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ten-- sentenced uttered every four years. our top story tonight is in a mark es, eye watch. the iowa straw poll which is the subject of indecision 2012, corn poll edition. the iowa straw poll is, of course, the early august to the very predictive precursor to january's wildly nonpredictive iowa caucus. (laughter) the idea is presidential candidates set up tents. in those tents the candidate offers to pay an individual $30 straw poll entrance fee. in return, the individual promises to cast their vote for said candidate all while both parties pretend this corrupt transaction in no way ...

under believable. you have randy travis, i can't believe you gave randy travis second billing to chairs. we got chairs and randy travis. (laughter) so the pimped out tent-bidding stands at chairs, petting zoo and randy travis. who can top it. >> i will say that tim pawlenty has mike huckabee performing in a straw poll concert. (laughter) >> jon: so nobody. (laughter) >> jon: nobody's got anything else. look, huck a kbee, music from huckabee but it's not a great sign for you when your musical entertainment could probably do better than you in the straw poll in iowa. (laughter) >> jon:...

( cartoon music plays ) >> who's that neighbor? >> uh, i'm your neighbor, but let me ask you a couple questions. >> go ahead, shoot. >> ask away. >> who lives in this here hole? >> what hole? >> that big brown hole. >> oh, i'm inside that hole. >> got some rangers in there, too. >> all right, well ...0?8' >> august 11th, 2011, from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with jon stewart. (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central welcome to the daily show, my name is jon stewart. we have a show for you tonight. our guest tonigh...

>> this week "the communicators" begins a four-part series on u.s. cybersecurity. white house cybersecurity coordinator howard schmidt is interviewed about the obama administration's efforts to protect the u.s. against cyber attacks. >> host: well, this is week one in "the communicators" four-week series on cybersecurity, cyber threats and legislative proposals to address those cyber threats. we're pleased to be joined on our first week by howard schmidt, assistant to the president, and also white house cybersecurity coordinator. be guest reporter from the "wall street journal." mr. ...

but it was very cathartic in that way. i mean it was really powerful. i mean, personally i am the proudest of this of anything i've written. and i set out with that in mind. even though these are not fiction stories, i said you know, the nunn in my head said, this is literature. .. >> a lot of times authors have to drag them out of the barn, but with me, they've got to try to cool my jets because i want to get out there, and i want to talk to people, and i want to share this with people of the country i live in. >> here comes trouble, out in fall 2011. >> thank you. >> up next on boo...