Thursday, August 16, 2007
Jon Stewart: Journalist
This video shows Dick Cheney in 1994 stating that going into Baghdad to take out Saddam Hussein would be a terrible thing. The country would likely fracture and there would be chaos. The story has received much play over the past several days, showing how much of a difference a decade makes.
Last night Jon Stewart had on Steven Hayes, the biographer of Cheney, and he asked him to address the issue. Hayes started in with the 9/11 changes everything spiel, but Stewart cut him off. 9/11 did not change the fact that Iraq would be tough to put back together again after Saddam was deposed. Hayes argued that 9/11 did change things, and we had to go in because of WMD no matter what the risk.
This is why Stewart is an excellent journalist. He got to the meat of the subject. Even if "we had" to go in to Iraq, no matter how difficult, that is not what Cheney was saying. He was saying we would be greeted as liberators. The administration was saying it would be cheap, easy, there would be flowers thrown at us. Cheney knew very well that wasn't true.
Even if you give the benefit of the doubt on if the administration believed there were WMDs, but they couldn't prove them, there is no doubt that Cheney lied to the American people about how easy an operation deposing Saddam would be for our country to achieve.
Stewart tells jokes, he is funny, but he has a way of cutting away the extraneous crap and getting to the heart of the matter. Cheney lied.
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Friday, August 10, 2007
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Daily Show: Top Excuses For Offering To Blow An Undercover Cop
Jon Stewart and John Olliver had much fun last night with the audio tape of Florida legislator (and McCain Florida Presidential campaign co-chair) Bob Allen making excuses for soliciting a police officer and offering to pay the man $20 to give out oral favors. The police officer reported that Allen entered his stall, and solicited him for sex. Allen's version was that the park was filled with scary black people, and he was just teasing about wanting to blow the guy.
John Olliver comes up with a list of better excuses. Enjoy.
Saturday, August 04, 2007
You Don't Know Dick! Dick Cheney's Secret Box
The Daily Show has run a hysterical series on the secret life of the man we call Dick. Earlier they revealed that Cheney turns light into dark, the man sized safe in his office, how he blots himself out from Google Earth searches. This time, Dick Cheney fantasizes about a magical silver box.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
You Don't Know Dick: Part 2
In Today's exploration of the secrets behind the secretive Dick who is our Vice-President, Jon Stewart examines the Google Earth pixilation effect. The White House is clear as a spring day, but the Vice President's mansion is pixilated in the picture on Google Earth. We americans may need to be wiretapped, our email's read, our mail read, but Dick Cheney deserves the right to privacy.
Jon Stewart helpfully pointed out that mapquest provides a map to Dick's residence. If you are in the area, follow the law, wave a sign. You might even want to yell "Hey, You Dick!" or "Hey you, Dick!" depending on your point of view.
I repeat. Obey the law. Dick might send you to Electroscrotumstan even if you do follow all local ordinances. Freedom just isn't free anymore.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Ana Marie Cox at Swampland points to how dreadful the material is in the new 30 minute Daily Show clone that starts airing this week-end on Fox. Let me set up the clip for you. Rush Limbaugh is the President of the United States in 2009 and he is addressing the American People.
They use a freaking canned laugh track. Listen for it folks. It's not even a very good job technically. Perhaps there was no studio audience, or they didn't react in a proper way, but some engineering "wizard" really did a bad job of mixing the audience "appreciation" for Rush's talents piss poorly.
That being said, here is the fresh new video from the geniuses at Fox.
