“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart offers a hilariously annotated version of President Obama’s long-winded, contradictory speech on the surveillance state. Watch as he takes out his Red Bull and a snack just to get through the tedious beginning of Obama’s attempt to “address the American people’s very real concerns about privacy without upsetting the people who apparently know everything about us.” Spoiler alert: He does neither.

—Posted by Natasha Hakimi

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