Of course we think The Daily Show is the only trustworthy news-source in America, but we're work for Comedy Central, so we're hardly objective. We also think South Park should have won the Nobel Prize for Economics, and Just Shoot Me reruns cure rickets. But it turns out we're not the only ones singing the praises of Jon Stewart and the Best Fucking News Team Ever.

At the recent Bloomberg Washington Summit, President Obama's outgoing Communications Director Anita Dunn continued the ridicules of Fox News that marked her time with the administration:

She criticized Fox for using edited footage of a rally to make it appear that opposition to the president’s health-care plan was bigger than it was.

“The people who exposed this: Jon Stewart of the Daily Show on Comedy Central,” Dunn said yesterday at the Bloomberg Washington Summit. “That’s where you are getting fact-checking and investigative journalism these days.”

To see what real fact-checking and investigative journalism looks like, you can see the segment in question below, followed by Jon Stewart's response to Sean Hannity's apology.

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Here is the picture that has the blogosphere all a-twitter: it's President Obama bowing as he greets Japan's Emperor Akihito, a known foreigner, during this week's tour of Asia (a known foreign place).

Andrew Malcolm banged out 750+ words on BowGate, covering the history of the Japanese royal family, World War II, MacArthur, and so forth, but he probably could've just left it at this…

How low will the new American president go for the world's royalty?

Very, very low, according to the outraged outragers at Power Line…

He means to teach Americans to bow before monarchs and tyrants. He embodies the ideological multiculturalism that sets the United States on the same plane as other regimes based on tribal privilege and royal bloodlines. He gives expressive form to the idea that the United States now willingly prostrates itself before the rest of the world. He declares that the United States is a country like any other, only worse, because we have so much for which to apologize.

Jesus Christ, and he does all this using only his waist and torso. Can you even imagine how much treason Barack Obama would be capable of committing if he used his legs and feet, too?

Join us at 4 p.m. EST on Monday, 11/16 – a/k/a next Monday — as we liveblog Sarah Palin's guest appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Will hilarity ensue? Well, let's see… Sarah Palin will be emitting sounds from her mouth. So you betcha. In fact, we all betcha.

Here's a sneak preview to whet your appetite. See you at 4 p.m. Monday!

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Look at this fucking teabagger…

Wouldn't it be ironic if the party known for fighting a woman's right to choose actually offered its own female employees a health plan that covered abortion procedures — as, for the record, most employer health plans do?

And don't you think they'd notice that clause in their policies before some Politico reporter did?

The Republican National Committee will no longer offer employees an insurance plan that covers abortion after POLITICO reported Thursday that the anti-abortion RNC's policy has covered the procedure since 1991.

"Money from our loyal donors should not be used for this purpose," Chairman Michael Steele said in a statement. "I don't know why this policy existed in the past, but it will not exist under my administration. Consider this issue settled."

Steele has told the committee's director of administration to opt out of coverage for elective abortion in the policy it uses from Cigna.

Yep, issue settled, unless you happen to have a uterus, a job at the RNC and an unwanted pregnancy.

Oh well! At least the GOP's loyal donors can sleep soundly again, secure in the knowledge that their dollars will not go toward standard insurance policies that cover legal health care services for people with uteri. Nope, their dollars will only go toward important things, like web design.