Daily Show takes on the Bush administration: 'This is just too easy'

David Edwards and Muriel Kane

Published: Wednesday June 6, 2007 Print This Email This

When Jon Stewart opened Tuesday's Daily Show by announcing that "Lewis 'Scooter' Libby ... is going to the hoosegow," cheers broke out.

"Libby received his sentence in spite of character reference letters from names like John Bolton, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and Henry Kissinger," said Stewart, "or, as they're known, Those Four Assholes. John, Paul, Don, and Henry. Like a boy band but without the credibility."

Stewart then turned to the indictment of Rep. Willian Jefferson (D-LA), saying, "On the downside, Jefferson faces 235 years in prison. On the upside, now we know what it takes for the federal government to pay some attention to a black man from New Orleans."

Stewart also mentioned Fox News' presentation of the Jefferson story accompanied by footage of "House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, who is, and this is fascinating, a completely different person."

Finally, Stewart ran clips of prominent conservatives bashing the Bush administration's immigration proposals and Bush criticizing them in return for "empty political rhetoric trying to frighten our fellow citizens."

"This is too easy," grinned Stewart, before playing a collage of statements from Bush and other administration figures trying to frighten their fellow citizens.







