I know some of you have been having trouble with Daily Show videos autoplaying in your browser windows, so I've embedded a clip after the jump. If you missed the Daily Show last night, you really should click through and watch it, because the video takes Chris Matthews to task for his bullshit, meaningless predictions about presidential politics.

I have to confess: A lot of the recent conversation about Nate Silver has made me feel a little buggy, especially those that refer to him as the future of presidential media coverage. He absolutely represents the future (hell, the present) of presidential poll analysis. Now that Silver is in doing his thing, there's no need anymore for, say, Chris Matthews or Pat Buchanan to waste minutes of their viewers' lives blathering about polls. And that's a tremendous service. But Silver's style of statistical analytics should by no means be the new face of presidential politics coverage as a whole.

The service that Silver provides should allow presidential coverage to focus more on issues, rather than chasing after polls. I understand that, in the 24-hour news cycle, a new poll is an easy media target, something to chatter inanely about for a few minutes before the next commercial break. But Silver proved that nobody has any fucking clue what they're talking about when they make predictions. And the video below proves that these predictions are totally meaningless, anyway. Is it too much to ask Matthews and the rest of his television news cohort to just stop making predictions? Now that DVRs and Nate Silver exist, they're only embarrassing themselves. Can everyone just agree to talk about what the politicians are talking about instead?

Anyway, here's the video: