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‘The Daily Show’: Jon Stewart Denounces Israel’s Pager Attack As “James Bond Sh–“
The Daily Show's host Jon Stewart criticized Israel's wireless pager attack in Lebanon to something out of a 1980s Bond film.
Continuing his segment, Stewart said nothing is more indicative of the “language calisthenics” employed to describe the crisis as Israel’s “de-escalation through escalation” tactic, which he called the footnote to World War II. “De-escalation through escalation, where have I heard—” he began, pulling up copies of George Orwell’s 1984, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and, finally, the comic book collection GarfieldFat Cat 3-Pack. Elsewhere in the segment, Stewart critiqued the U.S. government’s claim that it is “tirelessly working” toward a ceasefire and the prevention of a “wider war,” which is now a reality, through the Lebanon attack, that some, including ex-CIA director Leon Panetta, have denounced as an act of “terrorism.”
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