Crooks and Liars

Tuesday April 8, 2008 03:00 pm

The Daily Show: Don't Talk About Flight Club

By Nicole Belle

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Jon Stewart & Company look at the recent safety failures in the airline industry and the Bush administration's response to them.

It’s all sort of ironic, when you think about it. When you fly, you are inspected quite thoroughly. Whereas the plane itself is perhaps occasionally vacuumed. See, with this administration, if a passenger blows up a plane, it’s a failure on the War on Terror. But if a plane just blows up on its own, eh, that’s the market self-regulating.