Jon Stewart's Interview With Douglas Feith Reveals More Bush Administration Lies About The War

Once in a while the Daily Show with Jon Stewart tackles a real news story that other outlets just won’t approach. Last night’s interview with Douglas Feith was the kind of journalism that “real” reporters should be doing.

Feith was in to flog his new book War & Decision, a book that is an unabashed rewriting of history to soft pedal the lies spouted by the Bush administration to go to war. Stewart would not let Feith get away with crap. Instead he pinned him down and asked him point blank about the administrations assessment of the risks before the war.

“If you knew the perils, but the conversation that you had with the public painted a rosier picture, how is that not deception? The fact that you seemed to know all the risks takes this from manslaughter to homicide. […]”

Stewart should win another Peabody for this hard hitting interview.