Scooter Libby was sentenced to 2 ½ years despite unimpressive character reference letters from pieces of garbage like John Bolton, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and Henry Kissinger. It’s nice to know that these guys are willing to protect one of their own. It’s just too bad that same courtesy isn’t extended to the thousands of soldiers, or hundreds of thousands of civilians they’ve sent to their graves.

Stewart then moves on to talk about William Jefferson’s indictment, and Fox News’ error in showing footage of John Conyers instead. Gee, if I didn’t know better I’d think that Fox News was run by right-wing bigots.

Stewart’s money quote: “On the down side, Jefferson faces 235 years in prison. On the up side, now we know what it takes for the federal government to pay some attention to a black man from New Orleans.”