| | Daily Show: 'You Don't Know Dick' Cheney indictment quiz
 It was announced this week that Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney Alberto Gonzales have been indicted in Texas in connection with a prison scandal.
"What the hoo?" exclaimed The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, as his audience cheered at the news. "We can do that? And we're just thinking of it now?"
News reports indicate that the indictment involves a "money-trail of Cheney's prison-related businesses."
"Dick Cheney has prison-related business," marveled Stewart. "Is there any unpleasant aspect of our society that Dick Cheney isn't making money off of?"
Stewart then offered a multiple-choice quiz, asking, "What prison-related business is Vice-President Cheney in trouble for?" He suggested such possibilities as "exploitative conditions at Cheney's 'Chain Gang Experience 4 Kids'" or "tax evasion at 'Halliburton Dick's Water Board Park and Bad Time Jailateria.'"
However, Stewart eventually disappointed his audience by admitting that the basis of the indictment is merely that Cheney "has an investment in a company that has an investment in a company that runs some prisons where there have been allegations of inmate abuse."
According to more formal accounts of the charges, which stem from a complex legal battle in a South Texas county, "The three-page indictment alleges that Mr Cheney profited from the abuse because he invested [$85 million] in the Vanguard Group -- an investment management company that reportedly has interests in the prison companies in charge of the detention centres. It said this was a 'direct conflict of interest' because Mr Cheney had influence over the federal contracts awarded to the prison companies."
This video is from Comedy Central's The Daily Show, broadcast Nov. 19, 2008.
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