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Jon Stewart ended Thursday by hosting a special “government-approved” edition of “The Daily Show,” identifying himself as its “patriotically obedient host.”

From Salon

Stewart leaned heavy into irony from the start of the show, saying it is now the “all new, government-approved” version, and was introduced as the evening’s “patriotically obedient host.”

"I have been obedient all my life, but it was too much," Sister Bernadette said.

From BBC

Then he equated being enslaved to a white man to being an obedient servant of Jesus.

From Salon

"He's more obedient than a dog... If only more of these dumb ones come along," boasts a woman in a new video game that has fuelled a debate on sexism in China.

From BBC

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