‘Daily Show’: We Don’t Torture?
What is it with politicians who don't seem to understand that anything they say these days may later haunt them on TV or even The Internets? Consider, for example, former President Bush's three-word declaration of yore: "We don't torture." Oh, really?What is it with politicians who don’t seem to understand that anything they say these days may later haunt them on TV or even The Internets? Consider, for example, former President Bush’s three-word declaration of yore: “We don’t torture.” Oh, really?
Comedy Central:
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | M – Th 11p / 10c | |||
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