Okay, this is a day or two old (night of 30 Sept.), but we just watched it last night, enjoying Jon unleashing some righteous torqueage on childish Republicans, self-congratulatory Democrats, a lackadaisical President, and generally lazy Congresscritters.<\/p>\n
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Which, by the end of it (picking up steam about midway through), is about as close to Stewart’s losing it in anger as I really want to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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