DailyShow AfterGlow 2005.7 (January 13, 2005)

Moment of Zen: Barbara Walters, interviewing President Bush "if there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction, if we were wrong, was it worth it?" Did the president say a) absolutely or b) definitely, A-ABSOLUTELY. as if he hopes that just hearing him say it "confidently" will be enough to make us believe it? [maybe we should ask him to elaborate, what exactly he believes 'it" is...and "worth it"...what was 'worth' what to whom, in order for this war to be "WORTH IT"?

DOUBLE ZEN - channel surfing just before catching the 1/14 re-run of the 1/13 Daily Show and I just happened to catch the end of Bush Family Fortunes on "public access." OI!L

In light of the search for WMD's being called off, in the MessoPotamia spot, Jon Stewart pointed out the latest Bush administration explanation of our justification for the war: "Saddam hussein was guilty of undermining the United Nation's oil for food program and in breach of UN resolution 1441. September 11th changed the equation.." He went on to mention September 11 gratuitously was it: 4, 5, 6, or 7 times??? Yo, wasn't September 11 in 2001, and um, wasn't that ...BEFORE we even thought of any equation involving invading Iraq, wasn't it?

Senior Weapons Analyst Stephen Colbert, mentioned the end of the hunt for WMDs is 'affecting the administration deeply' and that they are going through their own 'five stages of grief':

1. anger
2. denial
3. angry denial
4. denial over their anger
5. acceptance that there will be no repurcussions.

Jon asked, after all this...We haven't found anything?

HOLD ON, ITS THE DEEPEST DAILY SHOW MOMENT EVER:
I was so inspired I dropped my Mickey Mouse Pen and all I caught was:

"No. We found something. We found nothing. Nothingness comes with the ego death of
......satori...something...?...suddenly the
bottom falls out of the bucket and we achieve enlightenment."

Daily Show International Pamphlet...uh, nice new segment name guys!
Mexico - pamphlet shows residents how to cross the border into the US safely.
China - celebrating the birth of their 1.3 billionth resident.
Afghanistan - burning piles 'o poppies - drug war photo op of the week
Australia? man living with wolves. looks like a weirdo when he tries to sing along with them. is THAT what I look like when I sing with my dogs, yikes! ;0)

Guest: Annette Benning, movie: Being Julia