# Posted 11:01 PM by Ariel David Adesnik  

WHY DOES OXBLOG HAVE IT IN FOR JON STEWART? Why not go after Fox and its pretensions of being 'fair and balanced'? How about all the conservative radio talk-show hosts?

Well, the fact is that no one I know and/or respect relies on Fox or Rush or the Washington Times for their news. But more and more young, smart, educated people keep telling me how insightful Jon Stewart is. They even say that they rely on him for most of their news. So that makes Stewart a target.

So let's blog...

10:59 PM -- Stewart runs a mock-ad claiming that John Kerry was never on The Daily Show. It is a mildly clever send-up of the Swift Vets.

11:01 PM -- Stewarts hits the NYC government for preventing protests in order to protect the grass in Central Park.

11:03 PM -- Correspondent Samatha Bee interviews a Connecticut man who uses the bathroom in City Hall to protest the city's refusal to repair the sewage line connected to his fouse. Funny stuff, but you have to see it to get the jokes.

11:06 PM -- Commericals. Damn, that was quick.

11:09 PM -- It's Lewis Black with Back in Black! Black reviews the GOP convention's promotional video for NYC, hosted by Sean Hannity. Even that is full of lies!

11:12 PM -- Black does his own promo video for NYC: "Bronx is a borough. Bronx is where they invented the Dirty Sanchez..."

11:12 PM -- More commercials. Jeebus, can't Stewart's writers produce a little more material (so that OxBlog can criticize it)?

11:15 PM -- We're back! Time for RNC chairman Ed Gillespie! Stewart: Why did you pick NY? It's the gayest, Jew-iest town anywhere!

11:16 PM -- Stewart: "Last night we had John Kerry. Where's your guy?" Man, that would be awesome.

Gillespie: I'll put in a good word.

Stewart: No you won't.

Gillespie can't stop chuckling. It's sort of weird and spooky.

11:19 PM -- Gillespie jokes that he got a student deferrment in Vietnam...back when he was in elementary school. The joke bombs.

11:20 PM -- Gillespie plugs his video, KerryOnIraq.com. Stewart: You're going to say Kerry missed a committee meeting. But didn't your guy get us into this in the first place?

Gillespie: Hey, Kerry voted for the war.

Stewart: No, he just voted to give Bush the authority. But I disagree with that too...

Stewart: People always say we're a liberal show. But hey, if the GOP has the White House, Congress, the governorships, we've got to make fun of them, right?

Stewart: If you get Bush on my show, dude, I will be such a p***y!

11:23 PM -- More commercials.

11:26 PM -- That's our show. Now here's your moment of zen...

A good show. I laughed, which you probably can't tell because I didn't write "Ha-ha-ha!" after every post.

Obviously, Stewart gets big points for sort of admitting that his show is sort of partisan. You might even say he went too easy on Gillespie.

But now I have a new complaint: There was only 19 1/2 minutes of entertainment in a half-hour show! Frikkin' corporate media.
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