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Memo to Jon Stewart on Oscar night

by Arianna Huffington

Dear Jon,

I have a sneaking suspicion you're kinda busy right now, holed up in a windowless room somewhere with a bunch of funny guys trying to figure out what will make a reputed 1 billion people laugh on Sunday.

And I can only imagine all the last-minute advice you are being given on matters small (what to wear) and big (who are we kidding: what to wear!).

So forgive me for adding to the cacophony of suggestions you're getting but I feel the need to offer my two cents on the water-cooler question of how much of your signature brand of scathing political humor you should work into your Oscar-hosting gig.

I know a lot of people are hoping you'll hit the stage of the Kodak Theater with your political guns blazing and the Bush crowd in your crosshairs but -- and it pains me to say this -- I'm hoping you proceed down that road with extreme caution.

It pains me because I'm not exactly a flashing-yellow-light kind of girl. Indeed, I've always been a big believer in putting the pedal to the metal -- especially when it comes to mercilessly ridiculing our leaders on their lies and hypocrisies.

But politics and the Oscars have a long history of going together about as well as Muslims and Danish cartoons. And I can't stand the thought of you ending up a bug on Oscar's windshield.

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