making it up as he goes along

Lightning knocked out the receiver for the satellite box for the television last week, so i've not seen the Daily Show (or Colbert Report) since then. Once again, they dug up an old story that is painfully relevant to current news. Why is it that comedy writers are being better journalists than "journalists" like that senile, petulant, supercilious hack David Broder?

Cheney claimed executive privilege back in 2001 for his precious Energy Task Force papers.