Colbert: 'Fox can't do it alone' to make war with Iran inevitable
Stephen Colbert commented Monday on Congressional passage of the Lieberman-Kyl Amendment which "calls on President Bush to declare Iran's Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization."
"But not everyone supports our troops enough to give them the job security a war with Iran would provide," Colbert continued. "People like Senator Jim Webb, who voted against the amendment, calling it 'Dick Cheney's fondest pipe dream.' Well that is completely unfair. Everyone knows Dick Cheney's fondest pipe dream is driving a bulldozer into the New York Times while drinking crude oil out of Keith Olbermann's skull."
Colbert then played a clip of John Edwards saying, "You cannot give this president the authority, and you cannot even give him the first step of that authority."
"First step?" questioned Colbert. "That implies there's more than one step to war with Iran. ... The last time I walked off a cliff, one step did it."
Colbert stressed the necessity of making war with Iran seem inevitable and decried the failure of the media to perform this task as effectively as they did before the invasion of Iraq -- with the notable exception of Fox News. "Last week, Sean Hannity outlined what a war with Iran might be like," said Colbert, displaying a montage that segued from planes and missiles to the explosion of the Death Star and dancing Wookies.
Colbert then showed clips from another Fox segment, in which former Bush Iraq spokesman Dan Senor pressed claims of Iranian nuclear ambitions, genocidal impulses, and a possible role in September 11. "Iran scares me, right now, more than anything else I've seen," Senor told Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT).
"The scariest thing he's ever seen! And he's looking at Joe Lieberman." commented Colbert.
"But for Iran, Fox can't do it alone, and the American people have lost their stomach for war," Colbert concluded. "Our only hope is that when it comes to Iran, the president will do the one thing that's still inevitable. Whatever he wants."
The following video is from Comedy Central's Colbert Report, broadcast on October 1, 2007
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