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Art Imitates Life
Balloon Juice — The Daily Show has video of the liberal blogosphere explaining “funny” to the masses: For good measure, the opening monologue was one of the best: See also, Gary Kamiya.

Yesterday, "The Daily Show" and Rush Limbaugh ran with the same joke about the Obama cartoon.
Althouse — Rush Limbaugh: Obama and his team are upset over a cartoon on the cover of The New Yorker, a leftist publication, that makes him look like a Muslim, that makes his wife look like a terrorist Muslim, that has the American flag burning in the fireplace, under the portrait of Osama Bin Laden in the Oval Office. The Obama campaign and The Messiah himself were said to be very, very upset over this. Let me ask you a question. Who is it that gets upset over cartoons? Muslims. (Gasping) Dawn's in there saying, "He didn't say that." Yes, I did, I'll say it again. (laughing) I just love tweaking these people. Who is it that gets upset over stupid ...

Jon Stewart Takes On Media, Obama For Overreacting To New Yorker Cover: "It's Just A F***ing Cartoon!"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — On Tuesday's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart took on the media and Barack Obama for overreacting to, and thus validating, the New Yorker cover controversy. "It's a trifle, it's nothing," Stewart said. "There's so many other things to talk about: Iraq, the collapse of some of our most prestigious financial institutions...right?" he continued, before showing a montage of the media firestorm over the cover. Stewart also took the Obama camp to task for calling the cartoon "tasteless and offensive": "Really? You know what your response should've been? It's very easy here, let me put the statement out for you: Barack Obama is in no ...

The Daily Show: Cable News is the REAL Two Dimensional Threat
Hoffmania! — Jon Stewart lays the smack on the media's shock...SHOCK over the New Yorker cover, then revisits their dumbass accusations on Obama. Brilliant.

Jon Stewart on Media Reaction to The New Yorker Cartoon
The Moderate Voice — ‘Nowhere was the anger at the media greater than in the media.’ Stewart eviscerates our reactive and sensation-loving media. He also has a good suggestion for how the Obama campaign should have responded. ...

Why Jon Stewart is still the best
Brilliant at Breakfast —

In defense of satire
BuzzMachine — Jon Stewart was, of course, brilliant in his defense of satire and The New Yorker: