The April 12 , 2000 segment on five-time write-in candidate Charles R. Doty from Oklahoma was rebroadcast twice ; the first on September 20 , 2001 , the first episode that taped after the September 11 attacks . After giving an emotional monologue , Stewart said that he hoped to make his audience smile by airing the clip about Doty , who he said " epitomized this sort of frontier American spirit of a man who believed in all things being possible . " The clip rebroadcast again in June 2003 after Doty 's death
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Comedy Central's Indecision 2000