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Jon Stewart in His Finest

This IS a reason when Katie Couric (or maybe Brian Williams?) told Jon Stewart that "more and more Americans are getting news from your show" despite the fact that "The Daily Show" is on Comedy Central . In a time when CNN is going so down as to be ecstatic when Anna Nicole Smith died or so desperate as to read out loud Twitter feeds as "news" and Fox constantly slaps itself in the face by contradicting its own "story" just a few years/months/days ago, journalism curiously lives on in a satiric faux news show. Take, for instance, the episode on March 9, 2010 when he had a heated conversation with a conservative guest about how far you can go to defend your country. Because the conversation was so emotionally, it easily lasted more than the allocated 10 minutes. However, you can watch the whole, unedited, three-part version online . For some reason, the debate reminds me the movie "A Few Good Men" , which is a good movie, where Demi Mo