In his new (and most likely only) memoir, “Decidin’ Points,” George W. Bush claims that the worst part of his presidency was when Kanye West said that he didn’t like black people.

As he told Matt Lauer in an interview: Not true. Ray Charles. Good man. Saw the movie too. Barry Bonds. Liked him. Even had his poster on my bedroom wall…at the White House. Oh, and “Benson.” Funny show. Yeah, I liked Benson. Some Moe’s Town too. So clearly I like black people.

So maybe he’s not a complete racist, but he does belong to a political party that loves to divide people by their race. Whether it’s Willie Horton, legal Mexican immigrants or Barack Obama, the Republicans would have you believe that people of color are not real Americans.

But still, Kanye West’s opinion was the worst thing to happen to him as president? Not 9/11? Not invading Iraq? Not having to have the Supreme Court elect him? Anthrax showing up all over the place? His handling of the aftermath from Hurricane Katrina? The Great Recession?

Wow, if Kanye hurt Bush that badly imagine how Taylor Swift must feel?

Still, wasn’t Michael Moore’s Oscar acceptance speech a worse indictment than Kanye’s? Way more people watched the Academy Awards than the Katrina fundraiser show. Hell, it was on a Friday! Only senior citizen shut ins saw it and they had no idea who the scary black guy was anyway.

Just for comparison’s sake, here’s an excerpt from Moore’s speech:

“We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious President.

We — We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

Whether it’s the fictition of duct tape or the fictitious [sic] of orange alerts, we are against this war, Mr. Bush.

Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you.”

Oh, and by the way, you do hate black people.

Before America got corporated on Tuesday, Jon Stewart decided to use the occasion of the soon-to-be Democratic blood bath to audition for Jay Leno’s job. How else to explain the banal and utterly contemptuous Jon Stewart Rally to Restore Sanity?

Stewart, as shrewd a media critic as there is working on basic cable, treated and tricked his left-leaning audience into believing that they were behaving as badly as the FOCS News crew. If only the left and right could get along? But how? How? The only solution: a lame rally in Washington 4 days before the howling banshees of greed took back their country.

Self-aggrandizing doesn’t begin to explain Stewart’s motive, unless you read the transcript from his closing remarks. He would have us believe that the Keith Olbermann is the equivalent of anybody on Fox. He would have us believe that MoveOn.org is the same as the Tea Baggers. Question: how many tea bag heads got stomped on during the buildup to the election? Answer: None, though, it may appear that many of them suffer from head wounds.

I know that host of the “Tonight Show” is the most coveted job that every comedian who has ever made a less than clever observation wet dreams about. Hell, I bet even Louie Anderson reminds NBC every week that he’s available under any circumstance. But Stewart probably heads a short list of possible successors anyway. He didn’t need to grovel the way he did at his Rally. He came dangerously close to reading small town news.

So where does he go from here? I mean, if NBC doesn’t offer him something (a right of first refusal) does he continue to water down “The Daily Show” by featuring even less of his correspondents? Does he ease up on Beck? Does he go “Jon Walking?”

With Conan starting on TBS next week, I’m not sure I’m going to stick around to see what Stewart does. He played nice with the sick bastards who want to give us voodoo Econ 101 one more try. Hell, maybe I’ll go back to reading books. Thanks, Jon.