On Monday night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart put his typical twist on a controversial story about an exchange between Senator Barbara Boxer (CA-D) and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the Senate hearing on Iraq last week.
"Who pays the price?" Boxer asked Rice, adding, "I'm not going to pay a personal price. My kids are too old, and my grandchild is too young. You're not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, with an immediate family."
Stewart interpreted Boxer's remarks as meaning that "If only Condi Rice had kids, we would have a saner war policy. Maybe we wouldn't even have this war at all."
The Daily Show host then suddenly stated, "Wait a minute. I know how to end this war. . . . I'm going to do it. For the good of our nation."
Leaning into the camera, with the lights lowered, he began to pitch himself seductively to Rice, with the help of such romantic aids as a "giant book of Russian history."
Although Boxer had only referred to "immediate family," conservatives at Fox News Channel and even Bush Administration officials, such as Rice and White House spokesman Tony Snow, have slammed the senator for "setting back feminism" by implying that Rice could not make effective decisions on Iraq since she had no children.
