Evening Update: SunSpace reader Jigme pointed me to a new WTOP interview with Hume from earlier this evening. The newsman doesn’t seem to slag Buddhism as he did in his first controversial statement, but he does “ramp up his pitch of the superiority of Christianity,” as USA Today puts it.

Hume also argues that it’s his Christian faith that has left him open to attack from those who misunderstand him: “Suppose I’d said that what Tiger needed to do was to deepen his practice of the Buddhist faith. You think we’d be discussing this today?”

Here’s a link to the audio. (Opens in new window.) Also, for those wondering what The Daily Show had to say in Tuesday night’s 11pm show:

The Daily Show pretty much led off with the Hume story. Correspondent Aasif Mandvi (a seemingly out-of-nowhere great) expressed sympathy for Hume, saying that he felt bad that Hume received negative messages in response to his comments via, as Mandvi described it, “the Internet — where, as far as I know, only nice things are said.” Mandvi, identifying himself as a practitioner of Islam, went on in his mock sympathy: “I forgot how hard it is to be Christian — because it’s so easy to be Muslim.”

That statement was then followed by a montage of clips of FOX News hosts and talking heads mocking Indians, suggesting that all young Muslim men should be strip-searched (at airports, one presumes), and generally, as Mandvi put it, “shitting on Hindus.”

As for The Colbert Report: Stephen Colbert’s go-to Buddhist, Lama Surya Das, did not appear (as I’d imagined he’d would). In fact, no mention of the Hume controversy took place. Instead, Colbert focused the bulk of his show on a post-Christmas-plane-bombing-attempt segment called “Nightmare of Terror: The Crapification of the American Pantscape.”

Great title, Stephen. But no coverage? What gives? A fella could use all the laughs he can get.