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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (88826)6/22/2012 11:18:21 AM
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Jon Stewart Trashes Obama’s Executive Privilege Assertion On Fast And Furious

oh oh no traction? here's Jony

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by Frances Martel | 11:20 pm, June 21st, 2012


Jon Stewart‘s patience for the Obama administration on Fast and Furious is rapidly dwindling. On Day 2 of his reporting on the operation he joked the Obama administration called “Donde están los Weapons de Automaticos” so they could claim to not know what “Fast and Furious” was, Stewart made a game show out of comparing comments Democrats have been using to differentiate their reasons for the President invoking executive privilege from President George W. Bush‘s.

Stewart explained the situation against today, particularly that Congress has been demanding thousands of documents on the matter, and just when they hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt, the President invokes executive privilege, which Stewart jokes “was when an executive could have sex with your wife on your wedding night,” or something like that.

To figure out whether the Democrats have successfully distinguished this executive privilege from the previous administration, Stewart gave them three tries, with Rep. Carolyn Maloney and Jay Carney failing, and the last try– in which they managed to call the opposition to the use a “witch hunt” rather than a “fishing expedition”– finally a success of sorts.

The segment via Comedy Central below:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-trashes-obamas-executive-privilege-assertion-on-fast-and-furious/
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