Since I already mentioned Moore, I apologize for bringing him up again. You could accuse me of using a strawman if he weren't so popular.

The Daily Show, as wonderful as it is, has been guilty of some cheap shots recently. Cheap shots are typical of the best commentators on both sides of the spectrum, but this is different. This is my show.

I know that it's not supposed to be a bastion of fairness, but for me — don't laugh — The Daily Show has always been moderate.

Not its correspondents or host, of course. Stephen Colbert told Nadar he was a Democrat earlier this week (in an expression of bemused frustration) and Jon Stewart's anti-war stance is clear enough at this point. He can't be blamed for using this exceptionally bully pulpit.

The show itself, though, has always been moderate, wishy-washy, and cynical. Jon Stewart's recent bipartisan smackdown of Bush and Clinton made for one of the best episodes I've seen. Excerpts from it were rightfully aired during his Larry King interview.

In fact, except in some of his more politically charged interviews, Stewart does a superb job of keeping the show focused on the funny and not some "message".

(We get a message anyways, after all. The art that conceals itself, and all that.)

Still, the show has become more biased. I don't watch The Daily Show at school (which is a shame) so I hadn't realized how the war had polarized it. Even if the commentators have their prejudices, their segments shouldn't have clearly partisan goals.

Samantha Bee — one of the newer, hit-or-miss correspondents — went over the line in one recent piece.

I think I already said I was going to bring up Moore again, so here it is.

The subject, to my surprise, was Michael Moore Hates America, a low-budget documentary by an amateur filmmaker that I been looking forward to for some time. Several high-profile (though mostly right-leaning) pundits have already filmed appearances.

Bee followed the director (whose name I won't bother to look up, sorry) as he clumsily attempted to ambush Moore with his own tricks. As a natural extension of his refusal to give interviews to hostile reporters, Moore has refused to be appear in a movie by a hostile director.

Through the course of the segment, Bee managed to make the would-be director look inarticulate and disorganized. Which he very well might be. Moore, who appeared in the skit (it ended with him and Bee ditching the director for a private lunch), came off as some sort of roguish hero.

(That's more troubling, but not surprising. Moore's first film, Roger And Me, is about another such hero.)

The big issue here is not that Samantha Bee airbrushed Moore's hypocrisy (it mocked the notion that he was "notoriously camera-shy" and glossed over why Moore is, in this case, camera-shy), it's that Moore and the 800-pound comedic gorilla that is The Daily Show have combined to discredit an earnest young filmmaker who had to raise money to fly to New York.

It's bullying, and it's bullying with too obvious of bias for my taste. If a show I rely on for a balanced albeit cynical take on the news is going to pander to the likes of Moore… well, I'm not going to stop watching the show.

But unless things turn around, that leaves me with nowhere to go.