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Every late summer, public officials and news makers disappear from public life and go on vacation, making it hard for the news media to find interesting stories to cover. So how does the respected cultural commentator Jon Stewart deal with the seasonal dearth of interesting news items? Mock the cable news media’s efforts to fill 24 hours of live coverage, especially when there is nothing to report. Like the recent wedding of Chelsea Clinton in Rhinebeck, NY, or as Stewart called it, the event that “set the record for most amount of media gaining the least amount of information.

Something strange is going on here: Conservatives don’t like money. That’s the message I’m getting from the extreme distaste some conservative critics have shown for Chelsea Clinton‘s wedding. Forget about Rush Limbaugh’s $54 million Gulfstream jet, Mitt Romney’s $42 million donation to his own presidential campaign, John McCain’s seven or eight houses, the RNC’s vacations [...]

Think you’re important? Oh, really? Have your parties ever caused the FAA to declare the skies above your house a no-fly zone? No? Then you’re clearly not as cool as Chelsea Clinton, who weds this Saturday, July 31st to Mark Mezvinsky (who may or may not be distantly related to Amar’e Stoudemire but not Mel [...]