The clever thing would have been for Jon to broadcast from a Cruise Ship this week. During the Thiessen interview, they could have sailed out to international waters. Then at the end a team from the Hague could have arrested Thiessen. Hm. I wonder if Dick Cheney would enjoy a free cruise?

cops in Boston has a lawyer. The crazy who opened fire on Pentagon police will have representation. Is that wrong under our Constitution?

But WAIT! They're American! Non-americans don't deserve any rights AT ALL. How can we exploit their country's resources if it's people have rights?

Before anyone goes listening to this trouble maker, did you know he doesn't believe in things like global warming.

... that which is not expressly prohibited is legal.

It's never going to be some puke like Theissen paying the ultimate price; it'll be someone like Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, or Sarah Shourd (the three hikers being held as spies in Iran). Or someone nabbed off the street like Nick Berg or Daniel Pearl.

This guy knows that if he allows Stewart to speak then his bullshit house of cards will collapse around him.

And I love Jon at the end saying "we'll show the clip uncut so everyone can see how I steamrolled you" - brilliant!

And let me get this straight: the Democrats are going to close Gitmo, bring home all of the troops, close all the CIA black sites and prosecute the war criminals.

Just so we are clear on that.

It is important to know who has the moral high ground.

The protocol is, when you go on someone's show, you have to let them ask questions and then actually answer them. Theissen clearly had no intention of doing that from the start.

It is clear that this guy's strategy was to filibuster and not let Stewart even make any point or ask his questions. In fact, he was steamrolling, not Stewart. He ignored Stewart's questions and then went on to make his own irrelevant points.

Congress declared war? I must have missed that.

... and I've never heard a person so out of touch of reality and twisted logic as this man.

There are enemy combatants being held in Guantanamo Bay.
They are there because they are enemy combatants.
They can’t be released, because they may do harm if they are.
They can’t be tried, accused of any crime, defended in court, or given any habeas corpus consideration, because they are enemy combatants, not POWs or citizens.
Never in the history of this country have any enemy combatant been given any such quarter.

Got it.

There is one major problem to all this convoluted circular reasoning. There is no such thing as an enemy combatant. It’s a made up term. Because it was made up, it can be defined any way they want. Everything and nothing applies equally in this case, and you end up arguing that which is meaningless.

Also, silly speech writer…

You can’t defend that which is illegal (torture), by trying to demonstrate that it works. Whether it worked or not – it’s still illegal.

Such a coward, such a liar, such a fucking fool. This guy could use 240 grains of lead poisoning. Would be good for the country.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness it has killed our economy,and ruined the lives of millions of people.

"How do you think the parents of the victims of Gacey, Dahmer or Bundy felt watching them have representation in court? Everyone knew they were guilty of unspeakable horrors, but that's what makes our justice system as good as it is."

Not that I want to see tribunals, but I don't think there was much of a risk of having to reveal information about national security issues etc with these serial killers. It's not quite the same thing.

Where did this schmuck go to school? Liberty University? What an incredible pathetic load of horse manure. What a sad little piece of human excrement. This weasel worked for Bush well that is no surprise. Somebody get me a water-board I can use on this creep.

last night, but I couldn't last more than two minutes. The crap that idiot was spouting was just typical wingnut insanity. Made me sick, so I had to stop.

There is one fact that no one can deny. The fact is that holding a human in a cage without a universally acceptable reason is immoral. Labeling that human an "enemy combatant" does not make the action moral. The fact that so many people disagree with the action proves that it's not universally acceptable.

I swear almost all of these wing nuts / Repugs even look odd , you could pick them out in a crowd . Could it be that there been an alien invasion that we are not aware of ?

Dostoevsky had it about right when he described an interview between the Grand Inquisitor and Jesus in the Brothers Karamazov: even while the Inquisition claimed to be doing the Lord's work, there was no room for the actual Saviour in their plans - torture, murder and control was their object, and Jesus would only have gotten in the way.

These people, Rove, Woo, Theissen, Bush, the Cheneys, and all their disgusting ilk would have fit right in with Torquemada, gleefully consigning the heretics to one great auto-da-fe, with the sole intention of consuming all decency and human feeling in flame.

A wet dream for these "folks" would necessarily involve thumbscrews, the rack and the iron maiden. They are foul, despicable creatures and the only wonder is that, rather than being shunned for the barbarians they are, they are celebrated by a frighteningly large number of Americans.

It is difficult to even find the words to describe what horrible, disgusting beasts these people are - it is as if the human progress of the last five hundred years never happened.

If I'm not mistaken, even the Catholic Church has apologized for the Inquisition - it is clear that no apology, not even a hint of shame, will ever be forthcoming from these (and the word is used advisedly) scum.

might do something bad is a very dangerous idea. Once you accept this idea then it is easy to expand it to minorities, Jews, catholics, gays, old, young, and females. Everybody is a potential criminal and therefore we should arrest everyone so we can feel safe.

I admit right at the top that I have not watched the clip and I do not intend to for the same reason I turned off the TV when he came on: I have no intention of exposing myself to that much evil.

But I did notice the pull quote on the video about "nothing in the Geneva convention says" such and so.

My immediate - and I do mean immediate - reaction was "Hold it! Are you saying the Geneva conventions apply to these prisoners? Are you saying that the thing that the Bush administration insisted for six years was false was actually true? That the Bush gang lied? Because either you're saying that or what you just said is a bunch of meaningless and wholly irrelevant crap."

Of course, most of what he says is meaningless crap, but you get my drift.

Theissen misses the point completely. Too blind to see that it is fundamental human rights inherent in the American Constitution that is what the terrorists want to destroy. When America becomes a despotic state, then the terrorists have defeated us. In fact, it makes people like Theissen, Bush, Cheney and Obama allies of the terrorists and terrorists themselves for tearing down this country by trying to deny basic human rights to others. It is their fundamental hatred of others, trying to strike back at everyone they hate that makes Theissen and his ilk essentially the same as the terrorists. America is the land of freedom and justice for all people which is what the terrorists hate. When America ceases to be a land of just laws and becomes a land of hatred, bigotry, hatred, racism, hatred a religious inquisition, hatred, injustice,hatred, lawlessness and hatred, then the terrorists have won, they have destroyed America.

Then too, it really is the same objective that right wingers share with terrorists. They seek the power to wiretap without restriction, kill American citizens, torture, beat and waterboard and imprison without restraint all who they regard as their enemies such as liberals, progressives, fags, Commies, pinkos, socialists, non-Whites, illegal aliens, etc. America is great because it is all the things that the right wing and terrorists hate.

Gacey, Dahmer, Bundy, Rameriez, Manson, and all the rest of the serial killers are no threat and easy to treat with justice because they never threatened the real core values of this nation. They got what all Americans deserve, a fair and honest trial. The terrorists really don't threaten what makes America great either. It is those so-called super-Americans who want to destroy our system of justice who are the real threats to the greatness of America.

This nation won't fail if there is another 9/11 or even several of them. This nation will fail, the terrorists will succeed if we allow our fear of the terrorists to destroy all that America stands for. The real terrorists and not bin Laden, the real enemies of America are Theissen, Bush, Cheney, Obama and those who think that by destroying the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and the laws of this nation, they will preserve America.

they are war criminals. Their latest propaganda offensive makes me think that they re getting scared that they could possibly be held accountable for their crimes, so, they are attempting to direct and control the dialogue on the issue in order to redirect the discussion. It seems like a desparation move to me. I expect this kind of thing from the, though...they are some of the worst psychopaths this country has ever produced. It's par for the course. It's the kind of thing that malignant personalities who have influence and power do. Hopefully, they'll be called to accounts.

What bothers me most is how much of the press and media are doing to give these psychos a forum, and how one-way that forum is. There is something profoundly wrong when the only people who are doing actual journalism and who are fulfilling the role of public's conscience are comedians. It bodes ill for our continued survival as a free democracy (actually, I think that the free democracy has already passed away. We are now in dawn of the fascist/totalitarian age of Amerika).

It's moronic and ignorant jerks like him who make Americans look bad. This idiot defends crapping on the Constitution and breaking the law. But let him get some "advanced interrogation" in another country and watch him squeal about his rights. F'n cowards like him, Kristol and Cheney (both of those monsters) do not deserve airtime anywhere.

to Marc Theissen that they are EITHER POWs or they are criminal terrorism suspects. Not both. And also let him know that the Geneva Convention does indeed require legal representation for POWs who are charged with a crime. The only circumstance that US law or the Geneva Convention allows for no legal representation is if there is no criminal charges. What a complete idiot this America hating clown is!

The typical, fingers in his ears, Reslug dumb-ass.

Jon learned his lesson and didn't let him squeak through like Yoo did. That being said, Yoo is wayyyyy slicker then this douchebag.