The Daily Show has been to Arizona more and more over the last year. Their website even boasts a “Best Moments from the Great State of Arizona” page with clips of correspondents raking Arizona laws and politicians over the coals. Last night’s show featured yet another instance of brutally honest mockery, this time aimed at Arizonan State Representative Carl Seel. Olivia Munn reports:

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At this point in the game, I have long since lost the ability to be surprised at what politicians in Arizona are capable of.

On another one of the Colbert Report’‘s “Formidable Opponent” segments, Stephen Colbert cuts to the heart of the issues surrounding the flotilla raid:

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Notice how the Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, states that Israel is “not particularly obliged” to allow snack food or soda into Gaza (which Colbert rightly shows is downright ridiculous). He quickly pivots to point out that Hamas refused to accept the sugar-laden aid, but my concern is not over the Israeli/snack-hating Hamas. My concern is why are snack foods and soda not normally permitted in the first place?

What kind of embargo is this, exactly? What’s the point of denying snack food and soda from getting through? If there is no point, how is it justifiable?

And from the perspective of someone interested in the state of journalism in America today, how many other television hosts raised this issue with Oren during an interview session with him?

Updated to Add:
The BBC reports on the reactions to the flotilla raid inside Israel:
“‘Israel’s eases three-year blockade. Gazans get jam and coriander’ ran the debatably sarcastic headline in this morning’s left-leaning Haaretz newspaper.”

Arizona’s new anti-immigration law has been making headlines around the country. I could launch into a long diatribe about my feelings on it, but I think I prefer to let Colbert do the talking:

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For those high school grads who are considering a desert odyssey for their college careers (as I once did), the University of Arizona Board of Regents has approved and published the tuition costs for the 2010-2011 school year. Out-of-state tuition fees are going up $2,024, which brings the total annual cost for out-of-state kids to $23,973 per year. For this year, anyway. What it will be the year after that is anyone’s guess.

It’s still lower than what the average private college costs: $26, 273 annually, according to CNN Money.com. That’s before grants and scholarships, which, citing the same article, the average kid gets $5,400 a year from while attending four-year public universities.

This all thanks to the economic free fall that the state of Arizona finds itself in, with even more budget cuts expected in the upcoming year regardless of whether a 1% sales tax hike passes on May 18th. The Arizona Daily Star has an op-ed noting that Arizona Republican senators John McCain and Jon Kyl have said they don’t like to meddle in state politics, then did so anyway by issuing a joint statement saying they’re against the increase in the sales tax, then went back to not meddling by refusing to offer any alternative solutions.

It’s the kind of thinking that reminds me of the state’s plan to sell the capital building for $735 million, then lease it back from whoever buys for $1.5 billion over the next twenty years. The Daily Show‘s Jason Jones filed a report on that:

Charlie Brooker gets a check-plus in the book for being amazing:

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Colbert reacts to Senator Joe Lieberman’s (CT – I) statement that he will filibuster any health care reform bill that includes a public option:

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For those of you who missed the coverage of Libya’s Muammar al-Gaddafi at the U.N. General Assembly this week, The Daily Show put together a highlights reel:

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It starts at the 3:06 mark. Personally, I can’t wait until he releases a stand-up comedy album.