Jon Stewart Has A Heart-To-Heart With President Bush

An all-time classic segment this past Tuesday, ending with Jon addressing the President-



The Little Richard translation in particular is just genius.


"What I’m saying it this; If this is a battle for civilization, make your case and gear it up. Let’s World War II this thing. Alright? And if it’s not, stop scaring the shit out of everybody every two years."

[Related money quote from Digby: "The entire campaign is built on a Disneyfied version of WWII and boomer childhood nightmare cartoons of The Cold War. They trying to squeeze all the boogeymen of the 20th century into Osama bin Laden's turban in the hope that they can cop a little bit of that Hollywood heroism themselves. (After all, their hero Ronald Reagan didn't actually fight in any real war either --- he just remembered the movies he was in and thought he had.) It is deeply, deeply unserious."

Final note from blueduck- This isn't to say that combating terrorism is not a deeply serious issue. It is. But the administration's approach to it, and their misappropriation of it, creates a whole new set of problems for us. As Stewart's address points out, they will rhetorically call it WWIII for political gain, but their actual approach is indeed deeply unserious.]