Jon Stewart had on his program Cliff May, president of The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, last week. Stewart did a by-the-book job bringing up most of the anti-“torture” talking points; and May did an even better bang up job with “pro”-torture arguments (Cliff May is anti-torture the way Cheney and Condi are).
The man who wants to export human rights and also torture prisoners in the US tangled with Jon Stewart last night. Their conversation went far beyond the edited show, and you can watch the video of it here. I should repeat that I long admired Cliff’s defense of American and Western values and find his current position – that America should retain the right to torture with the same techniques as the Khmer Rouge and the Gestapo – as demoralizing as it is abhorrent.
Stewart’s liberalism is encapsulated in his views on the dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima and thinking Harry S Truman should have been tried as a war criminal.
Bill Whittle takes Jon Stewart through a history lesson you’ll not want to miss.
After viewing it, please realize:
Who is Jon Stewart? Jon is a self-deprecating 43-year-old New York native who grew up in New Jersey. Dad was a physicist and mom a teacher, so education was valued in his childhood home.
More like “liberal indoctrination was valued in his childhood home.”
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A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.