Wallace referenced The Daily Show's coverage of Sarah Palin's bus tour of America, calling it political commentary. Stewart denied this, calling Wallace "insane." Wallace decided to go another route, then, telling Stewart, "I think you want to be a political player."
"You're dead wrong," Stewart retorted.
Stewart then proceeded to explain that the newsmedia has become lazy, especially in regard to reading Sarah Palin's recently released email correspondences: "I think their bias is towards sensationalism and laziness. I wouldn't say it's toward the liberal agenda. If your suggestion is that they're restlessly partisan, then why haven't they gone and backed away from [scandalized Congressman Anthony] Weiner? They jumped into the Weiner pool with such delight and relish, because the bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness."
"The embarrassment," Stewart noticed, "is that I'm given credibility in this world because of the disappointment that the public has in what the news media does."
Wallace stated that he thought Fox News gave viewers "the other side of the story."
"Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers?" Stewart replied. "The most consistently misinformed? Fox viewers, consistently, every poll."
Game, set, match. I can't wait to see Stewart's follow-up to this on tonight's Daily Show.
Stewart went on to point out how Fox News was directly responsible for some of that.
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