Did any of you see last night’s Daily Show? Jon Stewart did an amazing inteview (the link is a video clip) with Stephen Hayes, author of a new hagiography of Dick Cheney. Minutes earlier, Stewart had shown a clip of Dick Cheney saying in 1994 that overthrowing Saddam Hussein would be a mistake, because it would result in chaos. In the subsequent interview, Stewart nailed Hayes to the wall. In a terrific moment, Hayes denied that the Bush administration had ever characterized war dissenters as traitors; the audience responded with a huge groan of disbelief, as if it were collectively yelling, “Come on!”
There were other moments where Stewart voiced the anger so many of us have felt toward neocons in the past six years.
It was great, and it shows once again why I love Jon Stewart.
I’m of two minds.
I can laugh and cheer and agree with Stewart and be thrilled that he articulated what he did. That was an awesome clip: thanks for sharing. I haven’t bothered with cable for two years, but when I did have it I found that The Daily Show was one of only three programs I ever watched.
But I’m also depressed that we weren’t able to do anything about this, and the we have to deal with Bush and Cheney and their cronies for another year and a half.
Is it that our anger and righteous indignation was just not organized and concentrated enough? Shouldn’t we have been able to stop the war? Shouldn’t we have been able to defeat Bush in 2004? Did we just not do enough or did we do something wrong?
Or is it that the cards were stacked against all along, and there’s nothing that we really could have done in the first place?
Bush and Cheney will never answer for their crimes. The thousands of American soldiers killed, maimed and psychologically scarred, the tens of thousands of Iraqis killed, the counter people kidnapped, tortured, interrogated — none of these people will be avenged. That makes me feel very sad and powerless.
I have major, majorly inappropriate love for Jon Stewart. As in, I’d try to make him let me have his babies if I could ever corner him.
Things like this are one reason why.
Oh, I agree. I’ve always thought he was hot.
That was an amazing segment. I don’t understand how anyone could be that blind! How could anyone be so blissfully unaware of the way people opposed to this war have been treated by our government and by Republican activists for the last four years? We were right, they were wrong. But we’re villainized for it.
The McCain segment was great this week, too. He had people cheering. Maybe his campaign wouldn’t be in the toilet if he kept engaging with the reality-based community, rather than pandering to Pat Robertson.