WALL STREET JOURNAL
by Dorothy Rabinowitz
August 6, 2015

There was never any mistaking the aura of confident superiority from the host of ‘The Daily Show.’

…..Since demonizing the other side has so long been a specialty of “The Daily Show,” this comment notwithstanding, it has come as no great surprise to see, in the final days of the show, the ratcheting up of precisely that demonization: of Republicans, of Congress itself, of all who oppose the nuclear deal with Iran. The concerns of the Obama White House, which so frequently coincide with those of Mr. Stewart, have never been more intense than they are now as congressional opposition to the deal remains firm, as polls show a majority of Americans of similar mind. Mr. Stewart is on the case. Students getting all their news and views on world affairs from “The Daily Show” have by now seen the show’s special correspondent Hasan Minhaj’s April 7 riff about what Republicans in Congress would like American negotiators to do to their Iranian counterparts—namely, go in with guns blazing and blast them all to hell, which Mr. Minhaj acts out at stupefying length. READ MORE