Comedy Central’s The Daily Show may have had the week off, but its podcast, The Weekly Show, did not. On Wednesday, Jon Stewart claimed that the Trump Administration reacted angrily to assessments that suggest the B-2 strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities weren’t as successful as advertised not because they were wrong or had obvious problems, but because “they demand 100 percent fealty.”
Stewart lamented, “Just the shallowness, sometimes, of their—that you know JD Vance, people are saying, ‘We're concerned about intervention in the Middle East and how these things can have unforeseen consequences and instability throughout,’ and JD Vance says, ‘Yes, no, we understand that's something the American people are afraid of, but you know the American people never had a smart person before. Now we have a smart person,’ a smart person that thinks anybody that might possibly look into whether or not it was actually obliterated is a scumbag.”
Looking into the matter doesn’t make you a scumbag. However, publishing a report about a leaked assessment suggesting a lack of success but not mentioning that it was “low confidence” while insisting you did might.
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. Andrew Freeman
