Check out the best of this week’s Truthdig-flavored videos. In this installment: Joe Scarborough asks “Is Bush an ‘idiot’?” Jon Stewart mocks RNC Chair Ken Mehlman’s new “Adapt and Win” talking points; Va. Sen. George Allen steps in a heaping pile of “macaca,” and more….

No. 1:

Joe Scarborough, of all people, began his program on Aug. 15 by asking: ?Is Bush an ?idiot??? To provide context for his question, the MSNBC host let loose with a must-see highlight reel of the president?s assault on language and logic.

Bush butchers the language

No. 2:

Watch Jon Stewart tear down Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman?s attempt to sell America on the outright lie that GOP?ers aren?t for ?staying the course? in Iraq — rather, they?re out to ?adapt and win.?

Stewart: Yeah, what a–hole said ?stay the course??

[As videos of Bush saying just that fill the screen.]

No. 3:

Jon Stewart asked “Daily Show” correspondent Rob Corddry if Virginia Sen. George Allen had damaged his image by using a racial slur to describe a young campaign worker. Corddry: ?I don’t know what ?macaque? means, but it sure as sh– sounds racist. And John, here in Virginia, I’m still not sure if that helps or hurts a guy.?

No. 4:

Noting that President Bush read Albert Camus’ “The Stranger” during his break, Stewart gave a quick primer on the book that will leave you guffawing.

No. 5:

Iran’s leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, railed against America’s “blind” support for Israel in a wide-ranging interview by Mike Wallace on “60 Minutes.” Watch it here

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mike Wallace

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