Details From the CIA Torture Report Made Jon Stewart Want to Puke
Jon Stewart learned the gruesome details of the CIA's torture of detainees along with the rest of us yesterday, and it made him feel like Mr. Creosote after a wafer-thin mint. Which is to say, he wanted to puke—an understandable reaction after learning an inmate's meal was "pureed and rectally infused," apparently resulting in "no actionable intelligence."
Stewart leans heavily on the famous 2007 clip of then-president George W. Bush insisting "this government does not torture people," even though he was made aware of the CIA's "enhanced interrogation techniques" in 2006, but he also doesn't let the Obama administration off the hook for failing to release thousands of documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Obama sure was great on Colbert Monday night though, wasn't he?