good Daily Show guest tonite: Bernard-Henri Levy.
new book Jan06 American Vertigo subtitl: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville eh.

Jon Stewart - you're like a rock star in France, a philosophy rock star.
BHL: nah, I'm just a (?writer). JS: right, and Bono (just mentioned) is just a minstrel.
....BHL says he did not get a joke. JS-Can I tell you something? HBL: you didn't get it either? hee. BHL says people told him there is no one, no comic, like Jon Stewart. but he met *one* -- George W. Bush. heeee. yes ever since Mario's talks with gw, I keep finding gw so funny. and is he funny? (in a laughing-with-us way ~ or only in a we're-laughing-at-him way?)

BHL says he want to big churchs, the labs for the far right. JS says now that seems like a cliche: the way I see America there's like 70-80% reasonable people, if sat down together could come to agreement - 80% of the country. The other 20% run it. ...heehee.

Bernard-Henri Levi is great! look at his books.
and JS is endearing when he's smiling funny. but: Colbert is the funnier to me, I think ~? I love that conservative (impersonated? exaggerated? self-mocking) humore. bc~? it's so smart.