Last night, Stephen Colbert had a great segment mocking Fox News's latest freakout over the latest Obama book that somehow they were hiding how extravagant the White House Halloween party was. Which is weird, because as White House spokesman Eric Schultz noted:
This was an event for local school children from the Washington DC area and for hundreds of military families. If we wanted this event to be a secret, we probably wouldn't have invited the press corps to cover it, release photos of it to Flickr, or post a video from it on the White House website. Even Johnny Depp’s fans knew about it and posted on their website. Just goes to show you can't believe everything you read in books these days.
(Steve Benen noted that Tea Partier Dana Loesch went even crazier with a double-layer conspiracy theory about the Halloween party.)
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Stephen also covered
Mitt Romney's "I like to fire people" gaffe, and then talked about
Rick Santorum's psychotic line about how nobody dies in the U.S. from a lack of health care.
Meanwhile, Jon Stewart quickly went over the
Dixville Notch results in New Hampshire, and who the surprising GOP victor was.
He then looked at recent actions of
Iran in possibly trying to dare us to attack them, and gave them a stern warning about doing so.
Jon also blasted
CNN's new 5am show for waking people up so early by cold calling them, and things then going horribly wrong.
Jon's guest was Fox News's
Andrew Napolitano, and Stephen talked with
Bill Moyers.