Every night at 10:00 pm (or until April 5 9:00 pm) my husband and I go to bed with Jon Stewart and then Stephen Colbert. We thoroughly enjoy their humorous take on current events and it was, in fact, from Jon Stewart’s lips that we first learned that Barack Obama had been elected President. That evening of November 4th, 2008, Jon and Stephen had come together to do an election special.

Jon Stewart has had his own show, The Daily Show, on the Comedy Network for approx. 10 years. He also is the author of American (The Book) A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction with a Forward by Thomas Jefferson. I think in this title one begins to understand the gifts of Jon Stewart.

In recent days the media has in part manufactured a feud between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money who used to be a hedge fund manager. (more…)