So who killed Osama bin Laden? That’s what Jon Stewart asked Tuesday night, as he discussed how former top staffers in George W. Bush’s administration were saying that their old boss, and not President Obama, deserved the most credit for killing bin Laden.
Stewart said the push to credit Bush was “mind boggling,” such as an argument made by Bush’s former chief of staff, Andrew Card, that Obama has “pounded his chest” too much in celebration about bin Laden’s death.
“You can bet your sweet bippy that the guy who was President Bush’s chief of staff during his Top Gun-inspired, crotch-enhanced, aircraft carrier landing that took credit for ending a war we’re still fighting eight fucking years later isn’t gonna let Barack Obama get away with any chest thumping,” Stewart said.
“By the way, the only reason Bush didn’t literally do any chest pounding on that aircraft carrier, was that that would have released an emergency parachute that would have swept him out to sea,” Stewart added.
Enter the other former cabinet members and aides, from Donald Rumsfeld, to Dick Cheney, to Karl Rove. In media appearances after bin Laden’s death, each has offered an assessment that heaped credit on Bush’s national security decisions. Some have gone so far as to say bin Laden’s death vindicates some of Bush’s most controversial actions as President, such as his decision to allow the use of waterboarding.
If they had it their way, Stewart said, they would even argue that Bush invented bullets.
Things got even dicier when Stewart rolled a clip of a Fox News host praising President Reagan’s foreign policy decisions for laying the groundwork for bin Laden’s death.
“They took it back to Reagan!” Stewart shouted. “The guy responsible for funding the Taliban in the first place!
Watch the video below:
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Who Killed Osama bin Laden | ||||
|
||||
