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 Stewarts 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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Failed actor Jon Leibowicz, self-loathing jew. Sad.
Glad you’re gone pretend news man.
My Grandfather was with the 6th Marine Division.
Stewart would have preferred the west surrender.
DROP A BOMB ON THE OCEAN?!! BUT WHAT ABOUT THE FISHES, EELS AND PLANKTON?!
Stewart has no heart for mother Erf!!
My brother used to send me Stewart youtube clips of his show to try and make political points...
I emailed him back explaining Stewart is an entertainment show for people too lazy to actually watch or read news...
My dad was in the Coast Guard during WW II, and was about to start “Landing Craft” school when the war ended.
He probably would have ferried troops from offshore ships to the beach of Japan during a conventional invasion of Japan. A position with a high mortality rate.
I'll have to remember that one. However, the last conversation I had with my bro got pretty contentious. I threw a lot of facts at him, and he just scoffed. I'm afraid he's a lost cause.
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