The Human Stain

Jon Stewart is ratcheting up the anti-Robert-Novak rhetoric. (For the uninformed, Robert Novak was the first journalist to report that Valerie Plame was an undercover CIA agent, thereby blowing her cover. Presumably, Novak got the tip from someone in the executive branch.)

Here's the progression of insults on the Daily Show:

March 29, 2004: Stewart first refers to Robert Novak as "a douchebag... for liberty."
August 10, 2004: Stewart uses the phrase "a douchebag for liberty" once more in reference to Novak.
August 11, 2004: A slight variation: Novak is now "a douchebag for freedom", and an on-screen graphic shows Novak in a blue evening gown.
August 12, 2004: Novak is now a "human stain".

I hope Stewart will eventually cut to the chase and call Novak what he is: a motherfucking, traitorous rectal wart.