I used to watch The Daily Show for the jokes. Their ratings were OK. When they made the decision to switch to skewering Fox News for the out and out nonsense they were pushing TDS ratings went up by quite a bit.

Fox's main problem is that they make it so easy to point out where they are pushing their agenda while ignoring the facts of the matter. But as long as they can keep people upset with the ones who are pointing out that they have nothing real to offer their ratings should do alright.

Rush Limbaugh had the same problem at one time. He finally started warning his aud to avoid specific web-sites since the sites spent too much time pointed out where Rush was wrong or making stuff up. Now that Fox News has started to do the same it can only mean that The Daily Show is starting to grate on them and they are scared for their ratings.