This Might be a self-own,
with an assist from Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart interviewed Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks about defense spending, and he completely destroyed her.
To be fair, this was not a particularly hostile interview, and but Stewart did his homework, and when Hicks refused to move from her talking points, she looked evasive and (quite frankly) delusional.
Stewart understood the reality, that our defense establishment is bloated and dysfunctional, and likely corrupt, and Hicks, a dutiful member of the Military Industrial Complex, is unwilling, or perhaps (more disturbing) unable to even concede the problems.
Entertainer Jon Stewart ripped military spending as out-of-control and unfocused during a wide-ranging interview with the Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks on Thursday, saying that more needs to be done to get money to troops and families instead of defense contractors.
“We got out of 20 years of war and the Pentagon got a raise,” Stewart said during remarks at the War Horse Symposium in Chicago on Thursday. “I can’t figure out how $850 billion to a department means that the rank and file still have to be on food stamps. To me, that’s f%$#ing corruption.”
(%$# mine)
She also made the argument that the fact that the DoD has been unable to conduct an audit successfully is not an indication of a corruption problem.
The is a classic Jon Stewart interview, allowing his target to self-immolate.
More importantly, it is a an indictment of the defense establishment.
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