Jon Stewart on Monday night parsed Dick Cheney’s “Meet the Press” appearance to determine whether the former vice president was either a “righteous warrior or a psychopath.”
Cheney had told “Meet The Press” host Chuck Todd that he considers the 9/11 attacks, not waterboarding, to be torture.
“Dick Cheney, setting this nation’s moral bar at anything incrementally better than the most despicable thing that’s even been done to us,” Stewart said.
And the more Todd pressed Cheney to pin down a definition of torture, the more the former vice president invoked the details of the 9/11 attacks.
“I see, that’s just what meets the definition of torture in his mind,” Stewart said. “His mind, I assume, being the scariest f**king place in the universe.”
“George W. Bush, thank you for not dying in office,” Stewart concluded.
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