He'll say this today, but when actual drilling proposals are on the table by someone like Palin, he'll turn on her and say she's an idiot.
Stewart's as sick as Bill Maher.
I despise him for a coward and a hypocrite, as well. He regularly bashes Christians and blasphemes--but he turns into a quivering mass of terror when someone says "Mohammed."
But he has a lot of influence over a particular kind of ignorant, drug-abusing audience, the kind that would otherwise just get stoned rather than vote. Thanks to Stewart, this stoner crowd voted.