Jon Stewart Roasts Author Of New Cheney Bio

If you missed the Daily Show last night, you missed one of the greatest interchanges between a Neocon Sycophant and a fake newsperson ever. Though Jon Stewart calls himself a fake journalist, he clearly has more balls and better ethics than most of the “real” journalists out there.

His guest was Stephen F. Hayes, author of Cheney: The Untold Story of American's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President. In his interview he noted that Hayes was one of the few people to ever get to actually speak with Cheney. After hearing Hayes defense of Cheney’s lies about the war in Iraq, I know why he got to do the book. He is a lap dog of the highest order.

Stewart started the segment by playing an interview with Dick Cheney in 1994 where he says that going into Baghdad after the Gulf War and trying to topple Saddam Hussein would throw the country into chaos. He even says that it would bog our country down in a “quagmire”. That was then, and apparently a different Cheney inhabits the body of the old one.

In the interview, Stewart asked Hayes why the 2003 Cheney said it was going to be a cakewalk when the 1994 Cheney saw the reality of what has happened. Hayes hummed and hawed and talked around the issue. Stewart, unlike the rest of the press, “pressed” him on the issue and even noted that his own (Jon Stewart) patriotism was questioned by “some idiot on Fox”.

The full exchange is on Media Matters who documented the interchange. It is very telling that a comedian gets more truth from this author than he puts in his book. Read it and please don’t buy this jokers book!