Jon Stewart Takes on Torture Supporters

Jon Stewart Takes on Torture Supporters

Jon Stewart Takes on Torture Supporters

Jon Stewart surveys the misdirected outrage Obama’s release of the Bush administration’s torture memos has provoked on the right.

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President Bush assured us in no uncertain terms that “we don’t torture.” Turns out we do–and
Republicans are outraged! But not because the CIA has
sullied our American ideals by stooping to the level of Vietcong
interrogators, rather “they’re upset about the fact that we now know
about it,” as Jon Stewart observes.

Corbin Hiar

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