Quote of the day: A veteran political reporter says it's less grim covering environmental rape and pillage than the U.S. House of Representatives

The subject of rampant criminality didn't even come up when Jon Stewart talked to Wasington Post national correspondent Juliet Eilperin on last night's Daily Show about her new book, Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the House of Representatives.

Here's how Jon wound up the interview:

JON STEWART: You, covering this for 12 years—corrosive to the soul?

JULIET EILPERIN: Yes, and in fact I became so depressed doing it, I focused more on the environment, things like whaling in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands that you did earlier.

JON STEWART: So you chose to focus on the raping and pillaging of the environment rather than cover politics because . . .

JULIET EILPERIN: I find it less depressing.