On Sunday, NBC’s Meet the Press discussed liberal comedian Jon Stewart’s announcement that he will be departing the Daily Show after 17 years.

During the program’s panel discussion, Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker eagerly championed Stewart and insisted that he has been successful because “liberals put funny first. And I think conservatives put politics first.”

The segment began with moderator Chuck Todd playing up how “liberals are just in mourning…after losing Stewart” before noting that “political satire dominated by liberals right now… Liberals can't succeed on radio and conservatives aren't succeeding in political satire.”

The discussion then shifted to the larger topic of why conservatives succeed on talk radio whereas liberals do better with political satire which David Axelrod argued “satire goes to, I think, kind of, a more elite audience.”

Axelrod then went into spin mode and insisted that Stewart “fundamentally what he had was authenticity. He went after -- wherever he could find it, including the news media” without admitting that his comedy has a clear liberal partisan agenda.

As the segment progressed, Todd wondered if Stewart’s replacement should be a woman to which the “conservative” Kathleen Parker offered her own take on what qualities the next Daily Show host should have:

I have to say I hope it’s just somebody who is really funny. And that's why they succeed is because liberals put funny first. And I think conservatives put politics first.

Despite calling herself as a conservative, Parker frequently sounds more like a liberal and her latest defense of Stewart adds to a growing list of comments that question her self-described conservative leanings.

In August of 2013, Parker wrote in the Washington Post that Hillary Clinton could literally “save the world” and how “there’s no one better suited to sort of lead that movement symbolically and as leader of the free world than Hillary Clinton.” In April of 2010, Parker admitted to winning the Pulitzer Prize for “bashing conservatives” despite claiming to be “slightly right of center.”

See relevant transcript below.