Opinion - Losing it

Tuesday's and wednesday's Daily Shows featured two superstar senators: Barack Obama and John McCain.

Both guests had pre-prepared quips, gave several joke answers; McCain talked over Jon a couple of times and played directly to the audience. Normally Jon doesn't mind his fake news authority undermined, and in Obama's case, he laughed along with the crowd - McCain wasn't so lucky though. Yesterday's lead story was Cheney lobbying senators to exempt the CIA from a ban on torture, and understandably, Jon was already seething - McCain's clowning didn't go down well. Later in the interview, Jon also got tetchy after McCain gave him a stock answer about Iraq.

So my thought is: has Jon began to lose his power? Are his methods and sphere of influence too well-known and understood (much like Sasha Baron Cohen's in the UK) for him to get effective interviews? It seems that the politicians are close to learning how to handle him while scoring points with the "stoned slackers". If this has really happened, clearly the onus is on Jon to adapt in turn; I hope that this is within his grasp.