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The Daily Show's John Oliver was back for his second week filling in as host for Jon Stewart and doing a fantastic job once again. He opened this Monday's show with a revelation following the return of Sarah Palin to Fox "News" and her hawking her upcoming book on their ridiculous "War on Christmas":

John Oliver: Just f*cking ignore Sarah Palin’s turd supermarket of self-contradictory nonsense:

“I just don’t even know where to begin with her,” he said. “I mean — hold on. I think I’ve just realized something. F*ck it, this is exactly what she wants. Just because I walked into a turd supermarket doesn’t mean I have to buy anything.”

Though Oliver could mock Palin in the typical Daily Show-esque fashion by mashing up clips of the conservative commentator contradicting her own “nonsense,” the more prudent move was to “just f*cking ignore her.”

“I promise America it will feel so good,” he remarked. “It will be like we give our brains an enema together.”

Ignoring Palin rather than mocking her would be a difficult task, Oliver acknowledged, but it was the right thing to do.

It makes me wonder if the writers over at The Daily Show read Karoli's post on the same subject. While I understand and share the fatigue completely and the sentiment behind not wanting to feed her obvious trolling, I also think ignoring her completely is dangerous. I would prefer to see the media ignore her for the most part unless she's subjected to the proper level of mockery and derision she received here.

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This Tuesday night on The Daily Show, it was round two for guest host John Oliver taking on the recent leaks on the NSA's surveillance programs. Oliver did a great job going after Fox blowhard, Bill O'Reilly, BFF's John McCain and Lindsey Graham and Rand Paul and their reactions to the story over the last week.

Bill-O was a little too concerned about the spying potentially being used to exploit a Republican senator with a prostitute problem. Sounds like a whole lot of projection going on to me.

Then we had technology expert and "cantankerous old man" John McCain asking why we can't act the same way we did on Sept. 12, 2001 - an argument Oliver quickly made a complete mockery of.

Next up, Rand Paul, who has suddenly found a new respect for Supreme Court decisions -- now that he wants them to overturn something he doesn't like.

And last but not least, Miss Lindsey, who could care less if the government is scooping up all of our phone conversations, but don't dare put gun owners' information into a database.

Oliver wrapped things up by reminding everyone which amendment looks like it "has won the Bill of Rights." I don't think anyone here will have any trouble guessing which one that is.

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If anyone had not heard the news already, Jon Stewart is taking a 12-week break from hosting The Daily Show to make his directing debut and regular John Oliver is going to do the honors filling in for him during his absence. While I have enjoyed immensely Oliver's regular contributions to the show, I was not sure how he'd do hosting the show. After watching tonight, I think he did a great job.

Oliver started out the show sharing with the audience a letter Stewart had left for him where he told him "Don't worry, you'll be great" and "besides, no big news stories ever break out over the summer."

And then of course, within less than a day of Stewart being gone and Oliver filling in, we had this breaking news on the NSA leak. So much for those segments with the British jokes and tea time Oliver said he had planned.

Instead we were treated to this: The Daily Show’s John Oliver: NSA phone tracking ‘just the tip of the sh*tberg’:

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Jon Stewart took our "broken bad" Senate and their failure to pass even some watered down gun regulation to task during the opening segment of The Daily Show this Thursday night. Stewart also took a page out of Chris Hayes' book, going after them for being willing to move heaven and earth to combat terrorism, while pretending there's no point in even passing any laws if criminals are just going to break them when it comes to guns.

After showing a portion of Hayes show comparing the number of terror vs gun fatalities in the United States, here's how Stewart wrapped things up.

STEWART: Well, thank God for Chris Hayes, because I'm not good at math. I'm so stupid. I still think 54 votes is more than 46, because I'm a f**king idiot. But I'm pretty sure that a million is more than 3400, and yet, to battle the evil of terror, we started two wars, tortured people, reorganized almost the entire federal government, disallowed the air trafficking of shampoo and conditioner and okay'd the robot sky killing of American citizens, if warranted by... someone.

Because one American life lost to terror is one too many, which I agree with. But it seems to me we'll move heaven and earth to do whatever it takes to prevent weapons from falling into the hands of foreigners who might kill our citizens, because apparently we think killing our citizens, is our job.

John Oliver continued the theme in the following segment, where he made a complete mockery of the Virginia Citizens Defense League's President, Philip Van Cleave, who was attempting to make many of the same arguments as those Senators, despite the fact that, as Oliver pointed out to him, Australia has proven that gun regulation can prevent mass shootings and gun deaths.

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We all knew this was coming, given how much Jon Stewart already loves CNN. Like shooting fish in a barrel. Stewart had a field day after CNN's debacle where they claimed a suspect had been arrested for the Boston Marathon bombing.

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From Monday night's The Daily Show, Jon Stewart went after Mitt Romney and his fellow right-wingers like Lou Dobbs, for their priorities on deficit reduction where PBS, which is a minute portion of the budget would get slashed, but heaven forbid we can't touch those subsidies for the oil companies, because those amounts would be almost meaningless -- or so says Dobbs and his faulty math.

After pointing out the obvious and that it really can't be the deficit they're concerned about, Stewart made a mockery of the talking heads over at Fox for their attacks on Sesame Street as some kind of evil socialist indoctrination program that's harming our children by teaching them things like how to share.

Jon and his Daily Show senior correspondents, Wyatt Cenac and John Oliver had some suggestions for how to make Sesame Street more palatable to conservatives, like putting Ayn Rand on the recommended reading list for the kids.

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As The Daily Show's Jon Stewart noted in his show's opening this Wednesday evening, it wasn't the Chicago teachers' union strike, or workers rioting at the Foxconn factory in China that piqued the interest of Americans concerned about ongoing labor disputes. No, it was the NFL referees strike lockout and some really horrible calls by the replacement refs that got the nation's attention.

Stewart went on to mock Paul Ryan and his absolutely ridiculous analogy, where he tried to compare the Obama administration to the problems with the replacement referees. And they wrapped things up with Patrick Stewart showing up as a replacement worker for Daily Show regular John Oliver, who Stewart wanted to hire in his place and permanently replace him -- only to have his plans dashed when Oliver showed up to explain that the strike was a joke and with Patrick Stewart calling for a wildcat strike when he found out what Oliver was being paid.

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In case you missed it, from Friday evening's The Daily Show, Jon Stewart's Best F#@king News Team Ever showed us that in order to run America more like a business, as Republicans keep claiming we need to do, some under performing states are going to have to downsize.

Once again our comedy shows are doing the work of showing the absurdity of Republican talking points that our Villagers in the media that call themselves "news" refuse to do.

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Jon Stewart and his crew over at The Daily Show took Sarah Palin to task for her appearance on NBC's the Today Show and the fact that she had told Breitbart's rag that "We’re 'going rogue' and infiltrating some turf for a day."

Eric Dolan at Raw Story has more on Stewart's response to to Palin's appearance -- Jon Stewart pummels Sarah Palin for ‘infiltrating’ the Today Show with her Jesus fish earrings:

But to Stewart, going rogue was actually “cynically exploiting a manufactured notion of yourself as a crusader against a monolithic exclusionary activist liberal media, whilst actually enjoying a mutually beneficial, symbiotic relationship with them, only to the detriment to the rest of the country.”

“Seriously, it’s the Today Show,” he continued. “You really believe co-hosting the Today Show is is entering the lion’s den, armed only with some Jesus fish earrings and an Iwo Jima sized flag pin?”

But Stewart didn’t stop there.

“Governor Palin acts like she needed to protect herself from the lamestream liberals like garlic to a vampire when the truth is, you’re at the Today Show,” he added. “You’re there to talk about party planning with Tori Spelling! To pretend that you remember who Wilson Phillips is, or to hang out for some light-hearted couch banter with Matt and Ann and Al — instead of acting like you’re sitting with which Che and Lenin and Saul Alinsky.”

And here's a bit more from Stewart with his views on what game Palin was playing here.

STEWART: You're pretending this whole appearance is some uncommonly ballsy way of sticking it to the “lame stream media.” It's just another place for you to tout your brand of home-spun nonsense, unchallenged. […]

Ah... failed, Socialist policies, of Barack Obama. I get it and cut to two minutes into your same interview. […]

Right! Wall Street! Fat cats, reaping the benefits, of the failed Socialist... wait, that doesn't make any sense! Oh, but you know what? Who gives a s**t if it doesn't make any sense. […]

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The Daily Show's Jon Stewart had a field day with Mitt Romney for his statement that he's “not concerned about the very poor" and that they have safety nets in place to take care of them, pointing out the obvious, which is that if you're landing in a "net", you're not okay and are in some kind of trouble and something "has gone terribly wrong."

Stewart finished up the segment with crew members John Oliver and Jason Jones representing the "very poor" and the "very rich" who did a great job of making a complete mockery of the Republicans and their "class warfare" talking points.

If only we could get this much scorn for Romney who's managed to come across as a robotic version of Gordon Gekko from the Villagers in the corporate "news" media.