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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

How is the White House supposed to know a town was wiped out? (They're not meteorologists)



"As always, Dick Cheney was forthright and honest [on screen: Cheney saying there are still serious security problems and threats in Iraq]. Security problems? No. Bonnaroo still has some security problems. Iraq's got clusterf---ry. But will the Iraqi government address this security issue [on screen: Cheney saying, 'We hope they will approach these issues with all deliberate dispatch, if I can put it into those terms']. Deliberate dispatch? Yes, you could put it in those terms ...if you were talking to a group of Victorian newspapermen." --Jon Stewart
"Last week, a devastating tornado hit the Midwest. Our hearts go out to the people of Kansas. And just as their lives were getting back to normal, Kansas was hit by an even big disaster ... the behavior of their Governor Kathleen Sebelius. On Monday, Governor Sebelius complained that help for Kansas was slowed because so much of the National Guard equipment is in Iraq. White House Press Secretary Tony Snow sympathized, saying, 'If you don't request it, you're not going to get it.' How is the White House supposed to know a town was wiped out? They're not meteorologists." --Stephen Colbert

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An emotional roller coaster.
Soon to be a cult classic.
A combination of Bukowski’s
Last Night On Earth
and Orwell’s 1984.

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