Former Ohio secretary of state Ken Blackwell was on the Daily Show last night to pimp his new book, The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency . It was one of those interviews that runs way longer than the allotted time on air as Jon Stewart grilled Blackwell for quite some time as Blackwell fell back on generalizations and cliches and generally came off… how do you say it?… not good. The first part is embedded below, the others after the jump.

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Parts 2 and 3 after the jump.

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Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.