Jon Stewart takes on the Right Wing fear mongers, and kinda loses it over "Coffee-gate."

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Yes, they are actually calling this "coffe-gate."

I loved the end of the segment:

"So fuck you, and all your false patriotism. When Bush took us to war any criticism was shouted down as treasonous. But a President you don't like has the country poised on the same precipice, no transgression no matter how immaterial and ridiculous is too small to cite as evidence that this President isn't as American as you are. You want a hot cup of cognitive dissonance watch this."

Stewart then shows a clip of Hannity interviewing Rove about this salute during which Rove refers to the President as a "Chai swilling, golf playing, basketball trash talking, leading from behind, I got no strategy, Osama Bin laden is dead, GM is alive, community organizing Commander-in-Chief.

Followed by : "How disrespectful was that?"

Stewart then refers to Rove as "Palin in a bald cap."

And then shows this:

Stewart summed it all up thusly:

"Here we've got two Presidents, both sending the United States to war citing the same legal authorities, both without any seeming exit strategy, and both holding shit in their hands while saluting our troops. But in their diseased minds (Photo of Cheney and Fox News hosts) only one did that because he loved America. The other did it because he hated it."

Now THAT was the Jon Stewart I know and adore.

P.S. By the way this was not the only great segment last night. The Daily Show also aired their rather controversial piece on the Redskins, and it was also a must see.