The Daily Show in Iraq: Operation Fluffy Bunny [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard at 11:53 AM on August 22, 2007.

Jon Stewart and correspondent Rob Riggle debunk the claims of hawks like Lieberman, Lindsey Graham and Indiana's Rep. Mike Pence, that Baghdad is just as peaceful as an "Indiana market in the summertime."

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"I bought five rugs for five bucks!," boasts South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham. "It's like an Indiana market in the summertime!," says Rep. Mike Pence. Yeah...right. Rob Riggle, a vet himself, does a great segment where he compares Iraq to Indiana and finds, not so surprisingly, that they're not the similar at all. This is why it's terrific that the Daily Show is doing live reports from Iraq this week. These absurd statements from Lieberman et al., have been in need of serious ridicule and the majority of the press just won't do it. They just let these guys come back from Iraq saying how amazing it is over there and no one calls them on their bullshit. The Daily Show pulls this off and gets a Forrest Gump parody squeezed in to boot. Check out the video to your right for more.

Tagged as: lieberman, iraq war, daily show, stewart, graham, riggle, pence

Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.

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The troops steal the show [Report this comment] Posted by: Realman on Aug 22, 2007 1:51 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Notice that the men Riggle got to go on camera with him are perfect at their parts. Even if they didn't keep the first take, even if they were fed their lines, the performances just confirm my sense that the progressive media should do more to publish, report on and provide a platform for what the troops have to say, whether that speech has obvious political points of view or not. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: The troops steal the show Posted by: Adam Howard scurvybro [Report this comment] Posted by: scurvybro on Aug 22, 2007 3:25 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] The knowing reactions and barely suppressed smirks of the soldiers, and their obvious willingness to be videotaped, speaks volumes about how our troops feel about being stuck in that hell-hole. Of course, what the neocons will want to know about these particular troops is this: "Why do they hate themselves?" [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Iraq is just like Indiana, safer than Los Angeles, safer than D.C. [Report this comment] Posted by: fanny666 on Aug 22, 2007 4:31 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] These rightwing politicians and pundits are unbelievable. They'lll claim that Iraq is just like Indiana, Iraq is safer than California (Brit Hume quote from August, 26 2003: "Two hundred seventy-seven U.S. soldiers have now died in Iraq, which means that, statistically speaking, U.S. soldiers have less of a chance of dying from all causes in Iraq than citizens have of being murdered in California, which is roughly the same geographical size. The most recent statistics indicate that California has more than 2,300 homicides each year, which means about 6.6 murders each day. Meanwhile, our U.S. troops have been in Iraq for 160 days, which means that they are incurring about 1.7 deaths, including illness and accidents, each day."), and Iraq is safer than D.C.... then in the same breath scream that the anti-war crowd does not "Support the Troops" ... how does one even talk about these statements? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] "Any mines in these waters?" [Report this comment] Posted by: Nebris on Aug 23, 2007 4:49 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] "None that we've hit yet." lol [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: "Any mines in these waters?" Posted by: ecoflame Afraid I'm losing it. . . [Report this comment] Posted by: peacefullaim on Aug 23, 2007 4:49 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I love the Daily Show precisely because they are not only hilarious but tend to reveal the Truth in such a way that, for some reason, episodes like this one leaves me in tears. . .and I'm not talking the joyful kind of tears either. Less and less am I able to deny that our nation is completely FUBAR. . .funny. . .and so damned sad. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Would that Jon Stewart himself would do the RMR thing. [Report this comment] Posted by: SayBlade on Aug 23, 2007 7:14 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] This was a great segment, Rob Riggle doing the Rick Mercer thing and mixing with the troops. I would love to see Jon Stewart get out from behind his desk and go across the country like RMR does. But then I can't watch it every day so maybe I missed it when he did. Yeesh! My retired parents watch The Daily Show more often than I do. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] This is not funny, but sad [Report this comment] Posted by: farhada on Aug 23, 2007 8:38 AM Current rating: 1 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] It really makes me sad to see the arrogance and stupidity of these idiots. And ever more sad is that there are people who buy their propaganda. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » We need to take a break from the most serious of topics and laugh or be weighed down by sadness. Posted by: SayBlade » RE: This is not funny, but sad Posted by: peacefullaim Here's an idea... since Iraq is so much like Indiana... [Report this comment] Posted by: xbj on Aug 23, 2007 10:36 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] ...let's put Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Graham, and Lieberman's mangled corpses into wooden boxes draped with Iraqui flags, and then ship the boxes (which no photos will be allowed to be taken of) to Iraq, just the same way THEY shipped the mutilated bodies of Indiana boys home to Indiana. Sound like a plan? Bet the Iraquis would approve. Bet the entire world would cheer... [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] the truth doesn't always tickle... [Report this comment] Posted by: eyes wide open on Aug 23, 2007 11:56 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I started to laugh and then just started crying. God bless those men and their families thank you to John Daily and team for pulling back the curtain and brilliantly exposing the truth. "Like Indiana in the summer time” What a joke! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Indiana in what year? [Report this comment] Posted by: Susan Kipping on Aug 23, 2007 2:48 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Who knows, maybe the way Bush and Cheney have run this country into the ground, Indiana may look like Iraq in a few years. Maybe these nuts are talking about the future and not the present. Then let us see who is running from what in the market place. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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