Evil Dictator Awards

By The Daily Show

August 7, 2008

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The Olympics are not even a day old and already a number of incidents have put the repressive apparatus of the Chinese state on full display. On the eve of the Beijing Games, Daily Show correspondent Lewis Black holds an award ceremony for other dictatorships that could give China a run for its money in the blood sport of violating human rights. When it comes to state-sanctioned brutality, he explains, "they're all winners."

-Will Di Novi

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