Happy Hour Vid: Jon Stewart Challenges Osama Bin Laden to Fistfight

Max Fisher 18 Views Jan 27, 2010
Analysts agreed that the latest Osama bin Laden audiotape, which claims responsibility for the failed Flight 253 attack, was either a fake or a sign of bin Laden's decline. But funnyman Jon Stewart had a different reaction: Challenge the world's most famous terrorist to a fistfight. He also quips that bin Laden's slow response to the Flight 253 attack merits the nickname, "Osama bin procrastinating."

The Daily Show goes on to skewer conservative hand-wringing about Khaleid Sheikh Mohammed's pending NYC trial:

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