On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart detailed the process by which a Fox News talking point seed is planted and fertilized before coming to life. But if you ask me, that sounds like science. Everyone knows Fox News talking points were all created in the Garden of Eden 6000 years ago.

Here's the set-up.

The follow-through can be found after the jump.

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Proving it could go from -10,000 to 25 mph in under two months, General Motors has officially stopped being bankrupt. Hurrah! The trouble is over!

“It’s just beginning. It’s nowhere near over,” said Keith Crain, the publisher and editorial director of Automotive News, an industry trade publication. Speaking on WJR-AM in Detroit, Mr. Crain said, “They’re going to need hard work, a lot of smarts, and they’re going to need good luck.”

Hey, you know what's lucky? Four-leaf clovers. And you know what color four-leaf clovers are?

Almost immediately, GM will try to show how it's a different company, perhaps by changing its familiar square logo from blue to green, to reflect its environmental focus.

"I think that as a corporate identity the color change could well be a smart move," said Tony Spaeth, president of Tony Spaeth/Identity, a Rye, N.Y., firm that helps companies craft identities. "It lends a little bit more reality and sincerity of intention to 'We want to change the way we do things.'"

It sure does. It also reflects the seasick feeling they'll have when they realize that a 28% drop in new car sales is considered better than bad news these days.

Now that we taxpayers own a controlling stake in General Motors, I'm really looking forward to sitting in on design meetings and offering my two cents. Maybe I'll finally realize my dream of owning a car with a glove compartment that makes spaghetti. Just kidding, I haven't paid taxes since 1997. Here's Jon Stewart's take on the issue.

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An update from General Motors, the freshly bankrupt car "manufacturer" that you and I now own: a buyer has been found for the company's Hummer brand, which was put on the block last year…

General Motors said on Tuesday that it had entered into a memorandum of understanding to sell its Hummer brand, but didn't name the buyer or say how much money it would get for the all-SUV line.

The transaction includes plans by the unnamed investor to aggressively fund future Hummer product programs, according to the automaker.

So much secrecy! So perplexing! Why isn't the buyer coming forward to brag about spending millions on a line of hideous, expensive vehicles that get terrible fuel economy and generate customer loyalty like this?

I mean, the only way this could be a smarter investment would be if General Motors had figured out a way to sell collateralized debt Hummers.

From Atom.com…

Obama Sells Cars

If you don't like doors that open, how about some cars with doors that close?

After an breathtaking fight between the U.S. auto industry and a pack of ravenous bears, it appears that the bears have gained the upper hand.

And as their powerful jaws hold poised and steady around GM and Chrysler's throats — awaiting permission to snap shut and collapse the two flailing companies' straining tracheas — the crowd turns its heads collectively up, up up toward The Presidential Box to witness a decision on their fate.

Barack Obama outstretches his fist and protruding thumb… and turns the wavering digit… down!

When it comes to General Motors and Chrysler, the government intends to allow nature take its course, and will let the two companies go into bankruptcy if need be. That's a sharp break with the usual stance taken by administrations from both parties — including this one — when it comes to the Big Three automakers; normally, they're prime examples of "too big to fail."…

And 76 percent of the crowd leaps to its feet cheering wildly, howling excitedly for blood! Or motor oil or break fluid or something. (I get tripped up with analogies sometimes.)