The Daily Show is on the top of its game when it uses its deep library of cable news footage to highlight the absurdity and hypocrisy of whatever outrage of the moment is being fretted over by overcoiffed talking heads. Well, last night had Jon Stewart laying into Fox News for its outrage over the White House’s invitation to Common to come for a poetry reading. It’s up there with the best footage-based takedowns the show has done, and as a bonus, it’s capped off with Stewart rapping. Yes, rapping.
