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The Daily Show – Tortured Logic

By Manila Ryce
Published Tuesday, October 9th, 2007, 5:21 am
Filed under: Human Rights, Videos: Political, World: Asia, World: North America, War, Terrorism, Videos, Society/Culture, World Issues, Society/Culture: Law/Order, US Politics

Like loud rock music to a sleep deprived prisoner at Guantanamo, the torture debate has once again delivered a rude awakening to those Americans naïve enough to believe that our country has any moral high ground over our supposed evil enemies. The Bush administration has been playing its own version of “it depends on what your definition of ‘Is’ is” for several years - only their game of semantics is about torturing defenseless prisoners and not a blowjob. Apparently, the commander-in-chief also has the power to change the definition of our words to fit his own misunderstandings of them.


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Stewart plays a quick game of “Cruel, Inhuman, Degrading, or O-Tay”, and talks with John Oliver afterwards about why this secret Justice Department memo endorsing torture is a triumph for our nation. Oliver reminds us of how awesome a place our country is that we can actually talk openly about the people we torture without being arrested and well, tortured I guess. The fact that we can bitch openly about the human rights abuses our country commits makes us the greatest country in the world, and if you use your right to freedom of speech to disagree with that statement then you’re obviously a traitor who ought to be tortured (if we did that sort of thing).


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7 Responses to “The Daily Show – Tortured Logic”

  1. I don’t like torture.
    But isn’t it great that we live in a country where…ah never mind.

    Nathan Anderson
    10/9/07 at 6:13 am

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  3. Thanks for blogrolling me despite my geographical misstep about where you were! The same has been done in return.

    What a great, as always, post. I loved that last video from Daily Show. There is more that I would say, but as John Oliver so aptly pointed out, the words I need are serving at the pleasure of the asshat at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

    This country is wrecked. Disaster. I should have stayed in Spain.

    FranIAm
    10/9/07 at 10:13 am

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  5. I cannot recall feelilng more despair for our country than I do now. “I dont have a good feeling about this..”

    moondancer
    10/9/07 at 1:07 pm

  6. You know, There was a time when soldiers coming home from war suffered from Shellshock.
    No one suffered from Shellshock after World War II, however. No, they suffered from Battle Fatigue.
    And after Vietnam, Battle Fatigue was all but unheard of. Instead, returning vets dealt with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for much of their remaining lives.
    And now, finally, after Iraq Wars 1 and 2, soldiers now only suffer from PTSD.

    Isn’t it wonderful how by simply changing the words we use we can completely fix any problem?

    Now where’s my lapel pin?

    PapaFigue
    10/10/07 at 10:21 am

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