Jon Stewart Skewers Beijing Olympics Scandals

By The Daily Show

August 14, 2008

The first week of the Beijing Olympics has seen its fair share of world records and team triumphs, but it has also sparked a number of controversies that serve as a fascinating window into the West's still uneasy relationship with the world's nascent superpower. Who better than the king of Comedy Central to make sense of the opening ceremony's laughable lip-synch, Spain's foolish photo, and the somersaults of smack-talk sparked by "women's" gymnastics?

-Will Di Novi

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