In honor of the day that Dick Cheney shot someone in the face, and of course was let go---I pulled this clip from my incredible archives. (originally post here,)

Jon Stewart was having a very boring weekend and he was really, really sad. Nothing had been getting his blood boiling lately and he just wasn’t excited to be alive anymore-Until--Dick Cheney shot a man in the face. How quick life can turn on a dime.

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Stewart was on fire tonight:

“Sewart: Whittington was mistaken for a bird.” “Harry Whittington, seasoned to an inch of his life.”

“Don’t let your kids go hunting with the Vice President. I don’t care what kind of lucrative contracts they’re trying to land or-energy regulations they’re trying to get lifted. He’ll shoot them in the face.”

Rob Corddry joined in.

Corddry : “Jon, tonight the Vice President is standing by his decision to shoot Harry Whittington. Now according to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the brush. Everyone believed at the time-there-were-quail in the brush. And while the quail turned out to be the 78 year old man. Even knowing that today, Mr. Cheney insists-he still would have shot Mr. Whittington in the face.

Jon Stewart does a brilliant segment on the multitude of ridiculous and offensive positions the Bush administration (including Mukasey, McConnell, Alberto, Hayden and Bush) has taken on torture, i.e.,: waterboarding.

It's not torture, it is torture, don't do it to me, we don't torture---it's classified---I can't discuss it---water goes up my nose--swim lessons---it's not appropriate for me to say if it's torture---we never torture---we only waterboarded three people...Will you investigate?---No.

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Kennedy: Would waterboarding be torture if it was done to you?

Mukasey: Ummm. I would feel that it was.

McConnell: Being a water safety instructor and teaching people to swim, he said. "Well, what about if water goes up your nose?" And I said that would be torture. That would be very painful to me.

Q: American prosecutors actually obtained convictions against Japanese after WWII because of what they did to American captives. What about it---makes it not torture now? Is it just the circumstances?

Fratto: I don't think that's a question I can answer...

How do these people sleep at night? Outside of Bill O'Reilly, that is. He sleeps very well---especially after he's made a nice long phone call to one of his female employees. Text messages just wouldn't do.

In honor of the day that Dick Cheney shot someone in the face, and of course was let go—I pulled this clip of TDS from my great C&L archives.

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Jon Stewart was having a very boring weekend and he was really, really sad. Nothing had been getting his blood boiling lately and he just wasn’t excited to be alive anymore-Until–Dick Cheney shot a man in the face. How quick life can tun on a dime.

“Sewart: Whittington was mistaken for a bird.” “Harry Whittington, seasoned to an inch of his life.”

“Don’t let your kids go hunting with the Vice President. I don’t care what kind of lucrative contracts they’re trying to land or-energy regulations they’re trying to get lifted. He’ll shoot them in the face.”

Rob Corddry joined in.

Corddry : “Jon, tonight the Vice President is standing by his decision to shoot Harry Whittington. Now according to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the brush. Everyone believed at the time-there-were-quail in the brush. And while the quail turned out to be the 78 year old man. Even knowing that today, Mr. Cheney insists-he still would have shot Mr. Whittington in the face.