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The Daily Show
January 11, 2010
Guest:
John Yoo
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Stewart: everyone on earth hates your fucking
guts and fears your broken soul
Yoo: yeah but people love you so it’s the same
Stewart: it seems like they came to you and
said ‘give us permission to crush a child’s balls’
and you said ‘how hard?’
Yoo: that’s true but we were under threat by
nutjobs with boxcutters
Stewart: so you weren’t following the law
but panicking?
Yoo: no there’s a special law to follow if you’re
really really scared
Stewart: I didn’t know that was in the Constitution
Yoo: Congress and the Supreme Court could
have stopped us
Stewart: really how?
Yoo: they could have defunded our ball crushing
Stewart: if they know you're crushing
balls day and night
Yoo: all they had to do was follow the screams
Stewart: but I thought we signed a treaty
banning torture
Yoo: yeah but there’s nothing in the treaty
about not crushing balls
Stewart: but we prosecuted people for torture
Yoo: but not for ball crushing
Stewart: I’m so confused
Yoo: look we either ball crush or we give the terrorists Miranda rights
Stewart: no in between?
Yoo: dude I don’t make the rules
Stewart: according to you the Framers wanted
us to have a dictatorship
Yoo: yes but only when a President has allowed
a massive terror attack to happen - then you
can go to town
Stewart: I see
Yoo: our best Presidents were all radical
dictator war Presidents
Stewart: why did you even bother following
the law when your whole philosophy is
‘terrortime baby - fuck the law’
Yoo: look I never actually told Bush ball
crushing was legal
Stewart: jesus christ I don’t know if that the
worst thing I’ve heard or not
Yoo: look America needs a Lincoln or Hitler or
Bush even if the price is sometimes a power-mad fascist like Nixon or Obama
Stewart: you sir, are one sick, sick man
Yoo: thank you Jon
Stewart: no really I thank you - now I understand
the banality of evil that allowed the Holocaust
to happen
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3 comments:
Thank you for sparing me the agony of watching one more second of Yoo. Your summary was right on the money.
I agree. Really great synopsis. Saw the vid and was disappointed by how confused Stewart became about what's ultimately a simple issue for Yoo: he was tasked with bending the Geneva Convention to its limits. Had Stewart taken him to task on that idea, I think he would've been more successful.
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