Jon Stewart for President: The Daily Show host's brutal honest with Lynne Cheney  Saturday, October 13th, 2007

   

I don't think it would be possible to love The Daily Show any more than I do.  Jon Stewart, with the clever guise of comedy, manages to break barriers politically by talking with brutal honesty to Lynne Cheney, Vice President Dick Cheney's wife, about the truth.

On The Daily Show yesterday, Lynne Cheney said that terrorists were striking regularly between 1993 and 2001 but have not struck since 9/11.  "It's been more than six years, and that is not an accident.  I think this administration - my husband and the President - deserve a lot of credit for that," she stated.

Dead silence.  Not one clap in the studio audience.  A pin could drop.  "Okay," Stewart replies.  And then they laugh.  And we laugh, but we're listening very, very closely.

"Friends?"  Lynne asked.

No censorship here:  he sits next to the wife of the Vice President of the United States, looks her in the eyes, and says, "We are friends, I just...you know they have been doing that all these past six years, they've been...you know, the Spanish bombing, the English bombing, and then all the bombs in Iraq."

"Yes, yes, but we're talking about American interests," Lynne replies.

"Aren't we interested in...?  Alright.  I'd assume that they were our allies, but alright."

Here's the video clip:

    

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