Last night, Jon Stewart invited his age-old rival Bill O’Reilly onto The Daily Show to demonstrate how even ideological adversaries can disagree with respect and civility. There are (at least) five female staffers from Fox News who could use O'Reilly’s depositions as counterpoints.

Throughout his ongoing gig as the Monday night host of The Daily Show, Stewart has made a point to distinguish the current political division in America from the left-versus-right dynamics of his heyday back in the 2000s, when decorum and democracy itself were both held in higher regard by both sides of the aisle. Any longtime Daily Show fan would probably prefer to live in a political landscape where Sarah Palin’s disastrous interviews were the most scandalous stories of the election cycle, and, even at its most acrimonious, the battle for the White House was underscored by a mutual respect and a dedication to the preservation of democratic values.