Nancy Pelosi v. Jon Stewart

By GottaLaff

Oh no she di-in't!

The Comedy Central “Daily Show” host recently called Pelosi out for being hypocritical on budget reconciliation rules (which must be the only time in history that budget reconciliation and comedy have been intertwined).

The reconciliation rules would allow Democrats to pass healthcare reform with only 51 Senate votes, stripping the GOP of its filibuster rights.

Stewart aired video clips ostensibly showing Pelosi embracing the partisan budget maneuver this year but condemning it when Democrats were in the minority. [...]

Asked for comment this week, Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami fired back.

“She was not talking about reconciliation in that clip — it was about judicial nominations and the nuclear option. This has nothing to do with reconciliation ... Jon Stewart had it wrong (shocking, I know),” Elshami wrote. [...]

We don’t want to get in the way of a good fight, but a review of newspaper articles and transcripts shows that Pelosi is dead on and Stewart is dead wrong.

Will Stewart apologize? ITK contacted Stewart’s flack, but Stewart is apparently in bunker mentality, declining to respond to what surely will become known as DailyShowgate.

Here we go. Set your DVRs, because we all know this isn't going to end without at least one more round. And if Stewart was that far off the mark, I bet he hangs his head and makes mincemeat of himself in a way that will have us in tears.