I was watching the Daily Show tonight, as is my habit, and as usual, it offered an amusing and thought-provoking insight, this time into the CBS memo-gate scandal.

Jon Stewart's riff on it wasn't great, but Stephen Colbert's piece was terrific -- a not-so-thinly-veiled linkage between the Bush Administration's myopic zeal in going to war in Iraq vs. 60 Minutes II going to air with the Texas Air National Guard-shirking story.

Here's an excerpt:

Jon Stewart: "But Stephen, to CBS's credit, they did admit that not authenticating the evidence presented in their report was a mistake."

Stephen Colbert: "Yes, that was their second-biggest mistake."

Stewart: "What was the first?"

Colbert: "Presenting evidence! You see Jon, evidence can be checked. That's the "old" news paradigm. CBS stated in its report that the president was derelict in his duty. Cable news knows all you simply need to raise the question: "*Was* President Bush derelict in his duty?" You see, you don't need the right facts when you have the right ... in-flek-shun."

For example: "Does Jon Stewart orally pleasure Teamsters for pocket change?" Colbert asked archly.

"Uhhh, no," said Stewart, shaking his head.

"Well I've got a panel of eight guys who say they think you do," Colbert said, adding, "We'll talk about it for eight weeks and let the public decide."

They've posted the clip on the Daily Show site. It's called See B.S. You can see it here.