Jon Stewart Returns From Break To Mock Midterm Rhetoric, Pres. Obama and Gov. Brewer

The Daily Show returned from break last night, and host Jon Stewart used the occasion to catch up on some of the political news of the day. And as he is wont to do, his cultural viewfinder was not biased in finding targets for mockery: Barack Obama‘s new stimulus plan for renewing America’s infrastructure was derided for sounding suspiciously similar to Obama’s last stimulus bill that planned for upgrading America’s infrastructure. And Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s debate…moment was used as an example of…well, the political world in which we now find ourselves.

While these catch-all “why we were away” segments are often lacking compared to the more fresh, nightly segments provided by The Daily Show, they are still wildly entertaining, if for only to see how the TDS writers and producers make hay out of the past week’s news.

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