“The Daily Show” host marvels that the same media that investigated Barack Obama’s falsely alleged attendance at a madrassa can be shocked — shocked — by a cartoon poking fun at such rumors. Here’s what the Obama campaign should have said, in Stewart’s estimation:

“Barack Obama is in no way upset about the cartoon that depicts him as a Muslim extremist, because you know who gets upset about cartoons? Muslim extremists, of which Barack Obama is not. It’s just a f—ing cartoon.”

Daily Show:

And for good measure, here’s Stephen Colbert’s take:

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