John Stewart lost me when he crossed the writer’s picket line. It’ll be interesting to see how he covers the Wisconson mess.

Jon Stewart has become the official satirist of the non-defunct, but ideologically alive DLC.  He and his staff can find the hypocrisy of Sessions but later Stewart blithely claims the Pentagon’s budget has been cut, which is not true. The dishonest technique is well known—the Pentagon asks for more new money above current levels, not as much new money is allocated, and people then claim the budget was cut.

It is not a surprise that Stewart repeatedly brings on a corporate lacky like Brian Williams. 

by the way:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/06/obamas-oneday-defense-cuts-top-gops-entire-firstyear-austerity-pledge/

The $78 billion in defense cuts are separate from $100 billion in “efficiencies” identified by the Pentagon. The $100 billion will be reinvested into other Pentagon programs and will not result in spending cuts; the $78 billion will be cut from the Pentagon’s budget over a five-year period beginning in the 2012 fiscal year. Because the Pentagon originally projected budget increases for these years, the cuts won’t mean that the Pentagon’s budget will shrink in total dollar terms—only that the rate of growth will slow. The fiscal year beginning this year will see a base Pentagon budget of $553 billion, up from $549 billion last year