FOX News to create their own right leaning version of the "Daily Show". Oh yeah, this is going to work.

Fox News Channel might air two episodes of a "Daily Show"-like program with a decidedly nonliberal bent on Saturday nights in late January, with the possibility that it could become a weekly show for the channel. The half-hour show is executive produced by "24's" Joel Surnow and Manny Cota and creator Ned Rice, who previously wrote for "Politically Incorrect" and "Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson" through This Just In Prods. The show was pitched as "This Just In" when it first got life as a 20-minute pilot presentation for Fox Broadcasting Co.'s late-night division.

If you can't beat them join them. Nice idea in theory, a little harder to do in reality.

Although I can imagine how frustrating it must be for the folks at FOX to get hammered by the Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Bill Maher week after week this is, in the words of Tony Snow, a non-starter.

The beauty of the Daily Show, Colbert, and Maher is that they have no problem pointing out the foibles on both sides of the ideological fence. If a Democrat screws up he can expect to be lampooned on the Daily Show just like his Republican counterpart.

The idea of making a show that focuses on making right wing sympathetic comedy as counterpoint to those other shows, demonstrated that FOX does not understand how those shows work.

And the success of the Daily Show is in large part because of the incredible talent of John Stewart, and the same can be said for Colbert. Who will FOX get to anchor this new show?

There is substantial evidence to suggest that when a comic embraces the right wing ideology he loses his ability to be very funny. Remember Dennis Miller? Yeah neither does anybody else!