Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Jon Stewart and John Oliver on Geneva Conventions

The Daily Show examines the grey areas Bush has discovered in the 1949 Geneva Conventions, particularly the prohibition on "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment." John Oliver uses a graph to illustrate how the most minor mistreatment might outrage the dignity of an Archbishop Desmond Tutu, while even eating a horse rectum for a dollar would be acceptable for "the bottomless void of shame that is Paris Hilton."

YouTube video (8:27)

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