Jon Stewart, comedian and host of Comedy Central cable show ,The Daily Show, won a prestigious Peabody Award yesterday for his coverage of the 2004 presidential election.

The George Foster Peabody Awards are given annually by the University of Georgia Journalism & Mass Communications department for excellence in the electronic media. The awards are widely respected within the TV and radio industries as recognition of high-quality journalism.

Jon Stewart has famously given comedic voice to liberal frustration over Bush Administration missteps and hypocrisies, and today's conservative political climate, both on The Daily Show and in his bestselling book, "America - a Citizen's Guide to Democratic Inaction."

Said Stewart in reaction to this honor, "All of us at 'The Daily Show' very much appreciate the Peabody Committee's recognition of our work. Because this is the first time we've ever released a statement, we'd also like to, just for the hell of it, categorically deny all charges and say that we find them both scurrilous and without merit."

Despite being a comedian, Stewart is a leading liberal political voice in the US today. Tom Goldstein, a UC Berkeley communications professor told the New York Times, "Jon Stewart is an extraordinarily important phenomenon. The truth can be told in many ways---journalistically, through satire---and he does a briliant job of expressing the truth his way."

Be sure to read my profile, Jon Stewart, Political Comedian & Healer of Liberal Psyches: Fake News Taken Seriously.