This was classic.  Last night, The Daily Show lampooned this past weekend's Tea Party Convention, and it did so brilliantly.  Watch the first segment, if you don't believe me.

This is especially cool, because the convention so richly deserved to be lampooned, whether because of Tom Tancredo's xenophobic rant, or Sarah Palin's mindless keynote in ( Read more... )

Here's a link to a terrific editorial by Paul Krugman on the spitefulness of conservatives in the Age of Obama.  As Jon Stewart put it last night on The Daily Show, it turns out, for all their talk about patriotism and "Country First," that those on the far right "hate Obama more than they love America."