Sure, he's funny at times - though shouting loudly and repeating words while making comic faces are really not as funny as all that, or at least it gets rather old before too long. And of course many of the points that he makes are valid - Republicans do in fact do a lot of stupid or harsh things that deserve to be satirized and criticized (as do Democrats). But as for the many liberal Americans who seem to consider the Daily Show almost as their main news source, it's hard to see what makes them so much better than the dedicated Fox News viewers that they so look down on, at least in terms of being spoonfed biased reporting if not downright propaganda (there are, I will admit, other flaws of Fox News, at least based on what I've seen of their website, such as their fearmongering and obsession with crime, but then those are flaws shared by tabloids the world over).

Let's be serious, this sort of reporting doesn't bring the US any closer to fixing its huge health care problems. And that's the sad thing about it all - Jon Stewart understandably cares more about his ratings than about making a difference, it's not him who should be blamed so much as his viewers who care more about their entertainment and having their egoes flattered and consciences soothed by listening to their heroes preaching to the choir, than they do about improving the state of affairs.