A reader wrote that he was listening to Craig Kilborn on the radio in Detroit. Craig Kilborn? Original host of The Daily Show, then a CBS late-night guy. He’s now about to have another show — which is why he was on the radio. He was doing some promotion.

Anyway, Kilborn talked a little about WFB. He said, “At an early age I used to smoke a pipe and watch Firing Line with my dad. And I always thought that Bill Buckley — I don’t know if you guys remember Bill Buckley, William F. Buckley Jr.” He was addressing his hosts. “One of the great political pundits, and he was this conservative guy but very intellectual.”

How do you like that “but”? Kilborn continued, “He painted and he drank and he sailed and he was just this eccentric character. And I always thought this guy was great. But at an early age I just thought that politics divides people.”

Don’t it ever. Kilborn went on to say, “So my show is going to be a non-partisan, non-political — maybe a no-politics zone.”

Sounds good to me. And a departure from his previous shtick. In 2000, Kilborn showed George W. Bush giving his acceptance speech at the Republican convention. And he put these words on the screen: “SNIPERS WANTED.” You can rest assured of this: He will not be doing that with Barack Obama. Because if he did . . .

Holy Moses. With Bush, anything went. With Obama . . . fewer things go. Many fewer.