Daily Show: Terror Attack + Election = Republican Victory
In light of Charlie Black's ridiculous and revealing comments to Fortune magazine Monday, Jon Stewart shows how Republicans are calculating their win
"Why is it that a terror attack helps Republicans? Well, it's quite simple. A terror attack, when added to an election, equals Republican. Why is that? Let's show our work. First we have to solve for 'R.' Now, if you add 7 1/2 years of Republican administration, times the five years we've been at war, which has divided the nation, add in the government's incompetent response to the domestic disaster of Katrina, minus the equity in your home thats disappeared, plus the price of oil squared, over the boon that the Iraq war has been to terrorist recruiting, times tortue, minus the resoucres we could have been using in Afghanistan, plus the resources we could have been using to catch bin Laden, carry the Cheney and...."