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Keeping America Safe: President Obama v. Candidate Obama

Jon Stewart points out the hypocrisy of withholding the torture photos and the firing openly gay Arabic translator Lt. Dan Choi.

The Daily Show

May 15, 2009

 

After vowing on his first day in office that "transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency," Obama has put his pledge into question again by deciding not to release the infamous detainee abuse photos. President Obama has also gone back on his campaign promise to repeal the military’s "Don’t Ask Don’t Tell" policy, which has gotten another Arabic translator kicked out of the service. Stewart wonders how protecting torturers and punishing gay soldiers makes America safer from terrorists: "So it was okay to waterboard a guy over eighty times but God forbid the guy who could understand what that prick was saying has a boyfriend?"

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