Jon Stewart Derides Bush Administration For Taking Credit For Killing Osama Bin Laden (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart got back to talking about Osama bin Laden on Tuesday night's "Daily Show," this time focusing on George W. Bush's role in his capture, or should we say lackthereof?

When former Bush Chief-of-Staff Andy Card publicly said that President Obama was "pounding his chest" and taking too much credit for the killing of our #1 terrorist, Stewart had to ask: who really killed Osama bin Laden? If you watched television last week, you might say the Bush Administration did.

Dubbing them "Nine's Eleven," Stewart pointed out the nearly dozen people appearing on morning news and talk shows last week, offering credit to George W. Bush credit. Karl Rove, Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney and more made it seem like "he invented bullets," as Stewart put. But where was Obama's team of back-patters? Stewart noted that the only person doing the TV show circuit on behalf of Obama was National Security Advisor Tom Donilon.

"The Bush administration hits you with shock and aw and you've got one guy no one's ever heard of?" Stewart said. "This guy better be Rambo."

Sadly, Donilon is not Rambo, and his appearances didn't stop other pundits from taking credit away from the Obama administration. Some pundits went back as far as three presidencies, to Bush's father. One even tried saying that President Ronald Reagan was somehow responsible. As you can imagine, Stewart had a fit:

"They took it back to Reagan, the guy responsible for funding he Taliban in the first place!"

Watch the full segment below and hear the end when Stewart offers a great analogy for the Bush Administration involving "The Social Network."

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Comments

[Keevion]

07:18 AM on 07/01/2011

When will you ever learn that the republicans are always right, just listen to the media and keep or acquire their faith. It's the Democrats who always try to take credit (if something good happens) and blame the republicans when something goes wrong.

LONG LIVE THE RICH FOR THEY HAVE THE POWER TO LEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[garyc4]

08:40 AM on 05/17/2011

I had more to do with killing bin Laden that the Bush administration did-I voted for Obama.

[skwan91607]

05:28 PM on 05/14/2011

When Bin Laden was still alive no republican know where Bin Laden was about. After Bin Laden dead. Bush's team relived from their graves, FARTED AROUND, and found they have the credit to kill Bin Laden. Americans can read a big word "SHAME" in their foreheads and a label of "SHAM" on their sleeves. DISGUSTING REPUBLICAN FOOLS.

[fineartist1]

07:03 PM on 06/07/2011

Are you speaking English?

[jdplummer]

06:51 PM on 05/12/2011

I want credits too,,,I like seals, walrus

[habenae23]

05:12 PM on 05/12/2011

Again. This is why he's the best

[jdrourke]

03:06 PM on 05/12/2011

For 8 years the media allowed Cheney & Bush to push their B.S. plans and to l(i)e to the American people on a large number of things including WMDs in Iraq and why the massive bailout under Hank Paulson was needed in 08.

It is sickening to see these people being allowed to continue their spin.

http://jdrourke.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/thats-quite-enough-liberal-media/

[jdrourke]

02:59 PM on 05/12/2011

Republicans being tougher is just one more l-i-e that has been passed around for waaayyyy too long.

http://jdrourke.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/a-note-to-those-who-choose-to-swallow/

[babyjesussaysso]

01:58 PM on 05/12/2011

Bush was very serious about bringing bin laden to justice - NOT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRY_BOYeySc&feature=related

[Giverny]

10:16 AM on 05/15/2011

This is interesting also..

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO311A.html

[pattz15]

01:26 PM on 05/12/2011

Dumocrats sure make up a lot of stories. You have vivid imaginations like a 4 year old. Start getting your facts straight. Do you ever read? Did you go to school? You probably went to Harvard. That is why you don't believe in facts..

[sweatermoose]

01:47 PM on 05/12/2011

You're right. We're awful, awful people. All of us. None of us ever kiss our children, give to charity, or go to church. We are wholly irredeemable.

A person like you is just too good for us, here on this site. Perhaps you should go back to the Fox News comment section where more worthy, superior people like yourself can be found, making hilariously witty comments like yours. Don't delay. Go right now. Go on. Go.

[babyjesussaysso]

01:52 PM on 05/12/2011

Project much?

[psiloveyouse]

12:51 PM on 05/12/2011

No big surprise about Stewarts comments or this site publishing them.

[tommy b]

06:19 PM on 05/12/2011

Yep you hasd to get here because NO WAY would Fox every tell the truth

[Sgt Beefeater]

08:23 PM on 05/12/2011

So you agree with his comments you just don't like them being posted on "this" site?

LOL...

[ProfessorDuh]

12:21 PM on 05/12/2011

Colin Powell's Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson said Wednesday that Bush wasn’t interested in getting bin Laden — either because that would have ended Bush and Cheney's excuse for endless, politically profitable wars, or because Bush and Cheney had so wrecked U.S. intelligence operations that they knew they couldn't get him. And that gives you a hint of just how rotten Bush and Cheney really are.

[psiloveyouse]

12:52 PM on 05/12/2011

Quite inaccurate if you would bother to investigate the record and real the entire press conference that Bush did that is frequently taken out of context.

[ProfessorDuh]

01:21 PM on 05/12/2011

Tell it to Powell's chief of staff. He was in a position to know. You aren't. This isn't about any press conference. This is about the fact that White House insiders KNEW BUSH AND CHENEY DIDN'T WANT TO GET BIN LADEN.

[Puffin16]

12:02 PM on 05/12/2011

I'm feeling nauseous after seeing that group again! Condiloser Rice, how's that unrequited love thing working out for ya?

[Dennis C Latham]

10:08 AM on 05/12/2011

Jon Stewart !!! Always ADDING LAUGHTER to THE TRUTH
Too bad the evil and wicked don't find you as funny as I do.
KEEP IT COM'N !!!!! ~Woooooooooooo Hooooooooo YEAH BABY !!!!!

[PeteTheChihuahua]

10:06 AM on 05/12/2011

Carl Rove was flying the helicopter (designed by Ronald Reagan) and Dubya is the one that actually dusted OBL. Condi was on the ground in a short skirt and tight sweater waving pom-poms.

[tugboat9]

11:36 PM on 05/12/2011

...and Cheney was in an undisclosed location.....760

[Sinister Minister]

09:59 AM on 05/12/2011

All these opinions of the Bush administration rely on the amount of credibility you would give to a war criminal. One could no doubt find similar opinions reading transcripts of the Nuremberg trials.