The Daily Show on the Blunt Amendment Debate

These senators are absolutely right. This isn't about women's rights to have healthy sex lives. Not at all! It's about the exact opposite of that.

Coverage continues with Founding Fathers Theater after the jump.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11/10c.

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Tags: Barbara Boxer, Contraception, Democrats, Founding Fathers, Health Care, Jon Stewart, Men and Women, Mitt Romney, Religion, Republicans, Roy Blunt, Senate, Sex, The Daily Show, Thomas Jefferson, Video, Women's Rights

Polls: Betty White Way More Awesome Than Thomas Jefferson

Happy President's Day, where we honor our nation's leaders by holding furniture sales and conducting surveys in which Americans are asked to pretend to have an opinion about obscure former chief executives.

The leader in the latter category is Public Policy Polling, which reports that it's all been downhill since George Washington, with 89% of voters seeing him favorably, and only 3% unfavorably. But how do our celebrated presidents stand up to the real celebrities? There is only one methodologically-flawed way to find out. Behold, the five most popular and unpopular U.S. presidents as aligned against the Ipsos ratings of their celebrity betters…

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Tags: George Washington, Polls, President's Day, Richard Nixon, Thomas Jefferson

Stephen Colbert on Tea Party Demands to Rewrite History

History, they say, is written by the winners. But then, however, it's rewritten by a bunch of dudes in discount tricorne hats and colonial soldier costumes.

The Colbert Report airs Monday through Thursday at 11:30/10:30c.

Tags: Benjamin Franklin, Education, Founding Fathers, George Washington, Native American, Slavery, Stephen Colbert, Tea Party, Tennessee, The Colbert Report, Thomas Jefferson, Video

This Modern World: A Teabagger's History of the United States

Tom Tomorrow takes us back to the founding of the United States. The real founding of the United States, that is. Not that liberally-biased, fact-based crap they cram down our kids' mouths in school…

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Tags: Founding Fathers, George Washington, Religion, Tea Party, Thomas Jefferson

Eugene Mirman Wants to Talk to You About the Midterm Elections

Dragons, wolves, horses and libertarians. You know just regular political analysis stuff…

Tags: Arizona, Bloggers on Camera, Cramming for Midterms, Eugene Mirman, Harry Reid, Islam, Midterms, Nevada, Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, Taxes, Tea Party, Thomas Jefferson, Unemployment, Video