"The Daily Show" Feels Queer and Loathing In D.C.

We marched on D.C. to taunt leprechauns.

When it came to Jon Stewart's coverage of the D.C. March, I admit that the bar had been set incredibly high in my head. Sunday, while watching the National Equality March, a friend had tweeted that The Daily Show had a film crew in the crowd.

I had harassed the boss for two days about getting footage from our most effective straight ally, and was gleeful in anticipation of what Jon Stewart's wit would do for our cause when combined with us showing up in force.

So it was probably inevitable that I was a little disappointed in what I saw on last night's Daily Show. It's not that it wasn't the best coverage we got. Heck, in raw minutes it even beat Fox News' coverage of the President Obama song protest. The problem with Stewart's coverage is that he took our protest, and largely used it as a platform for his own protest - of Fox News.

I'm all for pointing out hypocrisy. And I'm all for sniping at Fox News. But after a minute of getting off snappy one liners about that largest gathering of gay rights activists in a decade, the segment devolved into pointing out that Fox couldn't be bothered to look out the window of their Washington bureau to cover the protest, but they'd launch a new satellite to mock President Obama. And that diminished the supposed subject matter.

Actually, I think this weekend was exactly what setting off a gay bomb in D.C. would look like.

So - were my expectations just too high, or did we get hijacked?

The second piece, with correspondent John Oliver was at least focused on the subject matter, where he spoke to person after person, trying to expose the "radical gay agenda" thereby mocking the idea that we want to destroy America.

Try as he might, the poor guy had a heck of a time asking leading questions to get people at the march to go along with the idea homosexuals were armed militants wanting to set off a "gay bomb" in the middle of D.C. It just seemed he had started with the joke, and set out to get footage to set up the joke, instead of the other way around.