Oh Mitt Romney. We really thought we and Jon Stewart were through with you and vice versa. Thankfully you and we are not. To be honest, it was sort of weird when we heard that Mitt Romney's "gifts" story on Wednesday—he had lost a brutal election, he had all those embarrassing stories written about how he was completely abandoned on election night, and most of all, we thought that we could finally be done with the 47 percent video. We thought he'd slink back into a good job where he could smile awkwardly, laugh weird, maybe write a book and never be a part of a Stewart segment again. And then boom—it was like a 47-percent sequel with the words "illegals" and "gifts" thrown in. Take it away Jon:
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