Daniel Radosh, the New Yorker contributor and blogger who exposed a cooked New York Times Magazine story and wrote a book about Christian pop culture, is jumping from real journalism to fake-journalism-that's-realer-than-real journalism by joining the Daily Show's writing staff.

Ever wonder how The Daily Show books so many guests of the conservative persuasion? Apparently it has something to do with the fact that Jon Stewart is one of the few hosts on television who's considered fair and intellectually curious.

Have you seen the videos of angry conservative activists disrupting the hell out of health care reform town hall meetings? Well, as the Daily Show points out, some of their material came from the folksy vegetables on Fox & Friends.

In his on-going quest to relentlessly shame Birther-sympathizing, race-baiting conservative talking heads, Jon Stewart introduced a hilarious new Daily Show competition segment last night called, "So You Think You Can Douche."

Jon Stewart pokes fun at politicians who don't tell it like it is and fudge the truth almost every night. Now it looks like the tables have turned. Slate's Ron Rosenbaum has penned an open letter to Stewart. And he's asking the comedian to stop living a lie:

• BusinessWeek's Jon Fine reports that New York owner Bruce Wasserstein may be in the running to break out a dollar bill and buy BusinessWeek. [BW]
• ESPN banned New York Post employees from appearing on the network yesterday after the paper ran (blurry) pics of a nude Erin Andrews. [AP]
• Will will happen with McKinsey consultants now infiltrating Condé Nast? How should you behave if you work there? Some answers and tips. [NYM, Gawker]
• Martha Stewart loves Twitter, doesn't particularly care for Facebook. [TDB]
• Kate Major, the Jon Gosselin-loving, publicity-seeking reporter for publicity-seeking Star magazine, has resigned from the junky tabloid. [Star]
• Ad revenue fell precipitously, but the New York Times Co. reported second-quarter profits of $39.1 million, up from $21.1 million a year ago. [NYT]
• Related: Is the Times Co. planning to hang on to the Boston Globe? [E&P]
• America's most trusted newscaster? That would be Jon Stewart. [Time]

Well you just knew this was coming! Jon Stewart devoted a Daily Show segment to the Birther movement and its enablers in the media last night, a segment he used to eviscerate them thoroughly and hilariously.

Remember when Lindsey Graham told Sonia Sotomayor, "unless you have a complete meltdown, you're going to be confirmed?" Well those days are gone, now that Graham has emerged as Sootmayor's chief tormentor, something that's sparked Jon Stewart's ire.

Have you been watching the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings? Us either! It's all just so damn ... boring! But the Daily Show has been watching and Jon Stewart had fun with some of the clips last night.

So Bernie Madoff was sentenced yesterday to 150 years in prison, but he's already been locked up for a few months, where, according to the Daily Show's John Oliver, he's been running another Ponzi scheme!

In your waterlogged Thursday media column: Bill Keller defends his Iran trip, Jon Stewart is cruelly eviscerated, the Weather Channel wants big ratings so it can then fail like other TV networks, and the internet reigns supreme.

Ever since we first heard that The Daily Show was sending Jason Jones to Iran to cover the election there, we've been anxious to see if they'd be able to find comedy in what was happening there. They did.

If you watch the Daily Show you've seen Jon Stewart taking some shots lately at Joe Scarborough and MSNBC's Morning Joe. Today Scarborough fired back, going so far as to say that Stewart's raging persona is "kinda like Bill O'Reilly!"

• The Boston Newspaper Guild, the Boston Globe's largest union, narrowly rejected a package of pay concessions and benefit cuts last night. [NYT]
• David Letterman is close to signing a new, 3-year contract with CBS. [THR]
• Conan O'Brien has beat Letterman in the ratings every night since his show debuted last week. But that may very well change pretty soon. [Vulture]
• Rachael Ray's talk show has been renewed for two more seasons. Alas. [THR]
• Glenn O'Brien is out as Interview's editorial director. [Daily Intel, FWD]

Remember when "Bruno" fell bare-assed into Eminem's lap at the MTV Movie Awards? Well, the fine folks over at Fox & Friends were so offended by that tasteless skit that they went outside to play football with women in lingerie!

Yesterday Barack Obama gave his speech in Cairo and the "extremists" at Fox News had plenty of dumb things to say about it, so the Daily Show collected a bunch of clips and proceeded to mercilessly lampoon them last night.

[Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com] May 25 @ 11:30amHe was with his family. A woman yelled out, "I love your show!!" One of his kids said, "What did that lady say?"

Larry King was the guest on the Daily Show last night promoting his book, My Remarkable Journey. The entire segment consisted mainly of King and Jon Stewart jostling back and forth over whether or not King is truly a degenerate or not. It was great.

Newt Gingrich was on the Daily Show last night promoting a book he wrote with his daughter, 5 Principles for a Successful Life, where he essentially called on Nancy Pelosi to resign as House Speaker.

Skinny New York mayoral wannabe Anthony Weiner is talking trash about Jon Stewart, maybe because he secretly thinks Jon had a rendezvous with his girlfriend, back in the day, hmmm???