“I wasn’t at the press conference last night, and I also don’t have all the facts, but I think it’s fair to say that Obama handled that question — oh, what’s the word I’m looking for — stupidly?” So quite surpisingly said Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart on Thursday’s “Daily Show” in reference to the President’s statement at Wednesday’s press conference that the police officers involved in Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates’s arrest “acted stupidly.” I kid you not. In a fabulous display of …

Are Jon Stewart fans smarter than the rest of us? Is that the reason why many of us do not find him hilarious… that we’re too dumb to get the joke? His audience goes into stitches when he rolls his eyes and puts his hand over his mouth, and I’m left befuddled. Or am I too old? We all know that the people who watch “The Daily Show” are young, intelligent and informed. Or at least that’s what they’ve been trying to tell us. Unfortunately recent polls paint an entirely different picture.