Jon Stewart: “I can’t believe they lasted that long after an O’Reilly visit…”

O’Reilly claims the prisoners are POWs…. What does that make Condi?

See video at Crooks and Liars

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O’Reilly’s response? He claims that you’d have to be a stoned dopey college kid to watch Stewart’s show.

In fact, as Media Matters for America has previously noted, a study by the Annenberg Public Policy Center indicates that Daily Show viewers are consistently better informed about current events than consumers of other media, while Nielsen Media Research statistics demonstrate that Daily Show viewers are more educated and affluent than the viewers of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor.

Not in Our Name has announced that they will be sponsoring an International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration.

As the charter for the commission states, “When the possibility of far-reaching war crimes and crimes against humanity exists, people of conscience have a solemn responsibility to inquire into the nature and scope of these acts and to determine if they do in fact rise to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity.”

The commission will meet in New York in October and will consider evidence on four specific issues:

1. Wars of Aggression, with particular reference to the invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
2. Torture and Indefinite Detention, with particular reference to the abandonment of international standards concerning the treatment of prisoners of war and the use of torture.
3. Destruction of the Global Environment, with particular reference to systematic policies contributing to the catastrophic effects of global warming.
4. Attacks on Global Public Health and Reproductive Rights, with particular reference to the genocidal effects of forcing international agencies to promote “abstinence only” in the midst of a global AIDS epidemic.