Stewart: U.S. Has Long History of Thanking Vets by ‘F*cking Them Over’

Thursday night Jon Stewart tore into all the self-righteous wailing about the VA scandal, even as he agreed there’s a genuine issue of government malfeasance here, gently reminding people that this isn’t new; the U.S. has a proud tradition of thanking its veterans by “fucking them over” the second they return home and turn in their guns.

Stewart called out Republican hypocrites how they’ve messed with veterans in the past, and actually praised Bill O’Reilly for calling out Karl Rove on this very issue. He compared O’Reilly to the Incredible Hulk: “a mindlessly aggressive force of destruction, but point it in the right direction….”

Stewart then went into a full-blown rant about how the U.S. has been falling on the job of helping veterans for the last 200 years, and saying that this is a “great bipartisan tradition” and not something that people can pretend is an anomaly that just magically appeared when Obama took office.

Watch the video below, via Comedy Central:

Part 2:

And you can watch the Rove-O’Reilly showdown here, via Fox News:

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