Can we talk about how awesome Jon Stewart was on
The Daily Show last night? First, there was the "
Even Dick Don't Know Dick" segment, which itself was genius, playing a 1994 clip (and punctuated by Stewart's pointed commentary) of Dick Cheney saying that UN forces should not have moved into Baghdad after the first Gulf War because "once you got to Iraq and took it over and took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place? … That's a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government in Iraq, you can easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off. … It's a quagmire." All really smart observations
that weren't made before we marched into Iraq this time around.
Then came the guest segment, during which he interviewed
Weekly Standard writer and author of the new book
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice Preisdent, Stephen Hayes. And this bit, you've just got to watch. (If anyone can find a transcript, please drop a link in comments. I'm sorry, deaf Shakers. I really did try to find one.)
Wow. Just fucking wow.
Also: Wow.
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