Pick a pundit to pummel!

This article from the L.A. Weekly is very schizophrenic -- it can't decide if it wants to be a pro-Dennis-Miller fluff piece or a vicious anti-Daily-Show attack editorial. We get strange shifts, almost like an editor went in after the fact and rewrote the second half of the article. This is why you get sentences like these:

Ably abetted by the analyses and reports of hilariously self-important correspondents like Stephen Colbert, Stewart has managed to turn the traditional news show on its head while delivering a bracingly strong shot of Onion-esque alternative news at the same time. And he's done it with such elegance and panache as to make his rivals — Bill Maher, Colin Quinn and now [Dennis] Miller — look like inebriated peasants trying out a few dance moves while standing next to Fred Astaire.

...which are then followed by paragraphs like these:

When satirizing the media, The Daily Show is brilliant, but when it comes to Osama bin Laden et al., Stewart just can't wrap his head around the idea of an enemy, particularly a Third World one. Simply thinking about it makes him queasy, uncomfortable, and challenges his most deeply held belief, which is that it's unseemly to get ticked off at anyone who isn't rich, Caucasian and, hopefully, Republican. The municipal authorities of his own city may be working around the clock to prepare for the possibility of a nuclear attack, but Stewart can't find it in his heart to resent the people who make those preparations necessary. Deep down, he'd prefer to think it's all Dick Cheney's fault: If we hadn't invaded Iraq, 9/11 would never have happened.

This last paragraph must have been written by a partisan hack who's never seen the Daily Show. Jon Stewart reserves his nastiest curse words for Osama and Saddam, and lets them fly whenever he can. As a regular, faithful viewer, I don't see Stewart exclusively attacking "rich Caucasians" -- he'll attack anyone who'll get a laugh. As it should be.

As for partisan hacks, tune in to the Daily Show tonight to see Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee!

P.S. My feelings about Mr. Miller can be found here.