On last night’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart offered his read of Gov. Scott Walker’s recall victory in Wisconsin on Tuesday. The voters spoke, and what they said was this: “Oh sorry, you didn’t hear us the first time? Yeah yeah, we said we like the tyrant-y union-cutting guy. He’s our guy … like we said sixteen months ago.”
Stewart also pointed out that news networks on election night “functioned less … as repositories of news and analysis and more as extensions of the winning or losing campaigns.” On the one hand, “Fox went with GloatFest 2012”: Democrats had been “routed,” “trumped,” or “spanked; as for Obama, his “goose is cooked.” Meanwhile, “if Fox was high,” MSNBC must be “MSNB … sad,” having already gone through the three stages of grief: denial, denial, and denial. The race was “tight.” And the big winner? Obama, of course. Watch:
