Stewart Trashes Cheney (‘The Wilford Brimley of Torture’) and Bush the Painter

Jon Stewart took a walk down memory lane Monday night, mocking Dick Cheney for defending torture and George W. Bush for basically eschewing politics in favor of painting portraits of world leaders. Stewart brought up the new CIA torture report, remarking that “America has a history of doing a tremendous amount of stuff that we don’t do. We are immoral people… in hindsight.”

He took on Cheney for downplaying torture (“the water acts as an inflammatory to help the beatings heal”) and his “abject black-and-white reality denial,” even calling him “the Wilford Brimley of torture,” while trashing Donald Rumsfeld for deflecting questions about his decisions by taking greater issue with an “exaggeration of a memo count.”

But they were just “pawns” of Bush the “puppetmaster,” so is Bush saying anything about torture? Nope, he’s painting. Stewart said this is very “confounding,” and he couldn’t help but wish that Bush got distracted by art years before he jumped into politics.

Watch the video below, via Comedy Central:

[photo via screengrab]

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