Posted on 08/06/2015 8:23:43 AM PDT by Dave346
How absolutely serendipitous it is that alleged comedian and actual White House propagandist Jon Stewart’s last broadcast of The Daily Show is today, August 6, the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.
You see, Stewart, whose influence is especially nefarious when he is revising and distorting history for his relatively young audience, committed his most outrageous such act when, in a 2009 interview with Cliff May, he agreed that U.S. President Harry S. Truman should be considered a "war criminal" for approving that horrific but necessary bombing mission.
Here, for context, is the relevant eight-minute segment:
CLIFF MAY: We did do Hiroshima. Do you think Truman is a war criminal for that?
JON STEWART: Yeah.
CLIFF MAY: You do?
JON STEWART: Yeah.
CLIFF MAY: Okay.
JON STEWART: Here's what I think on the atom bomb. If you dropped an atom bomb 15 miles offshore, and you said "The next one's coming and hitting you," then I would think it's okay. To drop one on a city and kill 100,000 people, yeah, I think that's criminal.
CLIFF MAY: Okay, okay.
... CLIFF MAY: You think Truman was temporarily insane when he dropped the bomb?
JON STEWART: Yeah.
CLIFF MAY: He didn't think that if I send troops into Japan, we are going to lose a million lives, because that's what he thought, American lives, and at least a million Japanese lives, who will fight to the last man —
JON STEWART: I'm saying that war is, by definition, temporary insanity. So the things that happen there have to be looked at within the context of that.
CLIFF MAY: We're in a war! We're in a war!
Good riddance, Jon Stewart.
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FUJS!
What an idiot what does that make japan ?
It is embarrassing that so many Government educated young people get their ‘news’ from Jon Stewart. There’s a special place in H*** for those who corrupt the young.
Worthless sack of puss best describes my opinion of the man.
They considered a bomb demo, but with only two to play with it wasn’t a good option. There were a lot of solders that were getting ready to storm Japan that had already served in Europe and the pictures of events on Okinawa were not comforting.
They keep saying the Japs were ready to surrender, but that is just speculation and water under the bridge. It was a good call by Truman and one that saved both Japs and American’s.
It's not just the young...
My brother in his 40's thinks he is the bomb...
What a difference an ‘s’ makes.
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved hundreds of thousands of American lives and millions of Japanese lives.
Just tell the dummy Stewart to read this column by Paul Fussell:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3321309/posts
“Thank God for the Atom Bomb”
TNR ^ | August 1981 | Paul Fussell
Many years ago in New York I saw on the side of a bus a whiskey ad I’ve remembered all this time. It’s been for me a model of the short poem, and indeed I’ve come upon few short poems subsequently that exhibited more poetic talent. The ad consisted of two eleven-syllable lines of “verse,” thus:
In life, experience is the great teacher.
In Scotch, Teacher’s is the great experience.
For present purposes we must jettison the second line (licking our lips, to be sure, as it disappears), leaving the first to register a principle whose banality suggests that it enshrines a most useful truth. I bring up the matter because, writing on the forty-second anniversary of the atom-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I want to consider something suggested by the long debate about the ethics, if any, of that ghastly affair. Namely, the importance of experience, sheer, vulgar experience, in influencing, if not determining, one’s views about that use of the atom bomb.
And to think how many good men lost their lives in the final week of the war so this little smarmy c*cksucker can sit in the comfort of 2015 and wag his finger at real men who had to make actual important decisions that affected the real lives of thousands of soldiers?
So help me, I will just save the moderators the chore of having to delete what I was going to post.
This revisionism always angers me.
Dropping fat man and little boy saved lives on both sides as they figured we would lose ~1.0M soldiers in an invasion. Who knows how many Japanese military & civilians would have died as they never would have surrendered. Iwo Jima and Okinawa suggest how hard they would fight protecting the homeland.
The winter of 1945-46 would also have been a time of mass starvation in Japan without the surrender. All transportation was destroyed leading to the rice harvest of fall 1945 not making it to the population centers.
It was hard finding cities to drop the bombs on by August 1945. Most other cities had burned to the ground in previous raids. We killed far more people with napalm than splitting atoms.
As it was following Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there were factions in the Army that wanted to take over the government in a coup before the Emperor could surrender. They didn’t care about casualties, neither should we 70 years later when we look back.
We had just firebombed Tokyo, and they were still in the war! And we had at most 1.5 A-bombs.
Wasting the one we were sure to have in the ocean might not have worked. With no idea of the destructiveness, the Japanese would have just shrugged it off as just some trick. Then what does Stewie think we should do?
Interesting. I wonder what he feels about FDR and his concentration camps for Japanese Americans.
True, perhaps mine. The first was the demo and we see that didn't work.
A dipshit’s gotta engage in dipshittery...
Jon Stewart, just another mouth trying to pass himself off as an intellectual. Come to think of it he probably is compared to his viewers.
MY ex-wife is in her 50’s, she watched that crap show every night and repeats his stupid comments all the time.
Doesn't this lame brain know we dropped two atomic bombs on Japan?
The first one should have done the trick...
Per his idea, dropping one 15 miles off shore would have been a moot point since the first one on Japan itself was not enough to convince them to surrender...
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