After my long, hand-wringing post about Susan Sontag's homosexuality and my feelings about outing, Jon Stewart had a hilarious joke last night on the Daily Show that cut to the heart of the matter, referencing Sontag's lesbianism and slamming the mainstream press for being less than honest in writing about it.

The focus of his joke, however, was really something entirely different. Stewart was commenting on Newsweek's recent decision to run a hard news cover story on three out of their four localized national editions, but run a soft piece on celebrity photographer Annie Liebovitz as their cover story for the U.S. edition. Stewart ridicules the magazine for not only shielding the U.S. from real news, but for also trying to obfuscate the nature of the Liebovitz's long term relationship by describing Sontag as "the person she was closest to" for a decade and a half.

Jon continued, "They just have a lot of common interests....photography, literature...each others' vaginas." You can watch the whole clip after watching a short ad.