You see The Daily Show last night? It wasn't as blatant in the version that ran on Comedy Central but on their website, they have the full, non-truncated interview Jon Stewart did with a gent named Ken Blackwell…and I can't recall ever seeing a guest on a quasi-news show ever fail so totally to defend and support his own position. If this had been a prize fight, the ref would have stepped in, stopped the proceedings and told Blackwell to pick up his teeth and get out.
Blackwell is a Republican advocate who's written a book called The Blueprint: Obama's Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency. Stewart kept asking him to give an example of how Obama is doing that and the replies pretty much came down to this: He's going against the Republican agenda. This is apparently the new definition of tyranny.
I'm not sure if Mr. Blackwell wrote his book because there's a lot of money to be harvested these days from books that paint Barack Obama as the herald of Ragnarok, or if we're just getting a preview of the next few elections. Is the G.O.P. really planning on running on the notion that a Chief Exec is Hitler if he doesn't appoint judges that Sean Hannity would approve of? But it was amazing to see Blackwell, who is by no means a stupid man, sit there and boot every wide-open opportunity that Jon Stewart gave him to make his case. You could almost tell that Stewart liked the guy and didn't want to win the match on a forfeit.
Talking Points Memo has embedded the full interview so I don't have to. If you only have time to watch one part, watch the last one.