Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart pointed out Thursday that there seemed to be no conservatives willing to give President Barack Obama and the United States any credit for the death of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
“The [Obama] administration reacted to today’s victory with relief and amazement, the Libyan people with gratitude and jubilation, but for one group, the death of Gaddafi, the dictator and major sponsor of international terrorism, would require more reflection, time to process and figure out how this good news could actually be bad,” Stewart explained.
Fox News co-host Andrea Tantaros complained that “we don’t know what these rebels are going to do.” Former UN ambassador John Bolton worried that the new Libyan leaders could be a “radical Islamists regime or one that harbors international terrorists.”
“Are we really sure about getting rid of Gaddafi?” Stewart joked. “Who knows? The next guy who comes in could be crazy… Is there no Republican that can be gracious and statesman-like in this situation? We removed a dictator in six months, losing no American soldiers, spending like a billion dollars rather than a trillion dollars and engendering what appears to be good will from people who now have a prideful story of their own independence to tell — not to mention, they have oil.”
But Republican Sens. Marco Rubio, John McCain and Charles Grassley seemed determined only to give credit to the French and the British.
“What the fuck is wrong with you people?” Stewart wondered. “Honestly, what is wrong with you? Are you that small? ‘You know what else? We really got to give credit to the Chinese. Without the invention of gun powder, I don’t know.’”
Watch this video from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, broadcast Oct. 20, 2011.
(H/T: Mediaite)
3 comments:
Parts of the problem:
1. Remember "days, not weeks"?
Of course you don't.
2. Under what, exact, legal authority did we go in there?
I know you don't know.
3. Syria and Assad have killed more than Qaddaffi, and continue to EVERY DAY.
What are we doing to stop that?
4. When you get on a train that is leaving the station, you don't get credit for driving it.
Get it? Of course you don't.
5. Still waiting for an original thought from you!
Since when did you care about other people suffering? Save those failed talking points for your buddies at free republic or wherever you loons go to spew your mess. This president has done things you wished George W.Bush would have done in terms of fighting terrorist.
Honkey how many times do we have to go through this despite your insistence on referring President Obama zero the fact remains this president has created between 1.4 and 3.3 million jobs. Now if I was you I wouldn't dare mention job creation because your governor Nerd and his flunkies in the state house are having creating jobs since taking over in January.
Since when did you guys on the right cared about the Nobel Peace prize?
According to you guys it's a meaningless award and anybody can get one. Secondly are you saying Bin Laden and Gadhafi are innocent?
I knew you right wingers are far gone removed from reality but defending killers proves not only you folks are racist but evil racist halfwits.
Speaking of Zero again your House GOP has passed zero job bills.
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