphasizing the war in Iraq, jobs, and the Canadian fence issue as the top issues mobilizing the Ohio electorate,” says Davis, a former Miss Pomona and the widow of Chinese industrialist Soon-Yi Davis. “But Ohio this year is actually a textbook example of how purely local issues are mobilizing key Republican voting blocks to get out and vote – and that will tip this state into the Republican column once again.”

Specifically, Davis charges that Stewart and his “Daily Show” reporters are deliberately overlooking the impact that two major statewide ballot referendums in Ohio will have on voter turnout this year.

The first is the Republican-backed proposed amendment to the state Constitution to add a ‘mandatory portion control” clause to the state constitution for the first time in state history. “That’s a very popular issue for Republicans in the state, and particularly suburban Republican women,” says Davis. “It’s similar to what they’re currently doing in New York City in regards to trans-fats. And that’s a Republican-backed proposal that should drive core Republican voters to the voting booth, energize them, almost as much as the issue of gay marriage has in the past.”

And the other key Ohio ballot issue this time around that Jon Stewart and his “Daily Show” analysts are overlooking, says Davis, is Proposition 15, the Democratic-backed proposition that would create major new statewide incentives for scrapbooking.

“That proposal would add substantial scrapbooking tax breaks and would also add a required scrapbooking curriculum to the state school system at both the junior high and the high school level,” says Cong. Davis. “And also at community colleges. And they’re also proposing scrapbooking vouchers. Democrats feel that scrapbooking is a family-friendly pasttime that will dramatically expand their base, but we as Republicans are against anything that would increase the already high tax burden of Ohio residents, and on those grounds this measure is doomed to defeat.”

According to Davis, if the scrapbookers stay home from the polls this week — “and is this really the best the Democrats could come up with?” — that could hurt the Democrats and even cost them a few House seats in Ohio’s hotly contested suburban districts.

“The Republican Party, however, is confident that the mandatory portion control amendment that we have proposed to the state constitution will drive our core voters to the polls, energize them, and tip this state into the Republican column once again,” says Davis. “And that’s where it belongs.”

But a major “wild card” in this Ohio election, notes Congresswoman Davis, is a downstate proposal backed by Ohio native Sarah Jessica Parker that has controversially divided the rural county of Athens, a traditional Republican stronghold.

“Down south, in Athens County, which is the birthplace of celebrity actress Sarah Jessica Parker, issue ads taped by Miss Parker have been blanketing the airwaves airing in support of a controversial county-wide proposal for stricter regulation of yoga mat cleanliness, which is Proposition 32 on the local ballot,” says Davis. “And this could have a major influence on voter turnout in that county and tip it into the Democratic column for the first time in decades.”

This issue bubbled to the forefront when, on a recent trip to Nelsonville, Ohio, to receive the key to the city of her hometown, Miss Parker used a local yoga mat and returned home to New York City with a a bad case of tinea cruris, commonly known as “jock itch.”

‘Now, Athens County generally votes Republican,” says Congresswoman Davis, “but as the seat of Ohio University, the county does have a very strong liberal Democratic minority. And so it is a possibility that Miss Parker’s highly publicized Yoga Mat Cleanliness Act could bring out the liberal Democrats in force, and tip that key county into the Democratic column for the first time in years.”

Elsewhere in the nation, election-year controversy has been stirred by issue ads airing expressing the views of celebrities Michael J. Fox (stem cells) and even Boy George (seatbelt safety).

Finally, Congresswoman Davis reprimands Jon Stewart and “The Daily Show” for failing to note in their reporting the significance of the fact that the entire Democratic ticket in the state is headed by a Brown this year — Sherrod Brown, who is running for Senate.

“Now, Brown has long been a potent political name in Ohio, just as Green has been in New York and Orange has been in Florida,” says Davis. “And so the `Brown Factor,’ could also tip the race to the Democrats as legions of Brown supporters make their Brown voices heard at the polls. And that is a factor not to be overlooked.”

Concludes a disgruntled Congressswoman Davis: “Next year, send Stephen Colbert to the state. He’ll get it right.”

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