Indecision 2004

As expected, the best thing about Election Night was the coverage by The Daily Show. Jon Stewart and others (including the rarely-seen Steve Carrell!) spent the evening skewering American politics, opting (as usual) to pick apart the process instead of particular candidates.

That is, until later in the evening when some of the Senate race results started to come in. Stewart, who has been somewhat more forthcoming about his own political opinions on- and off-camera in recent months, looked bewildered at the victory of Republican Tom Coburn, who won a Senate seat in Oklahoma. Coburn famously called Oklahoma City legislators "crapheads." He also repeated, on camera, a bit of gossip that girls in local schools were only allowed to go to the bathroom individually for fear that, upon their return, they would have been converted to lesbianism. When Jon Stewart finds himself speechless at the absurdity of a situation, it's time to check Hell's weather report for falling temperatures.