After spending what seemed like hours flailing around my room over missing Sam Rockwell's appearance on Stella, I settled down to watch The Daily Show. Right off the bat, Jon Stewart addresses the disapproval of many fans over the new studio. He still stands by the show's new home despite complaints of it looking too futuristic because, due to the move, he's been elevated from fake anchor and is now starship commander. I'm still not quite sure how I feel about this new studio but I know I like the old place better. Perhaps it's because I'm not quite ready to let go of the couch. What do you all think?

Back in 2003, a CIA operative's name was leaked to the public and an investigation was soon put into process. That same year, President Bush promised the fire anyone found to be guilty of leaking the name (which appeared in a Robert Novak column). Two years later, the administration is still under fire for this situation. Currently, Bush and his party are refusing to answer questions about whether or not senior advisor Karl Rove was involved (according to Time's Matt Cooper, Rove told him on "double super secret background" that the woman "apparently works" for the CIA). White House Press Secretary, Scot McClellan, was grilled by reporters during a recent briefing, refusing to comment or speaking in an extremely roundabout way. Stewart seems surprised by the persistence of the reporters and then leans in to say, "We've secretly replaced the White House press corps with actual reporters..."

For more information, Stewart turns to Senior Journalistologist, Stephen Colbert. So what exactly is "double super secret background". Colbert says it's simply jargon but "it's just like regular background but with no tagbacks, frontsies or backsies, taken to infinity plus one on Opposite Day, circle circle dot dot, now you've got a cootie shot." It all seems so clear now! Okay then, what kind of punishment will there be on Rove if he is found guilty? Colbert believes there isn't going to be punishment but instead a reward for Rove. If Bush follows in his trend of rewarding those that've screwed up in his administration, Rove is probably going to be the new Chief Justice.

Tonight's guest is Matt Taibbi, author of Spanking the Donkey: Dispatches from the Dumb Season. Did I mention that I miss the couch? Anyway, Taibbi's book is all about the 2004 election. One of his stories is about how he followed Kerry around in a gorilla suit (wearing press tags, of course). Kerry finally asked him about the costume but all Taibbi did was ask, "What costume?", to which Kerry replied, "Rii-iight..." in a joking manner. Taibbi said it was cool considering what a dufus Kerry usually was (this gets a lot of Ohh's from the audience, of course). He also went undercover at a Republican get-together in Orlando (this time sans costume). He worked for the Bush campaign for two months there and although he was worried he'd have to pretend too much to pass off as a true Bush fan, he realized that all he had to do was bash liberals and Democrats and all was good. One of his examples: "Man, those liberals, they'll snort cocaine right off your Bible, man". He then describes campaign dynamics as high school, almost in a Heathers or Mean Girls manner. All the big news sources sit in the front of the bus, of course, while the lesser-known ones sit in the back with the techies. He had to find this out the hard way because, for a while, he sat towards the front but one day said something deemed inappropriate to another reporter and was soon after moved to the back. So was Taibbi surprised by the outcome of the elections? Not at all. He had his money on Bush all along because Kerry was too wooden. Stewart replies with a sarcastic thanks.

Bernard Goldberg is tomorrow's guest. And now, your Moment of Zen: Scott McClellan awkwardly trying to avoid questions from the unusually persistent press.