As Molly Ivins considered the ideological coup d'etat, this article traces "how neoconservatives conquered Washington -- and launched a war." And here is a article on Jon Stewart's Daily Show, also from Salon.com, which touches on political humor; "Political humor used to belong to the left, but that all changed in the 1990s, when the priggishness of political correctitude injected new vitality into a segment of the population that had been shut out of comedy's pantheon:"