The reason why I watch Jon Stewart

When you can have an inflammatory guest like Sen. Rick Santorum on a show and have a calm and serious debate (and yet, still funny) without it deteriorating into a shouting match, you know you're watching Jon Stewart.

And to those who think he threw softballs at him, I say again, "YOU'RE WATCHING THE COMEDY CHANNEL." He's not Bill O'Reilly. He won't chew out his guests, regardless of who they are. I watch it for the insightful comedy. If an interesting debate ensues, so much the better, but it's not expected.

We definitely need to demand better from the mainstream media, though I wonder if it's less of a problem up here?