Stewart: White House treated EPA email like 'boner pill' spam
Jon Stewart offered a new Daily Show segment on Wednesday, titled "Be Patient -- This Gets AMAZING."
"Our government doesn't operate necessarily in the exact manner that we learned about in high school civics," Stewart began. "But I've got a little story tonight that may just rekindle your sense of wonder at just how truly fucked up it all really is."
"It begins back in President Bush's first term," Stewart recalled, "when the crisis of global warming compelled the president to take a bold stand -- for doing nothing. ... Finally, last year the Supreme Court ruled ... that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate greenhouse gasses."
"There was still hope," suggested Stewart. "Maybe the Environmental Protection Agency wouldn't come up with an effective or economical plan. Ah, but they did come up with a plan. And they emailed this plan to the White House. And here's where it gets AMAZING."
"The White House avoided implementing the EPA's recommendations by Informing the Agency they Would Not Open the E-mail," Stewart said increduously. "The White House is treating America's environmental policy like a spam boner pill ad. How is that even possible???"
"Here's the best part of the whole story," concluded Stewart. "Not opening the email worked. Rather than walk the hard copy over to the government, the EPA rewrote the policy to Bush's liking."
This video is from Comedy Central's The Daily Show, broadcast June 25, 2008.
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