Jenรฉe Desmond-Harris
VoxTue, 16 Dec 2014 22:42 UTC
On Sunday's
Meet The Press, former Vice President Dick
Cheney stubbornly - and, many would argue, illogically - defended the controversial CIA interrogation techniques that were the subject of
a recent horrifying report. In part, he seemed to insist that they should not be labeled torture, despite the Senate Intelligence Committee's conclusions, because only the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States deserve that label.
Jon Stewart wasn't convinced. Okay, that's an understatement. The flabbergasted
Daily Show host slammed a series of clips from the Cheney interview, accusing him at one point of "setting the nation's moral bar at anything incrementally better the most despicable thing that has ever been done to us," and calling his mind "the scariest place in the [redacted] universe."
The segment wrapped up with a more upbeat message from Stewart: an expression of appreciation for the fact that Cheney never became president. "I'm going to end on a note of gratitude - something I never thought that I would say," Stewart said. "George W. Bush, thank you for not dying while you were in office."
Comment: Finally, finally, after 13 years of SOTT.net sounding like a broken record player, someone with a mainstream audience spells it out: Dick Cheney is a psychopath.
Comment: Dick Cheney is a psychopath. It is good to see one mainstream media celebrity dare to call him what he is.
That is b/c it is Jon Stewart's job to patronize and pander to us -- at least those of us who are intelligent enough to question 'mainstream news' -- and make it look like he's one of us.
(This was a difficult one to realize b/c Jon Stewart's sooooo cute and I was crushing on him for years. He'll always be eye candy to me, but alas he is controlled opposition, imo)