What really bothers me about comedians like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert is not that they are left-wing ideologues, but that they pretend to be politically neutral outsiders.
If a state of affairs is necessary, then the proposition which states that the state of affairs holds will be necessary; and conversely, if a proposition is necessary, then the state of affairs which it states to be the case is necessary. Necessity de re entails necessity de dicto, and conversely.
-Richard Swinburne, The Coherence of Theism, p. 235