This is part of a Transcript from a JS interview back in 2000---I love Jon!
=========== KING: I think you're a Democrat, Jon.
STEWART: I think that's probably correct. I think I would say I'm more of a socialist or an independent but, yes, I mean, no one would ever I think watching our show think that, boy, that guy is just leaning so far right. ===========
This is the transcript to which Joel is referring to:
========= CALLER: Hi, Jon. I was wondering what impact you think "The Daily Show" has on young people, particularly regarding their political participation?
STEWART: On young people?
KING: Yes.
STEWART: I think it rots your brains.
KING: You must scew very well demographically.
STEWART: Yes. On cable I don't think it matters so much. I don't know how it affects young people, because in the same way you probably don't know how it affects your audience.
KING: How it effects, we don't know.
STEWART: Yes, you're in a bubble.
KING: I mean, we think it effects.
STEWART: Well you hope that they like it.
KING: But do you think it might cause someone to say, he's right I'm going to vote for X.
STEWART: I would doubt that, because it's not -- the message that we put into the show for the young people is subliminal and it's all about Communism. So I don't think that's -- oh, yes. No that's what's in there. That's what's threaded in there, but at a very subconscious level. Every eight seconds we flash a picture of Trotsky.
KING: So your show is a bastion of anticommunism.
STEWART: Oh, absolute pro-communism. And anti-czar. It's really one or the other. It's anti-czar, but that's what we infuse into the show.
KING: Like, you don't like Gorbachev.
STEWART: Oh, no. Openness, no, not for us. As a matter of fact, our rallying cry after is, "Mr. Gorbachev, put that wall back up!" Let's get some mortar.
No. You know, they always talk about young people. The best way to get young people involved in politics, it's the simplest thing in the world and it's easy to do and I think any politician who's listening in this, reinstitute the draft, oh will voter turnout rise. You will see an amazing increase in -- I mean, why should they pay that much attention?
They're not, you know. I'm not worried about this next generation, believe me, the 18 to 24-year-olds. Those people that I've met, they're very smart. They're very engaged. The fact that they vote in the same percentages that we all voted at that age is fine
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KRD