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Jon Stewart, 'Daily Show' swoon over Verizon getting the iPhone.(Brief article)

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| January 17, 2011 | COPYRIGHT 2009 Reed Business Information, Inc. (US). (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 …

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