Why is Jon Stewart the Most Articulate One Out There?

Earlier this week I posted a link to video of Jon Stewart taking on Chickenhawk Christopher Hitchens, but Salon.com's war room has exactly why I'm a little gay for Jon Stewart after that:

Hitchens defended the war by citing Saddam Hussein's violations of U.N. rules, the danger posed by his unstable regime and his ties to al-Qaida. But Stewart was having none of it. He responded nimbly, asking why the U.S. invaded Iraq when numerous other countries in the Middle East had closer ties to terrorism and more highly developed weapons of mass destruction.

Stewart defended liberals who oppose the war -- "They believe that this war is being conducted without transparency, without credibility and without competence" -- and slammed Bush for stoking liberal distrust: "He refuses to answer questions from adults as though we were adults, and falls back on platitudes and phrases and talking points, [which] does a disservice to the goals that he himself shares with the very people he needs to convince."

Exactly. So sad that Democratic 'leaders' can't (or, probably, won't) say exactly this...