video Lou Dobbs was on the Daily Show last night, in an interview that skirted lightly around the reasons for his split with CNN, despite welcoming Dobbs to the set with a Mariachi band. Beyond that unsubtle wink, however, and beyond calling Dobbs' views "abhorrent and wrong," Stewart didn't really challenge Dobbs on the disquieting race-related issues about his show (TV and radio, actually) regarding immigration and, this past summer, the whole Birther frenzy. Instead they talked a bit about CNN, and then got into a rather interesting and nuanced discussion about why certain factions seemed to be in such an Obama panic, why policies resulting from duly-won elections weren't tyranny (or at least weren't tryanny when Bush and Cheney did it!), and where all the reasonable people were in these debates. It was actually the first time I thought that Jon Stewart could run for office and win. Also, Sarah Palin will never come on his show. (more...)