John Yoo on The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart coming up!

chimpymustgo

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Mon Jan-11-10 11:01 PM
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John Yoo on The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart coming up!

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chimpymustgo

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Mon Jan-11-10 11:15 PM
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1. On now. "John Yoo, you are infamous."

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Gregorian

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Mon Jan-11-10 11:17 PM
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2. NOOOOO! My satellite feed just died.

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chimpymustgo

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Mon Jan-11-10 11:22 PM
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8. "We're going to take a commercial break, and I'm going to put my head in ice water, cause this makes

no sense to me." JS to JY, who is giving a VERY covoluted expleantions of how the treaties that addressed torture we had signed didn't say what we COULDN'T do.

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wtmusic

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Mon Jan-11-10 11:45 PM
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14. Ech, they said very explicitly what we couldn't do.

He sounds like not only a crappy ideologue but a crappy lawyer to boot.

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MadBadger

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Mon Jan-11-10 11:20 PM
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3. Hes a scumbag.

Ive never heard him speak before, and he sounds like the biggest douche ever on the show

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bullwinkle428

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Mon Jan-11-10 11:20 PM
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4. He's a slippery fucker.

:mad:

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Orrex

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Mon Jan-11-10 11:21 PM
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5. What an unbelievable fucking dickhead

I'm not actually surprised by his smug self-righteousness, but it's truly nauseating to witness it in action.

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Cleita

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Mon Jan-11-10 11:21 PM
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6. Jon giving John a really hard time with trying to get some logic out of him.

What's really scary is that Yoo is teaching now. I don't think I would want him teaching my kids.

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Electric Monk

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Mon Jan-11-10 11:21 PM
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7. This interview is torture. Yoo is torturing logic.

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Orrex

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Mon Jan-11-10 11:22 PM
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9. You've got it all wrong

See, we didn't engage in torture, because at that point we hadn't defined what torture is.

Excuse me while I :puke:

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wtmusic

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Mon Jan-11-10 11:26 PM
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10. Glad I didn't see it.

I would have retasted the burrito I had for dinner.

If defining torture is up to John Yoo, he would definitely have to know what it feels like.

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SpiralHawk

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Tue Jan-12-10 06:03 AM
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18. This Torture Freak got a wicked bad case of Republiconthink

Free clue for republicons: Torture is antiChrist.

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chimpymustgo

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Mon Jan-11-10 11:27 PM
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11. Yoo: "President Bush and I never had this conversation. I never met the man."

Stewart: I hope someday you get to write....humane...briefs.

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valerief

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Mon Jan-11-10 11:29 PM
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12. One of these days I'd love to see Stewart just shake his head and get up and walk away

Edited on Mon Jan-11-10 11:30 PM by valerief

when he has these evil monsters on.

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Orrex

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Mon Jan-11-10 11:35 PM
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13. I was hoping that the Moment of Zen would just be a clip from the interview

But the Blago bit was pretty good, too.

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Land Shark

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Tue Jan-12-10 01:58 AM
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17. Yoo is an unindicted war criminal; Would he have a Nazi official on? I dunno.

I've got Yoo's earlier book, I'm writing a scholarly piece on international human rights. Yoo's ideas are seriously flawed and he advocates for what IS crimes against humanity on the international level REGARDLESS of his domestic shell game of definitions. This question answers itself; Does international law apply in international tribunals? (like the INt'l Criminal court?) Of course it does.

ONly be redefining US law to gut it of protections and hope the US will not extradite ever can Yoo hope to be safe from indictment. He's already being sued civilly by Jose Padilla, for example.

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grasswire

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Tue Jan-12-10 01:13 AM
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15. Is Yoo a Moonie?

That is the still unasked question. Does Yoo work for Moon, whose stated intent to destroy America would explain Yoo's attacks on our bedrock principles.

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grasswire

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Tue Jan-12-10 01:13 AM
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16. Is Yoo a Moonie?

That is the still unasked question. Does Yoo work for Moon, whose stated intent to destroy America would explain Yoo's attacks on our bedrock principles.

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Bucky

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Tue Jan-12-10 06:05 AM
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19. Also coming up... my lunch!

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Tanelorn

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Tue Jan-12-10 10:16 PM
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20. Jon calls John 'charming'

But it is Jon Stewart who is as charming as he was relentless.
He often says of his show  that it is a fake news program but
it with his disarming sense of humour that JS shines brightly.
His closing statements about not to wanting to demonise
decision makers just adds to his credit. These are the debates
we needed to have in the last 8 years. Face to face, calm,
probing and insisting on justification. At no time do I think
that Jon is the star of the show. He just lets the inanities
and stupidity speak for themselves  and links them with wit
and charm. Most other talk show hosts are the 'star' and their
crying and bluster and rant are the show.

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