Jon Stewart on the Daily Show: Terrorists don't kill troops, republicans do!

On the November 1 Daily Show, Jon Stewart joined the rush to defend John Kerry with a putrid segment (It may take a moment to load).

He makes a punchline out of American casualties and says republicans and the administration are the ones "really responsible for hurting (the troops in Iraq) by not giving them what they need in the field." He also prefaces it by saying he does not understand why "people" (presumably the troops) are so upset over a "botched joke" (is Kerry a writer for Stewart now?) that "might have hurt some feelings."

Might? So now maybe, perhaps, some feelings were hurt, but it's all kind of silly, right? Like ABC News, Jon Stewart knows our troops don't have any real reason to be upset at being transformed from the best and the brightest (a term liberals love when shedding Clinton tears over war casualties) to the dreadful and dim-witted in the eyes of John Kerry, a man who made elitist if not outright racist remarks about the potential composition of an all-volunteer army in 1972.

Stewart's comedic musings also leaves one to wonder if he ever watched any of the myriad videos of IED attacks available on the 'net, often videotaped by the insurgent/terrorist who set them off. In this example an Abrams Battle Tank equipped with depleted uranium armor (for Stewart and his viewers: that means really, really advanced armor) is hit by what appears to be an unexploded bomb. The outcome is not good. Their fantasy about there being armor enough to protect soldiers and marines when tens to hundreds of pounds of explosives are going off beside or underneath their vehicles once again shows either astounding ignorance of basic physics or a cynical manipulation of the deaths of American servicemen to support their agenda -- yet they call taking Kerry to task for his latest (and indeed decades of) military bashing remarks a sign of desperation? Right.

Stewart is either too afraid or unwilling, along with most of the media, to face facts. Our troops have a 90% survival rate in Iraq. NINETY PERCENT. That's a better survival rate than restrained passengers in automobile accidents for Pete's sake. Yet they want us to believe our troops' equipment and armor is the equivalent of t-shirts and Bermuda shorts and Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bush just don't care. In fact, it's a big inside joke with those callous bastards.

But when Stewart and his sidekick Colbert ("104 more job openings in October") make jokes out of military deaths, it's okay.

UPDATE: Factcheck.org on body armor issues.