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00:01November 27th, 2006, from Comedy Central's World News Headquarters in New York, this is The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
00:35The Daily Show
00:59The Daily Show
01:16But Thanksgiving, of course, over. It is on to the holiday shopping. We had what they call Black Friday, biggest
01:21shopping day of the year. I thought it went very well.
01:25Today, the first day after Thanksgiving weekend, is now known as Cyber Monday, which is unusual. It's the biggest online
01:31shopping day of the year. It's a tradition stretching back to, I guess, last November.
01:38Anyway, Cyber Monday, of course, followed by, uh, Identity Theft Tuesday. But the important thing is this. Enjoy being you
01:47while you still can, because tomorrow someone else will clearly be you.
01:52But let us get right to the news. On Friday, in Iraq, at least 65 people died as a result
01:57of violence between Sinners and Shias, including some by immolation. And not the self-kind. The kind where someone helps.
02:06So while, as I noted in America, Black Friday connotes shopping till you drop, in Iraq, it was really all
02:12about the dropping.
02:14Last week, ranked as the Iraq war's bloodiest with sectarian violence on the rise across the country. With the situation
02:21spiraling out of control, something has got to change.
02:26All right, how about just the words we used to talk about it?
02:30After careful consideration, NBC News has decided a change in terminology is warranted that the situation in Iraq with armed,
02:37militarized factions fighting for their own political agendas can now be characterized as civil war.
02:43It's official! Iraq is now in a civil war! And not just any civil war, a Lauer-certified civil war.
02:50Ah, thank you.
02:52This never would have happened if Katie and Kojo were still there.
02:59Kojo never would have allowed this.
03:01And Matt Lauer's day was far from done.
03:05Later, the five things you need to know about meat, poultry, and fish before you have dinner tonight.
03:12Number one, they're made of people.
03:18Four other things not really that important.
03:20So, Iraq has become a civil war by almost anyone's definition.
03:24Well, almost anyone.
03:27I think the general motion is a civil war is when you have people who use the American civil war
03:32or other civil wars as an example, where people break up into clearly identifiable feuding sides, clashing for supremacy within
03:40the land.
03:44So, Iraq is in a civil war.
03:49So, Iraq is in a civil war?
04:10That's why the Franklin Mint just issued its number of different rejectionists and terrorist groups that, severally and together, pose
04:16a threat to the government chess set.
04:19So, Iraq is in black.
04:20So, Iraq is in black.
04:22Look at the finally-crafted insurgents and talk about realism.
04:25Oh!
04:26That is realism.
04:27And look, some of the Shiites even fighting themselves.
04:31One bit of exciting news, this weekend, the Iraq war did reach a milestone.
04:35It has now lasted as long as the United States' involvement in World War II.
04:39With more on that, we turn to senior analyst John Oliver.
04:42John, thank you so much, John.
04:46It's amazing.
04:49Truly amazing in my mind to think that this thing has now gone on longer than World War II.
04:56Well, America's involvement in World War II, John.
05:00I would remind you, England entered that particular conflict in September 1939 and spent the ensuing two years getting carpet
05:07-bonned and sent scattering to the countryside to eat nought but dirt.
05:11And, on holidays, mud.
05:14All whilst you enjoyed the delightful big band strains of Glenn Miller on your obscenely large radios.
05:21Still, we obviously appreciate the involvement, particularly that of your famous riveter.
05:26I believe her name was Rosie.
05:30Industrious gal.
05:31She?
05:32She, uh, clearly still a fan favourite amongst them.
05:42In this country, we're very big with the riveting crowd.
05:47But getting back to the Civil War...
05:50The ongoing scuffle between sectarian insurgent groups.
05:55Okay, but that...
05:56Hold on, hold on.
05:57The internal sovereignty challenge.
05:59Or, uh, the faith-based melee.
06:02All right.
06:03That's a nice one.
06:04Why can't we just say, uh, uh, and call it a civil war?
06:07Uh, because to American ears, the phrase civil war conjures horrible, jaw-dropping images of bloodshed panned across slowly by
06:16Ken Burns.
06:18But, but, but, in, in Iraq, the violence and bloodshed is horrible.
06:23Yeah, she, no one needs the image.
06:26It's the image.
06:27People don't like.
06:28All right.
06:28Uh, if it's not a civil war, then what is it, uh, more akin to?
06:32Is it more akin to what happened in, in Viet?
06:33Don't you, don't you say...
06:34Is it Viet...
06:35Don't, don't, no, no, no, no, no.
06:37Mr. President!
06:39Do you see, as some of your critics do, a parallel between what's going on in Iraq now and Vietnam?
06:47No.
06:54Did you hear him, John?
06:58No.
06:58That's a very hard argument to rebut.
07:02What with the N and the O.
07:04The President recognizes wars are like snowflakes.
07:08Each similar, yet each unique.
07:10Each, in its own way, capable of killing thousands of men.
07:19Snowflakes can kill thousands of men.
07:21If pushed.
07:22All right.
07:24Certainly from an Iraqi perspective, uh, uh, what this is called makes no difference.
07:28Oh, really?
07:29Really?
07:29Well, if you've lost a loved one in this conflict, and statistically, if you're an Iraqi, you have.
07:34Wouldn't you rather know it wasn't in a civil war, but rather a territorial argal-bargal of regional qualms?
07:473,000 Iraqis died just, just this month.
07:49To argue over what to call it seems like semantic quibbling.
07:53Semantic quibbling?
07:54Well, I wouldn't call it that.
08:02What, what would you call it?
08:04A minor linguistic flare-up between two parties of differing terminological points of view.
08:13Now, for, truly, as you can tell, it's the same thing.
08:17Well, it's same-ee.
08:19But, for now, let's just agree to disagree on how we state our agreement.
08:24Agreed?
08:26I don't know.
08:28John Oliver.
08:30Nicely done.
08:31If you've actually misnamed the war on terror, it ought to be, you, you, you, you struggle against ideological extremists
08:39who do not believe in free societies who happen to use terror as a weapon.
08:53Welcome back.
08:54The war in Iraq brings up an interesting issue, religious expression and the right to it.
09:00It's one of the guarantees that makes America, America, along with the right to chicken done right.
09:05But one American's freedom to worship, one American, is under attack.
09:11Dan Bacadol filed this report.
09:16Religious persecution.
09:18Throughout history, its cruel fires have forged spiritual greatness.
09:23Joan of Arc, Jesus of Nazareth, Mel of Malibu, and now Aaron of SUNY Binghamton.
09:30I'm involved in the Jewish Student Union on campus and several other Jewish activities.
09:37Everything was going just fine for Aaron until he had a religious awakening.
09:43I found Rastafari this summer, and I chose to adopt certain aspects, namely the Ital diet.
09:52But despite his conversion to the Rastafari faith, SUNY Binghamton refused to free him from the manacles of the student
10:00meal plan.
10:01They were willing to provide for an organic diet.
10:05Sure, but you had to cook for yourself.
10:07No, they would cook it up for me as well.
10:09But it would only be available...
10:11Until 1 a.m.
10:12So what if you wanted to have lunch between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m.?
10:15Precisely.
10:16The hectic burdens of my schedule simply could not allow for that kind of rigidity.
10:22And with the school offering a personal chef a mere 17 hours a day, Aaron's dining hall, a cost, began.
10:30SUNY Binghamton officials refused to speak to us, which was fine considering they were our safety interview.
10:37Aaron's fellow students, however, were quick to rise to his defense.
10:41I haven't heard anyone, and I mean anyone, supporting him.
10:45Why are they persecuting Aaron?
10:47I don't believe the school has persecuted him.
10:49You know, it's not Jesus Christ we're dealing with here.
10:53Well, Jesus turned water into wine, and Aaron...
11:02Smokes pot.
11:04It's completely ridiculous.
11:06And yet Aaron assured me that his devotion is not that shallow.
11:11It...
11:11It's...
11:12The herb itself is a symbol of...
11:16Of the...
11:26The...
11:29Where did I start on that?
11:31Dude, how the f***ing high are you right now?
11:35With the students abandoning Aaron, I sought out support from a Rastafari expert.
11:40I prepared for the interview with my usual diligence.
11:48I'm not aware of that tenet that we should all have a personal chef.
11:53Dude, what are you talking about?
11:55As a matter of fact, the Rastafari faith really advocates that indeed we should all learn how to live in
12:01harmony.
12:01Dude, what are you saying?
12:03You are just talking gibberish right now.
12:09That interview was cashed, and with the school still persecuting Aaron for the religion he scored at Reggae Sunsplash,
12:17he was left with only one option.
12:19Namely to go on a hunger strike.
12:22Hunger strike?
12:23Correct.
12:23Whoa, even Gandhi hadn't dared brave the munchies.
12:28You hunger strike over the apartheid.
12:30You hunger strike over injustices in India.
12:34Aaron Akabari, hunger struck for you.
12:36He just wants to get out of the meal plan.
12:38Wait, what?
12:39A lot of students think that he's just trying to get out of the meal plan,
12:42and that he isn't indeed Rastafarian.
12:44Could it be that this sage I had admired, his words so powerful...
12:49The herb itself is...
12:52The...
12:53Where did I start on that?
12:55Could this all be a ruse?
12:57Did you basically just want to get out of the meal plan?
12:59I thought that the hunger strike had the capability to be a powerful catalyst for change.
13:06Oh, oh, oh, okay.
13:11Maybe it's just total bulls**t, I don't know.
13:14I came in search of religious persecution.
13:17What I discovered, one clever Jew.
13:20Dude.
13:24Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
13:27Keep the faith, Aaron.
13:29Keep the faith.
13:34Let's see.
13:35Aaron Akabari had to create his...
13:38What do you...
13:40What do you...
13:41What do you...
13:42What do you do?
13:43Oh, I hate Aaron so much.
13:55Welcome back.
13:56A Democratic congressman from the state of Illinois who recently helped lead the Democrats to victory in the House of
14:01Representatives.
14:02He recently co-authored a book called The Plan.
14:04Big Ideas for America.
14:06Please welcome Congressman Rahm Emanuel.
14:08Congressman!
14:11Hello, sir.
14:13Nice to see you.
14:14Hello, sir.
14:20Please.
14:24First of all, congratulations to you.
14:27On the victory in November for the Democrats and the House of Representatives and the Senate.
14:31We have a lot to do with that.
14:33The book was called The Plan.
14:37The plan, and I imagine you put it together because people kept saying about the Democrats,
14:42you can't just try and get out of the way of people throwing things at the Republicans.
14:48You need to proffer some ideas, and you have done so in a hardcover.
14:57Very, yeah.
14:58Rahm?
14:59It was actually a DVD also.
15:01Is that true?
15:02No way.
15:02Oh, all right.
15:04I was going to say, how many people would go, you know what?
15:06I'd like to see that come to life, the plan.
15:07That's right.
15:09We have to do a dance.
15:10What is the plan?
15:13Oh, my God.
15:13No.
15:16And how much of it is Rahm Emanuel, and how much of it is Bruce Reed?
15:20Well, the idea was mine.
15:24The plan is basically dealing with the big challenge facing this country, which is the
15:29global economy that's changed the entire middle-class structure.
15:31When you and I are growing up, our parents, one job, one mortgage, one child.
15:36You want to honor work rather than investment.
15:38Without a doubt.
15:39Here's the basic idea.
15:41President Bush always says that he compares himself to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the
15:45challenge is, no, he does.
15:47Just listen.
15:47Listen, and he says, you know, not in the way you're thinking.
15:50Yeah, that's right.
15:52It means he has trouble getting up.
15:54That's right.
15:56You be nice to Roosevelt, okay?
15:59I understand.
16:00So, you know, and what I always say, he says he has these dual challenges, you know,
16:04the difference is that President Roosevelt inherited a divided country when it faced World
16:10War II and united it.
16:11President Bush inherited a united country on 9-11 and divided it.
16:15So, President Roosevelt inherited a depression, built the largest middle-class the world had
16:24seen.
16:24President Bush inherited the longest economic expansion in American history and gave the
16:30middle-class its greatest anxiety.
16:31Outside of that, they're really similar.
16:33So, your plan is to find Franklin Delano Roosevelt, exhume him, reanimate him, settle down.
16:43Hard part.
16:46The Democrats, they say the first thing they're going to do is raise the minimum wage.
16:49Can they get that done?
16:51It seems like a no-brainer.
16:52It's been too long.
16:53It's been many years.
16:54Why has that not been done?
16:56Well, first of all, you've had a Republican Congress that didn't believe in it.
16:59And second of all, nobody ran on it and pledged it.
17:01We're going to do it.
17:02Will the president veto or will he sign?
17:05He'll sign it and we'll also have Republican votes for it.
17:07So, you believe it'll be a popular thing?
17:10One thing that struck me...
17:11You know, seven states passed referendums in this last election.
17:13All of them, not one of the referendums did worse than 75%.
17:16On minimum wage.
17:18Or you're talking gay marriage because seven also did the...
17:20The opposite of that.
17:21The opposite on the gay marriage.
17:22Only Arizona said, come here and gay it up.
17:27It's the new slogan.
17:29Gay it up in the desert, they say.
17:31That's right.
17:32We're going to be doing the show there.
17:33After the Democratic victory, James Carville went on and said,
17:38Howard Dean, who is the Democratic National Chairman, must go.
17:42I have never seen a party in victory look for a scapegoat.
17:50What was the thought behind that?
17:53What was the thought?
17:54James actually can spit it all out on himself, but I'll tell you.
17:57But the fact is we won the election and we're on to governing
18:00and that's the basic goal of the party.
18:02Oh, that's the infighting and such.
18:04Is it that this blush of power causes...
18:07Is it like a bacchanal?
18:09Is it like a...
18:10Fighting?
18:10Let me say this.
18:11You obviously haven't been to the Emanuel family for Thanksgiving.
18:13We'll give you what fighting's about when you come over there.
18:16Can I say something?
18:17Sure.
18:18I don't want to go.
18:21I don't think my mother will have you.
18:22Is that true?
18:23That's three voices enough for my mom.
18:24Oh, is that true?
18:25Did you have a nice Thanksgiving?
18:27We had a great Thanksgiving.
18:28Did now.
18:28Your brother is a Hollywood agent and your other brother is...
18:32He is a head of medical ethics at NIH and he's an oncologist and a political philosopher.
18:36So how did he turn out so good?
18:43When you go home, do the parents talk to you and Ari?
18:47No.
18:48Or do they just turn to him and say, come sit, have turkey.
18:52What's your brother's name?
18:53Ezekiel.
18:54Ezekiel.
18:54My mother and father always loved the first one for more.
18:57Is that true?
18:58We used to say to my mother, you love Zeke more than us.
19:00And she goes, no, I hate you all three equally.
19:06Why do I feel like...
19:07Your mother was like our mother?
19:09No.
19:09I feel like you grew up in a steel cage match.
19:13But I think it fit you well for the political trenches and you seem to have revived a party
19:19that seemed moribund and seemed really attached to losing and it must be an interesting feeling
19:28there these days.
19:28Well, we tried, you know, five elections losing.
19:30We want to see what the other side felt for a while.
19:32And what are you thinking?
19:33Well, we're going to give it a run for a while and see what the American people think of us
19:36after a year and a half.
19:37Listen, buddy, I give you all the credit in the world and if you guys do something and
19:41turn it around, I will continue to give you all the credit in the world.
19:44And we really hope it works out for you guys because if it does, I guess it works out for
19:47us.
19:47Well, that's the whole goal here.
19:49All right.
19:49Well, thank you very much for joining us.
19:50We really appreciate it.
19:51The plan is on the bookshelves now.
19:53Congressman Rob Emanuel.
20:03Welcome back to the show.
20:04Before we go, let's check in with our good friend Stephen Colbert at the Colbert Report.
20:08Stephen, what have you got for us?
20:10John, tonight, the Bush administration's bold new plan for...
20:16One second.
20:18Let's go with periwinkle in a medium.
20:22Bold new plan for the future of a rock.
20:25Oh, come on.
20:26How can you be out of stock?
20:27Stephen, Stephen, are you...
20:30I take it you're doing a little holiday shopping?
20:32Yeah, but it's cool.
20:33I only do it on my downtime.
20:35It doesn't affect my work one.
20:37Maybe Hunter Green.
20:39I got that.
20:40Stephen, I'm sure you got a lot of gifts to buy, but can you wait until we just do this?
20:46Stephen, Stephen, Stephen.
20:47Right you are, John.
20:50You don't really know what I just said, do you?
20:53That's it.
20:53You're getting socks, mister.
20:56Cotton hosery.
20:58All right, see you in a minute.
20:59That's our show.
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