Jon Stewart Tells President Obama: "It's Chow Time."

Stewart to Obama: It's time to chow down.

Last night the funny man with the fake news program was on a roll on the subject of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. In typical Daily Show fashion, he showed clips of past and recent statements on the subject, which are highly contradictory (and really poorly phrased of late).

He also managed to go off on a cruise ship buffet-themed rant about the fact that if you never actually start dealing with something, odds are you're never going to get around to dealing with it. In two minutes time, he manages to sum up the entire gay rights movement's problem with President Obama: we're just not a priority.

Now as tasty as that entire segment was, I felt a little teased as he got down to his guest, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus. Stewart spent an awful lot of time fawning over Mabus and skipped bigger questions in an effort to allow the Secretary to praise the sailors — who deserve every word of praise they get, mind you.

But rather than continuing his takedown of DADT, Stewart took painstaking effort to draw out the differences in say, allowing women to serve on submarines (which is a simple Naval policy decision that Mabus is already changing) compared to allowing gays to serve. There Mabus' hands are supposedly tied, since DADT is a law that Congress has to change.

Allowing the Secretary of the Navy to get away with "if the order comes down from Congress, we'll salute and comply" was a bit easy — from a uniformed officer, that's a valid answer. From Mabus in his new role as navy Secretary, it's disappointing.

Don't get me wrong — Stewart may be one of the greatest allies our community has, and the only reason I feel let down is because he dropped off at the end and failed to live up to the high standards that he set for himself. What did you think?