Jon Stewart called out the “cognitive dissonance and language calisthenics” used when describing Israel‘s attacks against Hezbollah. On Monday’s episode, the Daily Show host offered a “golden soundbite” to explain how “fucking convoluted this has to be.”
He then rolled video of Axios’ politics and foreign policy reporter Barak Ravid on CNN. “What the Israeli government is saying — and the Biden administration is in many ways subscribed to this idea — is de-escalation through escalation,” said Ravid in the clip.
Stewart likened his calculated words to World War II before pondering, “De-escalation through escalation, where have I heard,” and holding up George Orwell’s dystopic 1984, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, and Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack comics. “John, that cat has wrecked havoc on your bachelor lifestyle,” the host…
