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NEW YORK -- Jon Stewart was physically aroused by the prospect of dumping AT&T and getting an iPhone through Verizon Wireless.
On Comedy Central's The Daily Show With Jon Stewart last Tuesday, he said Verizon Wireless' iPhone announcement put a "spring in my step, a certain twinkle in ... Let's go with my pants."
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
"Freedom!" Stewart bellowed, to audience cheers.
Was it a genuine cri de coeur? Or a spoof of the obsessive media attention leading up to the launch?
Whatever it was, Daily Show British correspondent John Oliver was close to being gang-tackled by security at the Verizon press conference in executing …