Even though Jon Stewart didn’t talk about Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) on The Daily Show Thursday night, there were still a sizable helping of weiner jokes. Or rather, there was one giant weiner joke throughout the opening segment.
“For the past two weeks, the news has been dominated by scandal of a particularly prurient nature. I for one believe its time to lift our gaze from the gossip filled gutter,” Stewart said.
“The real challenge for a news program such as ours is not how best to indulge our most base and callow instincts, but rather how best to choose what important yet now overlooked story of importance to do first,” he added.
With that, he produced a wheel segmented into several major stories pushed out of the news by Weiner’s scandal. And rather than a traditional spinner, the wheel used a large dildo to determine which stories had been “cock blocked” for the past two weeks and would now get airtime.
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