Jon Stewart wasted no time tonight in lambasting President Obama
over the secret drone strike memo released earlier this week. Stewart
contrasted Obama’s previous desire for transparency in releasing torture
memos from the Bush administration with the current reluctance from the
administration to release its memos on how the U.S. gets to rain hell
from above with a “missile robot plane.”
Stewart was relieved that the Obama administration is only going to
kill you if you’re part of al-Qaeda or its many subsidiaries, including
“Euro al-Qaeda” and “Chipotle.” But he couldn’t wrap its head around the
tortured language the administration is using to define an “imminent
threat,” because they do not need any actual evidence of said threat, so
basically Stewart said the threat can be “imminent or not imminent.”
Stewart found the entire memo to be “somewhat loosely defined,”
especially considering that citizens targeted don’t get any kind of
notice about their placement on the list. However, Stewart expected the Obama administration to release all the memos, because not only did he
eagerly release torture memos from the Bush administration, but “he
invited everyone to his memo release party.”
Stewart then showed how Press Secretary Jay Carney
tried to play a “Jedi mind trick” on the press corps by trying to avoid
saying whether the administration would release the memos or not.
Stewart concluded that the only difference between Republican secret
extrajudicial memos and Democratic ones is that at least Democrats use
recycled paper for theirs. (Continues)
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