John McCain, Maoist

Daily Show regular John McCain returned to TDS last night, this time as presumptive Republican nominee, and cited the inspirational words of Chairman Mao:

I somehow get the feeling that people would be making a bigger deal of it had Barack Obama dipped into the little red book. In the second half of the interview, Stewart "enters the octagon" with McCain and asks him about his association with a certain leading American religious figure:

All in all, not as contentious as some recent McCain sit-downs in which Stewart pressed him hard on the issue of Iraq. I can let that pass, though. I'm more surprised that Stewart did not ask the obvious follow-up on McCain's vice-presidential joke: Sir, have you ever actually watched The Office? Give me two names of members of the Dunder-Mifflin Scranton branch accounting department! And if I may follow-up: Team Pam or Team Karen, and why? No waffling!