The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

The Rumsfeld Memo

Season 11 E 151 • 12/04/2006

John Oliver explains that the troops will come home when they stay in Iraq.

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03:51

Michael Richards Incident
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Michael Richards got on stage and clumsily threw around the N bomb; he should apologize, to racists.
11/30/2006
02:22

Iraq to the Future
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If the American military reverses the spin of the Earth, we can go in time before we screwed the pooch in Iraq.
11/30/2006
01:39

Headlines - Pope Visits Turkey
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Pope Benedict XVI travels to Turkey to try to fix the troubles between Catholicism and Islam.
11/30/2006
01:14

Intro - Traveling Carny
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Jon is not a traveling carny who loads up his Whack-A-Mole booth and heads out to where you live.
12/04/2006
00:09

Moment of Zen - President's Power
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An old clip explains that the president has more power than almost anybody on Earth.
12/04/2006
04:49

Nathan Lane
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Nathan Lane offers a ride to anyone who wants to see his play.
12/04/2006
01:01

Headlines - Moustache Rides
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John Bolton resigns as U.S. Ambassador so he can work with Halliburton, providing badly-needed moustache rides to Iraqis.
12/04/2006
01:00

Daily/Colbert - American Idol
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Stephen Colbert hears "American Idol" has increased its maximum age again.
12/04/2006
03:55

Mess O'Potamac - Listen, Bush Will
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Donald Rumsfeld tells President Bush that it might be time to withdraw some troops from Iraq.
12/04/2006
04:44

Exploratory Committee
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John Hodgman announces that he will very seriously consider running for president maybe in the future.
12/04/2006
03:27

The Rumsfeld Memo
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John Oliver claims that the troops in Iraq won't come home until they win, and they win by staying there.
12/04/2006
06:11

John Danforth
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Republican Episcopal minister John Danforth believes that his party's effort to meld the issues of politics and religion is bad for the country.
12/05/2006
04:02

Blind Money
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Jason Jones goes through various stupid solutions to the problem of bill differentiation for the blind as a way of avoiding his own shortcomings.
12/05/2006
04:29

Gates in Hell
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Ed Helms returns from an undercover mission in Scranton to analyze the silly new strategies being deployed in Iraq.
12/05/2006
00:37

Daily/Colbert - Food Network
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Stephen Colbert casts aspersions on former colleague Ed Helms's new job but is secretly shamed by his own lot.
12/05/2006
02:37

Democracy on the Crawl - Venezuela and Mexico
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Democracy crawls into Venezuela and Mexico, where the self-proclaimed legitimate candidate creates a Bizarro Mexico.
12/05/2006
00:22

Moment of Zen - Patriotic Bees
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A swarm of patriotic bumblebees do their duty for America.
12/05/2006
02:19

Headlines - Ejection Reaction
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Jon apologizes for yesterday's audience reaction to John Bolton but finds time to promote Bolton's upcoming Friar's Club roast.
12/05/2006
02:07

What About Bob?
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Defense Secretary Nominee Robert Gates came to the conclusion that the U.S. is not winning the war in Iraq with his eyes.
12/06/2006
06:13

Eve Herold
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Eve Herold reports that in some states, you can go to prison for 5-10 years for stem cell research.
12/06/2006
04:36

Miracle on 49th Street
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In previous years the Rockefeller Christmas tree was lit in defiance, this year it was lit in victory.
12/06/2006
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