“Whether or not they were the butt of all of Stewart's jokes seemed irrelevant to them. The point was that the high priest of political comedy spent a lot of time thinking about them.”

Being a Christian, I was hurt by that generalization. I watch what I watch because I find it entertaining not because I have a strong desire to hear someone talk about what he thinks of a group that I identify with. Most of the time, when people do criticize certain Christians I agree with them, but I do not believe that those that they critique are really representative of me or many of my Christian friends. I also grew up listening to Christian “pop” culture i.e. Focus on the Family sponsored media. Their normal knee-jerk reaction to anything that paints them in a disagreeable light or anything they disagree with is to boycott and picket, not sit down and watch. Keeping my experience as a Christian in mind, I don’t understand where you’re drawing these assertions from. After that part, I agree with the overall inability of Christian pop culture to really compete with Secular pop culture.