Jon Stewart rips Dick Cheney a new one

[G_j]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/20/1378921/-Jon-Stewart-rips-Dick-Cheney-a-new-one?detail=email

On the latest Daily Show, Jon Stewart blasted Dick Cheney's criticism of President Obama's negotiations with Iran. Calling the former vice president "a man rotten to his very core, which is in itself a tiny black hole from which no joy or light can escape" and "the jagged-toothed forest demon who steals our children," Stewart went on to say that "now and then he [Cheney] slithers out from his lair inside a mountain of kitten corpses and goes on TV or radio saying awful things. Usually we ignore it … but sometimes, we just can't."



Jon Stewart then obliterates Cheney's radio remarks with a little detective work—and a history lesson. Here are some highlights:
But basically the vice president’s point appears to be this: anyone who strengthens the strategic position of Iran is by definition working to weaken the Unites States of America. So I guess the formulation would be whoever strengthened Iran more would be the greater threat to America. Using Dick Cheney’s own metric as our baseline, can we uncover a greater threat to America than even Barack Obama?
And if invading Iraq not only removed Iran’s closest foe but complicated America’s ability to actively countervail Iran’s nuclear program … according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, by the end of your administration, Mr. Vice President Cheney, Iran had over 20 times the uranium-enriching centrifuges as when you came into office. Could that not be considered handing Iran a nuclear weapon.

Yes, Dick Cheney. You took out Iran’s enemies while giving Iran time to build up their nuclear program. But surely you could course correct this by just installing, in Iraq, another strong anti-Iranian government to take Saddam Hussein’s place, as any America-loving vice president would do. What was your move, sir?

For an American administration to replace Saddam Hussein with a man emboldened and indebted to our greatest regional enemy, according to Dick Cheney’s own logic, anyone who trusted Maliki would have to be naïve or deliberately trying to weaken America.

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[Canoe52]

1. Touché

K&R!

Nice job Jon!

[spanone]

2. cheney is evil...pure evil.... and yes, rotten to the core.

Dick Cheney: Even bigger monster than you thought

"When I came out from under the anesthetic after the transplant, I was euphoric. I’d had–I’d been given the gift of additional lives, additional years of life. For the family of the donor, they’d just been [through] some terrible tragedy, they’d lost a family member. Can’t tell why, obviously, when you don’t know the details, but the way I think of it from a psychological standpoint is that it’s my new heart, not someone else’s old heart. And I always thank the donor, generically thank donors for the gift that I’ve been given, but I don’t spend time wondering who had it, what they’d done, what kind of person."

http://www.salon.com/2013/11/14/dick_cheney_even_bigger_monster_than_you_thought/

[calimary]

3. The whiff of sulfur.

One of these days he'll finally return to the Hell from whence he first came.

And on that day I will raise a glass and toast. And then DANCE!!!!!!!!! Maybe during the inevitable coverage of his passing, that would the time to throw a big party, 'eh?

[leftieNanner]

4. Cheney, ugh

Wish he would crawl back into his slimy hole. Evil man, indeed. But he's not stupid - so does he have any understanding of the level of crapola that comes out of his mouth? Or the lies that he spews any time he opens that mouth? I guess he just sees how effective it is with the Fox sheeple and piles it on.

[Voice for Peace]

5. maybe the Jon Stewart Mysteries will be a new show

I can dream.

Love this piece.

[Martin Eden]

6. I would LOVE to see Cheney's reaction ...

... if he was blind-sided on a political talk show with an interview who said that right to his face.