Sometimes politics is a real comedy show. The politics of hypocrisy.
Jon Stewart recaps the current situation in Georgia (and the media’s ridiculous coverage of it),
Jon says what needed to be said about the short term memory problems affecting Bush, Rice, and McCain and about the complete non-presumptuousness of McCain’s dispatching a team of envoys to Georgia.
Anti-Olympic Update – In Europe
It’s amazing how adding the phrase “in Europe” makes our military actions more palatable, even fun.
Stewart: “It’ll be very interesting to see what the United States does here. Our invasion of Iraq somewhat hamstrings our options in Georgia, not just militarily, but also dimplomaticly, and I guess you would say, morally? Let’s watch our UN Ambsassador Zalmay Khalilzad dance the delicate dance…
Khalilzad: We want to make sure our Russian colleagues understand that the days of overthrowing leaders by miulityary means…
Stewart: Careful, Khalilza. Steady…steady…
Khalilzad: The days of overthrowing leaders by military means in Europe, those days are gone…
Stewart: Yes! He did it! Those days are gone…in Europe. In the Middle East, it’s morning in America.
"Wag the dog" on the air 