The Daily Show On Obama’s Nobel Speech: ‘Obama Forcing Us To Live In Area Between Absolutes, Brain Hurts! Complicated!’

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Last night The Daily Show took a look at President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech from Oslo, Norway, and Jon Stewart came away with a headache trying to compute the balance of accepting a peace prize while overseeing one war and escalating another.

“Obama forcing us to live in area between absolutes,” Stewart groaned. “Brain hurts! Complicated!”

Later in the program Stewart broke down the convenient symbiosis between Glenn Beck’s nightly fear mongering on Fox News and his paid spokesman gig for online gold dealer Goldline:

And last but not least, The Daily Show‘s Jason Jones filed the field report “Teapocalypse” – an investigation of a split in the Ohio tea party movement caused by a plastic Jesus on a spring:

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