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In his role pinch-hitting as The Daily Show anchor while Jon Stewart directs a feature film called Rosewater, John Oliver has demonstrated a candid, hilarious fury that is unmatched in its impact by Stewart's usual well-meant silliness.  People have called Stephen Colbert the heir to 1950's primetime BS-caller Edward R. Murrow, and Colbert is certainly unmatched in his own way, but after seeing Oliver in the limelight, it's hard to imagine a more urgent rebuttal to the media and political hypocrisy of our day. Last night Oliver didn't have to work hard to demonstrate the ridiculousness of…
tags: politics, NH primary, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential primaries, news coverage Past Primary campaign buttons from the collections of the NH Historical Society and the NH Political Library. Image: WBUR, Boston's NPR affiliate. I was hanging out in my local watering hole last night, watching the primary coverage for New Hampshire on television until the results were announced. While I was there, I overheard a particularly empassioned conversation between the bartender (a musician in his mid-forties) and a "regular" (a medical doctor in his mid-fifties) where they were…