At the Democratic Convention, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart proved to skeptics why it went from winning the Television Critics' Association's award for Best Comedy to winning this year for Outstanding News Programming. I mean, we had Jon Stewart on the Convention's first night: The theme is "The Kerry-Edwards Plan for America's Future." All that's missing are Kerry, Edwards, and a plan for America's future. And responding to Hillary Clinton's declaration that she was introducing "America's last great Democratic President": Oh my god! How'd they bring back FDR? Here he comes! Oh wait...it's Bill Clinton. Nothing, however, could top his skewering Thursday night of the networks' criticism of most every speaker for sticking to the script and hysterical attacks on Al Sharpton for diverging from it. The clip of Howard Fineman asserting that Sharpton will depress the Black vote was damning enough, but having Stewart pan cheering Black delegates in the crowd and suggest what Fineman was reading in their minds was doubly stinging. And then he caps it off with a clip of an MSNBC anchor telling Al Sharpton that he was watching the teleprompter stay still while the Reverend "did a riff on whatever you were doing a riff on." As Stewart asked, "Weren't you there for the speech?" Then he did some improvised skat of his own, suggesting that such was apparently all MSNBC could hear while Sharpton was condemning the disenfranchisement of Black voters.