Jon Stewart at it again

Much to HuffPost's delight (here) Jon Stewart once again played the "Your guys fucked up, so you can't say anything about us" card - the "What about W?" card.  If prior fuck-ups excuse future ones, then we will never have accountability.

See it's like this:  W and his cronies screwed the pooch royally with the whole missing the signs of 9/11, lying us into Iraq, and so on and so on.  No argument there.  But none of that - not one bit of it - justifies any mistakes this administration makes.  Shit, the W people kept saying "But Clinton did xxxxx.".  Still Stewart, who has sadly become a major apologist for the Obama administration instead of an astute commentator on the stupidity of both sides (What was that rally to restore sanity or something?), can't seem to get past throwing red meat to his supporters.

Let's be clear; Obama and his cronies are spying on Americans at an unprecedented level and it was W and his ilk who set that ball in motion.  Both suck!  The Bush administration was inept in the pre-9/11 days and throughout its misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan.  None of that ineptitude and duplicity justifies anything that the Obama administration does or does not do now.  No, Benghazi is no more or less a scandal than any of Bush's failures.  And it is clear that the will to investigate W and his band of warmongers and torturers was not there on the part of the democrats. But at some point, this shit has to stop.

So none of that is an excuse for ignoring failures or fuck-ups by this administration.  It is time for some accountability from our leaders, whether they are inept bumpkins or pseudo-intellectuals, no matter what party they are from and, frankly, no matter who demands it.  If it does not start now, then it will not happen the next time a Republican is in the White House either.

I would have expected Jon Stewart to agree with that sentiment - and think he would have not long ago. Sad decline into the bizarro version of Hannity or O'Reilly.