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Jason Jones discovers how an Ohio tea party movement was torn apart by a plastic Jesus on a spring.

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There's no other word than "dumbass" that adequately describes Arizona State University's decision not to award President Obama an honorary degree when he addresses the school's commencement today.

Sure, you can cook up lame excuses, such as that the school instead decided to name a scholarship program after him. That's nice. It's still an insult. A dumbass insult.

The Daily Show's Jason Jones visited Tempe to get some of the flavor of local sentiments. That same word kept coming to mind as we watched ASU students try to explain why Obama didn't deserve an honorary degree. My favorite:

"We're trying to be like the Cambridges, where they don't give out any, uh, honorary degrees. Make them so, uh, prestigious. To give them to, like, important people. Heads of state and stuff like that."

Runner-up:

"Wull, I've been at ASU for three or four years, and I don't have a degree yet. Why does he deserve one for being in office for 100 days?"

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Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart got the official word in the origins of the swine-flu outbreak from John Oliver, reporting from the Centers For Disease Control, and Jason Jones, reporting from the Centers For Stuff I Heard From Some Guy:

Stewart: What have you been hearing at your center?

Jones: All kinds of things. OK, A: This disease was engineered by the government as an excuse to declare martial law, so that B: They can liquidate private health-insurance coverage.

Stewart: Yeah, that sounds a little farfetched there, Jason.

Jones: Well, then why is the government hoarding all the Tamiflu for themselves, their families, and disgraced Wall Street tycoons?

Stewart: Where did you hear that?

Jones: [pause] ... Some guy.

Stewart: Do you have a second source?

Jones: What, you mean another guy?

Oliver: Jon, Jon, Jon! You know this is preposterous. This is a naturally occurring mutation that has so far traveled a pathogenic route --

Jones: Can it, Science Boy! While you babble, Americans are being infected by the millions!

Oliver: Not true --

Jones: The entire state of Arizona is dead!

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I apologize ahead of time for the man jokes told about Ann Coulter in this bit by The Daily Show. Not that I am concerned about any insults to Coulter, since she pretty well deserves every bit of scorn she's brought upon herself. Instead my concern is to the trans-gendered community, which doesn't deserve to be associated with her or used as a way to insult her. I know most trans-gendered people in this country are good and decent people and not hate-spewing attention whores like Coulter, and I hate to see her give anyone a bad name unfairly. Apparently The Daily Show didn't mind going there.

That said, the mere fact that they managed to again make Kevin James look like the complete ass that he is and that my You Tube video of James actually made its way onto The Daily Show, I just couldn't help myself with wanting to post this anyway. Jason Jones takes a shot at the pundit class and just how little is required to be a talking head on the television these days, and sadly this parody is way too close to the truth.

I just want to know when they're going to quit giving Pat Buchanan five hours a day of air time on MSNBC and maybe make a few minutes for our own John Amato instead. Pat needs to take that cot up and give someone else some room.