Jon Stewart was sickened and nearly speechless Tuesday night over the details of the newly released Senate torture report.
“The Daily Show” host followed Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) as she ran down the harsh techniques CIA officers used to interrogate detainees after the 9/11 attacks, but it was the rectal feeding that prompted Stewart to cut to a clip of Mr. Creosote projectile vomiting in Monty Python’s “The Meaning Of Life.”
“It’s funny, I just made this movie about a guy who triumphs over the inhuman conditions in his imprisonment in an authoritarian country, and I don’t think they did half that shit to him,” Stewart said about his new film “Rosewater.”
Stewart also took former President George W. Bush to task for declaring that his government “does not torture people,” even after the CIA told him about its harsh interrogation methods.
“If that famed painter of cats and feet says we didn’t torture, who are we to disagree?” he asked.
Watch below via Comedy Central:
Bbbbbbbuttt…We have already jailed people over the use of torture…uhhhhh…OK OK…We jailed ONE PERSON and…uhhhh…He was the ONE frickin’ person who tried to do the right thing and expose it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4uWTg-HEtYOne of the great tragedies here is that no one will be held accountable, face justice and go to jail. The Bush Torture Cabal during Shrub’s Reign of Terror will go along scott free and denying it all and face no consequences, while the Republican Media Cesspool and Rightie Propaganda Network, aka FOX News, will cheer for the torturers and their bosses and shout: “We’re awesome! USA…USA…USA…”, and their sheeple low/no info watchers will cheer… and the one person who actually tried to blow the whistle on the depraved mess goes to jail. “Murrikan’ Es-septualism’! We’re AWESOME…Torture’s AWESOME…We’re No # 1…We’re No # 1…” The Rightie Loons believe if we just don’t talk about it, don’t expose it, pretend it never happened (and if it did, it’s OK if WE do it) then all’s right with the world…and all the while our most cherished ideals and goals continue to be eroded by their slavish devotion to a fantasy land America.
No shit Sherlock! (Sorry, I just had to do that!)
Soooo’ tempting, huh? And …I wouldn’t ‘shit’ ya’! (>‿◠)
Indeed – if Jon Stewart really wants to get sick, he should ponder the fact that no one will be held accountable. Pelosi took impeachment off the table abrogating her sworn duty, and Obama insisted we “move forward not back,” with the net effect of lowering the bar of accountability for all future administrations.
Which brings us to today. The Republicans are salivating at the prospect of impeaching Obama for something meaningless. They’ve held endless hearings at immense taxpayer expense over trumped up matters confirmed and reconfirmed to be trumped up matters.
But no, we can’t hold war criminals accountable, because Fox News will go ballistic. Nothing will happen in the wake of this disclosure. Absolutely nothing. Let the vomiting commence.
People will be outraged online for a few days, maybe use a clever hashtag, and then just move on.