Last night, Jon Stewart compared the media chase for Paris Hilton's police car to the chaotic Black Nazarene feast in Quiapo, Manila. Not in a bad way really, but the Daily Show host (who is Jewish) mistakenly thought the centuries-old icon that came from Mexico was an image of the Virgin Mary. Stewart was wondering why journalists were in such a frenzy and recalled that the last time he saw a chase like that was in the Philippines, where people go in a mad scramble to get to the Nazarene. And then he said that either US culture was crippled irreparably or Paris Hilton was a "virgin to be worshipped." At least, the Philippines has risen above Imelda's shoes.
