Show Me the Drone Memos! | |
February 27, 2013 Dear Codepink person, I like the president, but if he's going to claim the right to kill me with a flying robot, don't I at least deserve to know why? Last week, we did a segment
on The Daily Show about President Obama's refusal to release the
classified memos justifying his use of killer drones. Now, I've always
said that I'm a comedian, even after my role in Big Daddy. But this
story got me thinking a little more seriously. Then I got a call from my friend Medea Benjamin, cofounder of CODEPINK. She saw that my correspondent Aasif Mandvi had the memos and wanted us to release them. But ever since he read them, Aasif's been too scared to come out from under his desk. So Medea asked me to join her in demanding that Congress do something. Naturally, I said no. I'm a comedian, not an activist. But then she said I could have one of the giant vaginas she sometimes wears and I said “absolutely.” As a virile man, I'd do anything for a vagina. So join me in calling on Patrick Leahy – the big, bald-headed Democrat who heads the Senate Judiciary Committee – to get his hands on those drone memos. If he does, he'll be doing a public service. And he can have my vagina. Yours, Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show P.S. Check out what those crazy CODEPINK women have been up to! |
